"Fast car" is kind of a continuation of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run." It has all the clawing your way to a better life, but in this case the protagonist never makes it with her love; in fact she is dragged back down by him.
There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
Dorch an nochd tha'n t-Eilean
Dathan air am fuadach far nam beann
Tha faileas a'tuiteam bhon an Stor
Mar t-fhalt dorch a suabadh do cheann
Horo Mhairi o
Horo Mhairi o
Horo Mhairi o
'S mi 'gad ionndrain ho ro
De math an tobar gun an t-uisge
De math an corp gun cridh'
Nam biodh neart an Stoir 'nam lamhan
Bhiodh sinn le'r cheile's an Eilean a rithis
Horo Mhairi o
Horo Mhairi o
Horo Mhairi o
'S mi 'gad ionndrain ho ro
'S doch nach fhaigh sinn neamh no beatha eile
Nuair a dhuineas suilean aig deireadh lath
Ach fhuair mi mo neamh an seo's an aite
Far an d'thug thu dhimh do lamh's do cridhe slan
Horo Mhairi o
Horo Mhairi o
Horo Mhairi o
'S mi 'gad ionndrain ho ro
Dathan air am fuadach far nam beann
Tha faileas a'tuiteam bhon an Stor
Mar t-fhalt dorch a suabadh do cheann
Horo Mhairi o
Horo Mhairi o
Horo Mhairi o
'S mi 'gad ionndrain ho ro
De math an tobar gun an t-uisge
De math an corp gun cridh'
Nam biodh neart an Stoir 'nam lamhan
Bhiodh sinn le'r cheile's an Eilean a rithis
Horo Mhairi o
Horo Mhairi o
Horo Mhairi o
'S mi 'gad ionndrain ho ro
'S doch nach fhaigh sinn neamh no beatha eile
Nuair a dhuineas suilean aig deireadh lath
Ach fhuair mi mo neamh an seo's an aite
Far an d'thug thu dhimh do lamh's do cridhe slan
Horo Mhairi o
Horo Mhairi o
Horo Mhairi o
'S mi 'gad ionndrain ho ro
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Mairi Lyrics as written by Rory Macdonald Calum Macdonald
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