"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.
Hay cosas que no quiero saber,
y cosas que no quiero ser,
y no soy, y no soy.
¿Y si fuistes como eras
como sos?
¿Y si ahora ya cambiaste
como sos?
Quiero que me lo demuestres
el cambio entendible y natural.
Solo se hacer una cosa bien,
y hoy esta todo bien,
solo se hacer una cosa bien,
y hoy esta todo bien.
Quiero que me lo demuestres
el cambio entendible y natural,
un castigo que te merecías,
la venganza paso por tu línea.
¿Y si fuiste como eras
como sos?
¿Y si ahora ya cambiaste
como sos?
y cosas que no quiero ser,
y no soy, y no soy.
¿Y si fuistes como eras
como sos?
¿Y si ahora ya cambiaste
como sos?
Quiero que me lo demuestres
el cambio entendible y natural.
Solo se hacer una cosa bien,
y hoy esta todo bien,
solo se hacer una cosa bien,
y hoy esta todo bien.
Quiero que me lo demuestres
el cambio entendible y natural,
un castigo que te merecías,
la venganza paso por tu línea.
¿Y si fuiste como eras
como sos?
¿Y si ahora ya cambiaste
como sos?
Lyrics submitted by hbodiard
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