"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.
All those dirty words
(Jusqu'à la fin)
They make us look so dumb
(En plein soleil)
Been drinking far too much
(Jusqu'à la fin)
And neither of us mean what we say (en plein amour)
Well, you and I
Collapsed in love
And it looks like we might have made it
Yes, it
Looks like we've made it to the end
What happened to us?
(Jusqu'à la fin)
Soon it will be gone forever
(En plein soleil)
Infatuated only with ourselves (jusqu'à la fin)
And neither of us can think straight anymore (en plein amour)
Well, you and I
Collapsed in love
And it looks like we might have made it
Yes, it
Looks like we've made it to the end
When you and I
Collapsed in love
Well, it looks like we might have made it
Yes, it
Looks like we've made it to the end
(En plein amour) you and I, we just
Collapsed in love
And it looks like we might have made it
Yes, it
Looks like we've made it to the end
(En plein soleil)
(En plein soleil)
(Jusqu'à la fin)
They make us look so dumb
(En plein soleil)
Been drinking far too much
(Jusqu'à la fin)
And neither of us mean what we say (en plein amour)
Well, you and I
Collapsed in love
And it looks like we might have made it
Yes, it
Looks like we've made it to the end
What happened to us?
(Jusqu'à la fin)
Soon it will be gone forever
(En plein soleil)
Infatuated only with ourselves (jusqu'à la fin)
And neither of us can think straight anymore (en plein amour)
Well, you and I
Collapsed in love
And it looks like we might have made it
Yes, it
Looks like we've made it to the end
When you and I
Collapsed in love
Well, it looks like we might have made it
Yes, it
Looks like we've made it to the end
(En plein amour) you and I, we just
Collapsed in love
And it looks like we might have made it
Yes, it
Looks like we've made it to the end
(En plein soleil)
(En plein soleil)
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae, edited by Mellow_Harsher
To the End Lyrics as written by David Rowntree Alexander James
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Back to English, this song is beautiful! Much better than the plain old English vers IMO. Does Damon sing in French at the end with the girl (Francoise, I think she was called)? If he does, then even more reason to admire him. Mind you, I never needed that much of an excuse in the first place.
Anyway, it's about a failing lationship\ that - somehow - pulls through.
Tous ces bals masqués (si peu d'amour) Du mauvais cinéma (et tant de haine) = All these masked balls (So little love) Of bad cinema (And... so much(?) .... hate).
These aren't actual masked balls, but rather, a metaphor for both people in the relationship hiding their true feelings under a flimsy disguise. I guess the line 'Du mauvais cinéma' is in there because the writer (Damon or otherwise) thinks that the situation is like that in a bad movie.
I'll do a full translation later. I have coursework due in TOMORROW and it is imperative I get on with it!