"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.
Suena mi alarma temprano en la mañana
Y la frisa me tiene agarrao' por una pata
Me hago mi café y el azúcar ya se acabo
Me lo mando así y a huir check out the clock
Got stuck up in traffic and I was already late
I'm thinking 'bout the excuse I'm gonna use today
Looking for the one that's gonna sound better
Mira jefe es que mi carro, si si, whatever
Las doce la hora del break, me comeria un steak
Pero no way, no hay break the job deadline's today
So I'm finally done it's time to go home but I still have to collect
And then the lady said
Just mail me the bill like you guys always do
I talked to your boss he said it's all good
So I got back to the shop without a check
How come you didn't collect
El jefe said your fired ah si, whatever
Llego a casa esmallao' y no han hecho comida
No quiero tener que ir al mcdonalds de la esquina
Oye mami que paso hoy te toca cocinar
I'm sorry baby, es que me fui a recortar
Asi se van los dias en la cultura del whatever
De nada hay garantía, todo es algarete
The day I died the angel told me in heaven
We're sorry man but we can't find your file
Whatever
Y la frisa me tiene agarrao' por una pata
Me hago mi café y el azúcar ya se acabo
Me lo mando así y a huir check out the clock
Got stuck up in traffic and I was already late
I'm thinking 'bout the excuse I'm gonna use today
Looking for the one that's gonna sound better
Mira jefe es que mi carro, si si, whatever
Las doce la hora del break, me comeria un steak
Pero no way, no hay break the job deadline's today
So I'm finally done it's time to go home but I still have to collect
And then the lady said
Just mail me the bill like you guys always do
I talked to your boss he said it's all good
So I got back to the shop without a check
How come you didn't collect
El jefe said your fired ah si, whatever
Llego a casa esmallao' y no han hecho comida
No quiero tener que ir al mcdonalds de la esquina
Oye mami que paso hoy te toca cocinar
I'm sorry baby, es que me fui a recortar
Asi se van los dias en la cultura del whatever
De nada hay garantía, todo es algarete
The day I died the angel told me in heaven
We're sorry man but we can't find your file
Whatever
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Whatever Lyrics as written by Harold E. Hopkins Miranda Eduardo J. Paniagua
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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