"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.
Ah
Bienvenido a la nueva era, a un mundo sin dolor
Sin amor, ni imaginación
Donde la lluvia sacia a un bosque que no puedes ver
Si no navegas por la red
La hermana luna
Se dejó de peinar
Pues no encontraba, no
El reflejo en su espejo, el mar
Alza la vista hasta donde te alcance la razón
Podrás ver que el sol se marchó
Montado en una nube de carbón y gas letal
Fueron en busca de una flor
Pues el hermano sol
Se cansó de alumbrar
Alimentado por
Un disco duro y una terminal
Oh-oh, en Satania estás
Tus pensamientos programados están
Oh-oh, aprieta el botón
Navega en mi mundo, deseos.com
Constrúyete un paraíso, un amante virtual
Mándale orgasmos por e-mail
Diséñate un beso tierno o un gesto de amor
Abre un archivo y grábalo
Compra un programa
Especial para llorar
Donde en las lágrimas
Puedas elegir variedad
Oh-oh, en Satania estás
Tus pensamientos programados están
Oh-oh, aprieta el botón
Navega en mi mundo, deseos.com
La voz de tu amo soy
Linkada a tu corazón
Te concedo futuro
A cambio de tu libertad
Oh-oh, en Satania estás
Tus pensamientos programados están
Oh-oh, aprieta el botón
Navega en mi mundo, deseos.com
Oh-oh, en Satania estás
Tus pensamientos programados están
Oh-oh, aprieta el botón
Navega en mi mundo, deseos, deseos, deseos.com
Bienvenido a la nueva era, a un mundo sin dolor
Sin amor, ni imaginación
Donde la lluvia sacia a un bosque que no puedes ver
Si no navegas por la red
La hermana luna
Se dejó de peinar
Pues no encontraba, no
El reflejo en su espejo, el mar
Alza la vista hasta donde te alcance la razón
Podrás ver que el sol se marchó
Montado en una nube de carbón y gas letal
Fueron en busca de una flor
Pues el hermano sol
Se cansó de alumbrar
Alimentado por
Un disco duro y una terminal
Oh-oh, en Satania estás
Tus pensamientos programados están
Oh-oh, aprieta el botón
Navega en mi mundo, deseos.com
Constrúyete un paraíso, un amante virtual
Mándale orgasmos por e-mail
Diséñate un beso tierno o un gesto de amor
Abre un archivo y grábalo
Compra un programa
Especial para llorar
Donde en las lágrimas
Puedas elegir variedad
Oh-oh, en Satania estás
Tus pensamientos programados están
Oh-oh, aprieta el botón
Navega en mi mundo, deseos.com
La voz de tu amo soy
Linkada a tu corazón
Te concedo futuro
A cambio de tu libertad
Oh-oh, en Satania estás
Tus pensamientos programados están
Oh-oh, aprieta el botón
Navega en mi mundo, deseos.com
Oh-oh, en Satania estás
Tus pensamientos programados están
Oh-oh, aprieta el botón
Navega en mi mundo, deseos, deseos, deseos.com
Lyrics submitted by Elimination
Satania Lyrics as written by Jesus Maria Hernandez Gil
Lyrics © Peermusic Publishing
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[Year 2199, Satania, the story begins...]
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Welcome to the new age, to a world without pain, without love, nor imagination, where the rain falls over a forest that you can't see if you don't surf the web.
The sister Moon stopped combing her hair, 'cause she couldn't find, no, her refelction on her mirror, the Sea.
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Because the brother Sun got tired of shining. Being fed by a hard drive and terminal.
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Build yourself a paradise, a virtual lover, send him/her orgasms via e-mail. Design a tender kiss or a gesture of love, open the file and save it.
Buy a special program made for crying where, in tears, you can choose variety.
Oh, in Satania you are your thoughts are programmed. Oh, press the button, surf my world: "deseos.com"
The voice of your master I am, linked to your heart, I'll give you Future, if you give me your Freedom.
Oh, in Satania you are your thoughts are programmed. Oh, press the button, surf my world: "deseos.com"
Oh, in Satania you are your thoughts are programmed. Oh, press the button, surf my world: deseos deseos deseos.com
I didn't want to translate "deseos.com" because the word "deseos" has two sorta different meanings and I thought both could be used in the song... so judge for yourself, "deseos" means either "wishes" or "desires".
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