"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.
La cocaína no es buena
Para su salud
La cocaína
Is not good for you
La cocaína no es buena
Para su salud
La cocaína
Is not good for you
La cocaína no es buena
Para su salud
La cocaína
Is not good for you
La cocaína no es buena
Para su salud
La cocaína
Is not good for you
La cocaína no es buena
Para su salud
La cocaína
Is not good for you
La cocaína no es buena
Para su salud
La cocaína
Is not good for you
La cocaína no es buena
Is not good for you
La cocaína
Is not good for you
Para su salud
La cocaína
Is not good for you
La cocaína no es buena
Para su salud
La cocaína
Is not good for you
La cocaína no es buena
Para su salud
La cocaína
Is not good for you
La cocaína no es buena
Para su salud
La cocaína
Is not good for you
La cocaína no es buena
Para su salud
La cocaína
Is not good for you
La cocaína no es buena
Para su salud
La cocaína
Is not good for you
La cocaína no es buena
Is not good for you
La cocaína
Is not good for you
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apple pie I'm always free uh oh uh oh, who's the hoo hoo hoo
apple pie on the easel datsun woo woo woo woo woo
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haha it really does sound like that! far out
hahaha hilarious
LMFAO IT DOES<3<br /> <br /> i always that it was<br /> 'bubble guys<br /> come release me'<br /> 'bubble guys<br /> come release the dark side'<br /> but that was a long time ago
WIN.
Wow thats like perfect but whats with the username? Really?
sex in music form, through my ears.
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I think this is one of the best of the year. It's quiet, and yet danceable. Not as harsh as their other songs. And there's something so woeful about it. It sounds remarkably sad, despite the effects on the vocals and the beats. It sounds sad and mysterious, and it is one of their only beautiful songs. ("Tell Me What to Swallow" is another one.)
Number one favourite song ever and also the grounds for my first tattoo. It's fun telling people what "la cocaina no es bueno para su salud" means when they see it on my arm. It's pure love, this song.
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there's a version of the song being sung by a choir and the words are much clearer.
no, the lyrics above are the right ones, crystal castles sampled them from the song "dead womb" by death from above 1979
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"Untrust Us" meaning dont trust them when they tell you that cocaine if bad for you.
Listen you there other songs, they are not meant to be listened to sober.
Crystal Castles and Death From Above 1979 (RIP) are on the same record label, Last Gang Records. Crystal Castles fittingly sampled DFA 1979's intro to "Dead Womb". Further, at the end of "Untrust Us" the bass and drums in the last couple of seconds is another direct homage to the beginning of "Dead Womb". Finally the sampled audio relates to the chorus of said DFA 1979 song:
"We're looking for wives, so tired of sluts coming to us in the clubs with their cocaine"
Could it be theyre calling themselves cocaine and telling us not to trust them? Cause those two sentences are SERIOUSLY addicting!