"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.
You're going down
And it feels good
But you ain't wearing
What you should
All the people that you've had?
The Time is over
Count your blessings
Count the times
You forgot their names
Committed the crimes
All the people that you've had?
The time over
Oh ! it's time to make amend's
Cos' you've been
Burning the candle at both ends
Oh! it 's time to make amends
Cos' you've been
Burning the candle at both ends
And it feels good
But you ain't wearing
What you should
All the people that you've had?
The Time is over
Count your blessings
Count the times
You forgot their names
Committed the crimes
All the people that you've had?
The time over
Oh ! it's time to make amend's
Cos' you've been
Burning the candle at both ends
Oh! it 's time to make amends
Cos' you've been
Burning the candle at both ends
Lyrics submitted by ruben
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
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Magical
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Blue
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“Blue” is a song about a love that is persisting in the discomfort of the person experiencing the emotion. Ed Sheeran reflects on love lost, and although he wishes his former partner find happiness, he cannot but admit his feelings are still very much there. He expresses the realization that he might never find another on this stringed instrumental by Aaron Dessner.
ok ok, i know this is weird and sexually twisted, but um...this song makes me think of someone going around doing it without protection and like dying of some type of std. no i do not relate every song i hear to sex, but really thats all i see with this one....and gosh darnit i like it
i see it as someone who's sort of a player or is always dating people and who is gonna get jaded and washed out of that kinda thing before (s)he finds anything worthwhile. applies to my ex
I agree with plumgirl7. All the lines are very sexual.
But on a more general level i think the song is just about your past finnaly catching up to you. You've wrong people many a times, and gotten away with it, but now your going to pay for it. The key line "You've been burning the candle at both ends". Which is like, you've betrayed all your freinds and hurt your enemies, and now you have nowhere left to run.
I agree with plumgirl7. All the lines are very sexual.
But on a more general level i think the song is just about your past finnaly catching up to you. You've wrong people many a times, and gotten away with it, but now your going to pay for it. The key line "You've been burning the candle at both ends". Which is like, you've betrayed all your freinds and hurt your enemies, and now you have nowhere left to run.
I agree with plumgirl7. All the lines are very sexual.
But on a more general level i think the song is just about your past finnaly catching up to you. You've wrong people many a times, and gotten away with it, but now your going to pay for it. The key line "You've been burning the candle at both ends". Which is like, you've betrayed all your freinds and hurt your enemies, and now you have nowhere left to run.