"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.
Take My Life
Time has been twisting the knife
I don't recognize
People I care for
Take my dreams
Childish and weak at the seams
Please don't analyze
Please just be there for me
The things that I know
Nobody told me
The seeds that are sown
They still control me
There's a liar in my head
There's a thief upon my bed
And the strangest thing
Is I cannot seem to get my eyes open
Take my hand
Lead me to some peaceful land
That I cannot find
Inside my head
Wake me with love
It's all, all I need
But in all this time
Still no one said
If I had not asked you
Would you have told me
If you call this love
Why don't you hold me
There's a liar in my head
There's a thief upon my bed
And the strangest thing
Is I cannot get my eyes open
Make love to me, send love through me
Make love to me please, please
Make love to me, send love through me
Heal me with your crime
The only one who ever knew me
We've wasted so much time
So much time
Of my life
My life
My life
My life
Take my life
Take my life
Take my life
Take my life
Eyes open
Time has been twisting the knife
I don't recognize
People I care for
Take my dreams
Childish and weak at the seams
Please don't analyze
Please just be there for me
The things that I know
Nobody told me
The seeds that are sown
They still control me
There's a liar in my head
There's a thief upon my bed
And the strangest thing
Is I cannot seem to get my eyes open
Take my hand
Lead me to some peaceful land
That I cannot find
Inside my head
Wake me with love
It's all, all I need
But in all this time
Still no one said
If I had not asked you
Would you have told me
If you call this love
Why don't you hold me
There's a liar in my head
There's a thief upon my bed
And the strangest thing
Is I cannot get my eyes open
Make love to me, send love through me
Make love to me please, please
Make love to me, send love through me
Heal me with your crime
The only one who ever knew me
We've wasted so much time
So much time
Of my life
My life
My life
My life
Take my life
Take my life
Take my life
Take my life
Eyes open
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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Just A Little Lovin'
Dusty Springfield
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I don't think it's necessarily about sex. It's about wanting to start the day with some love and affection. Maybe a warm cuddle. I'm not alone in interpreting it that way! For example:
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Punchline
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Ed Sheeran sings about missing his former partner and learning important life lessons in the process on “Punchline.” This track tells a story of battling to get rid of emotions for a former lover, whom he now realized might not have loved him the same way. He’s now caught between accepting that fact and learning life lessons from it and going back to beg her for another chance.
this is such an amazing different kinda song ...it has kinda haunting/spooky music and the lyrics are deep..i had been killin myslef tryin to figure out the name of the song it is quit obvious but on my album some song names are missed out cuz it was a fake cd..oh well simply amazing song!
absolutely flawless!!!
It's a really dark song in disguise. The music is light and sweet at the beginning but it sudenly turns to the minor key and feels twisted. As I see it, it's talking about depression –the way people suffering from it tend to hide their feelings and try to appear light and happy (because depression is often seen by outsiders as just plain weakness) but they cannot get away from their inner darkness. 'The liar in my head' might be that same darkness that whispers in their ears that they're not worthy or not enough. There's no escaping from these thoughts, and so they ask for help: 'take me to some peaceful land that I cannot find inside my head'. My own take on 'the thief upon my bed' is that depression depletes the person of the energy to get up in the morning, and they don't find motivation to even open their eyes, and so depression is again the thief that robs their motivation and willpower.
On the other hand, this song is part of 'Older', which opens with 'Jesus to a child', which he reportedly dedicates to Anselmo, and so the second part, where he talks about not finding a person that says 'I love you' back to him and 'wakes' him from this state with the aid of love, might be him just missing his lover, taking to him, trying to move on but not being very successful.