"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.
There are things that used to make me smile
One of them was you for just a little while
You left me for dead so far away
I replaced you with fear and shame
You'll be happy on the day I
Die
There are things that used to make me laugh
But now they're deeply buried in the past
I left them there so far away
Replaced my humor with my pain
I'll be happy on the day it
Dies
Remember when I said I love you, well
Forget it, I take it back
I was just a stupid kid back then
I take back every word that I said
There are things that used to make you cry
One of them was me for just a little while
Why is it that you had to say
Goodbye in your special way?
You slashed the tires on my
Car
Remember when I said I love you, well
Forget it, I take it back
I was just a stupid kid back then
I take back every word that I said
Remember when I said I love you, well
Forget it, I take it back
I was just a stupid kid back then
I take back every word that I said
One of them was you for just a little while
You left me for dead so far away
I replaced you with fear and shame
You'll be happy on the day I
Die
There are things that used to make me laugh
But now they're deeply buried in the past
I left them there so far away
Replaced my humor with my pain
I'll be happy on the day it
Dies
Remember when I said I love you, well
Forget it, I take it back
I was just a stupid kid back then
I take back every word that I said
There are things that used to make you cry
One of them was me for just a little while
Why is it that you had to say
Goodbye in your special way?
You slashed the tires on my
Car
Remember when I said I love you, well
Forget it, I take it back
I was just a stupid kid back then
I take back every word that I said
Remember when I said I love you, well
Forget it, I take it back
I was just a stupid kid back then
I take back every word that I said
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Fast Car
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Lord Huron
Lord Huron
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"
Dreamwalker
Silent Planet
Silent Planet
I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
Gentle Hour
Yo La Tengo
Yo La Tengo
This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
Amazing
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to find some positivity in the situation. This track was written by Ed Sheeran from the perspective of his friend. From the track, we see this person fall deeper into the negative thoughts and slide further down the path of mental torment with every lyric.
i just broke up with my g/f by sneding her the lyrics to this song......
an asshole move...
Never take back 'I love you' It's one of the worst things you can do. reggreting saying it is okay, never take back I love you.
Fuck this song and everything about it
I like this song, but not really. I mean the song and the music is catchy and I like it, but the lyrics... come on now. Very harsh. :o/ 'I take back every word that I said'? Ouch....
i can relate to that song. perfectly. you people are too mushy. not harsh at all.. eck.. i wish i could have taken back so much i said..
Damn,i was feeling good till i heard that
i agree with starry sighs too because i wish i could take back everything i said except goodbye. and as crazy as it makes me seem (or be....) i also said goodbye in that special way.......:)
you crazy tire slasher :P
god .. no no no .. never take back things like i love you .. you definitley regret it and your lying to yourself ... i know this for a fact ... it hurts more to regret what you said that seemed so nice ..its revenge that makes you do this ,,cause you want the person to feel pain like your feeling but if ever you start talking again .. you cant take back what you said... ;(
when u think sum 1 loves u as much as u do , then they cheat on u or dump u,u feel like crap