"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.
Blatant manner speak parting
Addicted romance love tested
Bonding cement no longer holds
Failing from substance abuse
Parting fits too young to grow old
Wicked resenting never faces itself
Torturer taints animal waits
No evironment torturer loving
righteous real-time intrusion
Cancer attack bleaching desserts so sweet
Fears filtered for reasons unknown
Torturer taints animal waits
Leaves bitter taste in the mouth forever
Corners creeping fear
Tasting force fed lies of the wicked
Acting out fears false truth turned around
Wicked torture wicked wicked
The wicked words of the torturer
Abusing and controlling anyone that's useful to him
Wicked waits the torturer
Wicked waiting of the torturer
reads story truth seething
Swallows turning away
Torturer taints animal with hate
Believed poison eaten
Controls turning away
Enlightenment turned away
No change the wicked not facing hisself
Wicked torturer
Force fed torment
Animal torture
Wicked not facing hisself
Torturer turning away
Wicked turning away
Wicked torturer
Wicked turning away
Turning away disappears from himself
Tortures the animal
Tortures the animal
Addicted romance love tested
Bonding cement no longer holds
Failing from substance abuse
Parting fits too young to grow old
Wicked resenting never faces itself
Torturer taints animal waits
No evironment torturer loving
righteous real-time intrusion
Cancer attack bleaching desserts so sweet
Fears filtered for reasons unknown
Torturer taints animal waits
Leaves bitter taste in the mouth forever
Corners creeping fear
Tasting force fed lies of the wicked
Acting out fears false truth turned around
Wicked torture wicked wicked
The wicked words of the torturer
Abusing and controlling anyone that's useful to him
Wicked waits the torturer
Wicked waiting of the torturer
reads story truth seething
Swallows turning away
Torturer taints animal with hate
Believed poison eaten
Controls turning away
Enlightenment turned away
No change the wicked not facing hisself
Wicked torturer
Force fed torment
Animal torture
Wicked not facing hisself
Torturer turning away
Wicked turning away
Wicked torturer
Wicked turning away
Turning away disappears from himself
Tortures the animal
Tortures the animal
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Fast Car
Tracy Chapman
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The Night We Met
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"
I Can't Go To Sleep
Wu-Tang Clan
Wu-Tang Clan
This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, and what path they are going to choose as they get older and grow into men. (This is why the music video takes place in an orphanage.) The seen, and unseen collective suffering is imbedded in the boys’ mind, consciously or subconsciously, and is haunting them. Which path will the boys choose? Issac Hayes is the voice of reason, maybe God, the angel on his shoulder, or the voice of his forefathers from beyond the grave who can see the big picture and are pleading with the boys not to continue the violence and pattern of killing their brothers, but to rise above. The most beautiful song and has so many levels. Racism towards African Americans in America would not exist if everyone sat down and listened to this song and understood the history behind the words. The power, fear, pleading in RZA and Ghostface voices are genuine and powerful. Issac Hayes’ strong voice makes the perfect strong father figure, who is possibly from beyond the grave.
Magical
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
How would you describe the feeling of being in love? For Ed Sheeran, the word is “Magical.” in HIS three-minute album opener, he makes an attempt to capture the beauty and delicacy of true love with words. He describes the magic of it all over a bright Pop song produced by Aaron Dessner.
Blue
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“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.
This song is a psychological environment; a place where our dualities bark to one another to change the scene. Within ourselves, we have both divine and dark desires. The dark within is the tormentor; the entity that shreds away our bonds to the naive and innocent. Wicked; the tormentor steals away before facing itself.
This song seems like a journal of a scientist doing animal experimentations.
The scientist who speaks in "blatant manner speak" is doing these experiments and taking notes.
"torturer taints animal waits"
^^^ The torturer does horrible things to this animal then waits to see the results while taking note of the change in the animal. This happens many times in the story.
"parting fits too young to grow old addicted romance love tested failing from substance abuse wicked resenting never faces itself torturer taints animal waits no environment torturer loving"
^^^ This first experiment sounds like the scientist wants to see what happens when the animal is separated from its family.
"righteous real-time intrusion fears filtered for reasons unknown cancer attack bleaching desserts so sweet leaves bitter taste in the mouth forever torturer taints animal waits"
^^^ perhaps the animal is drugged and doesn't understand why it feels so pleasant. It's because the scientist is feeding it "desserts" and taking notes of the effects.
"the wicked words of the torturer abusing and controlling anyone thats useful to him"
^^^ this reflects the attitude of vivisection and animal testing. Any animal that is useful to these lab scientists they will abuse and control.
"reads story truth seething believed poison eaten swallows turning away torturer taints animal with hate enlightenment turned away no change the wicked not facing hisself"
I think it is the scientist who is not facing himself and he's putting aside his sympathy for the animal. Even though the truth appears to him, he forces himself to ignore it.
Is there more than one version of this song? When I listen to it there are some lines up here that are very clearly not there.
There's a pitch-shifted voice at the end of the second verse that I cannot understand at all (except three words) is this Ogre or is it one of the sound clips these guys love so much? What it says is most certainly not on here.