"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.
All the times you came
I should've ran away
You told me that you'd always love me
You told me that you'd always love me
And the games you played
Were meant to lead me on
You told me that you'd always love me
You told me that you'd always love me
Always, oooh always
I do
You told me that you'd always love me
You told me that you'd always love me
Always, oooh always
I do
Never more again
Will I believe the sun
I should've ran away
You told me that you'd always love me
You told me that you'd always love me
And the games you played
Were meant to lead me on
You told me that you'd always love me
You told me that you'd always love me
Always, oooh always
I do
You told me that you'd always love me
You told me that you'd always love me
Always, oooh always
I do
Never more again
Will I believe the sun
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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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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
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why has no one commented on this? its a bonus track on the uk version and it finishes the album really well. after all the trademark weezer songs you get this really emotional soft one, it's like what butterfly was to pinkerton.
I like this song better than any on Green, but it didn't fit the album so I think it's better that it was put on a bside.
i think this song is about falling in love with someone and all they do is play around with your heart and end up hurting you. and now you don't know if you can ever love again. i can deffinately relate to this song. this song always makes me cry, i love it!
horribly underappreciated. this is one of the greatest songs ever written because it perfectly captures the feeling of being in that position. i just wish it was a little longer
i love this song! i think it's about a guy who is saying he'll love this person forever, even with everything that person has done.
awesome song, very touching and sad... sniff
it's how when you're with a person and in the back of your head you kinda know... but you still believe him/her when they lie to you and say things that you KNOW aren't true. but you wanna believe, so you kinda do. but now he's learned not to believe her anymore.. because it hurts too much...
"Never more again Will I believe the sun" damn is that fantastic..
that is so completely true, its the people that go on and on about how theyll always love you, and then just stop, that kill me..they are the ones you think are perfect, godlike...like the sun..
Never more again will I believe in the sun..... I totally agree with this. All is hopeless
after the perfect "sun" has let you down, how can you trust anyone ever again?