"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.
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(Yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(Yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
Beautiful, I just want you to know
You're my favorite girl
(Yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
Beautiful, I just want you to know
You're my favorite girl
(Yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
I know you gon' lose it, this new Snoop shit
Come on, baby boo, you gots to get into it
Don't fool wit the player with the cool whip
Yeah, yeah, you know I'm always on that cool shit
Walk to it, do it how you do it
Have a glass, lemme put you in the mood and
Lil' cutie lookin' like a student
Long hair, with ya big fat booty
Back in the days you was a girl I went to school with
Had to tell your moms and sister to cool it
The girl wanna do it, I just might do it
Hit her up with some pimp-pimp fluid
Mami, don't worry, I won't abuse it
Hurry up and finish so we can watch Clueless
I laugh at these niggas when they ask, "Who do this?"
But everybody know who girl that you is
Beautiful, I just want you to know
You're my favorite girl
(Yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
Beautiful, I just want you to know
You're my favorite girl
(Yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
When I see my baby boo, shit, I get foolish
Smack a nigga that tries to pursue it
Homeboy, she taken, just move it
I asked you nicely, don't make the Dogg lose it
We just blow 'dro and keep the flow movin'
In a '64, me and baby boo cruisin'
Body rag interior blue, and
Have them hydraulics squeakin' when we screwin'
Now she's yellin', hollerin' out "Snoop!" and
Hootin', hollerin', hollerin', hootin'
Black and beautiful, you the one I'm choosin'
Hair long and black and curly like you're Cuban
Keep groovin', that's what we doin'
And we gon' be together until your moms move in
(Yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
(Oh, oh, oh, oh)
Beautiful, I just want you to know
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
You're my favorite girl
(Yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
(Oh, oh, oh, oh)
Beautiful, I just want you to know
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
You're my favorite girl
(Yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
(Oh, oh, oh, oh)
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
See, I just want you
To know that you are really special (yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
Oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why
I just want you
To know that you are really special (yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
Oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why
(Yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
Snoop Dogg Clothing, that's what I'm groomed in
You got my pictures on the wall in your room, and
Girls be complainin' you keep me boomin'
But girls like that wanna listen to Pat Boone (yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
You's a college girl, but that don't stop you from doin'
Come and see the Dogg in a hood near you, and
You don't ask why I roll wit a crew, and
Twist up my fingers and wear dark blue, and (yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
On the Eastside, that's the crew I choose
Nothin' I do is new to you
I smack up the world if they rude to you (yeah)
'Cause baby girl, you're so beautiful
(Oh, oh, oh, oh)
Beautiful, I just want you to know
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
You're my favorite girl
(Oh, oh, oh, oh)
Beautiful, I just want you to know
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
You're my favorite girl
(Oh, oh, oh, oh)
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
See, I just want you
To know that you are really special (yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
Oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why
I just want you
To know that you are really special (yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
Oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why
See, I just want you
To know that you are really special (yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
Oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why
I just want you
To know that you are really special (yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
Oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why
Yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you (uh)
Yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you (uh)
Yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(Yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(Yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
Beautiful, I just want you to know
You're my favorite girl
(Yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
Beautiful, I just want you to know
You're my favorite girl
(Yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
I know you gon' lose it, this new Snoop shit
Come on, baby boo, you gots to get into it
Don't fool wit the player with the cool whip
Yeah, yeah, you know I'm always on that cool shit
Walk to it, do it how you do it
Have a glass, lemme put you in the mood and
Lil' cutie lookin' like a student
Long hair, with ya big fat booty
Back in the days you was a girl I went to school with
Had to tell your moms and sister to cool it
The girl wanna do it, I just might do it
Hit her up with some pimp-pimp fluid
Mami, don't worry, I won't abuse it
Hurry up and finish so we can watch Clueless
I laugh at these niggas when they ask, "Who do this?"
But everybody know who girl that you is
Beautiful, I just want you to know
You're my favorite girl
(Yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
Beautiful, I just want you to know
You're my favorite girl
(Yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
When I see my baby boo, shit, I get foolish
Smack a nigga that tries to pursue it
Homeboy, she taken, just move it
I asked you nicely, don't make the Dogg lose it
We just blow 'dro and keep the flow movin'
In a '64, me and baby boo cruisin'
Body rag interior blue, and
Have them hydraulics squeakin' when we screwin'
Now she's yellin', hollerin' out "Snoop!" and
Hootin', hollerin', hollerin', hootin'
Black and beautiful, you the one I'm choosin'
Hair long and black and curly like you're Cuban
Keep groovin', that's what we doin'
And we gon' be together until your moms move in
(Yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
(Oh, oh, oh, oh)
Beautiful, I just want you to know
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
You're my favorite girl
(Yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
(Oh, oh, oh, oh)
Beautiful, I just want you to know
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
You're my favorite girl
(Yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
(Oh, oh, oh, oh)
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
See, I just want you
To know that you are really special (yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
Oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why
I just want you
To know that you are really special (yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
Oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why
(Yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
Snoop Dogg Clothing, that's what I'm groomed in
You got my pictures on the wall in your room, and
Girls be complainin' you keep me boomin'
But girls like that wanna listen to Pat Boone (yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
You's a college girl, but that don't stop you from doin'
Come and see the Dogg in a hood near you, and
You don't ask why I roll wit a crew, and
Twist up my fingers and wear dark blue, and (yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
On the Eastside, that's the crew I choose
Nothin' I do is new to you
I smack up the world if they rude to you (yeah)
'Cause baby girl, you're so beautiful
(Oh, oh, oh, oh)
Beautiful, I just want you to know
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
You're my favorite girl
(Oh, oh, oh, oh)
Beautiful, I just want you to know
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
You're my favorite girl
(Oh, oh, oh, oh)
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
See, I just want you
To know that you are really special (yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
Oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why
I just want you
To know that you are really special (yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
Oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why
See, I just want you
To know that you are really special (yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
Oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why
I just want you
To know that you are really special (yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you)
Oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why
Yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you (uh)
Yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you (uh)
Yeah, oh yeah, there's something about you
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Fast Car
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Lord Huron
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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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Blink-182
Blink-182
This is a sequel to 2001's "Reckless Abandon", and features the band looking back on their clumsy youth fondly.
Just A Little Lovin'
Dusty Springfield
Dusty Springfield
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:
"'Just a Little Lovin’ is a timeless country song originally recorded by Eddy Arnold in 1954. The song, written by Eddie Miller and Jimmy Campbell, explores the delicate nuances of love and showcases Arnold’s emotive vocals. It delves into the universal theme of love and how even the smallest gesture of affection can have a profound impact on our lives." https://oldtimemusic.com/the-meaning-behind-the-song-just-a-little-lovin-by-eddy-arnold/
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'm not really into this kinda music but i adore this song