"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.
Brothers and sisters
Rebuild your lives
We're all drug takers
Give us something tonight
A cartoon in a ketamine
Jelly mixed with margarine
White doves from the war machine
Everybody moving'
Cocaine is for murderers
Codeine for the jurors
Caffeine been through all of us
Everybody horny
Crackwhores back in town again
Eggships sniffing benelyn
Burning all the oil again
Smoking makes you holy
Textin abbreviates the brain
Aspirin takes away the pain
Rock on, everyone the same
That's the way it is
Brothers and sisters
Rebuild your lives
We're all drug takers
Give us something tonight
Rohypnol like a chloroform
Sugar from the day you are born
Washed out like a dinosaur
Really don't believe it
Sticky sniffing superglue
Sulphates keeps you in a zoo
Monkeys turning into you
Everybody horny
Acid good up on the moors
Gimpo stops you getting bored
Beta's busy making laws
Procaine stops you screaming
Librium for anxiety
Drinking is our society
Guessing out of eternity
That's the way it is
That's the way it is even when we're pissed
Yeah, that's the way it is, that's the way it is
Brothers and sisters
Rebuild your lives
We're all drug takers
Give us something tonight
Rebuild your lives
We're all drug takers
Give us something tonight
A cartoon in a ketamine
Jelly mixed with margarine
White doves from the war machine
Everybody moving'
Cocaine is for murderers
Codeine for the jurors
Caffeine been through all of us
Everybody horny
Crackwhores back in town again
Eggships sniffing benelyn
Burning all the oil again
Smoking makes you holy
Textin abbreviates the brain
Aspirin takes away the pain
Rock on, everyone the same
That's the way it is
Brothers and sisters
Rebuild your lives
We're all drug takers
Give us something tonight
Rohypnol like a chloroform
Sugar from the day you are born
Washed out like a dinosaur
Really don't believe it
Sticky sniffing superglue
Sulphates keeps you in a zoo
Monkeys turning into you
Everybody horny
Acid good up on the moors
Gimpo stops you getting bored
Beta's busy making laws
Procaine stops you screaming
Librium for anxiety
Drinking is our society
Guessing out of eternity
That's the way it is
That's the way it is even when we're pissed
Yeah, that's the way it is, that's the way it is
Brothers and sisters
Rebuild your lives
We're all drug takers
Give us something tonight
Lyrics submitted by U2takemehigher, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Brothers & Sisters Lyrics as written by Steven Alexander James Damon Albarn
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Fast Car
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
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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"
Mental Istid
Ebba Grön
Ebba Grön
This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
Son Şansın - Şarkı Sözleri
Hayalperest
Hayalperest
This song seemingly tackles the methods of deception those who manipulate others use to get victims to follow their demands, as well as diverting attention away from important issues. They'll also use it as a means to convince people to hate or kill others by pretending acts of terrorism were committed by the enemy when the acts themselves were done by the masters of control to promote discrimination and hate. It also reinforces the idea that these manipulative forces operate in various locations, infiltrating everyday life without detection, and propagate any and everywhere.
In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control and gain power, depicting a cautionary tale against falling into their traps. It encourages us to question the narratives presented to us and remain vigilant against manipulation in various parts of society.
Punchline
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
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.
People have become too dependant on manufactured chemicals or drugs. It echoes the lyrics of Chemical World.
That's exactly what I thought, that this was covering similar ground to chemical world!
Yeah and it is reggae :). It is great song. Too bad they've split.
love it.
funny he is tough on Cocaine.....guess he'd know.
That means I am not CHEMICAL-FREE... I use drugs, though(paracetamol)
He's saying don't take or do drugs because it will hurt you Even in the song he says: brothers and sisters REBUILD your lives we're all drug takers give us something tonight. He even makes it clear What he means by rebuild is to get off the drug addiction and MAKE SOMETHING OF YOUR SELF DON"T SIT AROUND DOING DRUGS BECAUSE it's NOT HELPING!!!
In my opinion, this song is about being born into a world that automaticaly creates this addiction to these "drugs". "Sugar from the day you are born"; our parents feed sugar to us when we are young.. and verything pretty much has sugar or some sort of artifical sweetening or flavouring, we cannot help it when we're babies. Blur refers to hard drugs like "cocaine for murderers", watch any movie with a cocaine dealer.. it usually entales some sort of mafia or gang. They are relating not drugs but the substances that make this society go around with everyday things that we do not even notice. The songs not nessisary about drugs but just things that we are so use to.. Just like addictions. We crave life and fun but everyone is merely the same and will get into work after their education.."Caffine been through all of us". We don't notice how brainwashed we are in this society, and how addicted we are to living the way we do. We are hooked on the life that was given to us, not the life that we never chose.. "Sugar from the day you are born" my friends!
Blur is brilliant, they're so controversial but in the most charming way possible. Just love, love, love them!