"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.
Stay tonight
Let me hold you like I never did before
Take my arms
And let me hold you like I never did before
And I should have tried just to talk about this
Waiting, ending
I should have tried just to let you know that I'm
Still here
So before you let me go
Take my hands
Let me touch you like I never did before
Take my heart and let me love you
Like I never did before
Like I never did before
And I should have tried just to talk about it
Waiting, ending
I should have tried just to let you know
That I'm still here
But we waste it every time
Now my heart is on the line
And we see ourselves no more
When we're closing every door
It's so much harder than before
So before you let me go
Before you let me go
Save the dance and let me spin you
Till your world is turning round and round
Round and round, round and round
Save the chance and let me show you
Just like you need a little more
Just like you need a little more
And I should have tried just to talk about it
Waiting, ending
I should have tried just to let you know
That I'm still here
But we waste it every time
Now my heart is on the line
Until we see oursleves no more
When we're closing every door
It's so much harder than before
So much harder than before
So before you let me go
Before you let me go
But we waste it every time
Now my heart is on the line
Until we see oursleves no more
When we're closing every door
It's so much harder than before
So much harder than before
But we wast it every time
Now my heart is on the line
And now we bruise with every step
When we're closing every door
Can we make it easier
Some time?
Some time
Let me hold you like I never did before
Take my arms
And let me hold you like I never did before
And I should have tried just to talk about this
Waiting, ending
I should have tried just to let you know that I'm
Still here
So before you let me go
Take my hands
Let me touch you like I never did before
Take my heart and let me love you
Like I never did before
Like I never did before
And I should have tried just to talk about it
Waiting, ending
I should have tried just to let you know
That I'm still here
But we waste it every time
Now my heart is on the line
And we see ourselves no more
When we're closing every door
It's so much harder than before
So before you let me go
Before you let me go
Save the dance and let me spin you
Till your world is turning round and round
Round and round, round and round
Save the chance and let me show you
Just like you need a little more
Just like you need a little more
And I should have tried just to talk about it
Waiting, ending
I should have tried just to let you know
That I'm still here
But we waste it every time
Now my heart is on the line
Until we see oursleves no more
When we're closing every door
It's so much harder than before
So much harder than before
So before you let me go
Before you let me go
But we waste it every time
Now my heart is on the line
Until we see oursleves no more
When we're closing every door
It's so much harder than before
So much harder than before
But we wast it every time
Now my heart is on the line
And now we bruise with every step
When we're closing every door
Can we make it easier
Some time?
Some time
Lyrics submitted by somewhat`damaged
Before You Let Me Go Lyrics as written by Dinand Woesthoff
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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“I overthink and have trouble sleepin’ / All purpose gone and don’t have a reason / And there’s no doctor to stop this bleedin’ / So I left home and jumped in the deep end,” Ed Sheeran sings in verse one. He continues by adding that this person is feeling the weight of having disappointed his father and doesn’t have any friends to rely on in this difficult moment. In the second verse, Ed sings about the role of grief in his friend’s plight and his dwindling faith in prayer. “Saturday night is givin’ me a reason to rely on the strobe lights / The lifeline of a promise in a shot glass, and I’ll take that / If you’re givin’ out love from a plastic bag,” Ed sings on the chorus, as his friend turns to new vices in hopes of feeling better.
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