"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.
Small, simple, safe price.
Rise the wake and carry me with all of my regrets.
This is not a small cut that scabs, and dries, and flakes, and heals.
And I am not afraid to die.
I'm not afraid to bleed, and fuck, and fight.
I want the pain of payment.
What's left, but a section of pigmy size cuts.
Much like a slew of a thousand unwanted fucks.
Would you be my little cut?
Would you be my thousand fucks?
And make mark leaving space for the guilt to be liquid.
To fill, and spill over, and under my thoughts.
My sad, sorry, selfish cry out to the cutter.
I'm cutting trying to picture your black broken heart.
Love is not like anything.
Especially a fucking knife.
Look at me, you can tell.
By the way I move and do my hair.
Do you think that it's me?
Or it's not me I don't even care.
I'm alive, I smell
I'm the cleanest I have ever been.
I feel big, I feel tall, I feel dry
Dry!
Just look at me.
Look at me now.
(I'm a fake, I'm a fake, I'm a fake, I'm a fake).
Just look at me.
Look at me now.
(I'm a fake, I'm a fake, I'm a fake, I'm a fake).
Do I drink? Do I date?
I got perfect placements all my inks
Satisfied in your eyes
I'm the biggest fan I got right now
I made sure I looked how I wanted to look
The people around me, the people surround me
I feel big, I feel tall, I feel dry
Dry!
Just look at me.
Look at me now.
(I'm a fake, I'm a fake, I'm a fake, I'm a fake).
Just look at me.
Look at me now.
(I'm a fake, I'm a fake, I'm a fake, I'm a fake).
Rise the wake and carry me with all of my regrets.
This is not a small cut that scabs, and dries, and flakes, and heals.
And I am not afraid to die.
I'm not afraid to bleed, and fuck, and fight.
I want the pain of payment.
What's left, but a section of pigmy size cuts.
Much like a slew of a thousand unwanted fucks.
Would you be my little cut?
Would you be my thousand fucks?
And make mark leaving space for the guilt to be liquid.
To fill, and spill over, and under my thoughts.
My sad, sorry, selfish cry out to the cutter.
I'm cutting trying to picture your black broken heart.
Love is not like anything.
Especially a fucking knife.
Look at me, you can tell.
By the way I move and do my hair.
Do you think that it's me?
Or it's not me I don't even care.
I'm alive, I smell
I'm the cleanest I have ever been.
I feel big, I feel tall, I feel dry
Dry!
Just look at me.
Look at me now.
(I'm a fake, I'm a fake, I'm a fake, I'm a fake).
Just look at me.
Look at me now.
(I'm a fake, I'm a fake, I'm a fake, I'm a fake).
Do I drink? Do I date?
I got perfect placements all my inks
Satisfied in your eyes
I'm the biggest fan I got right now
I made sure I looked how I wanted to look
The people around me, the people surround me
I feel big, I feel tall, I feel dry
Dry!
Just look at me.
Look at me now.
(I'm a fake, I'm a fake, I'm a fake, I'm a fake).
Just look at me.
Look at me now.
(I'm a fake, I'm a fake, I'm a fake, I'm a fake).
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I'm a Fake Lyrics as written by Jeph Howard Quinn Allman
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Fast Car
Tracy Chapman
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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"
Holiday
Bee Gees
Bee Gees
@[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.
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/
Plastic Bag
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Plastic Bag” is a song about searching for an escape from personal problems and hoping to find it in the lively atmosphere of a Saturday night party. Ed Sheeran tells the story of his friend and the myriad of troubles he is going through. Unable to find any solutions, this friend seeks a last resort in a party and the vanity that comes with it.
“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.
I always thought it was about someone with a split personality/multiple personalities and is maybe also about drugs. Or about how something/someone makes him a different person.
Look at me, can you tell, by the way I move into my head?
The way he goes into his other persona : via drugs, or maybe saying that there is no visible signs of when he's changing, it just happens. He's just confused about who he really is because there's a constant battle going on in his mind. He doesn't know which one is the real him. And this explains all the different lyrics, to me anyway.
Do you think that it's me, or...? It's not me. (That's how I view those lyrics, instead of one sentence.)
I don't even care, I'm alive:
He doesn't care which is him, because, although there are two people within him, they're both still him, and all that matters is that he's still living. Unless it means that he doesn't care which is the real, because, despite using drugs, he's alive and that's all that matters.
Personal experiences have shaped my opinions on the interpretation of this song. For the longest time, I could attach myself to anyone, and I could only listen to music and get that feeling, you know, the most amazing feeling on earth. "...a power as great as love." Anyway, and before I met my...(cliche, I know) soulmate, I always would just keep to myself, in my head. It was just me and it felt like there was two of me. Anthropomorphic fallacy/ pathetic fallacy is where you attach a personality and emotions to an inanimate object. I did it to myself. I became attached to myself, because I had no one else, and I gave my own self two sets of emotions, and two personalities. It was the weirdest thing ever to not know how many people lived in your head.