"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.
Feeling all your touching
Feeling all your blood
Feeling all your touching
Feeling all your love
Seen it though a windscreen
Seen it through the clouds
Seen it in a bad dream
Seen it in your heart
Feeling all your touching
Feeling all your love
Feeling all your touching
Feeling all your love
Feeling all your blood
Feeling all your touching
Feeling all your love
Seen it though a windscreen
Seen it through the clouds
Seen it in a bad dream
Seen it in your heart
Feeling all your touching
Feeling all your love
Feeling all your touching
Feeling all your love
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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"
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
Cajun Girl
Little Feat
Little Feat
Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Head > Heels
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Head > Heels” is a track that aims to capture what it feels like to experience romance that exceeds expectations. Ed Sheeran dedicates his album outro to a lover who has blessed him with a unique experience that he seeks to describe through the song’s nuanced lyrics.
I think it's about dying in a way (not only breaking down. I think it's more serious than that), as if we have the chance to finally get inside the mind of the main character dealt with through this journey. And I also believe that it's about attempting to create an essential piece as a closing layer. One that is meant to say or pass a vibe of "goodbye", while causing a tragic shock to the person (and maybe to the audience as well, since it is based on a script) the message (filled with vast emtions, clearly of love or obsession) is sent to. It seems to be build upon fragments/motives written all over the album (Deadwing), and I feel like it tries make you go pass everything (like looking back at the path we took across the album's theme) with a bitter-sweet taste of acknowledgement taken from the story itself. But it's so phsyico'. You can see it in the verse: Seen it through a windscreen / Seen it through the cloud / Seen it in a bad dream / Seen it in your heart... I don't know which person (or you can all it- piece) here is the sick/wounded or bad one. If it is the so called love of the other player here that eventually killed (physically, or mentally) the other player? Or the opposite? I still haven't got it figured out just yet. I gotta go back and read all the rest of the lyrics from the start including Half Light and So Called Friend I haven't got to hear (or simply wait for the film to be made :).