"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.
Since the start of the 17th century
There's been the scent of unseasoned wood burning in the air
And the conquest of nature meant nothing at all
While we betray exception we take all that is there
Motives are translucent in the reflection of shame
The actions ghostly remnants of our ancestral ways
And unwittingly, you just take your place in this parade
The voracious march of godliness makes us all the same anyway
Since the dawn of our human family
There's been concentrated sepsis blowing in the breeze
And we turned on each other with ferocity
Desperation, forced, without reprieve
But the missions were misguided and the trammeled led astray
The air resounds with thunder as the victors seized the day
And the haunting voice of history lives ignored but not betrayed
The voracious march of godliness will get us close to heaven one day
There's been the scent of unseasoned wood burning in the air
And the conquest of nature meant nothing at all
While we betray exception we take all that is there
Motives are translucent in the reflection of shame
The actions ghostly remnants of our ancestral ways
And unwittingly, you just take your place in this parade
The voracious march of godliness makes us all the same anyway
Since the dawn of our human family
There's been concentrated sepsis blowing in the breeze
And we turned on each other with ferocity
Desperation, forced, without reprieve
But the missions were misguided and the trammeled led astray
The air resounds with thunder as the victors seized the day
And the haunting voice of history lives ignored but not betrayed
The voracious march of godliness will get us close to heaven one day
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@[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.
I Can't Go To Sleep
Wu-Tang Clan
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This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, and what path they are going to choose as they get older and grow into men. (This is why the music video takes place in an orphanage.) The seen, and unseen collective suffering is imbedded in the boys’ mind, consciously or subconsciously, and is haunting them. Which path will the boys choose? Issac Hayes is the voice of reason, maybe God, the angel on his shoulder, or the voice of his forefathers from beyond the grave who can see the big picture and are pleading with the boys not to continue the violence and pattern of killing their brothers, but to rise above. The most beautiful song and has so many levels. Racism towards African Americans in America would not exist if everyone sat down and listened to this song and understood the history behind the words. The power, fear, pleading in RZA and Ghostface voices are genuine and powerful. Issac Hayes’ strong voice makes the perfect strong father figure, who is possibly from beyond the grave.
Page
Ed Sheeran
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This song says to us that since the seventeenth century there has been an ever escalating standard for religion and the 'ideal' life. These paragons have followed blindly no matter how fucked up they really are. They've led us to destroy each other and everything that is good and pure on our mother earth to keep the fucked rights that have been given to us follow what we have been told because we're 'honouring god,' and 'going to heaven.' If only god stopped them fucking up the great earth we fucking live on. If only the 'voracious march to godliness' wasn't to do nothing, to destroy our world, keeping it in pain and agony, but to put all the shit in a bag and throw it the fuck away. " The Christian resolution of the world being ugly and bad, makes the world ugly and bad." Friedrich Nietschze. If people would not just blindly follow the bullshit ideals of America then the world would stop being destroyed. If everyone would stop pursueing the ideals of 'god' and religion to get to the above which they know not if it exists, then the world could start to become pure.
agnostic soldier couldntv said it better...unless he took out the billion F bombs that make it annoying as hell
The Voracious Reader
this song includes the origins of Religion..
that almost is like a vaccumme and is sucking everything up, until the apogee.. of modern times. since a few hundred years ago this climax is starting to get restless.. and maby its saying we will get the closest it can possiblely get to the visualized "heaven"
and how in modern times that feeling of "humanity" of us all being the same... seen through religion.. is manifesting and becoming more and more evident. good song non-the less, hard to understand unless you have a forming mind
Art? Naaaaahh Talentless hacks? Yeah. "Gods of the copybook headings" It ain't. I bet this crowed hasn't got a clue as to what that is. FOOLS!!!!