"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.
I got a number on me
I got a number
Won't make it through
The high noon sun
I am my father's son
I am my father's son
His bed is made
But I was a hero
Early in the morning
I ain't no hero
In the night
I am my father's son
I'll build a house inside of you
I'll go in through your mouth
I'll draw three figures on your heart
One of them'll be me as a boy
One of them'll be me
One of them'll be me watching you run
Watching you run
Into the high noon sun
Watching you run
Farther than guns will go
You are a runner
With a sullen voice
And you are a runner
And I am my father's son
I am my father's son
I am my father's son
I got a number
Won't make it through
The high noon sun
I am my father's son
I am my father's son
His bed is made
But I was a hero
Early in the morning
I ain't no hero
In the night
I am my father's son
I'll build a house inside of you
I'll go in through your mouth
I'll draw three figures on your heart
One of them'll be me as a boy
One of them'll be me
One of them'll be me watching you run
Watching you run
Into the high noon sun
Watching you run
Farther than guns will go
You are a runner
With a sullen voice
And you are a runner
And I am my father's son
I am my father's son
I am my father's son
Lyrics submitted by dukesup
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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"
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Ebba Grön
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
Holiday
Bee Gees
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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.
Head > Heels
Ed Sheeran
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“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 believe its:
i'll go in through your mouth i'll draw three figures on your heart one of them'll be me as a boy one of them'll be me one of them'll be me watching you run
From the opening crunchy riffs, it immediately paints the picture of the quasi-anarchic Wild Wild West. The protagonist seems to have a bounty on his head, and this has led to a sort of bipolarity where he must struggle between his innate desire for survival and the traditions of honor and courage that his father instilled in him.
I think this song is about the singer having his fate already in place because of his father. Maybe figuring he is going to follow his father's footsteps down whatever path that may be. Something probably dark.
While the runner is a person who is going to go far in life. Maybe a friend or someone he loves. Regardless, he figures this person will be going places in life and that he will merely be watching them while he stays behind.
Just my theory. Awesome song, just as it is an awesome album.
Sounds to me as a little boy he looked up to his father, his father was a hero in the little boy's eyes, but was never around or maybe left him and his mother. Now he's become what his father was.
I believe it has religious connotations, or at least undertones.
We see a very clear timeline presented, with morning, noon, and night. This has often been used by poets and songwriters as a metaphor for the life cycle of a human; Youth in the morning, mid-age in the afternoon, and elderly at night.
All monotheistic religions are described as having one creator (God, Allah, El, etc..) Which would thus make us our fathers sons. The house represents the strong foundation of God, and the mouth is his Word.