"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'm glad you killed me
in Sunday bests
because I'll haunt forever
the rooms I love the best
and this is how i'd want to dress
in such a mess Ive never felt much better
leave flyers and old letters there they are
smile for the cameras
and flicker the lights
my image in the mirror
will haunt your life
your songs still kill me
more better dead than alive
you looked so good
the trigger pulled so tight
but i could be a heart attack
a callous act broken bones
or better yet
maybe thngs should stay the way they are
we'll haunt your life because we've died
I see you every time you sleep
you see me everytime you blink
if i cant forget this
you wont forget this
in Sunday bests
because I'll haunt forever
the rooms I love the best
and this is how i'd want to dress
in such a mess Ive never felt much better
leave flyers and old letters there they are
smile for the cameras
and flicker the lights
my image in the mirror
will haunt your life
your songs still kill me
more better dead than alive
you looked so good
the trigger pulled so tight
but i could be a heart attack
a callous act broken bones
or better yet
maybe thngs should stay the way they are
we'll haunt your life because we've died
I see you every time you sleep
you see me everytime you blink
if i cant forget this
you wont forget this
Lyrics submitted by blinkgirl-182
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Fast Car
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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"
Mental Istid
Ebba Grön
Ebba Grön
This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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Blink-182
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This is a sequel to 2001's "Reckless Abandon", and features the band looking back on their clumsy youth fondly.
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Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Blue” is a song about a love that is persisting in the discomfort of the person experiencing the emotion. Ed Sheeran reflects on love lost, and although he wishes his former partner find happiness, he cannot but admit his feelings are still very much there. He expresses the realization that he might never find another on this stringed instrumental by Aaron Dessner.
my image in the mirror will haunt your life MY FAVOURITE LINE my god it sooo gud lov this sooonng!! hmm its wrong "leave flyers and old letters WHERE they are,LEAST EXIZISED THEY ARE"
hyasgdhkabs miss u terrry!
this song goes off live -nods- actually, all their songs do.
i think he's on the bitter end of a breakup and he's comparing the breakup to 'his death' and he's promising to haunt the girl that broke it off?
it seems like the singer from practically any emo band hates there ex and writes a song about it.just lsten to Atreyu,Silverstein or hawthorne heights and you will see what i mean.