"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.
Come on, come out of the rain
You're not oppressed, you're just too learned
I took the book, I lit the page
Your sabbatical was burning
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fires in the street
Let's sully every stage
Lick my lips, twist my hips, but Contessa
I already did
Some things work but me, I choose to lose
My skin in the dirt
This whiskey priest, he burned the church
To keep his girls alive
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fire in the street
Let's sully every stage
Lick my lips, twist my hips, but Contessa
I already did
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fire in the street
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fire in the street
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fire in the street
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fire in the street
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fire in the street
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fire in the street
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fire in the street
You're not oppressed, you're just too learned
I took the book, I lit the page
Your sabbatical was burning
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fires in the street
Let's sully every stage
Lick my lips, twist my hips, but Contessa
I already did
Some things work but me, I choose to lose
My skin in the dirt
This whiskey priest, he burned the church
To keep his girls alive
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fire in the street
Let's sully every stage
Lick my lips, twist my hips, but Contessa
I already did
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fire in the street
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fire in the street
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fire in the street
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fire in the street
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fire in the street
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fire in the street
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fire in the street
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Streets of Fire Lyrics as written by Daniel Bejar
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Fast Car
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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
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There aren’t many things that’ll hurt more than giving love a chance against your better judgement only to have your heart crushed yet again. Ed Sheeran tells such a story on “Page.” On this track, he is devastated to have lost his lover and even more saddened by the feeling that he may never move on from this.
Plastic Bag
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“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.
This was originally a Destroyer song. From the same album as 'Breakin' The Law', 'We'll Build Them A Golden Bridge."
It's a matter of false parallelism, it may sound fine, but grammatically it's just a horrible way of saying it. And it's also certainly oppressed.
I adore this song. It'll mean everything to me at any moment of my life, such as trying to get back together with an old boyfriend that's worried everything will change because of hind-sight bias, how I burned all my journals because I couldn't take what I was thinking about. I spend a lot of time in theaters and a common theme throughout my life is making out with boys in dressing rooms. Every boy I've kissed I've at some point kissed in a dressing room. It's just an absolutely beautiful song.
best NP song ever. saw them last week and they gave me a new apprecation for this song.
theres contessa again in this one just like on the mass romantic contessa-italian for countess but i love it
I hear impressed as opposed to oppressed.
Anyway. To me this song is about trying too hard and taking too many risks for something that isn't necessarily worth it.
i think this song is about relization. "come on come out of the rain." And lighting the book on fire symbolizes a new direction and new beliefs. everytime i listen to this song i picture buildings burning down but everyone is smiling and just moving on.
This is a love song to MSNBC news anchor Contessa Brewer.
I like WOXvonWubbins suggestion best. Haha. But no really, great song. Sorry I can't help more, bt Bejar hardly ever makes sense lyrically. But that's what so damn great about it. Interpretation!
i tend to hear "depressed" rather than "oppressed", but oppressed works too. I think its about not taking yourself too seriously and just living passionately and in the moment. but yeah, awesome song! pretty much love the whole twin cinema album
i tend to hear "depressed" rather than "oppressed", but oppressed works too. I think its about not taking yourself too seriously and just living passionately and in the moment. but yeah, awesome song! pretty much love the whole twin cinema album