"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.
Drop out of life with bong in hand
Follow the smoke to-uh the riff-filled land
Drop... out of life with bong in hand
Follow the smoke to-uh the riff-filled land
Proceeds the Weedian â?? Nazareth
Proceeds the Weedian â?? Nazareth
Creedsmen roll out across the dying dawn
Sacred Israel Holy Mountain Zion
Sun beams down on to the Sandsean reigns ?????
Caravan migrates through deep sandscape
Lungsmen unearth the creed of Hasheeshian
Procession of the Weed-Priests to cross the sands
Desert Legion Smoke-Covenant is complete
Herb bails retied on to backs of beasts
Arise arise arise - The Son of the God of Israel
Jordan River flows on evermore
Bathe in glow of sunlight's beating rays
They feel so lost and burned through our days ?????
Stoner caravan emerge from sandsea
Earthling inserts to chalice the green cutchie
Groundation soul finds trust upon smoking hose
Assembled creedsmen rises prayer-filled smoke
Raise up sea of Holy Prophecy
... now feeds ????????
Seed of Eden fall on...????????
Onward caravan prepare ??????????
Weed-Priests... the right ?????
Judgement soon come to Mankind
Green Herbsmen serve rightful king
Hemp seed caravan carries
The broken fire flowed up to-uh Zion ???????
Flight of the Nazarene to seek the Cherry Moon ?????
Rides out believer with the spliff aflame
Marijuanaut escapes earth to cultivate
Grow-Room is church temple of the new stoner breed
Chants Loud-Robed priest down on to the freedom seed
Burnt offering redeems â?? completes smoked deliverance
Caravans' stoned deliverance
The caravan holds to Eastern Creed - Now smokes believer !
The Chronicle of the Sensimillian
Drop out of life with bong in hand
Follow the smoke to-uh the riff-filled land
Drop out of life with bong in hand
Follow the smoke Jerusalem
Follow the smoke to-uh the riff-filled land
Drop... out of life with bong in hand
Follow the smoke to-uh the riff-filled land
Proceeds the Weedian â?? Nazareth
Proceeds the Weedian â?? Nazareth
Creedsmen roll out across the dying dawn
Sacred Israel Holy Mountain Zion
Sun beams down on to the Sandsean reigns ?????
Caravan migrates through deep sandscape
Lungsmen unearth the creed of Hasheeshian
Procession of the Weed-Priests to cross the sands
Desert Legion Smoke-Covenant is complete
Herb bails retied on to backs of beasts
Arise arise arise - The Son of the God of Israel
Jordan River flows on evermore
Bathe in glow of sunlight's beating rays
They feel so lost and burned through our days ?????
Stoner caravan emerge from sandsea
Earthling inserts to chalice the green cutchie
Groundation soul finds trust upon smoking hose
Assembled creedsmen rises prayer-filled smoke
Raise up sea of Holy Prophecy
... now feeds ????????
Seed of Eden fall on...????????
Onward caravan prepare ??????????
Weed-Priests... the right ?????
Judgement soon come to Mankind
Green Herbsmen serve rightful king
Hemp seed caravan carries
The broken fire flowed up to-uh Zion ???????
Flight of the Nazarene to seek the Cherry Moon ?????
Rides out believer with the spliff aflame
Marijuanaut escapes earth to cultivate
Grow-Room is church temple of the new stoner breed
Chants Loud-Robed priest down on to the freedom seed
Burnt offering redeems â?? completes smoked deliverance
Caravans' stoned deliverance
The caravan holds to Eastern Creed - Now smokes believer !
The Chronicle of the Sensimillian
Drop out of life with bong in hand
Follow the smoke to-uh the riff-filled land
Drop out of life with bong in hand
Follow the smoke Jerusalem
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"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"
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"I had all and then most of you"
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"Some and now none of you"
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This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
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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 is so heavy, Amazon will have to deliver it to your house with a forklift.
it isn't about anything you people have mentioned earlier!!! And to say it is just about marijuana isn't right either. All this song is, is a story about a pot smoking caravan of stoners in biblical times. i am positive about this too. i love the song, even though i dont do drugs. i have nothing against pot smokers, but seriously the song isn't this metaphorical. Use your brain.
Sleep did smoke copious amounts of reefer while making this record. Matt Pike has even said that they probably blew the advance on drugs and alcohol. <br /> The song itself isn't a metaphor for smoking grass, it is a biblical story about the great cannabis which I mean, to be able to appreciate this song to it's maximum I believe you need to be blitzed, preferably something really dank.<br /> <br /> Proceeds the Weedian - Nazareth!
about marijuana...it's use...it's first conception...
an hour of thc laced HEAVY
fuck, dude. shit's so good.
(All) proceeds (go to): The Weedian, Nazareth (Israel)
Seriously, this is actually a great highway song. The I-95 stretch between Savannah and the FL border last week literally flew by.
i love this song, so much it's almost dirty. uhggg. ok now it IS dirty, i need a new keyboard.
Awesome song. I wonder how much more awesome it would be if I listened to it stoned...
the heaviest hour and 3 minutes of my day.
its about pot among other things.
Sleeps lyrics are ussualy "in your face" like a normal story, i can see a comic book out of this everytime i listen to the song while high, great stuff.
hahaha this is the first time ive actually read the lyrics i fucking love sleep