"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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Fast Car
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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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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
Cajun Girl
Little Feat
Little Feat
Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Page
Ed Sheeran
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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.
hahaha this is the first time ive actually read the lyrics i fucking love sleep