"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.
You're Sylvia Plath
As you drip from the bath
I hand you a robe
And so it goes
The moment had pass
You're Simone de Beauvoir
As you get out the car
The way you read me
No one can see me
It's who you are
And these photographs keep me alive
Babe, here's your song
Babe, it took too long
To find in your eyes
My best surprise
You're Nina Simone
When you talk on the phone
You sing to me
And I'm truly
No longer alone
You're Mary Cassatt
When people tell you you're not
You're like a child
All the while
I need you a lot
Babe, here's your song
Babe, it took too long
To find in your eyes
My best surprise
And I wanna know what you know
And I wanna go where you go
These things remind me of
These things remind me of
These things remind me of you
Babe, here's your song
Babe, it took too long
To find in your eyes
My best surprise
As you drip from the bath
I hand you a robe
And so it goes
The moment had pass
You're Simone de Beauvoir
As you get out the car
The way you read me
No one can see me
It's who you are
And these photographs keep me alive
Babe, here's your song
Babe, it took too long
To find in your eyes
My best surprise
You're Nina Simone
When you talk on the phone
You sing to me
And I'm truly
No longer alone
You're Mary Cassatt
When people tell you you're not
You're like a child
All the while
I need you a lot
Babe, here's your song
Babe, it took too long
To find in your eyes
My best surprise
And I wanna know what you know
And I wanna go where you go
These things remind me of
These things remind me of
These things remind me of you
Babe, here's your song
Babe, it took too long
To find in your eyes
My best surprise
Lyrics submitted by it_girl_ragDOLL
These Photographs Lyrics as written by Joshua Ryan Radin
Lyrics © Songtrust Ave, Missing Link Music
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Fast Car
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No Surprises
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Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
Page
Ed Sheeran
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Plastic Bag
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“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.
i just wish i met a woman like simone de beauvoir...quelle chance non?