"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 am leaving this harbor
Giving urban a farewell
Its habitants seem too keen on god
I cannot stomach their rights and wrongs
I have lost my origin
And I don't want to find it again
Whether sailing into nature's laws
And be held by ocean's paws
Wanderlust, relentlessly craving
Wanderlust, peel off the layers
Until we get to the core
Did I imagine it would be like this
Was it something like this I wished for
Or will I want more
Lust for comfort
Suffocates the soul
Relentless restlessness
Liberates me (sets me free)
I feel at home
Whenever the unknown surrounds me
I receive its embrace
Aboard my floating house
Wanderlust, relentlessly craving
Wanderlust, peel off the layers
Until we get to the core
Did I imagine it would be like this
Was it something like this I wished for
Or will I want more
Wanderlust, from island to island
Wanderlust, united in movement
Wonderful, I'm joined with you
Wanderlust, wanderland
Can you spot a pattern
(Relentlessly restless)
Can you spot a pattern
Can you
Giving urban a farewell
Its habitants seem too keen on god
I cannot stomach their rights and wrongs
I have lost my origin
And I don't want to find it again
Whether sailing into nature's laws
And be held by ocean's paws
Wanderlust, relentlessly craving
Wanderlust, peel off the layers
Until we get to the core
Did I imagine it would be like this
Was it something like this I wished for
Or will I want more
Lust for comfort
Suffocates the soul
Relentless restlessness
Liberates me (sets me free)
I feel at home
Whenever the unknown surrounds me
I receive its embrace
Aboard my floating house
Wanderlust, relentlessly craving
Wanderlust, peel off the layers
Until we get to the core
Did I imagine it would be like this
Was it something like this I wished for
Or will I want more
Wanderlust, from island to island
Wanderlust, united in movement
Wonderful, I'm joined with you
Wanderlust, wanderland
Can you spot a pattern
(Relentlessly restless)
Can you spot a pattern
Can you
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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 about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
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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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“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.
yeah the lyrics are wrong. they must be like what precipitate says..
i love this song so much! mostly i think the song is about thinking for yourself for your own personal pleasure...like a person's the strong desire to experince something new, and being tired of adhering cultural patterns/norms. also i notice (whether or not it was intentional) that there is the play on the wanderlust to wonderless, which could be alluding to a living in a unadmirable world where noone thinks for themselves... as for the pattern, i thinks its about societal norms, that we all are so used to adhering to. btw, the mathew herbert remix is great as well.
I love this song, especially Ratatat's remix of it...
I have not listened to a ton of Bjork but it is by far the best song I've heard, or understood its meaning.
It is about God, life, and existence. You can hear existentialist dialogue in the verses, and Niezche's philosophy of life and embrace of nature..
Her discomfort results from the God preached and believed in by the masses.
While she herself denounces God, she embraces life, and the world around us, and the human condition of existence. She finds peace only in her own capacity to assert her own individuality in the face of her environment, in other word's she find's comfort only in Tillich's God Above God.
She's quite the religious one..
Haha, you struck it straight from my tongue :) Exactly what I thought and felt. <br /> <br /> I love this song.. it depicts how I feel ALOT :D
Bjork claimed herself that the song is about "the state of looking for something and almost knowing you'll never find it". Makes sense. The word "wanderlust" actually refers to someone who has a constant desire to travel or "wander".
she also added the song makes fun of her lust for something new. lol. typical Bjork ;)
Does anyone know if the beeping at the end of the song is Morse Code? If any of you know please do tell. Thank you! :D
so amazing.
p.s. I think the one she sang on snl is slightly different from what the album version will be, maybe because the first few lines are a bit too controversial for that show? anyways, I've found these lyrics on a few sites:
I am leaving this harbour giving urban a farewell it's habitants seem to keen on god i cannot stomach their rights and wrong i have lost my origin and i don't want to find it again rather sailing into nature's laws and be held by ocean's paws
Wanderlast! relentlessly craving wanderlust peel off the layers until you get to the core did i imaginme it would be like this was it something like this i wished for or will i want more
lust for comfort suffocates the soul this relentless restleness liberates me i feel at home whenever the uknown surrounds me i receve it's embrace aboard my floating house
wanderlust! relentlessy craving wanderlust peel of the layers until you get to the core did i imagine it would be like this was it something like this i wished for or will i want more
Wanderlust from island to island wanderlust united in movement wonderful i enjoy it with you wanderlust!
can you spot a pattern?
relentlessy restless restless relentlessy restless relentlessy restless relentlessy
so great
i submitted the real lyrics hopefully they will change soon
lyrics fixed! I think in a way it is about Björk retiring, but then it a very sexual song