"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.
Yeah he's a looker
But I really think it's guts that matter most
I displayed them for you
Strung out about from coast to coast
I am easily make-believe
Just dress me up in what you want me to be
I'll take back what I've been saying for quite some time now
I gotta feel you in my bones again
I'm all over you
I'm not over you
I wanna taste you one more time again
I'm all over you
I'm not over you
In my daydreams, in my sleep
Infatuation turning into disease
You could cure me, see all you have to do now is
Please try, give it your best shot and try
All I'm asking for is love
But you never seem to have enough
I gotta feel you in my bones again
I'm all over you
I'm not over you
I wanna taste you one more time again
I'm all over you
I'm not over you
This life is way too short
To get caught up in all this stuff
When I just want you to love me back
Why can't you just love me back?
Why can't you just love me back?
(Why can't you? Why can't you?)
Why can't you just love me back? Oh no
(Why can't you? Why can't you?)
Why can't you just love me back?
(Why can't you? Why can't you just love)
I gotta feel you in my bones again
I'm all over you
I'm not over you
I wanna taste you one more time again
(Just one more time)
This life is way too short
To get caught up and all mixed up
When I just want you to love me back
Why cant you just love me back?
Why won't you just love me back?
Why cant you just love me back?
But I really think it's guts that matter most
I displayed them for you
Strung out about from coast to coast
I am easily make-believe
Just dress me up in what you want me to be
I'll take back what I've been saying for quite some time now
I gotta feel you in my bones again
I'm all over you
I'm not over you
I wanna taste you one more time again
I'm all over you
I'm not over you
In my daydreams, in my sleep
Infatuation turning into disease
You could cure me, see all you have to do now is
Please try, give it your best shot and try
All I'm asking for is love
But you never seem to have enough
I gotta feel you in my bones again
I'm all over you
I'm not over you
I wanna taste you one more time again
I'm all over you
I'm not over you
This life is way too short
To get caught up in all this stuff
When I just want you to love me back
Why can't you just love me back?
Why can't you just love me back?
(Why can't you? Why can't you?)
Why can't you just love me back? Oh no
(Why can't you? Why can't you?)
Why can't you just love me back?
(Why can't you? Why can't you just love)
I gotta feel you in my bones again
I'm all over you
I'm not over you
I wanna taste you one more time again
(Just one more time)
This life is way too short
To get caught up and all mixed up
When I just want you to love me back
Why cant you just love me back?
Why won't you just love me back?
Why cant you just love me back?
Lyrics submitted by ashycrashy
All Over You Lyrics as written by Joseph Dean Beck Nicholas Thomas
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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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.
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Dusty Springfield
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I don't think it's necessarily about sex. It's about wanting to start the day with some love and affection. Maybe a warm cuddle. I'm not alone in interpreting it that way! For example:
"'Just a Little Lovin’ is a timeless country song originally recorded by Eddy Arnold in 1954. The song, written by Eddie Miller and Jimmy Campbell, explores the delicate nuances of love and showcases Arnold’s emotive vocals. It delves into the universal theme of love and how even the smallest gesture of affection can have a profound impact on our lives." https://oldtimemusic.com/the-meaning-behind-the-song-just-a-little-lovin-by-eddy-arnold/
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.
i fucking adore this song.