"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.
Take this seriously
Like Pac, all eyes on me
That's right you are intrigued
(I'm that chick you like)
You know this what it be
I'm like the lottery
Hot Bentley with the keys
(Take me for a ride)
Light in the sky, let's fly high
Boy I got you caught up inside of my haze
And you're gonna be gone for days
I'm like that ooh wee
You're fiendin to blaze up
And taste me
Got flavor like ice cream
'Cause I'm that chick you like
And you know you need this man
And you know I got this man
Gonna be your everything
I'm that chick you like
La da da ooh we-ee
I'm that chick you like
La da da ooh we-ee
I'm that chick you like
I do's it naturally
Hypnotize like Biggie
But you ain't havin' dreams
I'm that chick you like
Nah you ain't seeing things
Or hallucinating,
I brings that levity
Take me for a ride
Light in the sky let's fly high
Boy I got you caught up inside of my haze
And you're gonna be gone for days
I'm like that ooo weee
You're fiendin to blaze up
And taste me
Got flavor like ice cream
'Cause I'm that chick you like
And you know you need this man
And you know I got this man
Gonna be your everything
I'm that chick you like
La da da ooh we-ee
I'm that chick you like
La da da ooh we-ee
I'm that chick you like
Boy just relax
And unwind
Pull me in and
Breathe, once you do
There ain't no rules
It's up to you
Ain't no rules
It's time
Just keep on kissin' me
Hold on and baby we
Could party all night through the night
All right
I'm like that ooh wee
You're fiendin to blaze up
And taste me
Got flavor like ice cream
'Cause I'm that chick you like
And you know you need this man
And you know I got this man
Gonna be your everything
I'm that chick you like
La da da ooh we-ee
I'm that chick you like
La da da ooh we-ee
I'm that chick you like
Like Pac, all eyes on me
That's right you are intrigued
(I'm that chick you like)
You know this what it be
I'm like the lottery
Hot Bentley with the keys
(Take me for a ride)
Light in the sky, let's fly high
Boy I got you caught up inside of my haze
And you're gonna be gone for days
I'm like that ooh wee
You're fiendin to blaze up
And taste me
Got flavor like ice cream
'Cause I'm that chick you like
And you know you need this man
And you know I got this man
Gonna be your everything
I'm that chick you like
La da da ooh we-ee
I'm that chick you like
La da da ooh we-ee
I'm that chick you like
I do's it naturally
Hypnotize like Biggie
But you ain't havin' dreams
I'm that chick you like
Nah you ain't seeing things
Or hallucinating,
I brings that levity
Take me for a ride
Light in the sky let's fly high
Boy I got you caught up inside of my haze
And you're gonna be gone for days
I'm like that ooo weee
You're fiendin to blaze up
And taste me
Got flavor like ice cream
'Cause I'm that chick you like
And you know you need this man
And you know I got this man
Gonna be your everything
I'm that chick you like
La da da ooh we-ee
I'm that chick you like
La da da ooh we-ee
I'm that chick you like
Boy just relax
And unwind
Pull me in and
Breathe, once you do
There ain't no rules
It's up to you
Ain't no rules
It's time
Just keep on kissin' me
Hold on and baby we
Could party all night through the night
All right
I'm like that ooh wee
You're fiendin to blaze up
And taste me
Got flavor like ice cream
'Cause I'm that chick you like
And you know you need this man
And you know I got this man
Gonna be your everything
I'm that chick you like
La da da ooh we-ee
I'm that chick you like
La da da ooh we-ee
I'm that chick you like
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Fast Car
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The Night We Met
Lord Huron
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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"
When We Were Young
Blink-182
Blink-182
This is a sequel to 2001's "Reckless Abandon", and features the band looking back on their clumsy youth fondly.
No Surprises
Radiohead
Radiohead
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.
Magical
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
How would you describe the feeling of being in love? For Ed Sheeran, the word is “Magical.” in HIS three-minute album opener, he makes an attempt to capture the beauty and delicacy of true love with words. He describes the magic of it all over a bright Pop song produced by Aaron Dessner.
i think this is about smoking mad weed.
@jasonchrist I think you're right
I love this song ! It's so much fun, nothing deep -on the contrary, the lyrics are quite silly but still amusing- just great music to dance to. It sounds fresh and young, and just puts me in the mood :-) I've just learned that it samples Michael Jackson's "Off the Wall", which explains why it sounds so good.
By the lyrics sounds like a song about weed