"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.
In dreams our love has been redrawn
It shoots up over me then the image is gone
When I tried to follow her all the way home
She stopped and tells me she wants to be alone
She said, "there's nothing you can hide, alright"
And if I'm not for you then I will know
When I'm talking to you
If doubt is breaking through your brow
I will know
There's nothing I can do
oooOoOoOooo
I'm not for you
Well there's no sense in staying
You try to force these things they end up breaking
How you gonna live with me on your back
Oh it's getting close, it's getting close to that
And there's nothing you can hide, alright
And if I'm not for you then I will know
When I'm talking to you
If doubt is breaking through your brow
I will know
There's nothing I can do
oooOoOoOooo
I'm not for you
It shoots up over me then the image is gone
When I tried to follow her all the way home
She stopped and tells me she wants to be alone
She said, "there's nothing you can hide, alright"
And if I'm not for you then I will know
When I'm talking to you
If doubt is breaking through your brow
I will know
There's nothing I can do
oooOoOoOooo
I'm not for you
Well there's no sense in staying
You try to force these things they end up breaking
How you gonna live with me on your back
Oh it's getting close, it's getting close to that
And there's nothing you can hide, alright
And if I'm not for you then I will know
When I'm talking to you
If doubt is breaking through your brow
I will know
There's nothing I can do
oooOoOoOooo
I'm not for you
Lyrics submitted by Miracle Sun
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Fast Car
Tracy Chapman
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The Night We Met
Lord Huron
Lord Huron
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"
Mental Istid
Ebba Grön
Ebba Grön
This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
Holiday
Bee Gees
Bee Gees
@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
Blue
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“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.
i have no idea what that "brow" part is i know its wrong cause it doesnt really make sense, but thats what it sounded like to me hahaha.
nah it's right - it makes sense (well I thought it was "breaking through youR brow"). i.e: the doubt is in your mind but sometimes those things just pass, but if the doubt is "breaking through your brow" then it's stronger or in a sense more certain.
This is a great song. Sad though. Sometimes you want something to work so badly between yourself and another person. But I guess it's about facing the truth; that "there's no point in staying".
ohhhh niiceee very true! yea i couldnt agree with you more. this song is probably my fav cause of that very reason.
shit , im living this right now
OSL,
As am I.
i listen to this song while talking to my ex-gf on the phone, and it gets awkward for me ha!
Why does my version of this song go
In dreams our love has been redrawn It shoots up over me then the image is gone When I tried to follow you all the way home You stopped and tells me you want to be alone
"And there's nothing you can hide, alright" And if I'm not for you then I will know Theres nothing i can do OoOoOoOo I'm not for you
?
Why does my version of this song go
In dreams our love has been redrawn It shoots up over me then the image is gone When I tried to follow you all the way home You stopped and tells me you want to be alone
"And there's nothing you can hide, alright" And if I'm not for you then I will know Theres nothing i can do OoOoOoOo I'm not for you
?
Mine is the same, this one is probably an earlier version of the song