"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.
Above all
High and mighty
Will like a towering steed
A Web of Conceit that I weave
More... wanting much more
Grasping with Envious Eyes
Dark desires lead to words
That cut like knives
Frozen in your tracks...
No remorse
Embrace the rack
Twisting down your spine
'till the End of Time
(chorus)
It's Fire and Ice - make the Sacrifice
No one there to catch you when you Fall
It's Shadows and Sin - Enemies within
You'll be fine, so cross the line and
Damn it all
Slip into Shades of Nothing
Yesterday's promises die
More, taking more than I need to bleed you dry
Cut your throat
Abandon all Hope 'blood-money lusting' portrayal
Break the trust from dawn to dusk
Bring down the curtains on your final act of betrayal
Empty hands recoil...
Fell your Blood begin to boil
Tails and Fangs of Doom
Violently consumed
(chorus)
It's Fire and Ice - make the Sacrifice
No one there to catch you when you Fall
It's Shadows and Sin - Enemies within
You'll be fine, so cross the line and
Damn it all
Virtue or vice?
Will you pay the price?
When there's no one to catch you when you Fall
... so Damn you All ...
(interlude)
Give me hot-blooded yearning
Infect and pollute all that's pure
More than my heart can endure
(oh)
Vengeance and Fury
Screaming an eye for an eye
Lashing out in Anger
I curse the sky
Demon song is sung
First your ear and then your tongue
Wear this Mask of Fire
And burn (burn)
For all you've desired
(chorus)
It's Fire and Ice - make the Sacrifice
No one there to catch you when you Fall
It's Shadows and Sin - Enemies within
You'll be fine, so cross the line and
Damn it all
High and mighty
Will like a towering steed
A Web of Conceit that I weave
More... wanting much more
Grasping with Envious Eyes
Dark desires lead to words
That cut like knives
Frozen in your tracks...
No remorse
Embrace the rack
Twisting down your spine
'till the End of Time
(chorus)
It's Fire and Ice - make the Sacrifice
No one there to catch you when you Fall
It's Shadows and Sin - Enemies within
You'll be fine, so cross the line and
Damn it all
Slip into Shades of Nothing
Yesterday's promises die
More, taking more than I need to bleed you dry
Cut your throat
Abandon all Hope 'blood-money lusting' portrayal
Break the trust from dawn to dusk
Bring down the curtains on your final act of betrayal
Empty hands recoil...
Fell your Blood begin to boil
Tails and Fangs of Doom
Violently consumed
(chorus)
It's Fire and Ice - make the Sacrifice
No one there to catch you when you Fall
It's Shadows and Sin - Enemies within
You'll be fine, so cross the line and
Damn it all
Virtue or vice?
Will you pay the price?
When there's no one to catch you when you Fall
... so Damn you All ...
(interlude)
Give me hot-blooded yearning
Infect and pollute all that's pure
More than my heart can endure
(oh)
Vengeance and Fury
Screaming an eye for an eye
Lashing out in Anger
I curse the sky
Demon song is sung
First your ear and then your tongue
Wear this Mask of Fire
And burn (burn)
For all you've desired
(chorus)
It's Fire and Ice - make the Sacrifice
No one there to catch you when you Fall
It's Shadows and Sin - Enemies within
You'll be fine, so cross the line and
Damn it all
Lyrics submitted by Alynie
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Fast Car
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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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Holiday
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@[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.
Dreamwalker
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Punchline
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Ed Sheeran sings about missing his former partner and learning important life lessons in the process on “Punchline.” This track tells a story of battling to get rid of emotions for a former lover, whom he now realized might not have loved him the same way. He’s now caught between accepting that fact and learning life lessons from it and going back to beg her for another chance.
this song plays out the events after Adam and Eve committed the first sin, and Satan's joy in watching man kinds down fall.
The song is really about Cain<br /> <br /> "More... wanting much more<br /> Grasping with Envious Eyes<br /> Dark desires lead to words<br /> That cut like knives"<br /> <br /> Cain was jealous of Abel gain gods favor over his gift.<br /> <br /> It's Fire and Ice - make the Sacrifice<br /> No one there to catch you when you Fall<br /> It's Shadows and Sin - Enemies within<br /> You'll be fine, so cross the line and<br /> Damn it all<br /> <br /> He contemplated, he knew it was wrong but his feelings of envy and hate for brother was just too much and decided to lead him to a field to kill him.<br /> <br /> "Empty hands recoil...<br /> Fell your Blood begin to boil<br /> Tails and Fangs of Doom<br /> Violently consumed"<br /> <br /> The sin "murder" here is represented under the figure of a wild beast "Tails and Fangs of Doom" crouching at the door of the heart ready to pounce upon Cain. He just wasn't envious he hated him, feeling since he was the oldest he deserved God's blessing.<br /> <br /> Vengeance and Fury<br /> Screaming an eye for an eye<br /> Lashing out in Anger<br /> I curse the sky<br /> <br /> He was angry at God, though God gave him no reason why he chose Abel sacrifice over his.<br /> <br /> Wear this Mask of Fire<br /> And burn (burn)<br /> For all you've desired<br /> <br /> When God found out, he banished Cain from his parent's land, Cain accepts but adds he he will wander the earth until he is kill. God agrees he will wander until some kills him, but adds even more to his punishment, cursing him to live with a mark of fire warning if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over, that also protected him. The punishment will be atone for after seven generations. Hence the name of the song.
The song is really about Cain<br /> <br /> "More... wanting much more<br /> Grasping with Envious Eyes<br /> Dark desires lead to words<br /> That cut like knives"<br /> <br /> Cain was jealous of Abel gain gods favor over his gift.<br /> <br /> It's Fire and Ice - make the Sacrifice<br /> No one there to catch you when you Fall<br /> It's Shadows and Sin - Enemies within<br /> You'll be fine, so cross the line and<br /> Damn it all<br /> <br /> He contemplated, he knew it was wrong but his feelings of envy and hate for brother was just too much and decided to lead him to a field to kill him.<br /> <br /> "Empty hands recoil...<br /> Fell your Blood begin to boil<br /> Tails and Fangs of Doom<br /> Violently consumed"<br /> <br /> The sin "murder" here is represented under the figure of a wild beast "Tails and Fangs of Doom" crouching at the door of the heart ready to pounce upon Cain. He just wasn't envious he hated him, feeling since he was the oldest he deserved God's blessing.<br /> <br /> Vengeance and Fury<br /> Screaming an eye for an eye<br /> Lashing out in Anger<br /> I curse the sky<br /> <br /> He was angry at God, though God gave him no reason why he chose Abel sacrifice over his.<br /> <br /> Wear this Mask of Fire<br /> And burn (burn)<br /> For all you've desired<br /> <br /> When God found out, he banished Cain from his parent's land, Cain accepts but adds he he will wander the earth until he is kill. God agrees he will wander until some kills him, but adds even more to his punishment, cursing him to live with a mark of fire warning if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over, that also protected him. The punishment will be atone for after seven generations. Hence the name of the song.