"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 can live with god and with suicide
the same thing holds if i close my eyes
it's a truth so pure it can kill you dead
a taste of heaven mixed with hell inside of my head
if a three-four cord can ignite a flame
and a girl like you can forget my name
then i'm that far gone in this crooked grave
with a pistol for my creature and a feather for my day
when i do go down in a rain of toil
with a hand in my satchel and my knees in the soil
i can live with god and with suicide
a lover in her calico, a pony stands at her side
i can live with god and with suicide
the same thing holds if i close my eyes
it's a truth so pure it can kill you dead
a taste of heaven mixed with hell inside of my head
the same thing holds if i close my eyes
it's a truth so pure it can kill you dead
a taste of heaven mixed with hell inside of my head
if a three-four cord can ignite a flame
and a girl like you can forget my name
then i'm that far gone in this crooked grave
with a pistol for my creature and a feather for my day
when i do go down in a rain of toil
with a hand in my satchel and my knees in the soil
i can live with god and with suicide
a lover in her calico, a pony stands at her side
i can live with god and with suicide
the same thing holds if i close my eyes
it's a truth so pure it can kill you dead
a taste of heaven mixed with hell inside of my head
Lyrics submitted by hellomagda
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"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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I think this song is a reference to absurdist philosophy. Absurdism holds that life is fundamentally meaningless, and that our options are suicide, religious belief, or acceptance of the absurd. The philosopher Albert Camus compared the second option, religion, to philosophical suicide. The song seems to acknowledge that Camus was right, but that the artist is willing to embrace religion (lines 1 and 2) even though it blinds you and creates all kinds of guilt and other problems ("hell inside of my head") in addition to giving you hope and meaning ("a taste of heaven").
My god, I love this song but I have no fucking clue what it means.
@suzieq315 facts.
the heaven/hell thing implies that god and suicide are also two polar opposites that he finds a way to rationalize and 'live with" both without choosing one or the other.
not sure i understand how god and suicide are parallel to heaven and hell?
Let me just readjust my comment.... Well its more about believing that there is something good in the world, and wich makes it good to live, like a god. Something wich makes life beautyful, and makes shure that everything will be all right; no matter what.... But then on the other hand there is the fact that everything is not perfect, like suicide....
It is the typical argument that God does not exist, like why does some people die of hunger if a god excist, should he not help? But then again, to like life there need to be something beautyfull, a great paradigm.
And then the worst thing in his life is that this girl does not remember his name, which isn't really a problem, but it has great meaning in his life...
I can live with god and THE suicide...
I can live with god and with suicide.
I'm with StevieBoy83. It's clearly 'with suicide.'
And now I feel like an idiot, because you were correcting yourself rather than responding to someone else. haha.
If you commit (funny expression, like committing a crime) you go straight to hell. In this world we have to face accept God (religion in general) and horrible facts of life.
I just think its the thought wether there is a God or not. I at least feel like that when i hear the song, because it's a hell (life loses its greater meaning) without a god, and the fact that the world is not perfect makes it hard to belive in a god.
In the end i don't know, i can't even figure out wether Blitzen Trapper is religion or doubting, and in the song furr i get a totally different meaning than anybody else.... hm