"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.
This next song
Is actually an uptempo song off my new record "I Am"
I love the lyrics so much
I actually wanted to do an acoustic version for you guys
It talks about relationships being so wonderful
Almost too good to be true
You don't know if this is a sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare
Every night I rush to my bed
With hopes that maybe I'll get a chance to see you
When I close my eyes, I'm going out of my head
Lost in a fairytale, can you hold my hands and be my guide?
Clouds filled with stars cover the skies
And I hope it rains
You're the perfect lullaby
You can be a sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare
Either way I don't wanna wake up from you (you can be a sweet dream)
Or a beautiful nightmare
Somebody, pinch me, your love's too good to be true
My guilty pleasure, I ain't going nowhere
Baby, 'long as you're here, I'll be floating on air 'cause you're my
You can be a sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare
Either way I don't wanna wake up from you
Wanna wake up from you, you
Tattoo your name across my heart
Tattoo your name across my heart
Not even death can make us part
Not even death can make us part
Tattoo your name across my heart
Tattoo your name across my heart (oh)
Not even death can make us part
What kind of dream is this?
I love you
I love you, I love you
Baby, I love you, you are my life
My happiest moments weren't complete if you weren't by my side (you weren't by my side)
You're my relation in connection to the sun (connection to the sun)
With you next to me there's no darkness I can't overcome (I can't overcome)
You are my raindrops, I am the seed (I am the seed)
With you and God who's the sunlight I bloom and grow so beautifully (grow so beautifully)
Baby, I'm so proud, proud to be your girl (proud to be your girl)
You make the confusion go all away from this cold and mixed-up world
I am in love with you (I'm in love)
You set me free
I can't do this thing called life without you here with me
'Cause I'm dangerously in love with you (dangerously in love)
I'll never leave
Just, just keep lovin' me the way I love you lovin' me, yeah
Every time I see your face my heart smiles
Every time it feels so good it hurts sometimes
Created in this world to love, to hold
To feel, to breathe, to live you
Dangerously in love, yeah (I'm in love)
I can't do this thing
Called life without you here with me (can't do this thing without here with me)
'Cause I'm dangerously in love (holdin' me)
In love (kissin' me, lovin' me)
Keep lovin' me the way I love you lovin' me
Dangerously
Dangerously
I love you
I love you
I love
I love you
I love you
I love
I love, love, love
With all my heart, I love you baby
Stay with me and you will see my arms will hold you, baby
Never leave, 'cause I believe in this in love
Sweet love, hear me callin' out your name
I feel no shame, I'm in love
Sweet love, don't you ever go away
It will always be this way
There's no stronger love in this world (ooh)
Oh, baby, no
You're my man, I'm your girl
I'll never go, wait and see, can't be wrong
Don't you know this is where you belong? Oh
So sweet
So sweet
So sweet oh, oh, love
(Sweet love) oh no, no, no
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no no, no
(Sweet love) don't nobody know
Just leave me sweetly, baby
Just leave me sweetly, baby
Hey
Don't nobody know
Ooh, ooh
Ooh I am in love with you (I'm in love)
You set me free
I can't do this thing called life without you dangerously in love
Thank you guys
Is actually an uptempo song off my new record "I Am"
I love the lyrics so much
I actually wanted to do an acoustic version for you guys
It talks about relationships being so wonderful
Almost too good to be true
You don't know if this is a sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare
Every night I rush to my bed
With hopes that maybe I'll get a chance to see you
When I close my eyes, I'm going out of my head
Lost in a fairytale, can you hold my hands and be my guide?
Clouds filled with stars cover the skies
And I hope it rains
You're the perfect lullaby
You can be a sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare
Either way I don't wanna wake up from you (you can be a sweet dream)
Or a beautiful nightmare
Somebody, pinch me, your love's too good to be true
My guilty pleasure, I ain't going nowhere
Baby, 'long as you're here, I'll be floating on air 'cause you're my
You can be a sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare
Either way I don't wanna wake up from you
Wanna wake up from you, you
Tattoo your name across my heart
Tattoo your name across my heart
Not even death can make us part
Not even death can make us part
Tattoo your name across my heart
Tattoo your name across my heart (oh)
Not even death can make us part
What kind of dream is this?
I love you
I love you, I love you
Baby, I love you, you are my life
My happiest moments weren't complete if you weren't by my side (you weren't by my side)
You're my relation in connection to the sun (connection to the sun)
With you next to me there's no darkness I can't overcome (I can't overcome)
You are my raindrops, I am the seed (I am the seed)
With you and God who's the sunlight I bloom and grow so beautifully (grow so beautifully)
Baby, I'm so proud, proud to be your girl (proud to be your girl)
You make the confusion go all away from this cold and mixed-up world
I am in love with you (I'm in love)
You set me free
I can't do this thing called life without you here with me
'Cause I'm dangerously in love with you (dangerously in love)
I'll never leave
Just, just keep lovin' me the way I love you lovin' me, yeah
Every time I see your face my heart smiles
Every time it feels so good it hurts sometimes
Created in this world to love, to hold
To feel, to breathe, to live you
Dangerously in love, yeah (I'm in love)
I can't do this thing
Called life without you here with me (can't do this thing without here with me)
'Cause I'm dangerously in love (holdin' me)
In love (kissin' me, lovin' me)
Keep lovin' me the way I love you lovin' me
Dangerously
Dangerously
I love you
I love you
I love
I love you
I love you
I love
I love, love, love
With all my heart, I love you baby
Stay with me and you will see my arms will hold you, baby
Never leave, 'cause I believe in this in love
Sweet love, hear me callin' out your name
I feel no shame, I'm in love
Sweet love, don't you ever go away
It will always be this way
There's no stronger love in this world (ooh)
Oh, baby, no
You're my man, I'm your girl
I'll never go, wait and see, can't be wrong
Don't you know this is where you belong? Oh
So sweet
So sweet
So sweet oh, oh, love
(Sweet love) oh no, no, no
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no no, no
(Sweet love) don't nobody know
Just leave me sweetly, baby
Just leave me sweetly, baby
Hey
Don't nobody know
Ooh, ooh
Ooh I am in love with you (I'm in love)
You set me free
I can't do this thing called life without you dangerously in love
Thank you guys
Lyrics submitted by coutureadore, edited by Gello
Sweet Dreams Medley: Dangerously in Love/Sweet Love Lyrics as written by James Scheffer Beyonce Giselle Knowles
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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comparing this to twilight kind of makes me want to vomit.
anyway it's one of her best songs for me, I like it.
This song is obviously about being in a relationship that is too good to be true. Actually, she said that herself in her performance... =D
@Dustyculater true 💕🔥
@Dustyculater So true
I think this song is about liking someone so much but yet it cant be quite right, it's saying on one hand that you can be a sweet dream or you can be a beautiful nightmare, from personal experience, I love someone that it just can't be quite right, in my dreams it can sweet or a beauiful nightmare, but yet no matter what we don't want to be without them. but thats my interpretation I could very well be wrong.
Either they're a couple and they just cannot physically be together or it is about a crush. On balance it is probably a couple that can't be together. <br /> <br /> The line "Every night I rush to my bed, With hopes that maybe I'll get a chance to see you when I close my eyes" sounds like she is prevented from physically seeing him.<br /> <br /> And to me the line "not even death can make us part" sounds like they're already a couple. It would say "...could make us part" if this were a crush.<br /> <br />
i love this song.... definitely about having a crush on someone and being so obsessed with them, hoping you dream abou tthem each night, and cant get enough of them. like she says , you can be a sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare , either way she likes feeling that way about someone so she doesnt really care in the end whether or not it turns out to be real love or just a silly crush.
i agree with coconut33 about what it is about. and i can totally relate! i love the beat and lyrics of this song. i used to not like beyonce's music that much but her new album was a really good comeback!
fav song ever of beyonce!
@gurl2021 ncooooosh man💕
i think sweet dream means when he's all good and amazing and beautiful nightmare means when he's mean to you but you still like him
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I understand that she's singing about her relationship to God instead of a man, you can think deeper about it. God in a way is not purely good as mainstream church make us believe, God can also be a "beautiful nightmare " as she puts it. "Clouds filled with stars cover your skies" isn't God present in all the cosmos? Aren't the skies His? "Not even death can make us apart, she will remain in His presence wherever she goes. It's more than just a common relationship in my opinion.
I think she's inlove because she says Tattoo your name across my heart and it will remain not even death could make us part. But I could be wrong or be right
wow i think people know what beyonce is talking about from their own personal stories! its the feeling when you love someone so much, you just want to go to bed so that you can dream about them. the dream can be sweet because youre with them, but it could also be a nightmare because you wish it was really happening and you dont know if itll come true. but either way, you want to stay in the dream forever :) i love this songgg!