"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.
Oh, it's you again
Your angel feathers and your bloodstains
I can disregard these flighty notions and your silly grin
This time what I stitch is mine
And what I mend is just a hand hold
Take note it's the last time...
A better company than being alone
Look what you're faced to find
You're gonna get it in your own sweet time
There's no easy way - you make mistakes
And pay. That's just the way it's done
It's just a shock...I know you will feel it.
Oh, it's here again
Shovel under the tight rope
It's not where the worries begin
but how you learn to leave it alone
No it's not where the worries began
When it falls. When it comes down
...It makes you hollow
You might not... wanna be around
...It's just the way things are
When it shines. When it shines down..
...into the shadows
Everything lost gets found
...It's enough to show you who you are
Stop thinking about something
That's nothing like the way things are
Truth has a motive
Regardless of what you want
Your angel feathers and your bloodstains
I can disregard these flighty notions and your silly grin
This time what I stitch is mine
And what I mend is just a hand hold
Take note it's the last time...
A better company than being alone
Look what you're faced to find
You're gonna get it in your own sweet time
There's no easy way - you make mistakes
And pay. That's just the way it's done
It's just a shock...I know you will feel it.
Oh, it's here again
Shovel under the tight rope
It's not where the worries begin
but how you learn to leave it alone
No it's not where the worries began
When it falls. When it comes down
...It makes you hollow
You might not... wanna be around
...It's just the way things are
When it shines. When it shines down..
...into the shadows
Everything lost gets found
...It's enough to show you who you are
Stop thinking about something
That's nothing like the way things are
Truth has a motive
Regardless of what you want
Lyrics submitted by HWOntoFire
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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.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Mental Istid
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Ebba Grön
This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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This is a sequel to 2001's "Reckless Abandon", and features the band looking back on their clumsy youth fondly.
Amazing
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to find some positivity in the situation. This track was written by Ed Sheeran from the perspective of his friend. From the track, we see this person fall deeper into the negative thoughts and slide further down the path of mental torment with every lyric.
Amazing song my favorite part is:
"Stop thinking about something That's nothing like the way things are Truth has a motive Regardless of what you want"
& they're awesome live
crap, i ment to plus one your comment but minus'ed it instead...shit. <br /> Yeah I saw them at Soulfest! crazy! and yeah, thats the best part of the song, it's so true.