"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 is a story and you are not in it, uh huh
Fuck pages torn out
Here is a bedroom that you've never been in and
Here is your shovel, there's the ground
Look, two lovers covered in covers, uh huh
I can put us to bed tonight
I am bruised but she is dressing the wounds
Night nursing a broken man
She was not the cure for cancer
And all my questions still ask for answers
There is nothing like someone new
And this girl, she was nothing like you
After waking up post operation
I find I've come in a dream again
All the pain almost as painful as ever but
Something in me was not the same
At night during dreams of submission
I could claw back my heart and soul
As the size of the tumor diminishes
So it filled that black hole
She was not the cure for cancer
And all my questions still ask for answers
There is nothing like someone new
And this girl she was nothing like you
She was not the cure for cancer
And all my questions still ask for answers
There is nothing like someone new
And this girl she was nothing like you
There is nothing like someone new
And this girl she was nothing like you
There is nothing like someone new
And this girl she was nothing like you
Fuck pages torn out
Here is a bedroom that you've never been in and
Here is your shovel, there's the ground
Look, two lovers covered in covers, uh huh
I can put us to bed tonight
I am bruised but she is dressing the wounds
Night nursing a broken man
She was not the cure for cancer
And all my questions still ask for answers
There is nothing like someone new
And this girl, she was nothing like you
After waking up post operation
I find I've come in a dream again
All the pain almost as painful as ever but
Something in me was not the same
At night during dreams of submission
I could claw back my heart and soul
As the size of the tumor diminishes
So it filled that black hole
She was not the cure for cancer
And all my questions still ask for answers
There is nothing like someone new
And this girl she was nothing like you
She was not the cure for cancer
And all my questions still ask for answers
There is nothing like someone new
And this girl she was nothing like you
There is nothing like someone new
And this girl she was nothing like you
There is nothing like someone new
And this girl she was nothing like you
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Fast Car
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This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
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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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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.
THIS SONG IS BRILLIANT this song is beautiful this song is my life right now & it feels so good to listen to