"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 was writing his story and he gave me a look
He was very handsome, distractingly so
And I never dreamed that he'd be my boyfriend
He wrote me letters, daily from prison
That said, "I know I've killed a few
But none of those women were you"
I couldn't speak, it was over for me
I'd found my Grim Reaper Prince
Well, he said he loved me, cooked me dinner
He cut my lungs out and made me feel thinner
And I'll never forget him now that it's over
The life that we had 'til they strapped him down
Oh, but how all the girls were jealous
'Cause he liked me the best!
Oh, and I couldn't breathe, it was true love indeed
But now my grim prince is gone
Well, I said I loved him when they strapped him in
But he wasn't crying, he took it like a man
And the families watched him as he breathed his last
I got very angry when they started to laugh
And say "now he's got what's coming
He was due his lot"
Oh and I couldn't see, there were tears on my cheek!
Goodbye my grim reaper prince
Goodbye my grim reaper prince
Goodbye, goodbye, I'll see you in a while
Goodbye, farewell, good luck
He was very handsome, distractingly so
And I never dreamed that he'd be my boyfriend
He wrote me letters, daily from prison
That said, "I know I've killed a few
But none of those women were you"
I couldn't speak, it was over for me
I'd found my Grim Reaper Prince
Well, he said he loved me, cooked me dinner
He cut my lungs out and made me feel thinner
And I'll never forget him now that it's over
The life that we had 'til they strapped him down
Oh, but how all the girls were jealous
'Cause he liked me the best!
Oh, and I couldn't breathe, it was true love indeed
But now my grim prince is gone
Well, I said I loved him when they strapped him in
But he wasn't crying, he took it like a man
And the families watched him as he breathed his last
I got very angry when they started to laugh
And say "now he's got what's coming
He was due his lot"
Oh and I couldn't see, there were tears on my cheek!
Goodbye my grim reaper prince
Goodbye my grim reaper prince
Goodbye, goodbye, I'll see you in a while
Goodbye, farewell, good luck
Lyrics submitted by rah8181, edited by Broadripple
A Journalist Falls In Love With Deathrow Inmate #16 Lyrics as written by Richard Charles Edwards
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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"
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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.
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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.
Plastic Bag
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“I overthink and have trouble sleepin’ / All purpose gone and don’t have a reason / And there’s no doctor to stop this bleedin’ / So I left home and jumped in the deep end,” Ed Sheeran sings in verse one. He continues by adding that this person is feeling the weight of having disappointed his father and doesn’t have any friends to rely on in this difficult moment. In the second verse, Ed sings about the role of grief in his friend’s plight and his dwindling faith in prayer. “Saturday night is givin’ me a reason to rely on the strobe lights / The lifeline of a promise in a shot glass, and I’ll take that / If you’re givin’ out love from a plastic bag,” Ed sings on the chorus, as his friend turns to new vices in hopes of feeling better.
Just the way that I saw this/related it to my life is how you can be utterly in love with someone, and sort of feel like you don't deserve them. You kind of put them on a higher pedestal than yourself, and compare yourself to everyone involved in their life or around them. Also, how you can be with someone who has done a lot of wrong to other people, but have it set in your mind that they don't/would never act that way towards you, because they love you, or you think they treat you differently than anyone else. This person makes you feel good about yourself, makes you appreciate/love yourself for once because the appearance they put on, the fact that they make you feel different and unlike the others, and the combination of you already being fond of his appearance. Perhaps it's sort of how you feel with your first love, like 'the one' thats always going to stick with you.
You fight for them, and genuinely care about them but when you finally come to realize they aren't the person you thought they were, you kind of lose it and enter an angry state, your emotions going from deeply caring about them to hating their guts and wanting the worst for them.. A normal human reaction to a lose of someone, or at least to me. But in the end, with all their flaws, and all their mistakes, you're always going to love them. Even when they treat you like crap, and you know you deserve better, regardless of the grief, or in this case 'grim' blanket they put on your life, for some reason you're always going to care deep down in side. I think he uses the title 'grim reaper prince' because these sort of situations suck the life out of you.
IDK.. JUST HOW I SEE IT AND HOW I RELATED IT TO MY RELATIONSHIP. I'm really stoned though, lulzz
can't wait to see these guys next week.
You don't need weed to be a flake ;) And I use the term as one of pure endearment.
Would you PLEASE stop thinking I cannot recognize your writing. Ya know, if you stop writing books I may be a little stumped...for a moment or two ;)
At least you didn't give your own comment a plus rating.
You do the oddest crap this is actually adorable.
God broke the creativity mold after he finished with you ;)
Why He decided you should walk into my life I shall never know. Perhaps he thought I needed to smile and laugh more often :)
Or learn about music, although half of your interpretations are full of crap.
No, definitely wasn't for your fashion sense. Remember the day you actually apologized for your "normal" clothing? You were still wearing bright blue corduroy! LOL
You're a N---U---T....a gorgeous, bright, funny N---U---T !
Now this is the last time you'll dare speak of the flaws of any woman, correct ;)