"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.
There's blood on my hands
There's blood on my hands
There's blood on my hands
There's blood on my hands
There's blood on my hands
Wake up in the middle of the semi of the night
With some tears on my pillow and this blood on my knife
And my soul has stained these sheets but they pull up to the side
Who's blood could this be is it yours or is it mine
Take the knife and twist it wheres my heart she missed it
And you know I don't wanna die but baby you insisted
Breathing is a luxury that I just shouldn't have
My heart just keeps on beating and its more than you can stand
Baby please just tell me how we ever went so wrong
We used to sing together and we used to sing a song
We could never sing forever because now my voice has gone
Guess I'm gone forever and you knew it all along
I can see blood all over my hands
The longer you lay next to me the further I ran
Whats it all worth how much can you stand
The longer you stay close to me the further I ran
There's blood on my hands
There's blood on my hands
There's blood on my hands
There's blood on my hands
There's blood on my hands
I'm only evil when I need to be but you did this so easily
I tried to treat you equally and listen to your reasoning
But you waited so eagerly while plotting and deceiving me
You came behind me secretly and shattered every piece of me
I had nothing to give so I gave you my life,
You didn't wanna see me live so you gave me your knife,
Did it hurt as you tiptoed coming from behind,
You took away my kids so I guess you killed me twice,
Drag me into the night cos its the one thing you keep,
You knew that I had to die so you could finally sleep,
There's blood all over your knife you know you've burned yourself,
And its a matter of time before you burn in hell,
I can see blood all over my hands
The longer you lay next to me the further I ran
Whats it all worth
How much can you stand
The longer you stay close to me the further I ran
There's blood on my hands
Lure me more so tell me course nor weaving slowly oh
Wont you hold me lure me more so tell me course nor
Weaving slowly oh wont you hold me
I can see blood all over my hands
The longer you lay next to me the further I ran
Whats it all worth how much can you stand the longer
You stay close to me the
I can see blood all over my hands the longer you lay
Next to me the further I ran whats it all worth how
Much can you stand the longer you stay close to you the further I ran
There's blood on my hands
There's blood on my hands
There's blood on my hands
There's blood on my hands
There's blood on my hands
There's blood on my hands
There's blood on my hands
There's blood on my hands
There's blood on my hands
Wake up in the middle of the semi of the night
With some tears on my pillow and this blood on my knife
And my soul has stained these sheets but they pull up to the side
Who's blood could this be is it yours or is it mine
Take the knife and twist it wheres my heart she missed it
And you know I don't wanna die but baby you insisted
Breathing is a luxury that I just shouldn't have
My heart just keeps on beating and its more than you can stand
Baby please just tell me how we ever went so wrong
We used to sing together and we used to sing a song
We could never sing forever because now my voice has gone
Guess I'm gone forever and you knew it all along
I can see blood all over my hands
The longer you lay next to me the further I ran
Whats it all worth how much can you stand
The longer you stay close to me the further I ran
There's blood on my hands
There's blood on my hands
There's blood on my hands
There's blood on my hands
There's blood on my hands
I'm only evil when I need to be but you did this so easily
I tried to treat you equally and listen to your reasoning
But you waited so eagerly while plotting and deceiving me
You came behind me secretly and shattered every piece of me
I had nothing to give so I gave you my life,
You didn't wanna see me live so you gave me your knife,
Did it hurt as you tiptoed coming from behind,
You took away my kids so I guess you killed me twice,
Drag me into the night cos its the one thing you keep,
You knew that I had to die so you could finally sleep,
There's blood all over your knife you know you've burned yourself,
And its a matter of time before you burn in hell,
I can see blood all over my hands
The longer you lay next to me the further I ran
Whats it all worth
How much can you stand
The longer you stay close to me the further I ran
There's blood on my hands
Lure me more so tell me course nor weaving slowly oh
Wont you hold me lure me more so tell me course nor
Weaving slowly oh wont you hold me
I can see blood all over my hands
The longer you lay next to me the further I ran
Whats it all worth how much can you stand the longer
You stay close to me the
I can see blood all over my hands the longer you lay
Next to me the further I ran whats it all worth how
Much can you stand the longer you stay close to you the further I ran
There's blood on my hands
There's blood on my hands
There's blood on my hands
There's blood on my hands
There's blood on my hands
Lyrics submitted by afitch1206, edited by Lunarestia
Mother Murder Lyrics as written by Daniel Murillo Jorel Decker
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Such a great song, my fav song off the new album. What i think this song is about is about loving a girl so much,yet she killed ur kid
"You took away my kid So I guess you killed me twice"
now i have a feeling this is just a metaphor but then again HU are pretty evil and dark with there lyrics,but after she took away that thing they cared about so much, he just wanted to die,but he took her life first as in J3T verse
"Wake up in the middle of insanity the other night With some tears on my pillow And there's blood on my knife And my solo stained the sheets But they're pulled off to the side who's blood could this be? Is it your's or is it mine?
Idk,this song has such a deep meaning,but i just cant put my finger on it!
It's my soul has stained the sheets. not solo. At least that's what it sounds like to me.
one of the best songs on the album, great chorus! why are people not discussing this song? second verse i think he says drag me into the night, not lead me into the night.
J-dog is the second verse right? i think that verse was jaw dropping. This songs clearly about Exes, in which they call Mother Murder, And they find themselves running away, yet staying close to them!
The second verse was Charlie Scene
I'm only evil when I need to be But you did this so easily I tried to treat you equally And listen to your reasoning But you waited so eagerly While plotting and deceiving me You came behind me secretly And shattered every piece of me
The best part of the song. pretty straight forward, This girlfriend, or ex, is tearing his life apart, yet what he could never do is easy to the girl. Is the blood in the hand and the last verse because he ends up killing her cuz he couldnt take it anymore?
To me this song is about being stabbed in the back and having your life torn apart by someone you once loved. You trusted them and then they 'kill' you on the inside with all the terrible things they've done.
I understood that this song (to me) was about divorce, how about an ex-wife can sometimes bleed the husband dry when they know they will divorce and he still stays with her until she makes him so happy and then she leaves him with nothing.
"you took away my kids so i guess you killed me twice" i am thinking it might mean she got custoy and took the kids and that was the only thing he cared about when she left so it hurt twice as bad.
amazing song <3
and maybe it is called mother murder because if he kills her like she killed him, he would be killing the mother of his children..
k so my time to shine This person had childrne with this woman and for some reason either she killed the kids or he divorced her and she took custody of the kids she took away his kids. and after all theyve been through and how he always tried to treat her equally one night when he was sleeping this woman stabbed the man in the chest and she was trying to run away as the man just lay their. AMAZING song
This songs about abortion. Hint why it's called "Mother Murder"?
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