"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.
The irritation we're pretending not to show
Has replaced the motivation
That I had not long ago
I know that
I don't ever want to be the one
To make you forget it
To make you resent it
To make you repress it
I don't ever want to be
It's the beginning of the end
And I don't know where we lost control
It's the beginning of the end
And I know that I am all alone
Interrogation has replaced the trust we had
Your misguided accusations
Helping me to turn my back
I know that
I don't ever want to be the one
To make you divide it
To make you deny it
To make you deprive it
I don't ever want to be
I thought that we would find our way
I thought our life would be ok
I thought that you believed in me
But now it seems so far away
The life we knew before is gone
There is no compromising
The life you save will be your own
To find your inner senses
Has replaced the motivation
That I had not long ago
I know that
I don't ever want to be the one
To make you forget it
To make you resent it
To make you repress it
I don't ever want to be
It's the beginning of the end
And I don't know where we lost control
It's the beginning of the end
And I know that I am all alone
Interrogation has replaced the trust we had
Your misguided accusations
Helping me to turn my back
I know that
I don't ever want to be the one
To make you divide it
To make you deny it
To make you deprive it
I don't ever want to be
I thought that we would find our way
I thought our life would be ok
I thought that you believed in me
But now it seems so far away
The life we knew before is gone
There is no compromising
The life you save will be your own
To find your inner senses
Lyrics submitted by thienosaurus
Beginning of the End Lyrics as written by Jonathan Santos Thomas Decker
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
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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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@[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.
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Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
This is a jammin' tune . . . It's hard to tell if Spineshank intends on a more deeper meaning that is presented, but I believe this jam is about drastic change perhaps, maybe in a relationship, or just blowing up and loosing it.
well i think this song is like its titled.. a couple been going out and well things have seemed to have gone to shit... and its the beginning of the end
i think these lines are awesome: The irritation we're pretending not to show Has replaced the motivation that I had not long ago
I think its got a deeper meaning than it 1st appears. i belive its some1s desent into suicide. "It's the beginning of the end And I know that I know that I am all alone" i think that some1 has is feeling suicidal and isolated from anyone because of these feelings. OMFG Y DID JOHNNY LEAVE :'(
Because Silent Civilian is amazing
i think it has to do with realationships gone bad and i mean real bad
ever think that this song refers any to how the band grew apart during the making of this album and then johnny left the band?
just a thought.. (jonny's new band is Silent Civilian by the way, google them and goto their myspace to hear their music..pretty awesome stuff)
awesome makes my spine tingle everytime i say fuck it with people
I love how this song opened up the film Freddy VS Jason (wicked film btw)..... "I don't ever want to be the one to make you forget it"!!! don't worry freddy....we ain't gonna forget ya!!!!
I know this isn't the intended meaning of the song, but I can relate it to my high school experience/college search. I started off promising and now my grades have gone to shit and I don't think I can even get into a decent school. I don't know how, but this songs fits perfectly.
I can really relate to this song, perhaps in a strange way. I belive its about drug abuse and the people around you, a person using drugs is often looked at like one of the lowest persons in society, a problem that sometimes is "denied, forgotten, surpressed". And as an addict you dont wanna be the reason to why your near and loved ones "surpresses" this problem;
"I don't ever want to be the one to make you forget it I don't ever want to be the one to make you resent it I don't ever want to be the one to make you repress it I don't ever want to be, ever want to be, ever want to be et.c"
"nterrogation has replaced the trust we had Your misguided accusations helping me to turn my back I know that" also fits, the trust people used to have for you, is replaced with suspicous looks and even interrogations, and often this is thanks to "misguided info" about the actual problem.
"I thought that we would find our way I thought our life would be ok I thought that you believed in me But now it seems so far away" Is also true, since once this has word has gotten out among your friends and family, you can never hope to return to your old relations "The life we knew before is gone".
This and someother things makes me think its about a drug use :). Just my thoughts.