"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.
In the blue of this life
Where it ends in the night
When you couldn't see
You would come for me
Wonder eyes, motion high
And we don't dare slip on by
Make us suffer, like no other
There's nothing like lapis lazuli
Let it go, back to me
Like no other you can't be replaced
Like no other you can't be replaced
Like no other you can't be replaced
Like no other you can't be replaced
Like no other you can't be replaced
Like no other you can't be replaced
Like no other you can't be replaced
Like no other you can't be replaced (There's nothing like lapis lazuli)
Like no other you can't be replaced (There's nothing like lapis lazuli)
Like no other you can't be replaced (There's nothing like lapis lazuli)
Like no other you can't be replaced (There's nothing like lapis lazuli)
Like no other you can't be replaced (There's nothing like lapis lazuli)
Like no other you can't be replaced (There's nothing like lapis lazuli)
Where it ends in the night
When you couldn't see
You would come for me
Wonder eyes, motion high
And we don't dare slip on by
Make us suffer, like no other
There's nothing like lapis lazuli
Let it go, back to me
Like no other you can't be replaced
Like no other you can't be replaced
Like no other you can't be replaced
Like no other you can't be replaced
Like no other you can't be replaced
Like no other you can't be replaced
Like no other you can't be replaced
Like no other you can't be replaced (There's nothing like lapis lazuli)
Like no other you can't be replaced (There's nothing like lapis lazuli)
Like no other you can't be replaced (There's nothing like lapis lazuli)
Like no other you can't be replaced (There's nothing like lapis lazuli)
Like no other you can't be replaced (There's nothing like lapis lazuli)
Like no other you can't be replaced (There's nothing like lapis lazuli)
Lyrics submitted by Havenspear, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Lazuli Lyrics as written by Victoria Garance Alixe Legrand Alex Kristian Scally
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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"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.
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Well, the lyrics according to Bloom's booklet are:
In the blue, of this life where it ends, in the night when you couldnt see you would come for me
wonder eyes, motion high and i dont dare, slip on by
make us suffer, like no other
Is nothing like lapis lazuli let it go, back to me
Like no other you cant be replaced
wicked, thank you, gotta get the vinyl still !
This song is a "mood piece", conveying a mood and certain feelings through music and not so much with the words. The sight of Lapis Lazuli, a beautiful, rare, blue-colored stone has inspired this song, as the band openly stated. The starting point was a feeling evoked by sight, with the intention of passing it on through music. And Lazuli pulls it off...
Indeed they have. Everything by them is beautiful, but I think they nailed it with this song.
ok so lapis lazui is a rare semi precious stone after reading in wikipedia
this beautiful song just got prettier to me
beach house are awesome and bloom is a great next step
lapiz lazuli is a blue stone you can find here in Chile, it's plenty of those here, now in september Beach House come here, maybe they go for them.
I see three strong elements in this music. The Lazuli, eyes, and a broken heart.
I have always seen this song as a person begging for his love to come back to the relationship. The loved one is irreplaceable and has bright blue eyes. Soon the comparison with Lapis Lazuli becomes strong and leads the feeling of the song.
Yo, these are the lyrics I hear.
In the blue of this light Where it ends in the night When you couldn't sleep You would come for me
Wander eyes, ocean high And we don't dare slip on by Make her suffer Like no other
It's nothing like Lapis Lazuli Let it go Back to me
Like no other You could be replaced
Like no other (It's nothing like) You could be replaced (Lapis Lazuli)
Actually, nope. More corrections:<br /> <br /> There's nothing like<br /> Lapis Lazuli<br /> Let it go<br /> Back to me<br /> <br /> Like no other (There's nothing like)<br /> You can't be replaced (Lapis Lazuli)
"Stone of heaven"
This is the song that turned me to Beach House and I've been puzzled by the lyrics since day one. I have no idea what it means but I doubt the song is about anything in particular.
Got thinking on the line "like no other you can't be replaced (is nothing like lapis lazuli)" and it's weird because actually lapis lazuli is very unique so you can't really say it can be replaced. But if you look into the history of the stone, you'll find that a) in ancient times some cultures refered to this stone as "sapphire", which nowaydays we use to call another stone; and b) lazuli is the genesis of the word "azul", which is Spanish for blue (the same for other languages such as Italian). So perhaps by saying that contrary to lapis lazuli you can't be replace she's making a reference to that. No one could confuse you for someone else because you are unique.
The line "when you couldn't see you would come for me" is interesting too because I think it can be read two different ways. In the first way she is directly talking to a person that used to come to her for help. But you could also read it as if it was the stone itself that's saying the line, as lapis lazuli was used in ancient times to cure illness related to the eyes.
Oh, and one more thing. For some reason, pyramids seem to be a recurring image for Beach House (10 Mile Stereo: "Bright pyramids at night, they'll carry us on forever"; and pyramids on their shows at least since Teen Dream). It's interesting that the arpeggios in this song actually form pyramids as well: bigger ones on the synth, smaller ones on the guitar.
This song is about loss.
It's the loss of something very meaningful. The song hints that it's a relationship, but it doesn't have to be; bring your own meaning!
Musically, the song spends the first section building a tremendously beautiful, majestic theme - the "Enya" knob is turned up to 11.
"Make us suffer, like no other" is an amazing lyric in the midst of all this beauty. Beauty can make us suffer -- by showing us that we are inadequate in comparison. Beauty makes us aware of our own potential and ways in which we don't meet it.
But having established all this beauty, what becomes of it? In the middle section, it breaks down. It doesn't break down immediately, like a record scratch; it slowly becomes more ominous. Soon the guitar takes over and the song has become something different. it moves at the same pace, but something has changed. No longer major chords, the chords here are all minor and incomplete.
"Like no other, you can't be replaced"
At this point the loss is complete, and we are in mourning. When "There's nothing like lapis lazuli" is sung at the height of the beautiful section, it is a statement of majesty. But when it is added -- with the same melody! -- to this section, it is now a statement of loss. Beauty has made us suffer, again.
This song is about loss.
I\'ve listened to this song a bunch today, and I am 100% convinced it\'s just a love song for someone with very blue eyes.\n\n>In the blue of this life\n>Where it ends in the night\n>When you couldn\'t see\n>You would come for me\n\nGoing to bed next to someone with really stunning lazuli-colored eyes, they close them to go to sleep, but in the night they still reach out for touch/an embrace. It\'s the simplest and best explanation..