"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.
You always keep me coming back for more
So many faces in the world but I want yours
The way you make me feel inside my bones
I can't remember how it feels to be alone
And when you call my phone late at night
Anticipation always burns me up inside
Shimmy my way down underground, polluting airways in my wake
Swaying architecture, grappling a birthday cake
It's an analogy backfire, in the cliché storm of backwards prose
Shoot the agony beam
Wearing sacrificial clothes
I haven't slept for weeks
Just a couple more and I'll be yours
I'll be coming home again
And we'll tear apart those sheets
and forget the world, a little while
Get to know your form again
Say the part, say the phrase, say the meaning, I want to hear what you're seeing
Say the part, say the phrase, say the meaning, I want to know what you're feeling
If it's making sense on time, then why do I hear their whines?
If it's moves and breathes it's fine, don't let it mess with your mind
Paging Dr mess your patients throwing food and ate his robe
You always keep me coming back for more
So many faces in the world but I want yours
The way you make me feel inside my bones
I can't remember how it feels to be alone
And when you call my phone late at night
Anticipation always burns me up inside
Shimmy my way down underground, polluting airways in my wake
Swaying architecture, grappling a birthday cake
It's an analogy backfire, in the cliché storm of backwards prose
Shoot the agony beam
Wearing sacrificial clothes
Quantum something can do anything, easier said than done
An accidental public confession was made, can't be the only one
I was in a viper fight, but I'm alright.
That jacket looks good on most people
Confused cause I'm too dumb to find the light, finally exiled
Overcome by circumstance
I put my life in the devil's hands
Fell lower than before
Lower than ever before
I know it's hard to forgive me now
But I swear I've taught myself how
To barricade the door
I won't go there anymore
Overcome by circumstance
Separated by consequence
I fell lower than before
Lower than I have before
If I could just get through to you
We could put in the final screws
To the barricade the door
And start back where we were
Carcinogenic isotope, we need the A-team montage
Disregard the message from the ending of the album
So many faces in the world but I want yours
The way you make me feel inside my bones
I can't remember how it feels to be alone
And when you call my phone late at night
Anticipation always burns me up inside
Shimmy my way down underground, polluting airways in my wake
Swaying architecture, grappling a birthday cake
It's an analogy backfire, in the cliché storm of backwards prose
Shoot the agony beam
Wearing sacrificial clothes
I haven't slept for weeks
Just a couple more and I'll be yours
I'll be coming home again
And we'll tear apart those sheets
and forget the world, a little while
Get to know your form again
Say the part, say the phrase, say the meaning, I want to hear what you're seeing
Say the part, say the phrase, say the meaning, I want to know what you're feeling
If it's making sense on time, then why do I hear their whines?
If it's moves and breathes it's fine, don't let it mess with your mind
Paging Dr mess your patients throwing food and ate his robe
You always keep me coming back for more
So many faces in the world but I want yours
The way you make me feel inside my bones
I can't remember how it feels to be alone
And when you call my phone late at night
Anticipation always burns me up inside
Shimmy my way down underground, polluting airways in my wake
Swaying architecture, grappling a birthday cake
It's an analogy backfire, in the cliché storm of backwards prose
Shoot the agony beam
Wearing sacrificial clothes
Quantum something can do anything, easier said than done
An accidental public confession was made, can't be the only one
I was in a viper fight, but I'm alright.
That jacket looks good on most people
Confused cause I'm too dumb to find the light, finally exiled
Overcome by circumstance
I put my life in the devil's hands
Fell lower than before
Lower than ever before
I know it's hard to forgive me now
But I swear I've taught myself how
To barricade the door
I won't go there anymore
Overcome by circumstance
Separated by consequence
I fell lower than before
Lower than I have before
If I could just get through to you
We could put in the final screws
To the barricade the door
And start back where we were
Carcinogenic isotope, we need the A-team montage
Disregard the message from the ending of the album
Lyrics submitted by Pokadoodle95, edited by ctorres
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Lord Huron
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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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Ebba Grön
Ebba Grön
This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
Holiday
Bee Gees
Bee Gees
@[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.
Blue
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Blue” is a song about a love that is persisting in the discomfort of the person experiencing the emotion. Ed Sheeran reflects on love lost, and although he wishes his former partner find happiness, he cannot but admit his feelings are still very much there. He expresses the realization that he might never find another on this stringed instrumental by Aaron Dessner.
i want my child to be conceived to this song. especially tillians last verse that goes into wills guitar solo. hnnnnnnnnggggggg