"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.
Got a letter. an invitation.
The date is here, and it's been ten years now.
And it's time for me.
Why would I spend more time with people that I hate,
Couldn't wait to leave behind?
Would we dance, make a toast,
As you boast about the things that you haven't done.
Oh joy, the thrills, this is fun.
Down the hallways I still remember
The things you said.
And I hang my head low.
And I try not to feel.
So why would I spend more time with people that I hate,
Couldn't wait to leave behind?
Would we dance, make a toast,
As you boast about the things that you haven't done.
Oh joy, the thrills, fun fun.
Beautiful, you were, popular.
It's cool it's so cool. so cool.
Beautiful you were, popular.
It's cool, it's so cool. so cool.
Beautiful, you were, popular.
It's cool it's so cool. so cool.
Beautiful you were, popular.
It's cool, it's so cool. so cool.
Beautiful, you were, popular.
It's cool it's so cool. so cool.
The date is here, and it's been ten years now.
And it's time for me.
Why would I spend more time with people that I hate,
Couldn't wait to leave behind?
Would we dance, make a toast,
As you boast about the things that you haven't done.
Oh joy, the thrills, this is fun.
Down the hallways I still remember
The things you said.
And I hang my head low.
And I try not to feel.
So why would I spend more time with people that I hate,
Couldn't wait to leave behind?
Would we dance, make a toast,
As you boast about the things that you haven't done.
Oh joy, the thrills, fun fun.
Beautiful, you were, popular.
It's cool it's so cool. so cool.
Beautiful you were, popular.
It's cool, it's so cool. so cool.
Beautiful, you were, popular.
It's cool it's so cool. so cool.
Beautiful you were, popular.
It's cool, it's so cool. so cool.
Beautiful, you were, popular.
It's cool it's so cool. so cool.
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Fast Car
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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"
Holiday
Bee Gees
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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.
Mountain Song
Jane's Addiction
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Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
I Can't Go To Sleep
Wu-Tang Clan
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This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, and what path they are going to choose as they get older and grow into men. (This is why the music video takes place in an orphanage.) The seen, and unseen collective suffering is imbedded in the boys’ mind, consciously or subconsciously, and is haunting them. Which path will the boys choose? Issac Hayes is the voice of reason, maybe God, the angel on his shoulder, or the voice of his forefathers from beyond the grave who can see the big picture and are pleading with the boys not to continue the violence and pattern of killing their brothers, but to rise above. The most beautiful song and has so many levels. Racism towards African Americans in America would not exist if everyone sat down and listened to this song and understood the history behind the words. The power, fear, pleading in RZA and Ghostface voices are genuine and powerful. Issac Hayes’ strong voice makes the perfect strong father figure, who is possibly from beyond the grave.
only full song i've heard by this band. i love it, the girl's voice just sounds beautiful to me. beautiful's the only word i can think of to possibly describe it. it's a shame this band broke up while recording their first album. but i'm sure the only album they released is great material.
My dad is completely in love with this song and I bought him the album for his birthday. I'm not too fond of this band, but they did bring something fresh to the music scene. The vocalist has a stunning voice, it's soft and completely natural. She doesn't strain her voice, and she doesn't overdo it, it's incredible how powerful it sounds although at points it is barely audible. The guitar playing in this song is also smooth and melodic yet probably punctuated at the same time. I have to agree that the simplistic drumming of the song only adds to the beauty and natural flow of every second of it. The meaning of this song is quite straightforward, it is about a tenth year reunion for a person who has been constantly ridiculed and left out in the dark from all the cliches and the high school groups. This person doesn't want to see all the people they've hated and "couldn't wait to leave behind". It hits home to a lot of kids out there in bands and poets and whatnot. This song is high school drama at it's finest definition.
This song is beautiful. In my opinion I think Elizabeth has the most amazing voice I have ever heard. So soothing a calm. Their cd ended up comeing with no lyrics, but I contacted Tobin who is now with ee, and he sent me lyrics via snail mail.