"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.
Everybody makes mistakes,I told you I was sorry.
Won't you tell me what to do,to make
Your sad eyes believe,girl,no matter what it takes
I swear I will make it better,cause I'm not so used
To wearin',my heart out on my sleeve.
Cross my heart,I swear,I'm gonna make this right
Please don't leave me standing here
I'll make all your darkness disappear,
Cross my heart,This time,Girl I'll be loving you
Forever,When I need to say a prayer,I'll call your name
On my heart I swear,I swear
Do you remember yesterday??You promised me tomorrow.
How we held each other,The way you kissed me,
Don't throw it all away.
Cause Girl we got so much to lose.Can't we
Just tear out these pages???
Give me one more chance,I'm begging you,
But baby please don't go
Cross my heart,I swear,I'm gonna make this right
Please don't leave me standing here
I'll make all your darkness disappear,
Cross my heart,This time,Girl I'll be loving you
Forever,When I need to say a prayer,I'll call your name
On my heart I swear,I swear
Cross my heart,Oh,Yeah I'm trying to turn
This love around,You keep the sky from falling
Down,I'm on my knees......
Cross my heart,I swear,I'm gonna make this right
Please don't leave me standing here
I'll make all your darkness disappear,
Cross my heart,This time,Girl I'll be loving you
Forever,When I need to say a prayer,I'll call your name
On my heart I swear,I swear
Won't you tell me what to do,to make
Your sad eyes believe,girl,no matter what it takes
I swear I will make it better,cause I'm not so used
To wearin',my heart out on my sleeve.
Cross my heart,I swear,I'm gonna make this right
Please don't leave me standing here
I'll make all your darkness disappear,
Cross my heart,This time,Girl I'll be loving you
Forever,When I need to say a prayer,I'll call your name
On my heart I swear,I swear
Do you remember yesterday??You promised me tomorrow.
How we held each other,The way you kissed me,
Don't throw it all away.
Cause Girl we got so much to lose.Can't we
Just tear out these pages???
Give me one more chance,I'm begging you,
But baby please don't go
Cross my heart,I swear,I'm gonna make this right
Please don't leave me standing here
I'll make all your darkness disappear,
Cross my heart,This time,Girl I'll be loving you
Forever,When I need to say a prayer,I'll call your name
On my heart I swear,I swear
Cross my heart,Oh,Yeah I'm trying to turn
This love around,You keep the sky from falling
Down,I'm on my knees......
Cross my heart,I swear,I'm gonna make this right
Please don't leave me standing here
I'll make all your darkness disappear,
Cross my heart,This time,Girl I'll be loving you
Forever,When I need to say a prayer,I'll call your name
On my heart I swear,I swear
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Fast Car
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Lord Huron
Lord Huron
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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Hayalperest
Hayalperest
This song seemingly tackles the methods of deception those who manipulate others use to get victims to follow their demands, as well as diverting attention away from important issues. They'll also use it as a means to convince people to hate or kill others by pretending acts of terrorism were committed by the enemy when the acts themselves were done by the masters of control to promote discrimination and hate. It also reinforces the idea that these manipulative forces operate in various locations, infiltrating everyday life without detection, and propagate any and everywhere.
In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control and gain power, depicting a cautionary tale against falling into their traps. It encourages us to question the narratives presented to us and remain vigilant against manipulation in various parts of society.
Dreamwalker
Silent Planet
Silent Planet
I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
Punchline
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran sings about missing his former partner and learning important life lessons in the process on “Punchline.” This track tells a story of battling to get rid of emotions for a former lover, whom he now realized might not have loved him the same way. He’s now caught between accepting that fact and learning life lessons from it and going back to beg her for another chance.
the guy did not mean to hurt her but he did and now he wants to know how to make things right between them again. they have been through so much together and hes begging the girl not to throw it all away and that he needs just one more chance to prove that hes for real