"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.
This will all make perfect sense someday
I'll be a-okay
All my bills have all gone pink
I shit the bed
I broke the bed
This coulda been a slow song
A laundry list of all the wrongs
But end of the day
This is my beautiful disaster-piece I've made
and it goes and I quote "it will never be like this"
This will all make perfect sense someday
I'll be A-Okay
This will all make perfect sense someday
There's got to be a reason for the rain
I don't understand the numbers
But my faith is in the math
That the odds are all this pain will leave and I will live and
And we'll look back and laugh
And to all the hearts I've broken
And the ones that once broke mine
I've got suspicions, all will be forgiven in time
All you gotta do is call them up and say that now
This will all make perfect sense someday
I'll be A-Okay
This will all make perfect sense someday
There's got to be a reason for the rain
And if it ever gets bad
I mean really bad
I'll move to Nova Scotia
Forget the life I had
I'll be up at 9 each morning
Down by the shore
Collecting things that fell off boats in storms
Well ok so I might never
But it's nice to know the option's there
This will all make perfect sense someday
I'll be A-Okay
This will all make perfect sense someday
There's got to be a reason for the rain
a reason for the rain (x3)
And it doesn't help
That I keep biting my lip in the same place
I'll be a-okay
All my bills have all gone pink
I shit the bed
I broke the bed
This coulda been a slow song
A laundry list of all the wrongs
But end of the day
This is my beautiful disaster-piece I've made
and it goes and I quote "it will never be like this"
This will all make perfect sense someday
I'll be A-Okay
This will all make perfect sense someday
There's got to be a reason for the rain
I don't understand the numbers
But my faith is in the math
That the odds are all this pain will leave and I will live and
And we'll look back and laugh
And to all the hearts I've broken
And the ones that once broke mine
I've got suspicions, all will be forgiven in time
All you gotta do is call them up and say that now
This will all make perfect sense someday
I'll be A-Okay
This will all make perfect sense someday
There's got to be a reason for the rain
And if it ever gets bad
I mean really bad
I'll move to Nova Scotia
Forget the life I had
I'll be up at 9 each morning
Down by the shore
Collecting things that fell off boats in storms
Well ok so I might never
But it's nice to know the option's there
This will all make perfect sense someday
I'll be A-Okay
This will all make perfect sense someday
There's got to be a reason for the rain
a reason for the rain (x3)
And it doesn't help
That I keep biting my lip in the same place
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Fast Car
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Mountain Song
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"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."
No Surprises
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Punchline
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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.
This song reminds me of what I'm feeling like now. Sort of being down in the dumps, and I mean down in the dumps. Nothing can go right, and everyday turns out to be worse that the last. There has just been so much going on this past year for me. I guess this song reminds me that someday everything will be better, and there is always something to look forward to.
at this point in my life, NOTHING seems to make any sense anymore, especially with members of the opposite sex. i love the line "all will be forgiven in time." it's just a constant reminder that no matter how much things seem to suck, eventually it'll be alright, and that the confusion will clear and i'll understand everything.
this song gives me so much hope. my life is anything but the greatest, and when i hear john song these lines:
"And if it ever gets bad I mean stay in bed bad I'll move to Nova Scotia Forget the life I had I'll be up at 9 each morning Down by the shore Collecting things that fell off boats in storms Well ok so I might never But it's nice to know the option's there"
it just makes me smile and make me think and realize i'm not alone. i'm sure everything will make perfect sense someday, but for now i'm just going to have 2 deal w/ it.
this song is so great. it just totally gives me hope that even though there is a lot of crap in my life and in the world one day i'll be able to say it was all for something. one day it'll all make sense you know.....
"And to all the hearts I've broken And the ones that once broke mine I've got suspicions, all will be forgiven in time"
John Mayer is a fantastic singer//songwriter, and gives me so much hope for the music industry in general...his grasp on human emotion is, for lack of a better word, fantastic.
Anyone know when he's releasing a new album?
i can't see to find this song.....know where i can get?
hmmm...this isn't on room for squares is it??
I got this song off of Audio Galaxy, which I dont know if it works anymore. But you should be able to get it off Kazaa. ....and no its not on Room for Squares or Inside Wants Out
in the version i have im pretty sure he says " i shit the bed" instead of "i crashed the car again" which is some funny stuff...a little gross too.. couldnt he just have said peed?! sheesh! o well i still love him
yeah, i have the same version of the song. i would have like pee instead of $hi&, but it was the first time i ever laughed while listening to a john mayer song.
this song isnt on an album, ist just a song that he does.