"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.
Gaping in the horizon
An entire continent cloached on ice move
With giant icesheets constantly on the move
Seas of this continent so cold and invincible
Where icebergs more as monuments
Towards a dry damned earth
Behind the gates and mighty portals
Of the arctic polar circle
Builds the frozen layers of snow
A perfect platform to grow against the seasons
The snowbelts of Antarctica rise
With its dark polar winterstorms
Towering in the horizon
An entire continent cloached on ice
With giant iceesheets contantly on the move
Floating nearer with its tide and icy waves
The shadow of Antarctica spreads
With its masses of permafrost
The clima shifts to colder for the icier age
Glaciers stretches far washing everything away
Antarctica, the darkest face of ice
Antarctica, the coldest place of all
Antarctica, massive and unconquerable
Its drama will unfold
An entire continent cloached on ice move
With giant icesheets constantly on the move
Seas of this continent so cold and invincible
Where icebergs more as monuments
Towards a dry damned earth
Behind the gates and mighty portals
Of the arctic polar circle
Builds the frozen layers of snow
A perfect platform to grow against the seasons
The snowbelts of Antarctica rise
With its dark polar winterstorms
Towering in the horizon
An entire continent cloached on ice
With giant iceesheets contantly on the move
Floating nearer with its tide and icy waves
The shadow of Antarctica spreads
With its masses of permafrost
The clima shifts to colder for the icier age
Glaciers stretches far washing everything away
Antarctica, the darkest face of ice
Antarctica, the coldest place of all
Antarctica, massive and unconquerable
Its drama will unfold
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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"
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Magical
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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.
I must admit, i am not the biggest fan of Black Metal, but this song (and the whole of the Sons of Northern Darkness album) are really good, for once there is a BM band thats does not rely on stupid Satanic lyrics to make good music, really interesting lyrics, Abbath has a fucken awesome and very grim voice, great riffs, and the drumming is not full of blastbeats. top song, top album. top band. by the way, I think its about Antarctica !!!!!!
but I think there is a deaper sence.... think fucking coldness,I think there is a message
good song, but not that good of an album if you hear their other stuff. "Blizard Beasts" is WAY better that SOTND.