"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.
Ya'll ready for this?
Get down with the style
House on the ground
Freeze when I squeeze
Drop to your knees
Who wants to play?
I'm in here to stay
Ready to take you around the way
So get ready for this
Mind your own biz
'Cause I invented the microphone biz
No need to sit, cause we're 2 Unlimited
Ready, ready, ready for this
Feel the base, you just get closer
Be impressed by the words I chose of
Once again kickin' it live
Doin' everything yo just to survive
A wall to wall, I think I stand
Being on stage with a mic in my hand
Bustin' it live to the crowd
The age is 20, I'm from the south
Be a part
Break my heart
Get ready for this
Mind your own biz
People in the front
Show me what you want
And I won't give it in
Get ready for this
We're 2 Unlimited
So people won't you sit?
Movin' up and down
Dancin' on the ground
Feelin' kinda free, security
House is the style that moves you from the ground
House on the ground, bass in your face
Racin' the place, no time to waste
Feelin' hypnotised
I can see it in your eyes
Feelin' kinda better
Put on your sweater
Feelin' like a white
I think it doesn't matter
Super, dope, def, and even outrageous
If I was an animal, they'd've kept me in cages
So get ready for this
Ya'll ready for this?
Be a part
Break my heart
Get ready for this
Mind your own biz
People in the front
Show me what you want
And I won't give it in
Get ready for this
We're 2 Unlimited
So people won't you sit?
Movin' up and down
Dancin' on the ground
Feelin' kinda free, security
House is the style that moves you from the ground
Get down with the style
House on the ground
Freeze when I squeeze
Drop to your knees
Who wants to play?
I'm in here to stay
Ready to take you around the way
So get ready for this
Mind your own biz
'Cause I invented the microphone biz
No need to sit, cause we're 2 Unlimited
Ready, ready, ready for this
Feel the base, you just get closer
Be impressed by the words I chose of
Once again kickin' it live
Doin' everything yo just to survive
A wall to wall, I think I stand
Being on stage with a mic in my hand
Bustin' it live to the crowd
The age is 20, I'm from the south
Be a part
Break my heart
Get ready for this
Mind your own biz
People in the front
Show me what you want
And I won't give it in
Get ready for this
We're 2 Unlimited
So people won't you sit?
Movin' up and down
Dancin' on the ground
Feelin' kinda free, security
House is the style that moves you from the ground
House on the ground, bass in your face
Racin' the place, no time to waste
Feelin' hypnotised
I can see it in your eyes
Feelin' kinda better
Put on your sweater
Feelin' like a white
I think it doesn't matter
Super, dope, def, and even outrageous
If I was an animal, they'd've kept me in cages
So get ready for this
Ya'll ready for this?
Be a part
Break my heart
Get ready for this
Mind your own biz
People in the front
Show me what you want
And I won't give it in
Get ready for this
We're 2 Unlimited
So people won't you sit?
Movin' up and down
Dancin' on the ground
Feelin' kinda free, security
House is the style that moves you from the ground
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Lord Huron
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"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"
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"Some and now none of you"
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Mountain Song
Jane's Addiction
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Plastic Bag
Ed Sheeran
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“Plastic Bag” is a song about searching for an escape from personal problems and hoping to find it in the lively atmosphere of a Saturday night party. Ed Sheeran tells the story of his friend and the myriad of troubles he is going through. Unable to find any solutions, this friend seeks a last resort in a party and the vanity that comes with it.
“I overthink and have trouble sleepin’ / All purpose gone and don’t have a reason / And there’s no doctor to stop this bleedin’ / So I left home and jumped in the deep end,” Ed Sheeran sings in verse one. He continues by adding that this person is feeling the weight of having disappointed his father and doesn’t have any friends to rely on in this difficult moment. In the second verse, Ed sings about the role of grief in his friend’s plight and his dwindling faith in prayer. “Saturday night is givin’ me a reason to rely on the strobe lights / The lifeline of a promise in a shot glass, and I’ll take that / If you’re givin’ out love from a plastic bag,” Ed sings on the chorus, as his friend turns to new vices in hopes of feeling better.
Movin' up and down, livin' on the ground
should be
Movin' up and down, dancin' on the ground
House is style that moves you from the ground.
should be
House is the style that moves you from the ground.
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