"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.
I go out to work on Monday morning
Tuesday, I go off to honeymoon
I'll be back again before it's time for sunny-down
I'll be lazing on a Sunday afternoon
Bicycling on every Wednesday evening
Thursday, I go waltzing to the zoo
I come from London Town, I'm just an ordinary guy
Fridays, I go painting in the Louvre
I'm bound to be proposing on a Saturday night (there he goes again)
I'll be lazing on a Sunday
Lazing on a Sunday
Lazing on a Sunday afternoon
Tuesday, I go off to honeymoon
I'll be back again before it's time for sunny-down
I'll be lazing on a Sunday afternoon
Bicycling on every Wednesday evening
Thursday, I go waltzing to the zoo
I come from London Town, I'm just an ordinary guy
Fridays, I go painting in the Louvre
I'm bound to be proposing on a Saturday night (there he goes again)
I'll be lazing on a Sunday
Lazing on a Sunday
Lazing on a Sunday afternoon
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Fast Car
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
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Yo La Tengo
Yo La Tengo
This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
When We Were Young
Blink-182
Blink-182
This is a sequel to 2001's "Reckless Abandon", and features the band looking back on their clumsy youth fondly.
Blue
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Blue” is a song about a love that is persisting in the discomfort of the person experiencing the emotion. Ed Sheeran reflects on love lost, and although he wishes his former partner find happiness, he cannot but admit his feelings are still very much there. He expresses the realization that he might never find another on this stringed instrumental by Aaron Dessner.
Plastic Bag
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“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.
Piss take? I'm not sure what you mean by that, but the quality of the song is clearly intentional so it matches the sound of soungs from that era.
Queen = Genius!
I can see Freddy riding on those old style bikes (with a huge wheel on front and a ridiculous small one behind), wearing a curled moustache and a round hat, saluting the girls in corsetted victorian dresses, and the kids with sailor suits playing on the pond, throwing rocks to some ducks... Lazing on a Sunday afternoon (ring ring)
It's pretty obvious..short, harmonious, terrific. It's just about a good Sunday afternoon for Freddy.
its short, its sweet, he sings it perfectly, its just a piss take and i love it!
It's pretty obvious..short, harmonious, terrific. It's just about a good Sunday afternoon for Freddy.
One of the jolliest songs I've ever heard. Sure to put anyone into a splendid mood! =o)
"There he goes again"
I love the harmonies of what sounds like Brian here!
totally agree with you there!
i always sing along on that harmony, haha
Freddie is the writer and singer on this song rich20b. A short and fun song as only Mercury could do it. As a matter of fact I am lazing on a Sunday afternoon right now.
I love the implication that an ordinary guy spends his Fridays "painting in the Louvre."
i love this song! I can't stop listening to it. It's just so care free and happy you know?