"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 fuck you because your famous
I fuck you for your money
I fuck you to control you
I fuck you so somebody I can have half of everything
I fuck you to fuck you over
I fuck you until I
I fuck you for a secret
I fuck you because I can't remember
If I already fucked you
Whore
I fuck you out of boredom
I fuck you because I can't feel it anyway
I fuck you to make the pain go away
Fuck you because I love you
Fuck you for loving you
I don't need a reason to hate you the way I do
Fuck you because I love you
Fuck you for loving you
I don't need a reason to hate you the way I do
Hate you the way I do
I fuck you so I can fucking feel
Something
Instead of nothing at all
I fuck you because you are beautiful
I fuck you because you're my nigger
I fuck you because I'm your whore
I fuck you because you are a whore
I fuck you for fun
I fuck you for fun
I fuck you because I can
I fuck you so I have a place to stay
I fuck you so you will protect me
Fuck you because I love you
Fuck you for longing you too
I don't need a reason to hate you the way I do
Fuck you because I love you
Fuck you for loving you too
I don't need a reason to hate you the way I do
Hate you the way I do
I don't need a reason to hate you the way I do
Hate you the way I do
Hate you the way I do
Hate you the way I do
(Hate you the way I do)
Hate you the way I do
I fuck you for your money
I fuck you to control you
I fuck you so somebody I can have half of everything
I fuck you to fuck you over
I fuck you until I
I fuck you for a secret
I fuck you because I can't remember
If I already fucked you
Whore
I fuck you out of boredom
I fuck you because I can't feel it anyway
I fuck you to make the pain go away
Fuck you because I love you
Fuck you for loving you
I don't need a reason to hate you the way I do
Fuck you because I love you
Fuck you for loving you
I don't need a reason to hate you the way I do
Hate you the way I do
I fuck you so I can fucking feel
Something
Instead of nothing at all
I fuck you because you are beautiful
I fuck you because you're my nigger
I fuck you because I'm your whore
I fuck you because you are a whore
I fuck you for fun
I fuck you for fun
I fuck you because I can
I fuck you so I have a place to stay
I fuck you so you will protect me
Fuck you because I love you
Fuck you for longing you too
I don't need a reason to hate you the way I do
Fuck you because I love you
Fuck you for loving you too
I don't need a reason to hate you the way I do
Hate you the way I do
I don't need a reason to hate you the way I do
Hate you the way I do
Hate you the way I do
Hate you the way I do
(Hate you the way I do)
Hate you the way I do
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Lord Huron
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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"
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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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,
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.
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.
yeah this song kicks ass. it's fuckin awesome.