"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.
It's all over
It's all over now
The seal is broken
Creatures spoken now
I hope you go up to heaven right now
It's all over
It's all over now
Can I be changed?
Or am I the same
It's all over
It's all over now
No room for hiding
We're children fighting now
And hope you go up to heaven right now
It's all over
It's all over now
Can I be the same?
The rain is falling
The rain is falling now
Today we're leaving
Our souls are calling now
The stars on his right holding seven right now
The rain is falling
The rain is falling now
Can I be changed?
Or am I the same
It's all over
It's all over now
No room for hiding
We're children fighting now
And hope you go up to heaven right now
It's all over
It's all over now
It's all over now
The seal is broken
Creatures spoken now
I hope you go up to heaven right now
It's all over
It's all over now
Can I be changed?
Or am I the same
It's all over
It's all over now
No room for hiding
We're children fighting now
And hope you go up to heaven right now
It's all over
It's all over now
Can I be the same?
The rain is falling
The rain is falling now
Today we're leaving
Our souls are calling now
The stars on his right holding seven right now
The rain is falling
The rain is falling now
Can I be changed?
Or am I the same
It's all over
It's all over now
No room for hiding
We're children fighting now
And hope you go up to heaven right now
It's all over
It's all over now
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Fast Car
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
The Night We Met
Lord Huron
Lord Huron
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"
Holiday
Bee Gees
Bee Gees
@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
Magical
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
How would you describe the feeling of being in love? For Ed Sheeran, the word is “Magical.” in HIS three-minute album opener, he makes an attempt to capture the beauty and delicacy of true love with words. He describes the magic of it all over a bright Pop song produced 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.
"stars on his right, holding seven right now"
that is the key phrase to the song, WHAT THE HECK DOES THAT MEAN!!!! :)
@WillowTheWisp it is from Revelations. I don't remember the chapter or verse, but it speaks of 7 seals being opened, 7 plagues being unleashed, and then someone holding the 7 stars in one hand, the singer is talking coming up to heaven before it all goes down for real....
I think this song has to do with what the book of Revelataion says will happen. There are suppose to be seven seals that God opens bringing seven different forms of disasters. The lines I hope you go up to heaven right now, It's all over, It's all over now could refer to the rapture. I think it says that nation will rise up against nation so it could be talking about that with the children fighting line. I really don't know too much about Revelation but I'm pretty sure that this is what the song is about.
I think this is about a person who loves someone who dies, but wasn't on good terms with him/her at the time of death.
I'm probably way off base, but that's what I get out of it. Great song, anyway.
@ApollyonCrash it's from Revelations, you can read about the 7 seals, the 7 plagues, and the 7 stars.
I think this has something to do with following your destiny. Like maybe "And hope you go up to heaven right now" means "I hope you get the good life straight off" or something. I dunno. I'm trying to make sense of the song, but.... Well, it isn't really working out too well.
I've actually read on the revis website that the song IS actually based on the chapter of Revelations in the Bible...and I love the song...partially cas it's great anyway...but then it's based on my fave chapter of the Bible!
I really like this song and I like revis a lot. It's kinda cool I'm from a town really close to where this band was originally from. I met the singer -Justin Holman's brother Mark last year. We went to the same school for a while. Justin's other brother Steve teaches Biology at the college I went to last year. I never met him, but I heard he was pretty cool. Small world!
Amazing song. I don't get it, but it's still amazing!
yeah. In Revalations John is discribing god he said: and he had in his right hand seven stars. I love this song but it took me a while to figure it out. to me it is simply about ones curiosity about the end of the world. and about wanting to be saved but not knowing if you are good enough. "can I be changed?or am I the same?"
whats the number 7 got to do with anything? 777 mark of god? and heaven?
whats the number 7 got to do with anything? 777 mark of god? and heaven?