"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.
Pretty girl, pretty, pretty girl
Cease to Exist
Just come and say you love me
Give up your world
C'mon you can see
I'm your kind, I'm your kind
You can see
Walk on, walk on
I love you pretty girl
My life is yours and
You can have my world
Never had a lesson
I ever learned
But I know we all get our turn
I love you
Submission is a gift
Go on, give it to your brother
Love and understanding is for one another
I'm your kind, I'm your kind
I'm your mind
I'm your brother
I never had a lesson I ever learned
But I know we all get our turn
And I love you
Never learned not to love you
I never learned
Cease to Exist
Just come and say you love me
Give up your world
C'mon you can see
I'm your kind, I'm your kind
You can see
Walk on, walk on
I love you pretty girl
My life is yours and
You can have my world
Never had a lesson
I ever learned
But I know we all get our turn
I love you
Submission is a gift
Go on, give it to your brother
Love and understanding is for one another
I'm your kind, I'm your kind
I'm your mind
I'm your brother
I never had a lesson I ever learned
But I know we all get our turn
And I love you
Never learned not to love you
I never learned
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Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Dreamwalker
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Just A Little Lovin'
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I don't think it's necessarily about sex. It's about wanting to start the day with some love and affection. Maybe a warm cuddle. I'm not alone in interpreting it that way! For example:
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Amazing
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to find some positivity in the situation. This track was written by Ed Sheeran from the perspective of his friend. From the track, we see this person fall deeper into the negative thoughts and slide further down the path of mental torment with every lyric.
Nikkie, I respect the fact that you spoke your mind on such a topic, but I am thrown off by the fact that it seems you have never even heard Charlie speek. He was not a very educated man, he went to prison at the age of 12 and never went back to school, he got out at around twenty. But still, for a man with little to no education he was still quite the bright bulb. If you come back to read this then I would suggest looking up some of his quotes and speeches. He has many grammar mistakes but when you listen to what he is saying, it is on the verge of genius. And it's about simple things like government, love, etc. Things that you tend to know more about the less you are "educated" or as i like to call BRAINWASHED! and for someone to say that Charlie brainwashed those "hippies" i think is wrong. He never brainwashed them. he taught and convinced them. The young men and women that he took in had no homes, they wern't victims of Charlie they were victims of big brother (The Man) all charlie did was accept them, take them up and taught them that as long as you do something out of love for your brothers r sisters then it is not wrong, that there is no wrong in love. Whether he be right or wrong, thats all he did. And as far as him being responsible for the deaths, maybe those specific deaths, but the kind of people he took up would have ended up killing people for money anyway. All Charlie did was throw a little love and brotherhood into it.
and to you Dressed2Depress, you are right. Almost everyone of America's presidents was a college graduate from a major college and look at how much they can fuck up through their own hidden agenda. It's sad how people confuse evil for stupidity, i blame Christian propaganda and public schools. Hell, why do you think they have the common term "Evil Genius"?