"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.
Let me show you what I'm made of
Good intentions are not enough
To get me though today and this life
You're in the basement watching the TV
I'm on the second floor watching the ceiling
We sleep underneath the same big sky at night
I dream the same dream we can fly
You can run from me
And you can hide from me
But I am right beside you
In this life
Let me tell you who you really are
You're my comfort
You're not a superstar
I can reach up and bring you back down to the ground
And give you everything you dream about
You can run from me
And you can hide from me
But I am right beside you
In this life
I'll give you all the things that I never get
Give you all I have and have no regrets
Take you to the places that I've never been
Forgive you all the things that you can't forget
Take away the pain with my healing hand
Wash away your sins and set your spirit free
You can run from me
And you can hide from me
But I am right beside you
In this life
You can run from me
And you can hide from me
I am right beside you
In this life
Let me show you what I'm made of
Good intentions are not enough
To get me though today and this life
You're in the basement watching the TV
I'm on the second floor watching the ceiling
We sleep underneath the same big sky at night
I dream the same dream we can fly
You can run from me
And you can hide from me
But I am right beside you
In this life
Let me tell you who you really are
You're my comfort
You're not a superstar
I can reach up and bring you back down to the ground
And give you everything you dream about
You can run from me
And you can hide from me
But I am right beside you
In this life
I'll give you all the things that I never get
Give you all I have and have no regrets
Take you to the places that I've never been
Forgive you all the things that you can't forget
Take away the pain with my healing hand
Wash away your sins and set your spirit free
You can run from me
And you can hide from me
But I am right beside you
In this life
You can run from me
And you can hide from me
I am right beside you
In this life
Let me show you what I'm made of
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Fast Car
Tracy Chapman
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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"
Mental Istid
Ebba Grön
Ebba Grön
This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
Mountain Song
Jane's Addiction
Jane's Addiction
Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
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.
JESUS!
Yep.
I read it was Jesus talking to us :/
Wow.. first comment on such a lovely song. Okay, well I think this song is about someone who is just really stubborn and wants to hide away from the world because they don't want to deal with the problems in their life. But Chantal tries to be a comforting friend by telling that person that no matter what, she'll always be by their side and take away their pain. For some reason I think that the relationship between these two people are mother and son.
Heh, this song is SO about Chantal's husband, Our Lady Peace's Raine Maida. I mean, come on "You're my comfort, not a superstar?"
Awesome song though. Perfect for any relationship where your SO is messed up, your relationship is messed up, but you love them anyway and want to fix it all for them.
this song was perfect in Saved!
i have loved this song ever since i first hear it in saved! i dont really know anything about Chantal, but from what i can tell its just a song about how like Katouz said, two messed up people in one messed up relationship trying to fix two messed up lives.
this whole week. hell this whole year and half ever since im moved has been well.. .hell! and idunno i cant personally relate to this song but it just makes me feel good. i feel happy when i listen to it. nothing matter its just me and the song =] that real music. she's a real artist. all her music in some sense makes me ...happy =] ah ok. i feel better now =]
well. my dad and i argue a lot, and this describes our relationship perfectly. he always thinks he's right and is so arrogant... but i still love him and just want to bring him back down to earth and talk to him as a real person, and not when he's putting on his "perfect" front.
great song :D
I'm feeling that Lindsay. It actually does sound like a parent child relationship. I was thinking mother daughter you know. But in general parent-child fo sho.