"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.
My paper cat
Has covered my skin
In chews
My basement home
Has made me as cold
As ice
So meow meow ?
Meow meow meow miha
Meow meow meow
My island home
Is gonna be mine
Quite soon
Your concrete nest
Is spewing that filth
Again
So walk in, shivering
Paws dried up
From wandering
Meow meow meow meow
My glass-eyed pet
Is purring while blind
I'm blind
That sweet old man
Is gonna be your
Best friend
So wash your paws
Alley cat
Once you're dead
You can't come back
Meow meow meow meow
Meow meow meow meow
Has covered my skin
In chews
My basement home
Has made me as cold
As ice
So meow meow ?
Meow meow meow miha
Meow meow meow
My island home
Is gonna be mine
Quite soon
Your concrete nest
Is spewing that filth
Again
So walk in, shivering
Paws dried up
From wandering
Meow meow meow meow
My glass-eyed pet
Is purring while blind
I'm blind
That sweet old man
Is gonna be your
Best friend
So wash your paws
Alley cat
Once you're dead
You can't come back
Meow meow meow meow
Meow meow meow meow
Lyrics submitted by amplifiedmouse, edited by Ekdikos, alcool91, Greenherbaltea, drmsoffall, 2dplox, LizzieMac
Skeleton Key Lyrics as written by Richard Charles Edwards
Lyrics © TERRORBIRD PUBLISHING LLC
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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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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.
Page
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There aren’t many things that’ll hurt more than giving love a chance against your better judgement only to have your heart crushed yet again. Ed Sheeran tells such a story on “Page.” On this track, he is devastated to have lost his lover and even more saddened by the feeling that he may never move on from this.
Here's my interpretation:
"I did a sick, sick thing to my love My lack of loyalty, it swallowed her up And she cooked me food She squirmed and turned Like a skeleton key"
The guy telling the story had a girlfriend. She's the kind of girl who moves from one guy to another losing interest when she gets them hooked. The narrator doesn't show her that she's important to him. So she does things for him like cooking him food even though it's outside of her nature and she'd rather be moving on to someone else because he has her hooked. That's what the skeleton key part is about she likes to open every door like the key.
"She left her man and attended to me And don't call me that Don't claim you love me Cause you know that ain't true"
She left the guy she was with to get with the narrator, but he knows how she really is so he tells her not to call him her man or claim that she loves him because he knows that it's all just infatuation over the unobtainable.
"My dire affliction I'll attribute to you And you're finally free To twist and turn Like a skeleton key"
The problem is that he really does love her, but he knows how she really is so he breaks up with her so she can go back to her normal routine before he gets in too deep and she loses interest first.
"I did a horrible thing to that girl I bread my misery and drowned it in her And she got me high And I hardly noticed there were tears in her eyes"
He could drown his problems in her and she made him happy, but he couldn't get over the fact of how he knows her to really be, so he doesn't even notice her tears because he believes that her heartache is all a front.
"And I miss you less and less everyday This stream of whisky's helped to wash you away And it's clear to see You're nothing special You're a skeleton key"
He knows he's better off with out her because once he had let his guard down with her she would have left, but he's still in love with her so he drinks to take the pain away.
I think the "gotta let me know" part is about him wanting her to show him through her actions that she really was the same person so he could feel like he did the right thing by breaking up with her.
That's what it means to me because I had this same situation happen to me, just my two cents.