"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 the same,
Regardless of your record and your name
Rappers walking in the rain,
tryna state there claim
I can take the weight they just....
Take the back pain
There's much to be gained with the money and fame
(It's like that)
I feel the power when I hear it in the streets
(It's like that)
It used to be about the lyrics and beats
(Behind that)
From tomorrow until commercialism
And now it's built as a prison
For us to walk common streets
Now if flesh is weak
My passion is my shield
And my strength is my speech
In which I’ll make men yield
Cause in the field of expertise
Man you rappers flex with ease
Using hip-hop as gimmicks in which to gain sex with these...
With a joint or a bottle...
And a picturing posing crew
The only thing I ever learned is
"I can only trust a chosen few"
I got respect for my crew
And love for my home
Never claimed the crown or throne from the use of microphones
(Just let me rideeee)
Or all you critics claiming minor skies
"Better trade in ya faget"
As you look into my eyes
And my sumizeee'll be the day that hip-hop dies
Or at least until the day the mass of boys ???
With every staple on your faith
Companies supporting any and every
Breathe or laugh I take
Makes me gag in nausea
It’s just the asthma....
It's chokin' me, vocally
Provokin' me to live with frustration with words but locally
Cause globally I’m fucked, if you ever notice me
So I cling to what I got and rock the spot with chromo zee...
Cuz sometimes...
The people just don't wanna let go
Now put that mic down before you get crushed like Thredbo
But hold it now....
Who said were walking common streets?
You just keep rollin' them beats hip-hop cost all a ??
Some lost there creativity and our sense of ?? humble,
Ali threw in the gloves so now I’m rumblin' in the jungle
Don't you worry cause them punks will fall off figures
Times I wrote these shackle (dadadada)
You lost that love I feel ???, and crackles
And only time he's able to heal the wounds
That was open from my choking the community you food basket
Hypocrites, contradicting shit, every bit of it
I've heard more to save the gas ??? illiterate
I jsut hung my head in my hands and kept, workin' on the beats
But now were workin foreign lands, maybe one day common streets
It's all the same,
Regardless of your record and your name
Rappers walking in the rain,
Tryna state there claim
I can take the weight they just....
Hate the back pain
There's much to gained with the money and fame
(It's like that)
I feel the power when i hear it in the streets
(It's like that)
It used to be about the lyrics and beats
(Behind that)
From tomorrow until commercialism
And now this spirits a prison
For us to walk common streets
It's all the same
Common streets
Can you feel it?
Can you feel the vibe?
Seems I’m in a dream as I’m walk through the Southside
Can you feel it?
Can you feel the vibe?
Cause it looks like we leavin' to the people walkin' by
Can you feel it?
Can you feel the vibe?
Cause it looks like we leavin' to the people walkin' by
Regardless of your record and your name
Rappers walking in the rain,
tryna state there claim
I can take the weight they just....
Take the back pain
There's much to be gained with the money and fame
(It's like that)
I feel the power when I hear it in the streets
(It's like that)
It used to be about the lyrics and beats
(Behind that)
From tomorrow until commercialism
And now it's built as a prison
For us to walk common streets
Now if flesh is weak
My passion is my shield
And my strength is my speech
In which I’ll make men yield
Cause in the field of expertise
Man you rappers flex with ease
Using hip-hop as gimmicks in which to gain sex with these...
With a joint or a bottle...
And a picturing posing crew
The only thing I ever learned is
"I can only trust a chosen few"
I got respect for my crew
And love for my home
Never claimed the crown or throne from the use of microphones
(Just let me rideeee)
Or all you critics claiming minor skies
"Better trade in ya faget"
As you look into my eyes
And my sumizeee'll be the day that hip-hop dies
Or at least until the day the mass of boys ???
With every staple on your faith
Companies supporting any and every
Breathe or laugh I take
Makes me gag in nausea
It’s just the asthma....
It's chokin' me, vocally
Provokin' me to live with frustration with words but locally
Cause globally I’m fucked, if you ever notice me
So I cling to what I got and rock the spot with chromo zee...
Cuz sometimes...
The people just don't wanna let go
Now put that mic down before you get crushed like Thredbo
But hold it now....
Who said were walking common streets?
You just keep rollin' them beats hip-hop cost all a ??
Some lost there creativity and our sense of ?? humble,
Ali threw in the gloves so now I’m rumblin' in the jungle
Don't you worry cause them punks will fall off figures
Times I wrote these shackle (dadadada)
You lost that love I feel ???, and crackles
And only time he's able to heal the wounds
That was open from my choking the community you food basket
Hypocrites, contradicting shit, every bit of it
I've heard more to save the gas ??? illiterate
I jsut hung my head in my hands and kept, workin' on the beats
But now were workin foreign lands, maybe one day common streets
It's all the same,
Regardless of your record and your name
Rappers walking in the rain,
Tryna state there claim
I can take the weight they just....
Hate the back pain
There's much to gained with the money and fame
(It's like that)
I feel the power when i hear it in the streets
(It's like that)
It used to be about the lyrics and beats
(Behind that)
From tomorrow until commercialism
And now this spirits a prison
For us to walk common streets
It's all the same
Common streets
Can you feel it?
Can you feel the vibe?
Seems I’m in a dream as I’m walk through the Southside
Can you feel it?
Can you feel the vibe?
Cause it looks like we leavin' to the people walkin' by
Can you feel it?
Can you feel the vibe?
Cause it looks like we leavin' to the people walkin' by
Lyrics submitted by J0K3R
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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"
Mental Istid
Ebba Grön
Ebba Grön
This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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Hayalperest
Hayalperest
This song seemingly tackles the methods of deception those who manipulate others use to get victims to follow their demands, as well as diverting attention away from important issues. They'll also use it as a means to convince people to hate or kill others by pretending acts of terrorism were committed by the enemy when the acts themselves were done by the masters of control to promote discrimination and hate. It also reinforces the idea that these manipulative forces operate in various locations, infiltrating everyday life without detection, and propagate any and everywhere.
In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control and gain power, depicting a cautionary tale against falling into their traps. It encourages us to question the narratives presented to us and remain vigilant against manipulation in various parts of society.
No Surprises
Radiohead
Radiohead
Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.