"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.
Open baby you've left me
Open now I'm shattered into a million pieces
Can't stop looking over my shoulder
Just incase you realise just how much you want this
The longer the sweeter baby don't stop
It's ok cause I'm down for you
Not gonna stop till you tell me to
I'm into you like a bad ass too
Tell me how did this happen
I've never known or what to do
Oh oh oh
I've never felt like this before
Can't say that you don't make me hot
I want to tell ma what you got babe
I've never felt like this before
I'm lovin every minute of it don't stop
You are all I ever want
Empty standing where you've left me
Cold boy now I'm frozen by a kiss from your lips
Your heart tells me that you're open
Melted by the answers I've been waiting to hear
And now that you've told me boy I can't stop
In a flash I'm all over you
I couldn't stop if you told me to
I'm into you like a bad ass too
Tell me how did this happen
I've never known or what to do
Oh oh oh
I've never felt like this before
Can't say that you don't make me hot
I want to tell ma what you got babe
I've never felt like this before
I'm lovin every minute of it don't stop
You are all I ever want
Can't hold this down or be cool
Now playing my heart
Now I'd like I'm feeling you
So I just get down to the truth
Can nobody do to me baby like you do
I've never felt like this before
Can't say that you don't make me hot
I want to tell ma what you got babe
I've never felt like this before
I'm lovin every minute of it don't stop
You are all I ever want
Open now I'm shattered into a million pieces
Can't stop looking over my shoulder
Just incase you realise just how much you want this
The longer the sweeter baby don't stop
It's ok cause I'm down for you
Not gonna stop till you tell me to
I'm into you like a bad ass too
Tell me how did this happen
I've never known or what to do
Oh oh oh
I've never felt like this before
Can't say that you don't make me hot
I want to tell ma what you got babe
I've never felt like this before
I'm lovin every minute of it don't stop
You are all I ever want
Empty standing where you've left me
Cold boy now I'm frozen by a kiss from your lips
Your heart tells me that you're open
Melted by the answers I've been waiting to hear
And now that you've told me boy I can't stop
In a flash I'm all over you
I couldn't stop if you told me to
I'm into you like a bad ass too
Tell me how did this happen
I've never known or what to do
Oh oh oh
I've never felt like this before
Can't say that you don't make me hot
I want to tell ma what you got babe
I've never felt like this before
I'm lovin every minute of it don't stop
You are all I ever want
Can't hold this down or be cool
Now playing my heart
Now I'd like I'm feeling you
So I just get down to the truth
Can nobody do to me baby like you do
I've never felt like this before
Can't say that you don't make me hot
I want to tell ma what you got babe
I've never felt like this before
I'm lovin every minute of it don't stop
You are all I ever want
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Fast Car
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Lord Huron
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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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@[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.
Blue
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Blue” is a song about a love that is persisting in the discomfort of the person experiencing the emotion. Ed Sheeran reflects on love lost, and although he wishes his former partner find happiness, he cannot but admit his feelings are still very much there. He expresses the realization that he might never find another on this stringed instrumental by Aaron Dessner.
American Town
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran shares a short story of reconnecting with an old flame on “American Town.” The track is about a holiday Ed Sheeran spends with his countrywoman who resides in America. The two are back together after a long period apart, and get around to enjoying a bunch of fun activities while rekindling the flames of their romance.
This is a great melody. Shaznay has a distinctive voice and her song writing skills are great. Great song.