"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.
With those words that I said that I never meant to say
Why can't we put all these tears to bed?
Tonight's the night where everything will fall around you
This house enchanted, velvet carpet sprees
(Your certainty gets the best of me)
(But, it brings out the worst in me)
Your lonely hand did all to toss the key
(It's a sin to let your words caress me)
(So count your blessings, it's already done)
Isn't this the picture perfect moment?
Bottle up my tears in a snapshot motion
Every window is a different story
Shut it then it moves on it like never happened
(And you cut through my heart)
Can't feel the ink on my skin
(And you scratch out my eyes)
Can't fight the tar in my lungs
(This is the last knife you'll ever put into my back)
Can't taste the sugar from the salt on my bones
In a single picture frame, you and I explain
The safety involved in open doors
So record our memories with windshields kissing trees
And know that tonight was worth dying for
Thanks for second guessing, pin this rose on me
(My only friends in this world are strangers)
(They don't know me well enough to put my heart in danger)
Forever is a promise that you could not keep
(Thanks for spreading me a different story)
(A parliament puff covers all of my lies)
I'll burn the letters while you burn our bridges
Sink the ship after you lock me in
So do your best to point the trigger finger
At all my bullet holes and safety pins
(And you cut through my heart)
Can't feel the ink on my skin
(And you scratch out my eyes)
Can't fight the tar in my lungs
(This is the last knife you'll ever put into my back)
Can't taste the sugar from the salt on my bones
In a single picture frame, you and I explain
The safety involved in open doors
So record our memories with windshields kissing trees
And know that tonight was worth dying for
Shaking all night
I'm shaking all night
I hope you saw the light
I hope you saw the light, I
You spend years walking down these aisles
Empty pews never mean so much to you
And I'd like it if you took your time
And I'd like it if you took your chance now
To reach your hand out
I'll reach my hand out
They'll brush in time for you to realize
That empty words can bring all that the world can sing
So I hope that it's all there, waiting for me
Call me something, call me curious
Just so I know you're fine
Just so I know I spoke in time
(My dream came true with ice on all your roads)
(Shhhhh)
Everything that you wanted
You got it without even trying
So let's just play pretend
And you'll have to try to make this work
You know me better than to point the trigger finger
At all my bullet holes and safety pins
You know better than to point your finger at me
Why can't we put all these tears to bed?
Tonight's the night where everything will fall around you
This house enchanted, velvet carpet sprees
(Your certainty gets the best of me)
(But, it brings out the worst in me)
Your lonely hand did all to toss the key
(It's a sin to let your words caress me)
(So count your blessings, it's already done)
Isn't this the picture perfect moment?
Bottle up my tears in a snapshot motion
Every window is a different story
Shut it then it moves on it like never happened
(And you cut through my heart)
Can't feel the ink on my skin
(And you scratch out my eyes)
Can't fight the tar in my lungs
(This is the last knife you'll ever put into my back)
Can't taste the sugar from the salt on my bones
In a single picture frame, you and I explain
The safety involved in open doors
So record our memories with windshields kissing trees
And know that tonight was worth dying for
Thanks for second guessing, pin this rose on me
(My only friends in this world are strangers)
(They don't know me well enough to put my heart in danger)
Forever is a promise that you could not keep
(Thanks for spreading me a different story)
(A parliament puff covers all of my lies)
I'll burn the letters while you burn our bridges
Sink the ship after you lock me in
So do your best to point the trigger finger
At all my bullet holes and safety pins
(And you cut through my heart)
Can't feel the ink on my skin
(And you scratch out my eyes)
Can't fight the tar in my lungs
(This is the last knife you'll ever put into my back)
Can't taste the sugar from the salt on my bones
In a single picture frame, you and I explain
The safety involved in open doors
So record our memories with windshields kissing trees
And know that tonight was worth dying for
Shaking all night
I'm shaking all night
I hope you saw the light
I hope you saw the light, I
You spend years walking down these aisles
Empty pews never mean so much to you
And I'd like it if you took your time
And I'd like it if you took your chance now
To reach your hand out
I'll reach my hand out
They'll brush in time for you to realize
That empty words can bring all that the world can sing
So I hope that it's all there, waiting for me
Call me something, call me curious
Just so I know you're fine
Just so I know I spoke in time
(My dream came true with ice on all your roads)
(Shhhhh)
Everything that you wanted
You got it without even trying
So let's just play pretend
And you'll have to try to make this work
You know me better than to point the trigger finger
At all my bullet holes and safety pins
You know better than to point your finger at me
Lyrics submitted by mkid234
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Fast Car
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
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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"
Holiday
Bee Gees
Bee Gees
@[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.
Gentle Hour
Yo La Tengo
Yo La Tengo
This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
Page
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
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.
i think this song is about a guy tryin to get a girl to stay.. he wants to comfort her .. let her know hes there for her
shes getting involved in relationships and all he wants is to try and talk to her to make her know how he feels .
"JUST SO I KNOW YOU'RE FINE JUST SO I KNOW I SPOKE IN TIME"