"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.
Belief in the one true power
Can't stop the sound
Can you?
Can't stop the sound
Can't stop the sound
I can't stop you
X your eyes
Let the tape roll
Aren't you gonna get sick
'Cause that's right
Good work!
X your eyes
Let the tape roll
Belief in the one true power
Can't stop the sound
Can you?
Can't stop the sound
I can't stop you
X your eyes
Let the tape roll
Aren't you gonna get sick
'Cause that's right
Good work!
X your eyes
I'll tell you, wait
So your troubles continue to multiply and to grow in a direct result of your being misguided. Deceived. Misdirected. Or fooled. All themes are variations of the basic ego gloried wide theme in which you follow the gospel truth.
....
Pursuing the wrong ideals and goals that leads you into sickness. unto.. ??.. and from this sickness sprang the belief in the one true power. (Yes.) That cure that promised to erase the symptoms that stood between you and your goal. That's seductive to hear them offer relief and comfort without disturbing the faulty system of your beliefs. (Beliefs) Belief in the one true power. (Beliefs) Forever and ever, one nation under (ego self). The father, the son, and the holy (ego self). In Jesus name. Amen.
(10 seconds silence)
Greasy filthy hand jobs in truck stop restrooms. Hot Carling? All over my chest Hot Carling? I turned hat into a verb. I hope you appreciate it. Car wing. Hot Carling Academy. It's the school where you go to learn how to butt fuck. It's In England. They don't have blowjobs there because they're uncircumcised and that is just disgusting. So they have to butt fuck. Which is also disgusting, because that extra foreskin trapped all the germs and the poop and the butt-fucking residue. It's sin. And that's why British people have bad teeth. Amen.
Can't stop the sound
Can you?
Can't stop the sound
Can't stop the sound
I can't stop you
X your eyes
Let the tape roll
Aren't you gonna get sick
'Cause that's right
Good work!
X your eyes
Let the tape roll
Belief in the one true power
Can't stop the sound
Can you?
Can't stop the sound
I can't stop you
X your eyes
Let the tape roll
Aren't you gonna get sick
'Cause that's right
Good work!
X your eyes
I'll tell you, wait
So your troubles continue to multiply and to grow in a direct result of your being misguided. Deceived. Misdirected. Or fooled. All themes are variations of the basic ego gloried wide theme in which you follow the gospel truth.
....
Pursuing the wrong ideals and goals that leads you into sickness. unto.. ??.. and from this sickness sprang the belief in the one true power. (Yes.) That cure that promised to erase the symptoms that stood between you and your goal. That's seductive to hear them offer relief and comfort without disturbing the faulty system of your beliefs. (Beliefs) Belief in the one true power. (Beliefs) Forever and ever, one nation under (ego self). The father, the son, and the holy (ego self). In Jesus name. Amen.
(10 seconds silence)
Greasy filthy hand jobs in truck stop restrooms. Hot Carling? All over my chest Hot Carling? I turned hat into a verb. I hope you appreciate it. Car wing. Hot Carling Academy. It's the school where you go to learn how to butt fuck. It's In England. They don't have blowjobs there because they're uncircumcised and that is just disgusting. So they have to butt fuck. Which is also disgusting, because that extra foreskin trapped all the germs and the poop and the butt-fucking residue. It's sin. And that's why British people have bad teeth. Amen.
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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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Ebba Grön
Ebba Grön
This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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.
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.
a "Hot Carl" is when you toss a girl into a bathtub, and shit all over her chest. it's like a "Hot Lunch", but in a bathtub. she turned it into a verb by adding the "-ing" to the end of it. that's also why she said "all over my...".
poop seemed to be the subject of that last minute, so it seemed only logical that this is what was being referenced.
the first reversal is "ttub-kcuf", which is easy to tell. the other 2 are both "gnikcufttub". try it in Audacity for yourself! it's fun for the whole family :)
and for anyone who doubted that this was just one big laugh gag, listen to the laughter in the background when she talks about "Hot Carling". even Chino can be heard!
as for the title of the song, her lyrics were recorded on a Pink Cellphone. it's why the sound is degraded in quality when compared with the singing, though those of you with only a shitty mp3 compressed track might not notice like we audiophiles do ;P