"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.
Laisse tomber les filles
Laisse tomber les filles
Un jour, c'est toi qu'on laissera
Laisse tomber les filles
Laisse tomber les filles
Un jour, c'est toi qui pleureras
Oui, j'ai pleuré
Mais ce jour-là
Non, je ne pleurerai pas
Non, je ne pleurerai pas
Je dirai, c'est bien
Mais pour toi
Je dirai, ça t'apprendra
Je dirai ça t'apprendra
Laisse tomber les filles
Laisse tomber les filles
Ça te jouera un mauvais tour
Laisse tomber les filles
Laisse tomber les filles
Tu le paieras un de ces jours
On ne joue pas impunément
Avec un cœur innocent
Avec un cœur innocent
Tu verras ce que je ressens
Avant qu'il ne soit longtemps
Avant qu'il ne soit longtemps
La chance abandonne
Celui qui ne sait
Que laisser les cœurs blessés
Tu n'auras personne
Pour te consoler
Tu ne l'auras pas volé
Laisse tomber les filles
Laisse tomber les filles
Un jour, c'est toi qu'on laissera
Laisse tomber les filles
Laisse tomber les filles
Un jour, c'est toi qui pleureras
Non pour te plaindre
Il n'y aura personne d'autre que toi
Personne d'autre que toi
Alors tu te rappelleras
Tout ce que je te dis là
Tout ce que je te dis là
Alors tu te rappelleras
Tout ce que je te dis là
Tout ce que je te dis là
Alors tu te rappelleras
Tout ce que je te dis là
Tout ce que je te dis là
Laisse tomber les filles
Un jour, c'est toi qu'on laissera
Laisse tomber les filles
Laisse tomber les filles
Un jour, c'est toi qui pleureras
Oui, j'ai pleuré
Mais ce jour-là
Non, je ne pleurerai pas
Non, je ne pleurerai pas
Je dirai, c'est bien
Mais pour toi
Je dirai, ça t'apprendra
Je dirai ça t'apprendra
Laisse tomber les filles
Laisse tomber les filles
Ça te jouera un mauvais tour
Laisse tomber les filles
Laisse tomber les filles
Tu le paieras un de ces jours
On ne joue pas impunément
Avec un cœur innocent
Avec un cœur innocent
Tu verras ce que je ressens
Avant qu'il ne soit longtemps
Avant qu'il ne soit longtemps
La chance abandonne
Celui qui ne sait
Que laisser les cœurs blessés
Tu n'auras personne
Pour te consoler
Tu ne l'auras pas volé
Laisse tomber les filles
Laisse tomber les filles
Un jour, c'est toi qu'on laissera
Laisse tomber les filles
Laisse tomber les filles
Un jour, c'est toi qui pleureras
Non pour te plaindre
Il n'y aura personne d'autre que toi
Personne d'autre que toi
Alors tu te rappelleras
Tout ce que je te dis là
Tout ce que je te dis là
Alors tu te rappelleras
Tout ce que je te dis là
Tout ce que je te dis là
Alors tu te rappelleras
Tout ce que je te dis là
Tout ce que je te dis là
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Fast Car
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The Night We Met
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"
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
Led Zeppelin
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This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
Son Şansın - Şarkı Sözleri
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.
what it means is basically: stop seeing so many girls, you can't play with innocent hearts without being punished, you'll be left alone and you will be the one crying.
the french translation is "let the girls go" I guess your french is rusty.
wow, way to be a jerk. i think this is a pretty good translation.
'laisse tomber' also means 'nevermind'..
It also means drop/ give up.
This is one of the many songs of a broken heart that came from the Yéyé girls. It's really an angry song, sung by a girl who has been cheated on. There is a translation here:
leschansonstraduites.com/
mkay here is my translation (may be a little inaccurate owing to my rubbish french)
leave the girls to fall Leave the girls to fall One day it is you who will fall Leave the girls to fall Leave the girls to fall One day it is you who will cry
Yes i cried that day but no i will not cry anymore no i will not cry any more
I will say that it is good for you I will say that you will learn I will say that you will learn
Leave the girls to fall Leave the girls to fall You have played a terrible trick
Leave the girls to fall Leave the girls to fall You will pay one of these days We will not play with impunity With an innocent heart You will see that I have sensed the chance of abandomnebt for a long time Those who did not know That will leave their hearts broken You will have no one to cheer you up You will not have stolen them Leave the girls to fall Leave the girls to fall One day it is you who will fall Leave the girls to fall Leave the girls to fall One day it is you who will cry you will have no one other than yourself No one other than yourself So take back everything i have told you Everything i have told you
I don't want to sound offensive, but this translation is really bad. The phrase "Laisse tomber" is similar to the English phrase of "drop it", like "drop the subject". What it really means is to let something go or forget about it.
I also wanted to clarify that the mistranslation of the title is not the only error, but one of many.