"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.
Sixteen, Oh holy day
Your time has come and passed
The rapture we've been waiting for
Has come to us at last
Sixteen for every fake
Sixteen to every whore
Wipe that dirt from off your face
Sixteen is at your door
Oh, voiceless, wasted
You soaked your heart in gasoline
Now light it up and burn
The same cycle ever-turning you is calling
It's calling
The scene is begging for a grave tonight
It always did, always will
You take the name of love divine
And drag it through your blood
Now turn to face what you have made
And mourn what you have done
Oh, voiceless, wasted
You soaked your heart in gasoline
Now light it up and burn
Voiceless, wasted
I came this far to drag you down
And watch you take your turn
The same cycle ever-turning you is calling
It's calling
The scene is begging for a grave tonight
It always did, always will
Farewell to false pretension
Farewell to hollow words
Farewell to fake affection
Farewell, tomorrow burns
Farewell to false pretension
Farewell to hollow words
Farewell to fake affection
Farewell, tomorrow burns
The same cycle ever-turning you is calling
It's calling
The scene is begging for a grave tonight
It always did, always will
The same cycle ever-turning you is calling
It's calling
The scene is begging for a grave tonight
It always did, always will
Your time has come and passed
The rapture we've been waiting for
Has come to us at last
Sixteen for every fake
Sixteen to every whore
Wipe that dirt from off your face
Sixteen is at your door
Oh, voiceless, wasted
You soaked your heart in gasoline
Now light it up and burn
The same cycle ever-turning you is calling
It's calling
The scene is begging for a grave tonight
It always did, always will
You take the name of love divine
And drag it through your blood
Now turn to face what you have made
And mourn what you have done
Oh, voiceless, wasted
You soaked your heart in gasoline
Now light it up and burn
Voiceless, wasted
I came this far to drag you down
And watch you take your turn
The same cycle ever-turning you is calling
It's calling
The scene is begging for a grave tonight
It always did, always will
Farewell to false pretension
Farewell to hollow words
Farewell to fake affection
Farewell, tomorrow burns
Farewell to false pretension
Farewell to hollow words
Farewell to fake affection
Farewell, tomorrow burns
The same cycle ever-turning you is calling
It's calling
The scene is begging for a grave tonight
It always did, always will
The same cycle ever-turning you is calling
It's calling
The scene is begging for a grave tonight
It always did, always will
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"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"
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"Some and now none of you"
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“Plastic Bag” is a song about searching for an escape from personal problems and hoping to find it in the lively atmosphere of a Saturday night party. Ed Sheeran tells the story of his friend and the myriad of troubles he is going through. Unable to find any solutions, this friend seeks a last resort in a party and the vanity that comes with it.
“I overthink and have trouble sleepin’ / All purpose gone and don’t have a reason / And there’s no doctor to stop this bleedin’ / So I left home and jumped in the deep end,” Ed Sheeran sings in verse one. He continues by adding that this person is feeling the weight of having disappointed his father and doesn’t have any friends to rely on in this difficult moment. In the second verse, Ed sings about the role of grief in his friend’s plight and his dwindling faith in prayer. “Saturday night is givin’ me a reason to rely on the strobe lights / The lifeline of a promise in a shot glass, and I’ll take that / If you’re givin’ out love from a plastic bag,” Ed sings on the chorus, as his friend turns to new vices in hopes of feeling better.
idk if this is what you were talking about or not Desper, but i think that this does come from the revelation. In Chapter 16. Chapter 16 takes place after the world has been given a choice. Those on the earth have the choice to receive the mark, worship the Beast and live, or refuse and die.
"You take the name of love divine And drag it through your blood Now turn to face what you have made And mourn what you have done" -i think that this is stating that you rejected God and now you will have to pay the consequences in the end.
"You soaked your heart in gasoline Now light it up and burn" -this is saying you will forever be in Hell now that you have become AntiChrist.
"Farewell to false pretension Farewell to hollow words Farewell to fake affection Farewell, tomorrow burns" -because chapter 16 is completeing the wrath of God, this is stating that the fake idols and the fake gods are all going to be banished.
i have no idea if this helped anyone or not. this could just all be wrong, too. im only fourteen yearsold so im not exactly the best at interperating things. for more information about chapter 16 of the revelation, go to truthnet.org/christianity/revelation/revelation16/