"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.
Somewhere hiding underneath
Kicking off covers while you sleep
Soon you're gonna leave, so leave us
One more weekend
You've got all the friends you need
Bad tattoos and worse IDs. You feel alive
Do you feel alive?
[Chorus:]
You'll go off, you'll forget
You'll grow out of hanging from the edges
Breaking off the past
You'll know when to move on
You'll know when to take all the right chances
Never looking back
Somewhere hiding underneath
Driving around these empty streets
Do you think you're better off dead
Better off dead than alive in here?
You've got all the friends you need
Bad tattoos and worse IDs. You feel alive
Do you feel alive?
[Chorus:]
How could you think the time we spent was all wasted
Sleepwalking through every morning that we took for granted?
Maybe the time we spent was not wasted...
Let it go, I'll let you go
[Chorus:]
We are half alone, out hearts are leaving home
Now we don't belong to anyone at all
Somewhere hiding underneath
Kicking off your covers while you sleep
You feel alive
Kicking off covers while you sleep
Soon you're gonna leave, so leave us
One more weekend
You've got all the friends you need
Bad tattoos and worse IDs. You feel alive
Do you feel alive?
[Chorus:]
You'll go off, you'll forget
You'll grow out of hanging from the edges
Breaking off the past
You'll know when to move on
You'll know when to take all the right chances
Never looking back
Somewhere hiding underneath
Driving around these empty streets
Do you think you're better off dead
Better off dead than alive in here?
You've got all the friends you need
Bad tattoos and worse IDs. You feel alive
Do you feel alive?
[Chorus:]
How could you think the time we spent was all wasted
Sleepwalking through every morning that we took for granted?
Maybe the time we spent was not wasted...
Let it go, I'll let you go
[Chorus:]
We are half alone, out hearts are leaving home
Now we don't belong to anyone at all
Somewhere hiding underneath
Kicking off your covers while you sleep
You feel alive
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One More Weekend Lyrics as written by Michael Carden Andy Mrotek
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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"
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.
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I Can't Go To Sleep
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No Surprises
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Punchline
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Ed Sheeran sings about missing his former partner and learning important life lessons in the process on “Punchline.” This track tells a story of battling to get rid of emotions for a former lover, whom he now realized might not have loved him the same way. He’s now caught between accepting that fact and learning life lessons from it and going back to beg her for another chance.
this song is my favorite off the new album.
the meaning to me is crystal clear because I lived it. it's about one of your friends going off (i asssume to college) and you and the rest of your friends being left back in the town. and it's just all about how you know that person has to break out of the town and go to college because that's life, and you're happy for them and know they will succeed but it still sucks. especially because, as the time passes, the memories you thought were great seem like time they wasted when they could have been having the fun they are now.
"You think the time we spent Was all wasted Sleepwalking through every morning We took for granted Maybe this time we spent Was all wasted We'll let it go I'll let you go"
oh, and it's BAD TATTOOS AND WORSE IDEAS
it sounds like its saying "bad tattoos and worse ID's."
I think the question mark might be 'our hearts are leaving home' at least thats what i've seen other people enterperating it as, it could still be wrong of course.
if all you have are "bad tattoos and worse IDs" to make you feel alive and young, you're trying too hard to force the feeling and it will eventually fade.
its definatly bad tattoos and worse IDs.. as in a bad fake ID.. and i think this song is about wanting to feel older and doing everything to make it seem like you are but when you eventually do grow up you wish being young and a teenager never ended
erite i agree with lilyloves on pretty much every song...genius haha
haha thank you Dub2, I have disected the shit out of the album, you know a couple years after high school you start to look back and think about that stuff...:)
It is 'worse IDs'. That's what the cd booklet says...
Anyway this song to me was different. I interpreted it. I took it as not realizing how great you have everything and not realizing how mush you're taking everything for granted. Your letting the bad things wheigh on you. The you'll go off, you'll forget was to me something that's is wheighing you down but its so small that someday you'll forget about it and it won't matter anymore. Its also about not realizing what you really need in life. Like the whole material shit. Thinking being cool & popular brings you happiness but its really friendship & love...
That's what I got from it. Either way the song is amazing...
Definately one of my fave on the album.