"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.
[Chorus:]
Break it down (Break it down) Roll it up (Roll it up)
Light It Up (Light It Up) Get High Get High Get High
Break it down (Break it down) Roll it up (Roll it up)
Light It Up (Light It Up) Get High Get High Get High
Break it down (Break it down) Roll it up (Roll it up)
Light It Up (Light It Up) Get High Get High Get High
Break it down (Break it down) Roll it up (Roll it up)
Light It Up (Light It Up) Get High Get High Get High
I'm smoking on some killa kill yep yep I'm high
Gotta do it everyday (Why?) that's my life style
Grape cigarillo filled up wit good 'dro
Grind it down properly tell me what you here for
Come around the way better be prepared to chief we twist em bout the fuckin' oz
I be totin' till 6 o clock in the morning as long as no one comes and stops me
I'm Lil Wyte the almighty good weed connoisseurs hydro gon' never come to ya cheek
If I'm in the Memphis city streets I'm get the best trees
All the smack smokers can breathe it and weep
I lay back in the cut smoking on a big blunt waitin' on the call to get more chronic
This shit one hit will sit ya down have ya choking all night ready to vomit
Skinny bags amd them sacks in them house man will leave a pothead like me spinnin' insane
Mounts of cash one these bags of this purple kush jack frost and blueberry hurricane
I have something right here that will knock ya dick in the dirt and im bout to pull it up out my pocket
Take it slow don't hit it to hard 'cause this is liable to pull ya neck right up outs its socket
[Chorus]
I'm a California do do marijuana inspector always in slow mo like I been screwed
Keep me on the low low like a private eye wen its time to get high ill make the call ta you
I be keeping some good shit all of the good shit gimme the name and ill find it and blow it
If I cant locate it in a week we'll get the seed and fuckin' grow it
Ain't no thang to me pimpin' its just weed and really it all depends on the consumer
How many times have you heard it causing a heart attack or givin' someone a tumor
None I said it notta 1 zero, zilch, nada, zero
Ill take a mutha fuckin' pound to the head I'm a stoner call me the ganja hero
Laugh at what you wanna laugh at man crash where ever you wanna crash at man
After you hit the blunt take a puff of the silivia it will put ya in the trash can
I smoked almost everything I can inhale much sticky shit he gots forbidden fruit
I said Break it down Roll it up Light It Up and ill be the judge of this Jesus juice
[Chorus]
Break it down (Break it down) Roll it up (Roll it up)
Light It Up (Light It Up) Get High Get High Get High
Break it down (Break it down) Roll it up (Roll it up)
Light It Up (Light It Up) Get High Get High Get High
Break it down (Break it down) Roll it up (Roll it up)
Light It Up (Light It Up) Get High Get High Get High
Break it down (Break it down) Roll it up (Roll it up)
Light It Up (Light It Up) Get High Get High Get High
I'm smoking on some killa kill yep yep I'm high
Gotta do it everyday (Why?) that's my life style
Grape cigarillo filled up wit good 'dro
Grind it down properly tell me what you here for
Come around the way better be prepared to chief we twist em bout the fuckin' oz
I be totin' till 6 o clock in the morning as long as no one comes and stops me
I'm Lil Wyte the almighty good weed connoisseurs hydro gon' never come to ya cheek
If I'm in the Memphis city streets I'm get the best trees
All the smack smokers can breathe it and weep
I lay back in the cut smoking on a big blunt waitin' on the call to get more chronic
This shit one hit will sit ya down have ya choking all night ready to vomit
Skinny bags amd them sacks in them house man will leave a pothead like me spinnin' insane
Mounts of cash one these bags of this purple kush jack frost and blueberry hurricane
I have something right here that will knock ya dick in the dirt and im bout to pull it up out my pocket
Take it slow don't hit it to hard 'cause this is liable to pull ya neck right up outs its socket
[Chorus]
I'm a California do do marijuana inspector always in slow mo like I been screwed
Keep me on the low low like a private eye wen its time to get high ill make the call ta you
I be keeping some good shit all of the good shit gimme the name and ill find it and blow it
If I cant locate it in a week we'll get the seed and fuckin' grow it
Ain't no thang to me pimpin' its just weed and really it all depends on the consumer
How many times have you heard it causing a heart attack or givin' someone a tumor
None I said it notta 1 zero, zilch, nada, zero
Ill take a mutha fuckin' pound to the head I'm a stoner call me the ganja hero
Laugh at what you wanna laugh at man crash where ever you wanna crash at man
After you hit the blunt take a puff of the silivia it will put ya in the trash can
I smoked almost everything I can inhale much sticky shit he gots forbidden fruit
I said Break it down Roll it up Light It Up and ill be the judge of this Jesus juice
[Chorus]
Lyrics submitted by dman187umkilla
Get High Lyrics as written by Patrick Houston Jordan Houston
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Songtrust Ave, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Fast Car
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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"
Mental Istid
Ebba Grön
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
Holiday
Bee Gees
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@[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.
No Surprises
Radiohead
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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.
And I think he's saying "After you hit this blunt, take a puff of this salvia" Salvia meaning Salvia Divinorum.