"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.
Is anybody out there searching
Has anybody lost the way
Am I the only one who's hurting
Today
Must have got some bad directions
How'd we ever end up here
All this pain and desperation
And fear
If we ever make it home
They'll be peace like we've never known
Nobody's gonna walk alone
We'll be leaning on each other
Every wall that we've built up high
Is gonna fall right before our eyes
Love will surely conquer hate
If we ever make it home
There's darkness in the daylight
As the devil works his trade
He's the first one to the gravesite
With a smile on his face
There's a flicker in the distance
Where a single candle glows
And another walking with us
Who knows
If we ever make it home
They'll be peace like we've never known
Nobody's gonna to walk alone
We'll be leaning on each other
Loving one another
Every wall that we've built up high
Is gonna fall right before our eyes
Love will surely conquer hate
If we ever make it home
Oh if we ever make it home
Has anybody lost the way
Am I the only one who's hurting
Today
Must have got some bad directions
How'd we ever end up here
All this pain and desperation
And fear
If we ever make it home
They'll be peace like we've never known
Nobody's gonna walk alone
We'll be leaning on each other
Every wall that we've built up high
Is gonna fall right before our eyes
Love will surely conquer hate
If we ever make it home
There's darkness in the daylight
As the devil works his trade
He's the first one to the gravesite
With a smile on his face
There's a flicker in the distance
Where a single candle glows
And another walking with us
Who knows
If we ever make it home
They'll be peace like we've never known
Nobody's gonna to walk alone
We'll be leaning on each other
Loving one another
Every wall that we've built up high
Is gonna fall right before our eyes
Love will surely conquer hate
If we ever make it home
Oh if we ever make it home
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Fast Car
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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"
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Blue
Ed Sheeran
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American Town
Ed Sheeran
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Ed Sheeran shares a short story of reconnecting with an old flame on “American Town.” The track is about a holiday Ed Sheeran spends with his countrywoman who resides in America. The two are back together after a long period apart, and get around to enjoying a bunch of fun activities while rekindling the flames of their romance.
its hard to interperet but i reckon its being lost in your way and when they find it right they will be good. love it,
”A peace like we’ve never known” “Nobody’s gonna walk alone” “Love will surely conquer hate..” “There’s a flicker in the distance... Where a single candle glows. And another walking with us...”
My interpretation is that home is Heaven where every one of us who are children of God will be when our time runs out on earth. Heaven will be a peace that we cannot even imagine in this life and we won’t be walking along because Jesus will be walking with us. Perhaps the flicker in the distance is “seeing the light”. In 1 Corinthians 13:13 it’s stated that that love is the greatest of these three: faith, hope, and love. Love will surely conquer hate.