"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.
Everything just falls away, just give it back into your arms
So many pieces fall away, just give â??em back into your heart
I feel that one more day is gone, you may never see the dawn
But nothin' ever stays the same, it's fighting you at every turn
Like a door that never opens wide, you just get kicked until your heart's bled dry
The road is gone but there's a line you cross, and I don't think you'll stop
I could see it in your eyes and now it's gone
I could see it in your eyes and now it's gone
I could see it in your eyes and now it's gone
With bad blood and feelings
Just bad blood and feelings
Bad blood and feelings
So many pieces fall away, just give â??em back into your heart
So many people fall away, just let them go into the dark
And every night I stay away, the feelin' running through my blood
But all I've got is faith and science, a line that will only blur
Like a door that never opens wide,
You just get kicked until your heart's bled dry
The road is gone but there's a line you cross, and I don't think you'll stop
I could see it in your eyes and now it's gone
I could see it in your eyes and now it's gone
I could see it in your eyes and now it's gone
With bad blood and feelings
Just bad blood and feelings
Bad blood and feelings
I'm not slave to a world I could never save,
As the light just disintegrates in the final hour
You never felt you were so alive, and you thought it could never die,
Now you just look back and wonder why it could never be
I could see it in your eyes and now it's gone
I could see it in your eyes and now it's gone
I could see it in your eyes and now it's gone
With bad blood and feelings
Just bad blood and feelings
Just bad blood and feelings
Just bad blood and feelings
Bad blood and feelings
So many pieces fall away, just give â??em back into your heart
I feel that one more day is gone, you may never see the dawn
But nothin' ever stays the same, it's fighting you at every turn
Like a door that never opens wide, you just get kicked until your heart's bled dry
The road is gone but there's a line you cross, and I don't think you'll stop
I could see it in your eyes and now it's gone
I could see it in your eyes and now it's gone
I could see it in your eyes and now it's gone
With bad blood and feelings
Just bad blood and feelings
Bad blood and feelings
So many pieces fall away, just give â??em back into your heart
So many people fall away, just let them go into the dark
And every night I stay away, the feelin' running through my blood
But all I've got is faith and science, a line that will only blur
Like a door that never opens wide,
You just get kicked until your heart's bled dry
The road is gone but there's a line you cross, and I don't think you'll stop
I could see it in your eyes and now it's gone
I could see it in your eyes and now it's gone
I could see it in your eyes and now it's gone
With bad blood and feelings
Just bad blood and feelings
Bad blood and feelings
I'm not slave to a world I could never save,
As the light just disintegrates in the final hour
You never felt you were so alive, and you thought it could never die,
Now you just look back and wonder why it could never be
I could see it in your eyes and now it's gone
I could see it in your eyes and now it's gone
I could see it in your eyes and now it's gone
With bad blood and feelings
Just bad blood and feelings
Just bad blood and feelings
Just bad blood and feelings
Bad blood and feelings
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Fast Car
Tracy Chapman
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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"
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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.
Mountain Song
Jane's Addiction
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Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
When We Were Young
Blink-182
Blink-182
This is a sequel to 2001's "Reckless Abandon", and features the band looking back on their clumsy youth fondly.
about some kind of relationship breakdown and the resulting bitterness.
fantastic song, the effortlessly slow rhythm is so raw with emotion... you can tell its a love charged song. for some reason i think this song would be at home as the last track in a movie like cruel intentions.
Fav song circa the first half of August.
I dont know about love charged, but you can tell Pete did cared about who ev the song was written for. Like past tense..
Think the line "Everything just falls away" is key; sounds like He's fed up but doesn't want to dwell on the hows and whys.
Idk, for some reason this song reminds me of Ain't No Easy Way.