"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.
Please tell me you need me
Love, this is a dark world
cnd I've lost focus
Please tell me you need me
Boy, you are every color
How am i visible
Please tell me you need me
You can taste your future
but I've lost focus
Please tell me you need me
Love, you know I've given up
Cause we're still not valid
Please tell me you need me
Please tell me you need me
Please tell me you need me
Love, this is a dark world
cnd I've lost focus
Please tell me you need me
Boy, you are every color
How am i visible
Please tell me you need me
You can taste your future
but I've lost focus
Please tell me you need me
Love, you know I've given up
Cause we're still not valid
Please tell me you need me
Please tell me you need me
Love, this is a dark world
cnd I've lost focus
Please tell me you need me
Boy, you are every color
How am i visible
Please tell me you need me
You can taste your future
but I've lost focus
Please tell me you need me
Love, you know I've given up
Cause we're still not valid
Please tell me you need me
Please tell me you need me
Please tell me you need me
Love, this is a dark world
cnd I've lost focus
Please tell me you need me
Boy, you are every color
How am i visible
Please tell me you need me
You can taste your future
but I've lost focus
Please tell me you need me
Love, you know I've given up
Cause we're still not valid
Please tell me you need me
Please tell me you need me
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so beautiful and so vulnerable. will, you sing me to sleep at night and sing me through my days.
One of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.
These lyrics have a special, personal meaning to me right now...
I think (obviously) this song is about a relationship where all the guy wants is for the girl to tell him she needs him. I think it's a show of real, passionate love when your lover/partner says to you "I need you!"
this got negative likes because you said "the guy wants a girl" instead of "the guy wants a guy," because the singer is gay. but i think all the people who disliked it are pretentious assholes who didn't consider the fact that you may have honestly just not known he was gay. i get being supportive of equality and rights, but there is such thing as being over-defensive. so you get a +1.
Thanks, teddy10273. Yeah I had no idea he was gay (although I did suspect that was a possibility on that song from his second album where he goes "first boyfriend, we share a toilet", but hey, he might have been bisexual. But thanks for understanding my mistake.
I fell in love with Baths and this beautiful melody after seeing him at pitchfork. He dedicated this song and his set to all the beautiful queer people who committed suicide that year. It's a very dark melody, tragic and yet hopeful. It's not heteronormative or exclusively queer, much more; its a cry to humanity to be empathetic to each others realities.