"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.
My legs are dangling off the edge
The bottom of the bottle is my only friend
I think I'll slit my wrists again and I'm gone, gone, gone
My legs are dangling off the edge
A stomach full of pills didn't work again
I'll put a bullet in my head and I'm gone, gone, gone
Gone too far and yeah I'm gone again
It's gone on too long, tell you how it ends
I'm sitting on the edge with my two best friends
Ones a bottle of pills, ones a bottle of Gin
I'm twenty stories up, yeah I'm up at the top
I'll polish off this bottle, now it's pushing me off
Asphalt to me has never looked so soft
I bet my momma found my letter, now shes calling the cops
I gotta take this opportunity before I miss it
'Cause now I hear the sirens and they're off in the distance
Believe me when I tell you that I've been persistent
'Cause I'm more scarred, more scarred than my wrist is
I've been trying too long, with too dull of a knife
But tonight I made sure that I sharpened it twice
I never bought a suit before in my life
But when you go to meet god, you know you wanna look nice
So if I survive, then I'll see you tomorrow
Yeah I'll see you tomorrow
My legs are dangling off the edge
The bottom of the bottle is my only friend
I think I'll slit my wrists again and I'm gone, gone, gone, gone
My legs are dangling off the edge
A stomach full of pills didn't work again
I'll put a bullet in my head and I'm gone, gone, gone, gone
We hit the sky, there goes the light
No more sun, why's it always night
When you can't sleep, well, you can't dream
When you can't dream, well, whats life mean?
We feel a little pity, but don't empathize
The old are getting older, watch a young man die
A Mother and a Son and someone you know
Smile at each other and realize you don't
You don't know what happened to that kid you raised
What happened to the Father, who swore he'd stay?
I didn't know 'cause you didn't say
Now Momma feels guilt, yea Momma feels pain
When you were young, you never thought you'd die
Found that you could but too scared to try
You looked in the mirror and you said goodbye
Climb to the roof to see if you could fly
So if I survive, then I'll see you tomorrow
Yeah I'll see you tomorrow
My legs are dangling off the edge
The bottom of the bottle is my only friend
I think I'll slit my wrists again and I'm gone, gone, gone, gone
My legs are dangling off the edge
A stomach full of pills didn't work again
I'll put a bullet in my head and I'm gone, gone, gone, gone
I wish that I could fly, way up in the sky
Like a bird so high
Oh I might just try
I wish that I could fly, way up in the sky
Like a bird so high
Oh I might just try
Oh I might just try
The bottom of the bottle is my only friend
I think I'll slit my wrists again and I'm gone, gone, gone
My legs are dangling off the edge
A stomach full of pills didn't work again
I'll put a bullet in my head and I'm gone, gone, gone
Gone too far and yeah I'm gone again
It's gone on too long, tell you how it ends
I'm sitting on the edge with my two best friends
Ones a bottle of pills, ones a bottle of Gin
I'm twenty stories up, yeah I'm up at the top
I'll polish off this bottle, now it's pushing me off
Asphalt to me has never looked so soft
I bet my momma found my letter, now shes calling the cops
I gotta take this opportunity before I miss it
'Cause now I hear the sirens and they're off in the distance
Believe me when I tell you that I've been persistent
'Cause I'm more scarred, more scarred than my wrist is
I've been trying too long, with too dull of a knife
But tonight I made sure that I sharpened it twice
I never bought a suit before in my life
But when you go to meet god, you know you wanna look nice
So if I survive, then I'll see you tomorrow
Yeah I'll see you tomorrow
My legs are dangling off the edge
The bottom of the bottle is my only friend
I think I'll slit my wrists again and I'm gone, gone, gone, gone
My legs are dangling off the edge
A stomach full of pills didn't work again
I'll put a bullet in my head and I'm gone, gone, gone, gone
We hit the sky, there goes the light
No more sun, why's it always night
When you can't sleep, well, you can't dream
When you can't dream, well, whats life mean?
We feel a little pity, but don't empathize
The old are getting older, watch a young man die
A Mother and a Son and someone you know
Smile at each other and realize you don't
You don't know what happened to that kid you raised
What happened to the Father, who swore he'd stay?
I didn't know 'cause you didn't say
Now Momma feels guilt, yea Momma feels pain
When you were young, you never thought you'd die
Found that you could but too scared to try
You looked in the mirror and you said goodbye
Climb to the roof to see if you could fly
So if I survive, then I'll see you tomorrow
Yeah I'll see you tomorrow
My legs are dangling off the edge
The bottom of the bottle is my only friend
I think I'll slit my wrists again and I'm gone, gone, gone, gone
My legs are dangling off the edge
A stomach full of pills didn't work again
I'll put a bullet in my head and I'm gone, gone, gone, gone
I wish that I could fly, way up in the sky
Like a bird so high
Oh I might just try
I wish that I could fly, way up in the sky
Like a bird so high
Oh I might just try
Oh I might just try
Lyrics submitted by afitch1206, edited by AutyoFaygo
Bullet Lyrics as written by Daniel Murillo Jorel Decker
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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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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Just A Little Lovin'
Dusty Springfield
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I don't think it's necessarily about sex. It's about wanting to start the day with some love and affection. Maybe a warm cuddle. I'm not alone in interpreting it that way! For example:
"'Just a Little Lovin’ is a timeless country song originally recorded by Eddy Arnold in 1954. The song, written by Eddie Miller and Jimmy Campbell, explores the delicate nuances of love and showcases Arnold’s emotive vocals. It delves into the universal theme of love and how even the smallest gesture of affection can have a profound impact on our lives." https://oldtimemusic.com/the-meaning-behind-the-song-just-a-little-lovin-by-eddy-arnold/
Plastic Bag
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“Plastic Bag” is a song about searching for an escape from personal problems and hoping to find it in the lively atmosphere of a Saturday night party. Ed Sheeran tells the story of his friend and the myriad of troubles he is going through. Unable to find any solutions, this friend seeks a last resort in a party and the vanity that comes with it.
“I overthink and have trouble sleepin’ / All purpose gone and don’t have a reason / And there’s no doctor to stop this bleedin’ / So I left home and jumped in the deep end,” Ed Sheeran sings in verse one. He continues by adding that this person is feeling the weight of having disappointed his father and doesn’t have any friends to rely on in this difficult moment. In the second verse, Ed sings about the role of grief in his friend’s plight and his dwindling faith in prayer. “Saturday night is givin’ me a reason to rely on the strobe lights / The lifeline of a promise in a shot glass, and I’ll take that / If you’re givin’ out love from a plastic bag,” Ed sings on the chorus, as his friend turns to new vices in hopes of feeling better.
It's obviously about suicide guys! Okay now that's out of the way I thought I'd add some more things about it.
It's about someone who really wants to commit suicide (self-harm, pills etc) but is having many attempts without succeeding. This suggests that whilst they might want to commit there is still something holding them back or they don't have the confidence to do it.
Something that could be holding them back is their family. They know that they're parents feel guilty and can't understand how the child they raised now wants to kill themselves.
'The father who swore they'd stay' suggests that this person comes from a broken family. maybe this is the thing that is causing them to want to do it. 'I'll see you tomorrow' could be referring to how the child might have heard this when they were little if the parent had come over to see them. Now this term is used in more of a mocking way which could suggest that they are mocking the family member for wanting to see them when they don't really care about them.
However, after thinking about it for a while they've decided to use more extreme methods of committing suicide (bullet, jumping from buildings etc) which shows how they are getting more desperate to complete the act. The knife they now use is 'sharpened twice' which indicates how much they want to do this.
Their 'legs dangling off the edge' could again indicate their hesitation but it is more likely that they are are just seeing if people do really care about them and if no one comes soon then they will just jump.
The person in this song is obsessed with keeping up appearances to people who do not know them. Their wrist is obviously severally scarred however there is never any mention of them trying to cover it up which shows how they want to hurt themselves as well them not caring if their parent or friend sees it. However, they are wearing a suit because they want to look good for God. They don't keep up appearances for their family but they want to give a good impression to God who they have not met.
The cheery instrumental and catchy tune of this song also show how the person wants to make themselves look good to people who haven't met them. The tune reflects how suicidal people will often put on a smile or act as if everything is all right when inside they feel the complete opposite. This is another reference to keeping up appearances for strangers in this song.
Suicide is not the only thing that is affecting this person. They could be suffering from depression. Their is no light in their life and they are having difficulty sleeping, possibly due to them coming up with new suicide plans.
Finally, there are a few affects of having the child at the end. One is that we, the listeners, are reminded that at some point this person was a sweet and innocent child that has since been corrupted by the world. This could serve to show us that society and people today are what has caused this person to want to commit suicide.
Another affect is a way of showing that the person has committed suicide and finally succeeded. They are no longer mentioned in the sing and we are only left with the child which leads onto the final effect.
There is a possibility that the person had a child of their own and has now left them in this world. They have no role model except from a parent who has committed suicide. This leaves us with the message that the child now sees suicide as something they would like to try as this is what their parent has done and they cannot see the negatives in this as they are too young an naive.
If you read that then thank you! I analysed this song a few years ago for a course and I just thought that I'd share it with you. If you question it then I can offer more opinions on it but to me this is what the song means.
@ThatTurkey <br /> Bro holy shit...that description of this song went all out...god damn
love the way they mixed catchy melody with so dramatic lyrics
the sunniest and catchiest tune with the darkest and saddest lyrics
theres only one word can ever discribe this song: COOL!
lol j3t's daughter (ava) isn't even two years old yet... that's not her on the track
There's a possibility that the little girl is Danny's daughter.
This song is really clever. people go along every day seeming as though they're fine but deep down they're dying inside ... upbeat melody, suicidal lyrics.
is it bad that my favorite song off the new album is about suicide lol.
love J3T's daughter at the end, so adorable. (note- im not sure who the girl is, but all over youtube they say its his daughter sp im going with that.)
great album, not as good as Swan Songs but still great. though i do miss Deuce sad face
i think she is adorable.
she isnt supposed to be up there with the rest of HU. and how many kids her age do you know that have talent?
i just hope HU dont fire danny and then get back deuce and then fire deuce and then hire her as a replacement, i dont know any kids her age with talent thats why they should stay out of music :P
this song is just wow! great song
I listened to this song on repeat for about an hour straight and ever time i here it i love it more. HU ROCKS