"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.
Deep in the ocean, dead and cast away
Where innocence is burned, in flames
A million mile from home, I'm walking ahead
I'm frozen to the bones, I am
A soldier on my own, I don't know the way
I'm riding up the heights, of shame
I'm waiting for the call, the hand on the chest
I'm ready for the fight, and fate
The sound of iron shots is stuck in my head
The thunder of the drums dictates
The rhythm of the falls, the number of deaths
The rising of the horns, ahead
From the dawn of time to the end of days
I will have to run, away
I want to feel the pain and the bitter taste
Of the blood on my lips, again
This steady burst of snow is burning my hands
I'm frozen to the bones, I am
A million mile from home, I'm walking away
I can't remind your eyes, your face
Where innocence is burned, in flames
A million mile from home, I'm walking ahead
I'm frozen to the bones, I am
A soldier on my own, I don't know the way
I'm riding up the heights, of shame
I'm waiting for the call, the hand on the chest
I'm ready for the fight, and fate
The sound of iron shots is stuck in my head
The thunder of the drums dictates
The rhythm of the falls, the number of deaths
The rising of the horns, ahead
From the dawn of time to the end of days
I will have to run, away
I want to feel the pain and the bitter taste
Of the blood on my lips, again
This steady burst of snow is burning my hands
I'm frozen to the bones, I am
A million mile from home, I'm walking away
I can't remind your eyes, your face
Lyrics submitted by revanchist, edited by LouLopps, VVP_ElectricWatermelon, knud115580, MohammadZia
Iron Lyrics as written by Yoann Lemoine
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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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.
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Ed Sheeran sings about missing his former partner and learning important life lessons in the process on “Punchline.” This track tells a story of battling to get rid of emotions for a former lover, whom he now realized might not have loved him the same way. He’s now caught between accepting that fact and learning life lessons from it and going back to beg her for another chance.
The first verse is simple. The ocean would represent being alone which he reiterates later. Dead and cast away are is just as it seems, he has been forgotten.
"A million mile from home, I'm walking ahead" The important piece of this line that many miss is when he specifically say he is "walking ahead", this seems to have little purpose at first but what he is pointing out is that he his away from home but not going back home, he is moving forward and away from home. "Frozen to the bones" means he is weary of his journey
the second verse seems to allude that he is a soldier and because of that he doesn't know the way because a soldiers job is to follow orders. He is ashamed possibly because he doesn't agree with killing people. "I'm waiting for the call, the hand on the chest I'm ready for the fight, and fate" This is where it gets an American feel. The call being a draft, hand on chest being when you say the pledge of Allegiance. He is ready to fight for his country and die if need be.
The next verse is war description.
Honestly by this verse it starts to sound like he has PTSD. He is anxious now accepting that he will never be the same and his body want the killing again now.
The last verse starts to reiterate the fist. He is weary of this journey, of the PTSD, of the cold. He is leaving home and thinking of a supposed loved one.
All in all my interpretation is this story starts with a veteran stressed from what he's seen in war. A flash back to joining the army and fighting. Then back to present where the stress is too much and he is getting ready to end it all or perhaps simply trying to cope.
The purpose is to bring to attention the silent battles that happen inside of someone and the pain it causes them. We are all soldiers "on our own" fighting our own wars, trying to cope