"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.
Toxins, pollutants and poisonous gasses without notice take their toll on
The masses air becomes thicker than the water we drink people unaware
Of the spread of disease smoke fills the sky and the sun disappears rain
From above is like acid filled tears the fragile balance of sky and earth
Has been altered forever harmony disturbed
Towering temples of modernization megatropolis monument to
Civilization pollution and waste is direct indication to the growing
Problem of the world's situation smoke fills the sky the sun disappears
Rain from above is like acid filled tears the fragile balance of sky and
Earth has been altered forever harmony disturbed
What will it take to make us see these are crimes against humanity not
Only you, not only me but even our future society these are crimes against
Humanity
Pain and suffering are what can be found violence and hatred are what
Abound building the weapons that we can't use can't we see they have
Only one use we need more compassion not more war planes are we so
Blind uncaring insane brought into this world with nothing and with
Nothing we're destined to depart
What will it take to make us see these are crimes against humanity not
Only you, not only me but even our future society these are crimes against
Humanity
Crimes against humanity
The masses air becomes thicker than the water we drink people unaware
Of the spread of disease smoke fills the sky and the sun disappears rain
From above is like acid filled tears the fragile balance of sky and earth
Has been altered forever harmony disturbed
Towering temples of modernization megatropolis monument to
Civilization pollution and waste is direct indication to the growing
Problem of the world's situation smoke fills the sky the sun disappears
Rain from above is like acid filled tears the fragile balance of sky and
Earth has been altered forever harmony disturbed
What will it take to make us see these are crimes against humanity not
Only you, not only me but even our future society these are crimes against
Humanity
Pain and suffering are what can be found violence and hatred are what
Abound building the weapons that we can't use can't we see they have
Only one use we need more compassion not more war planes are we so
Blind uncaring insane brought into this world with nothing and with
Nothing we're destined to depart
What will it take to make us see these are crimes against humanity not
Only you, not only me but even our future society these are crimes against
Humanity
Crimes against humanity
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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"
Cajun Girl
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Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Holiday
Bee Gees
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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
Dreamwalker
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I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.