"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.
You used to all the attention, huh? (Yeah)
But you don't want no commitment, huh? (Uh-uh)
Why not? You should be coming home with me
Sitting in this lap with the luxury
Now you be, comin' home while waking up (yeah)
Acting like you behave and stuff (uh-huh)
Why not? You should be coming home with me
Sitting in this lap with the luxury, now check it
Yes, a lime to a lemon, my VA women
Walk in Manolo Blahniks 'cause my condo with elevators in 'em
She wanna wrinkle my linens
So I sprinkle her with gin and then we begin sinnin', uh
Blasphemy, oh my God, every sentence
She keeps scratching me like she have tiger in her
This is exactly, why I had to pin her
To the bed like a wrestler, had to pretzel her, uh
Her man kept paging, stressing her
So I told her what to say just in case he question her
(Situations, will arise, but you gotta be smart about it)
No matter what you do, don't talk about us
Don't give him no info, he'll be lost without it
Just keep your mouth shut, we could do this again
Bring a friend
You used to all the attention, huh? (Yeah)
But you don't want no commitment, huh? (Uh-uh)
Why not? You should be coming home with me
Sitting in this lap with the luxury
Now you be, comin' home while waking up (yeah)
Acting like you behave and stuff (uh-huh)
Why not? You should be coming home with me
Sitting in this lap with the luxury, now check it
Guess who's back in my motherfucking house
Half black, half white chick, I call her Minnie Mouse
We always hook up when we out
We do what we like to do and then we out
But lately I've been having the strangest feelings
Your boy Young Hov' catching feelings
And it's messing up my dealings 'cause mami's not willing
To leave her boyfriend, she call me her toy-friend
Said, "We was just supposed to hook up and have a glass"
She called me her emergency dick-in-the-glass
I had to laugh for a second
Had to check myself, get my mackin' back in perspective
I slack for a second but I'm back, no question
Like I walk with a cane, ain't no half-stepping
Yeah, and on that note
Iceberg Slim is back to rock a boat, c'mon
You used to all the attention, huh? (Yeah)
But you don't want no commitment, huh? (Uh-uh)
Why not? You should be coming home with me
Sitting in this lap with the luxury
Now you be, comin' home while waking up (yeah)
Acting like you behave and stuff (uh-huh)
Why not? You should be coming home with me
Sitting in this lap with the luxury, now check it
Let's just, fuck all night (yeah)
Until we both start yawning (yeah)
To the bright Shirley Murdock morning (yeah)
Until we both start yawning
Let's just, fuck all night (yeah)
Let's have breakfast baby (yeah)
Have lunch, have dinner, back to breakfast baby (yeah)
Let's have breakfast baby
Have lunch, have dinner, back to breakfast maybe
That is, if that kid don't get too suspicious
Start blowing up your digits
Showing up livid, claiming he wanna fight
But Shawn all business with his type (uh-uh) naw
Shawn just tryna keep the friendship tight
Shawn to Sean Paul 'em if you "Gimmie the Light"
And this way you can stay for life, aight?
You used to all the attention, huh? (Yeah)
But you don't want no commitment, huh? (Uh-uh)
Why not? You should be coming home with me
Sitting in this lap with the luxury
Now you be, comin' home while waking up (yeah)
Acting like you behave and stuff (uh-huh)
Why not? You should be coming home with me
Sitting in this lap with the luxury, now check it
Let's just, fuck all night (yeah)
Until we both start yawning (yeah)
To the bright Shirley Murdock morning (yeah)
Until we both start yawning
Let's just, fuck all night (yeah)
Let's have breakfast baby (yeah)
Have lunch, have dinner, back to breakfast baby (yeah)
Let's have breakfast baby
You used to all the attention, huh? (Yeah)
But you don't want no commitment, huh? (Uh-uh)
Why not? You should be coming home with me
Sitting in this lap with the luxury
Now you be, comin' home while waking up (yeah)
Acting like you behave and stuff (uh-huh)
Why not? You should be coming home with me
Sitting in this lap with the luxury, now check it
But you don't want no commitment, huh? (Uh-uh)
Why not? You should be coming home with me
Sitting in this lap with the luxury
Now you be, comin' home while waking up (yeah)
Acting like you behave and stuff (uh-huh)
Why not? You should be coming home with me
Sitting in this lap with the luxury, now check it
Yes, a lime to a lemon, my VA women
Walk in Manolo Blahniks 'cause my condo with elevators in 'em
She wanna wrinkle my linens
So I sprinkle her with gin and then we begin sinnin', uh
Blasphemy, oh my God, every sentence
She keeps scratching me like she have tiger in her
This is exactly, why I had to pin her
To the bed like a wrestler, had to pretzel her, uh
Her man kept paging, stressing her
So I told her what to say just in case he question her
(Situations, will arise, but you gotta be smart about it)
No matter what you do, don't talk about us
Don't give him no info, he'll be lost without it
Just keep your mouth shut, we could do this again
Bring a friend
You used to all the attention, huh? (Yeah)
But you don't want no commitment, huh? (Uh-uh)
Why not? You should be coming home with me
Sitting in this lap with the luxury
Now you be, comin' home while waking up (yeah)
Acting like you behave and stuff (uh-huh)
Why not? You should be coming home with me
Sitting in this lap with the luxury, now check it
Guess who's back in my motherfucking house
Half black, half white chick, I call her Minnie Mouse
We always hook up when we out
We do what we like to do and then we out
But lately I've been having the strangest feelings
Your boy Young Hov' catching feelings
And it's messing up my dealings 'cause mami's not willing
To leave her boyfriend, she call me her toy-friend
Said, "We was just supposed to hook up and have a glass"
She called me her emergency dick-in-the-glass
I had to laugh for a second
Had to check myself, get my mackin' back in perspective
I slack for a second but I'm back, no question
Like I walk with a cane, ain't no half-stepping
Yeah, and on that note
Iceberg Slim is back to rock a boat, c'mon
You used to all the attention, huh? (Yeah)
But you don't want no commitment, huh? (Uh-uh)
Why not? You should be coming home with me
Sitting in this lap with the luxury
Now you be, comin' home while waking up (yeah)
Acting like you behave and stuff (uh-huh)
Why not? You should be coming home with me
Sitting in this lap with the luxury, now check it
Let's just, fuck all night (yeah)
Until we both start yawning (yeah)
To the bright Shirley Murdock morning (yeah)
Until we both start yawning
Let's just, fuck all night (yeah)
Let's have breakfast baby (yeah)
Have lunch, have dinner, back to breakfast baby (yeah)
Let's have breakfast baby
Have lunch, have dinner, back to breakfast maybe
That is, if that kid don't get too suspicious
Start blowing up your digits
Showing up livid, claiming he wanna fight
But Shawn all business with his type (uh-uh) naw
Shawn just tryna keep the friendship tight
Shawn to Sean Paul 'em if you "Gimmie the Light"
And this way you can stay for life, aight?
You used to all the attention, huh? (Yeah)
But you don't want no commitment, huh? (Uh-uh)
Why not? You should be coming home with me
Sitting in this lap with the luxury
Now you be, comin' home while waking up (yeah)
Acting like you behave and stuff (uh-huh)
Why not? You should be coming home with me
Sitting in this lap with the luxury, now check it
Let's just, fuck all night (yeah)
Until we both start yawning (yeah)
To the bright Shirley Murdock morning (yeah)
Until we both start yawning
Let's just, fuck all night (yeah)
Let's have breakfast baby (yeah)
Have lunch, have dinner, back to breakfast baby (yeah)
Let's have breakfast baby
You used to all the attention, huh? (Yeah)
But you don't want no commitment, huh? (Uh-uh)
Why not? You should be coming home with me
Sitting in this lap with the luxury
Now you be, comin' home while waking up (yeah)
Acting like you behave and stuff (uh-huh)
Why not? You should be coming home with me
Sitting in this lap with the luxury, now check it
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Fast Car
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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"
Mental Istid
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
Dreamwalker
Silent Planet
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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.
No Surprises
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Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.