"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.
A primordial flow across the blood-brain barrier.
Cryptic ring structures bind to receptors.
These duplicate keys throw the floodgates open
On a raw datasphere of pure information.
An inner path to outer space
Or a facile article of faith?
Falsifiable fantasies
Or freestanding parallel realities?
We're so frequently seduced
By such novel, exotic views.
Our confirmation biases
Leverage everything we perceive.
Visions so astonishing, preposterous, impossible.
A cosmic lattice of calligraphies, geometries
Unthinkable.
Infinite Jaali screens, alive, florescent
As I shatter, melt. Annihilation.
Rolling hills. The water flows. The flowers bloom.
There is no me. There is no you. There is all.
There is no you. There is no me. And that is all.
A profound acceptance of an enormous pageantry.
A haunting certainty that the unifying principle of the
Universe is love.
Cryptic ring structures bind to receptors.
These duplicate keys throw the floodgates open
On a raw datasphere of pure information.
An inner path to outer space
Or a facile article of faith?
Falsifiable fantasies
Or freestanding parallel realities?
We're so frequently seduced
By such novel, exotic views.
Our confirmation biases
Leverage everything we perceive.
Visions so astonishing, preposterous, impossible.
A cosmic lattice of calligraphies, geometries
Unthinkable.
Infinite Jaali screens, alive, florescent
As I shatter, melt. Annihilation.
Rolling hills. The water flows. The flowers bloom.
There is no me. There is no you. There is all.
There is no you. There is no me. And that is all.
A profound acceptance of an enormous pageantry.
A haunting certainty that the unifying principle of the
Universe is love.
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Fast Car
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Lord Huron
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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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Hayalperest
Hayalperest
This song seemingly tackles the methods of deception those who manipulate others use to get victims to follow their demands, as well as diverting attention away from important issues. They'll also use it as a means to convince people to hate or kill others by pretending acts of terrorism were committed by the enemy when the acts themselves were done by the masters of control to promote discrimination and hate. It also reinforces the idea that these manipulative forces operate in various locations, infiltrating everyday life without detection, and propagate any and everywhere.
In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control and gain power, depicting a cautionary tale against falling into their traps. It encourages us to question the narratives presented to us and remain vigilant against manipulation in various parts of society.
Cajun Girl
Little Feat
Little Feat
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”
Head > Heels
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Head > Heels” is a track that aims to capture what it feels like to experience romance that exceeds expectations. Ed Sheeran dedicates his album outro to a lover who has blessed him with a unique experience that he seeks to describe through the song’s nuanced lyrics.
I think this is about a DMT/Ayahuasca trip. An Icaro is a shamanic medicine song. Except I don't understand the Duplicate Keys' part.
YES! This is absolutely a DMT trip report. The "Duplicate Keys" I think he is putting forth a hypothesis that the chrysanthemum stage of a DMT trip in which you witness the shifting ineffable mandalic shape that consumes your vision along with the overflow of this chemical (DMT) combine to unlock some universal door that leads to the sacred DMT space. I think he is using the word "Duplicate" because these two "keys" are intertwined. The chemical causes the mandala, or "cryptic ring structure," but the mandala turns right around and effects your senses as well as your very consciousness. The conciseness of these lyrics are fantastic and the emphasis on the fact that the experience is beyond words is essential. If you've had an experience with any sort of DMT via ayahuasca or straight up this song will immediately make sense.
@kettles86 @astralbeast - This was my thought as well. My assumption of the 'duplicate keys' bit is that DMT and similar compounds operate on serotonin and dopamine receptors. Though they're not exactly the brain's primary chemicals for those receptors, they still fit in some of those locks (and unlock one hell of a door).
Todd Kowalski: That one is about wondering about the world and not accepting easy answers or pretending you know the answers about just how great and crazy the universe is and all of history is. And perhaps even wondering why the general public doesn’t think about these things and why do they accept easy answers. That’s my interpretation from talking about it with Chris. In the end, you have to see the world as good and beautiful and you have to treat each other right.
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The beginning of this song is awesome the way it sounds to me. He seems to be describing how a fantastical thought forms, and questions it's validity. Couldn't have been written better by Shakespeare (well maybe). The rest is about what this thought has allowed him to understand about his feelings towards life.
At a concert last week Chris introduced the song by saying something along the lines of - we (current western society) measure our wealth by our jobs our homes our possessions but some cultures (I think the aboriginal cultures of Canada) measured wealth by the legacy left behind for future generations. In philosophy its calls the Good Ancestor Principle.
In response to kettles86 “Icaro is a shamanic medicine song” I think the song is talking about us being the shamans so to speak and healing the Earth through basically being good to one another being and leaving a better world for our ancestors
It seems to me that this song is about fictions of the brain. There's a reference to medicine, religion, and how it's all in your mind. Trippy stuff.