"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.
Once upon a time in a land far away
There lived a little boy and he drank all day
Friends called him stupid and his brothers called him gay
Emptied all the bottles 'til the pain went away
Whiskey was his friend, he didn't have another
Vicodin his vice, his real and only lover (yup)
Smoked a pack or two, it never was a problem
Popped a pill or two, they really made him blossom
(Yup)
Take a sip, take a sip, take a sip
And a trip, and a trip, and a trip
And I'm like, when you bitch, when you bitch, when you bitch
Counterfeit hypocrite holy shit
Once upon a time in a land far away
There lived a little boy and he cried all day
Playboy bunny magazines would never get him laid
He downed another bottle 'til the pain went away
Whiskey was his friend, he didn't have another
Vicodin his vice, his real and only lover (yup)
Smoked a pack or two, it never was a problem
Popped a pill or two, they really made him blossom
(Yup)
Take a sip, take a sip, take a sip
And a trip, and a trip, and a trip
And I'm like, when you bitch, when you bitch, when you bitch
Counterfeit hypocrite holy shit
Take a sip, take a sip, take a sip
And a trip, and a trip, and a trip
And I'm like, when you bitch, when you bitch, when you bitch
Counterfeit hypocrite holy shit
Everybody gets high, why the hell can't I?
Everybody gets high, why the hell can't I?
Everybody gets high, why the hell can't I?
Everybody gets high, why the hell can't I?
Take a sip, take a sip, take a sip
And a trip, and a trip, and a trip
And I'm like, when you bitch, when you bitch, when you bitch
Counterfeit hypocrite holy shit
Everybody gets high, why the hell can't I?
Everybody gets high, why the hell can't I?
Everybody gets high, why the hell can't I?
Everybody gets high, why the hell can't I?
There lived a little boy and he drank all day
Friends called him stupid and his brothers called him gay
Emptied all the bottles 'til the pain went away
Whiskey was his friend, he didn't have another
Vicodin his vice, his real and only lover (yup)
Smoked a pack or two, it never was a problem
Popped a pill or two, they really made him blossom
(Yup)
Take a sip, take a sip, take a sip
And a trip, and a trip, and a trip
And I'm like, when you bitch, when you bitch, when you bitch
Counterfeit hypocrite holy shit
Once upon a time in a land far away
There lived a little boy and he cried all day
Playboy bunny magazines would never get him laid
He downed another bottle 'til the pain went away
Whiskey was his friend, he didn't have another
Vicodin his vice, his real and only lover (yup)
Smoked a pack or two, it never was a problem
Popped a pill or two, they really made him blossom
(Yup)
Take a sip, take a sip, take a sip
And a trip, and a trip, and a trip
And I'm like, when you bitch, when you bitch, when you bitch
Counterfeit hypocrite holy shit
Take a sip, take a sip, take a sip
And a trip, and a trip, and a trip
And I'm like, when you bitch, when you bitch, when you bitch
Counterfeit hypocrite holy shit
Everybody gets high, why the hell can't I?
Everybody gets high, why the hell can't I?
Everybody gets high, why the hell can't I?
Everybody gets high, why the hell can't I?
Take a sip, take a sip, take a sip
And a trip, and a trip, and a trip
And I'm like, when you bitch, when you bitch, when you bitch
Counterfeit hypocrite holy shit
Everybody gets high, why the hell can't I?
Everybody gets high, why the hell can't I?
Everybody gets high, why the hell can't I?
Everybody gets high, why the hell can't I?
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Fast Car
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This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
When We Were Young
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No Surprises
Radiohead
Radiohead
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.
Magical
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
How would you describe the feeling of being in love? For Ed Sheeran, the word is “Magical.” in HIS three-minute album opener, he makes an attempt to capture the beauty and delicacy of true love with words. He describes the magic of it all over a bright Pop song produced by Aaron Dessner.
I think this song is about a man who had a hard childhood and suffered from severe depression and drank alcohol and and did a lot of drugs to get rid of his problems.
"Once upon a time in a land far away - There lived a little boy" I interpreted this as just the beginning of the story of the man's life
"he drank all day" This is showing that he drank alcohol
"Friends called him stupid and his brothers called him gay" This is showing how he was never treated right by any of his peers
"Emptied all the bottles 'til the pain went away" He drank so much alcohol until he felt better
"Whiskey was his friend, he didn't have another" He never had anyone to talk to, so he just drank whiskey
"Vicodin his vice, his real and only lover" Vicodin is a prescription drug which he probably took to make the pain go away, as he didn't have a girlfriend to comfort him
"Smoked a pack or two, it never was a problem" He would smoke a pack or two of cigarettes as a coping mechanism for the depression
"Popped a pill or two, they really made him blossom" He could have taken a few pills of any kind of drug; it made him feel happy
"Take a sip, take a sip, take a sip" He is drinking a lot of alcohol
"And a trip, and a trip, and a trip" Probably tripping on some kind of drug, probably acid
"And I'm like, when you bitch, when you bitch, when you bitch - Counterfeit hypocrite holy shit" He is tired of just everyone's bullshit at this point
"There lived a little boy and he cried all day" His depression made him really upset all day
"Playboy bunny magazines would never get him laid" He would masturbate to magazines with attractive woman in them but it wasn't the same as having real sex
"He downed another bottle 'til the pain went away" This made him so sad that he needed to drink alcohol to make himself feel better
"Everybody gets high, why the hell can't I?" He thinks that everyone is happy and he doesn't understand why he wouldn't be able to be happy.
dang i would have never came up with all of this good i just like listening to the song btw good job ????<br />
@abbeyf03 tf is so bad abt being gay homophobic idioz -_- piece of shit >:(
zoe1117619 tf is so bad abt it homophobic idioz -_- piece of shit >:(