"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.
HIV!
Here I am different in this normal world
Why did you tease me?
Made me feel upset
Fucking stereotypes feeding their heads
I am ugly. Please, just go away...
(HIV!)
I can see inside you fine
This blessing in disguise
(HIV!)
Why do you treat me this way?
Made the hate stay...
I sound like I can never seem to escape
All the laughing, all the pain
If you were me, what would you do?
Nothing, probably. You'd just throw me away
I can see inside you fine
(HIV!)
This blessing in disguise
Why do you treat me this way?
(HIV!)
Made the hate stay...
FAGET! (3x)
Here I am different in this normal world
Why did you tease me?
Made me feel upset
Fucking stereotypes feeding their heads
I am ugly. Please, just go away!
(HIV!)
I can see inside you fine
This blessing in disguise
Why do you treat me this way?
(HIV!)
Made the hate stay...
FAGET!
(Pussy...)
I'm just a pretty boy, whatever you call it
You wouldn't know a real man if you saw it
It keeps going on day after day, son
"You faget! , Get off we don't want none"
I'm sick and tired of people treating me this way everyday
Who gives a fuck right now
I got something to say
To all the people that think I'm strange
I should be out of here locked up in a CAGE
You don't know what the hell is up now anyway
You got this pretty-boy feeling like I'm enslaved
To a world that never appreciated shit
YOU CAN SUCK MY DICK AND FUCKING LIKE IT!!
He had my gun but he had to find the money any say
He had my gun but he had to find the money anyway
He had my gun but he had to find the money don't wanna say
He had my gun but he had to find the money anyway
He had my gun but he had to find the money any say
He had my gun but he had to find the money going away
He had my gun but he had to find the money don't wanna say
He had my gun but he had to find the money don't anyway
I'm just a pretty boy, I'm not supposed to fuck a girl
I'm just a pretty boy, living in this fucked up world (Repeat verse)
All my life, who am I?! (11x)
All my life!
I'm just a faget! (Faget!) (3x)
I'm a faget (Faget!)
I'm not a faget! (Or am I?/Faget!) (3x)
You mother fucking queers!
Here I am different in this normal world
Why did you tease me?
Made me feel upset
Fucking stereotypes feeding their heads
I am ugly. Please, just go away...
(HIV!)
I can see inside you fine
This blessing in disguise
(HIV!)
Why do you treat me this way?
Made the hate stay...
I sound like I can never seem to escape
All the laughing, all the pain
If you were me, what would you do?
Nothing, probably. You'd just throw me away
I can see inside you fine
(HIV!)
This blessing in disguise
Why do you treat me this way?
(HIV!)
Made the hate stay...
FAGET! (3x)
Here I am different in this normal world
Why did you tease me?
Made me feel upset
Fucking stereotypes feeding their heads
I am ugly. Please, just go away!
(HIV!)
I can see inside you fine
This blessing in disguise
Why do you treat me this way?
(HIV!)
Made the hate stay...
FAGET!
(Pussy...)
I'm just a pretty boy, whatever you call it
You wouldn't know a real man if you saw it
It keeps going on day after day, son
"You faget! , Get off we don't want none"
I'm sick and tired of people treating me this way everyday
Who gives a fuck right now
I got something to say
To all the people that think I'm strange
I should be out of here locked up in a CAGE
You don't know what the hell is up now anyway
You got this pretty-boy feeling like I'm enslaved
To a world that never appreciated shit
YOU CAN SUCK MY DICK AND FUCKING LIKE IT!!
He had my gun but he had to find the money any say
He had my gun but he had to find the money anyway
He had my gun but he had to find the money don't wanna say
He had my gun but he had to find the money anyway
He had my gun but he had to find the money any say
He had my gun but he had to find the money going away
He had my gun but he had to find the money don't wanna say
He had my gun but he had to find the money don't anyway
I'm just a pretty boy, I'm not supposed to fuck a girl
I'm just a pretty boy, living in this fucked up world (Repeat verse)
All my life, who am I?! (11x)
All my life!
I'm just a faget! (Faget!) (3x)
I'm a faget (Faget!)
I'm not a faget! (Or am I?/Faget!) (3x)
You mother fucking queers!
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Fast Car
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
The Night We Met
Lord Huron
Lord Huron
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"
Holiday
Bee Gees
Bee Gees
@[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.
Gentle Hour
Yo La Tengo
Yo La Tengo
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,
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.
hey ilikefood, I have different opinions than you on what's good music, and I really don't have any problem with that. You might not like bands who get out their lifelong agressions through their music, but I do. but that's not something I'd hold against anyone. But it's the last thing you said that gets me. "if he's so hurt (as expressed in all his lyrics) he would just fucking kill himself already and stop trying to sell his "depression"???" Not all people who a bullied and depressed commit sucied. Infact, people are depressed rarely commit suicide. The people that cut themselves and then show off the cuts like trophies arn't really suicidal, they just want to be the center of attension.
Anyway, to me this song is about how JD was made fun of in high school because he dressed differently and listened to diffrent music. And he was made fun of because he dared to be diffrent.