"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.
Blood and tears
Blood and tears
Since you've been gone
I hear you've been crying
Blood and tears
All alone
In your misery
So alone
Could you have
Been deceived
Since I've been gone
I hear you been crying
You cry a thousand tears
Darling don't despair
I know your heart still bleeds
Darling don't you care
There's blood in your tears
All alone
In your misery
So
All alone
You are lost
Endlessly
Since you've been gone
I hear you been crying
Blood and tears
Since you've been gone
I hear you've been crying
Blood and tears
All alone
In your misery
So alone
Could you have
Been deceived
Since I've been gone
I hear you been crying
You cry a thousand tears
Darling don't despair
I know your heart still bleeds
Darling don't you care
There's blood in your tears
All alone
In your misery
So
All alone
You are lost
Endlessly
Since you've been gone
I hear you been crying
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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"
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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.
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.
Punchline
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran sings about missing his former partner and learning important life lessons in the process on “Punchline.” This track tells a story of battling to get rid of emotions for a former lover, whom he now realized might not have loved him the same way. He’s now caught between accepting that fact and learning life lessons from it and going back to beg her for another chance.
To me this is a love song between a human and a demon. "crying blood and tears" is what a demon does. Danzig has also explored this topic in other songs: Lilin, Her Black Wings, She Rides, and probably some others that I'm frogetting. It's cool that the song sounds a bit like one of those old school love songs, yet has such a dark premise.
Very good song, i wish Danzig did more songs like this
either the loss of someone close, or a break up of some kind wit someone....seems more like danzig love song than anything......maybe when she was gone she cried so bad, and also cut her(razor blades) tears running down her cheeks and blood dripping down her body hence blood and tears
I love this song....It reminds me of when I got used by this one guy and it made so really depressed and i also cut myself and no one cared for me. ok...well yeah this song is about break up!
I like this song, its still dark but he manages to keep it sad, which is the reason i like danzig a great artist, and should be credited for his work more than he is, DAMN MICHAEL GRAVES, and after danzig left the misfits i knew it was just time, and not being older than 4 or somethign when that happend if not i knew it was the end, DANZIGS good and this song to me is about when you die someone dont matter whos crying and greaving over your death and shit
i AGREE WITH damien666danzig AND Danielzig ONTHAT ONE. BOTH GOOD POINTS. THIS IS A GREAT SONG. simple but full of heart.
This song will always remind me of my ex-boyfriend. He used to listen to Danzig in his car really loud and i learned to love this band this way, we both sang to this song that we liked most. After he broke up with me I had to listen to it by myself and cry blood and tears meanwhile.
Blood and Tears has been my favorite Danzig song since I first began listening to them which was years and years ago. I like this song because it's one of the only Danzig songs that seems filled with purely human emotion. I do not think this song is about a breakup. It has always seemed to me that the message it is sending is that the lyricist has died or moved on and he is singing this to his love who remains alive and in tremendous pain over his death. I don't think it has much to do with her cutting herself or simply being depressed or anything like that.
There's an element of sadness that almost seems to transcend life in "Blood and Tears". He is sort of looking down on this woman whom in life he was madly in love with and he's witnessing the great deal of pain his death has brought upon her, hence the "blood" and "tears"...she is crying because his blood was spilt. The way Glenn switches between "Since I've been gone" and "since you've been gone" leads me to believe that he's in a place where life and time have moved on, he has lost her and she has lost him so they are both in a limbo because of how strong their love was and how great their pain is.
This song is sad because by the end, both of them seem to hauntingly realize that neither of them, alive or dead, will ever truly be able to move on from one another.
Good post Eirenightshade, that's what the song says to me too. I'm just gonna mention something else. The chours reminds me of the
"I cried a tear, For nobody but you I'll be a lonely one, If you should say we're through"
part in A Teenager In Love by Dion And The Belmonts. If you listen to it, you will know what I mean :)
this is a really good blues song. i found this video, it's the song with a scene from Full Metal Jacket, and it works really well. youtube.com/watch