"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.
Plans and schemes
Thoughts and dreams
Who care what they mean
When they work they're amazing things
When they don't I hear you scream
Spiders and flies
Live and die
Six legs to stand on and two wings to fly
I can't remember and I can't decide
What was the season and the color of your eyes
Pharaohs and kings
Favorite queens
Buried with their precious rings
When they lived they loved complete
But in their tombs, I hear them scream
Spiders and flies
Live and die
Six legs to stand on and two wings to fly
It makes you wonder, why can't I
What was the season and the color of your eyes
Psalms and spells
Magic blast
Who cares what they cast
I dreamed I'd always love you complete
I never thought I'd hear you scream
Spiders and flies
Live and die
Eight legs to stand on and two wings to fly
It makes you wonder, why can't I
Thoughts and dreams
Who care what they mean
When they work they're amazing things
When they don't I hear you scream
Spiders and flies
Live and die
Six legs to stand on and two wings to fly
I can't remember and I can't decide
What was the season and the color of your eyes
Pharaohs and kings
Favorite queens
Buried with their precious rings
When they lived they loved complete
But in their tombs, I hear them scream
Spiders and flies
Live and die
Six legs to stand on and two wings to fly
It makes you wonder, why can't I
What was the season and the color of your eyes
Psalms and spells
Magic blast
Who cares what they cast
I dreamed I'd always love you complete
I never thought I'd hear you scream
Spiders and flies
Live and die
Eight legs to stand on and two wings to fly
It makes you wonder, why can't I
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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,
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.
Plans and schemes. Thoughts and dreams. Who care what they mean? When they work they're amazing things. When they don't, I hear you scream. Spiders and flies, Live and die. Six legs to stand on and two wings to fly. I can't remember and I can't decide. What was the season and the colour of your eyes? (eyes) Pharoahs and kings, Favourite queens, Buried with their precious rings. When they lived they loved complete, But in their tombs, I hear them scream. Spiders and flies, Live and die. Six legs to stand on and two wings to fly. I can't remember and I can't decide. What was the season and the colour of your eyes? (eyes) Psalms and spells. Magic blast. Who cares what they cast? I dreamed I'd always love you complete. I never thought I'd hear you scream. Spiders and flies, Live and die. Eight legs to stand on and two wings to fly. It makes you wonder, "Why can't I?" What was the reason for the colour of your eyes (eyes) Spiders and flies, Live and die. Eight legs to stand and two wings to fly. It makes you wonder, "Why can't I?" What was the reason for the colour of your eyes? (eyes) Spiders and flies, Live and die. Eight legs to stand on and two wings to fly.
"Plans and schemes.<br /> Thoughts and dreams.<br /> Who cares what they mean?" *
The color of your eyes got changed, the mirror of your soul grew dark, and i can't remember what they were reflecting in the beauty of the seasons. All these future plans and impossible dreams only make you gloomier.
Think about those pharoahs, those kings and queens, dead and buried, who would gladly give their gold and glory for a chance to live once more. I naively believed that loving you was enough to make you happy, but it seems that the pain is way deeper, that psalms and prayers won't change it.
The fly will sooner or later be ensnared by the spider. One dies and one lives. But has it ever keep her from flying? Look at them, how they seem to accept the life they inherited. The spider won't ever stop spinning her web, the fly won't ever cease flying. In front of death, they won't refrain from living.
The spider is not safe from accidents, and two legs are quickly lost. But has it ever keep her from walking? You, you do lost nothing, you're only looking for things you can't get, and you make yourself in despair. But see how we only need few things to live. And ask yourself what are the reasons for the color of your eyes.
"spiders and flies//live and die"
oh goodness. this is Magic to me this captures feelings of magic and loss, some beautiful bitter sweet lyrics to evoque the ridiculous fact that we're here today as small things, temporarely alive, wondering about the meaning of life and behind death, if there was any.