"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.
Since the dawn of time
I've rolled across the earth
Spinning in the dust
Long before your birth
Eatin' tar and gasoline
Every light I see is green
Open pipes, my machine's
triple-plated chrome
Spirit of the wheel
Wheels of fire burn the night
Ride across the sky
Wheels of fire burning bright
We live to ride
Motors running
Now you're gonna learn
Waiting on the line
Make your tires burn
Fast, faster, faster, faster
Speeding always kills
Nothing else takes us to get these thrills
Spirit of the wheel
Wheels of fire burn the night
Ride across the sky
Wheels of fire burning bright
We live to ride
Blood and thunder on the road
My heart is pounding
My blood is nitroglycerin
I'm fire
Burning, burning, burning, burning
Ready to explode
Don't want nothing left of me to scrape off the road
Spirit of the wheel
Wheels of fire burn the night
Ride across the sky
Wheels of fire burning bright
We live to ride
Clouds of smoke
Tires screaming
Fire in my hair
Blown into a thousand pieces
Scattered everywhere
Fast, burn, burning, faster
want to take a ride
Spirit of the wheel
Wheels of fires ride
Spirit of the wheel
Wheels of fire burn the night
Ride across the sky
Wheels of fire burning bright
We live to ride
I've rolled across the earth
Spinning in the dust
Long before your birth
Eatin' tar and gasoline
Every light I see is green
Open pipes, my machine's
triple-plated chrome
Spirit of the wheel
Wheels of fire burn the night
Ride across the sky
Wheels of fire burning bright
We live to ride
Motors running
Now you're gonna learn
Waiting on the line
Make your tires burn
Fast, faster, faster, faster
Speeding always kills
Nothing else takes us to get these thrills
Spirit of the wheel
Wheels of fire burn the night
Ride across the sky
Wheels of fire burning bright
We live to ride
Blood and thunder on the road
My heart is pounding
My blood is nitroglycerin
I'm fire
Burning, burning, burning, burning
Ready to explode
Don't want nothing left of me to scrape off the road
Spirit of the wheel
Wheels of fire burn the night
Ride across the sky
Wheels of fire burning bright
We live to ride
Clouds of smoke
Tires screaming
Fire in my hair
Blown into a thousand pieces
Scattered everywhere
Fast, burn, burning, faster
want to take a ride
Spirit of the wheel
Wheels of fires ride
Spirit of the wheel
Wheels of fire burn the night
Ride across the sky
Wheels of fire burning bright
We live to ride
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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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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.
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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.
I find it hillarious that someone was stupid enough to put this on a 'song meaning' page - unless you're being sarcastic/ironic well then its not stupid its actually quite good!
ya im confused on the lyrics myself it would be interesting to find out what the hell they really meant.
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if you don't see what these lyrics mean then you're crazy! it says it outright! the whole point of this song is just basically to justify the rest of mansun's songs... they're telling you that the lyrics aren't supposed to mean all that much... the singer is just telling you that his lyrics are meant only to make the music sound better. they're just like another instrument... so even though he's saying that the lyrics aren't supposed to mean that much, this song does have some meaning to it.
Yeah, that makes sense. But theres one part which seems to contradict that... "You say they mean nothing, just gobbledy-gook But just look at yourself, you're not clever enough" isnt that saying that if you think theres no meaning then you're not clever enough?
lol, you lot psychoanalyzing this song. "It says what it does on the tin." so, no need to be theorising what the hell this song actualy means, its here for you to post your comments on what it means to you. Oh and to CaNiS mAJOr. The reason I posted these lyrics on this site was for people like yourself to read them and to comment on the lyrics. Hence "songmeanings". :-D (i kinda answered that one with the above also... oops)
Paul Draper, the writer of this song, said in an interview that these lyrics were sarcastic. (While he confessed later on that his lyrics were 'gobbled gook') He said that they did mean something if you looked hard enough. "Lyrics mean nothing, don't right any wrongs In fact I'm not having them on this" Sarcasm, obviously.
Paul on lyrics Record Collector(?) 98------People who can't write lyrics explain it away by saying, "Oh, it's my soul. I'm speaking from the heart." And they turn out stuff like, "Out the back of my mind's eye/I saw it flying through the sky/high in the sky/I believe I can fly". How many British bands have written that lyric in the last five years? Fucking every one of them. And the Lighthouse Family, and R. Kelly, and Orville & Keith Harris. Orville believes he can fly, and so do fucking Noel Gallagher and Paul Weller. They go, "It's me soul, man". What they mean is, they haven't got any fucking lyrics.
LOLOLOLOL brilliant hidden track.
thanks for the info btw Mansunrose, it explains a lot. :D