"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.
Latinos Y imigrates de hoy dia tienen que tener ellos un futuro No hay que irparaatras, vivimos en America Hay que o diar Chaos Punx Chaos Punx Chaos Punx Hay que uninos con otras clases porque hay que sobrevivir Todos tenemmos un futuro hay que levantarnos para unir Chaos Punx Chaos Punx Chaos Punx Y ellos nos llaman Chaos Punx Y ellos nos llaman Chaos Punx Y ellos nos llaman Chaos Punx Y ellos nos llaman Chaos Punx Chaos! Somo borrachos de hoy dia, No tenemos que comer Pero siempre en la botella, Soms borrachos, Somos los Punx Chaos Punx Y ellos nos llaman Chaos Punx Chaos Punx Y ellos nos llaman Chaos Punx Chaos Punx
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Fast Car
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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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Ebba Grön
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
Cajun Girl
Little Feat
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Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Punchline
Ed Sheeran
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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.
this song is the shit
fuck yeah
Latinos y imigrantes hay que unir!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i have no fuckin idea wat the hell he's sayin but its a fuckin tight ass song!!!
Latin and imigrates of today day must have they a future is no irparaatras, we lived in America Hay or to diar Chaos Punx Chaos Punx Chaos uninos Punx Hay with other classes because there is to survive All tenemmos a future is necessary to raise us to unite Chaos Punx Chaos Punx Chaos Punx and they call Chaos to us Punx and they call Chaos to us Punx and they call Chaos to us Punx and they call Chaos to us Punx Chaos! Somo drunk of today day, we do not have to eat But always in the bottle, Soms drunk, We are the Punx Chaos Punx and they call Chaos to us Punx Chaos Punx and they call Chaos to us Punx Chaos Punx
that is google's translation:)
the real translation is - I tried to make it as literal as possible
Latinos and immigrants of today need a future Let's not backtrack We live in America We need to hate!
Chaos Punx
We have to unite with other classes because we have to survive We all have a future We need to stand up to unite
Chaos Punx
And they call us.. Chaos Punx
we are the drunx of today We don't need to eat But we are always in the bottle We are Drunx We are Punx
Chaox Punx And the call us.. Chaos Punx
Unite!
The Casualties are amazing in spanish. Listen to "En la Linea del Frente". VIVA EL PUNK!!!!!!!!!