"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.
Very many years ago, the Bolivians were starving so,
They had rats as big as ponies there. They asked the Pope
To declare them fish.
We thank the Pope for granting us this wish.
When Friday comes, we'll all call rats fish.
We catch them with a net, kill with the gun.
We'll call it all forgotten when we're done.
They didn't look like rats at all, but like some horrendous horse doll.
Still they had to eat this thing.
In gratitude, the Pope-they kissed his ring.
We thank the Pope for granting us this wish.
When Friday comes, we'll all call rats fish.
We catch them with a net, kill with the gun.
We'll call it all forgotten when we're done.
We'll call it all forgotten when we're done.
They had rats as big as ponies there. They asked the Pope
To declare them fish.
We thank the Pope for granting us this wish.
When Friday comes, we'll all call rats fish.
We catch them with a net, kill with the gun.
We'll call it all forgotten when we're done.
They didn't look like rats at all, but like some horrendous horse doll.
Still they had to eat this thing.
In gratitude, the Pope-they kissed his ring.
We thank the Pope for granting us this wish.
When Friday comes, we'll all call rats fish.
We catch them with a net, kill with the gun.
We'll call it all forgotten when we're done.
We'll call it all forgotten when we're done.
Lyrics submitted by LilBowieGirl
Rats Lyrics as written by Melora Creager
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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.
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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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.
Specifically, this song is about the capybara, which is the largest living member of the rodent family. Found in South America, they live on land but also spend a lot of time in the water. In the 16th century, the Pope said that they could be considered fish. This was because of the fact that they were semi-aquatic AND because Catholics aren't supposed to eat meat during lent. After that, since capybara were considered fish, people could eat them all year round, despite the fact that they're actually mammals.
So this song IS about something that really happened. There are many possible meanings behind it, though.
This supposedly happened with capybaras in Venezuela, not Bolivia, but apparently it has also been claimed to have been other large water dwelling (hence "fish") mammals, like beavers. (Try looking up capybaras on wikipedia.com) The story's credibility isn't exactly something to stake your life on.
I'm not sure if this really happened, but the song is about people starving in Bolivia and asking the pope to declare rats fish so they can eat them on Friday because you weren't supposed to eat meat on Fridays if you were a Catholic. In declaring rats to be fish, the pope was helping with the hunger problem and the rat infestation. Again, I'm not sure that this is based on something that really happened.
I thought it was more about them being overrun by rats and starving, but still having qualms with eating such "dirty" things. To help them with that, anything the Pope says must be law, even if it makes no sense at all, so rats "became" fish and problems solved!
to me, it seems that this song is a reference of how people overrun their morals and pressure their leaders into swaying toward antimorals in order to survive. thus, people care more about their lives than their morals... though, i could be utterly, utterly wrong.
sometimes God gives you a pile of shit, but you must learn how to turn it into a butterfly.
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I agree with sicanonym. I also think it's about corruption in the catholic religion. The pope is calling a rat something else. Rat as in a sneaky, lying, dirty person. "We'll call it all forgotten when we're done."
Meaning, we'll look the other way I guess. We'll call rats something else because the pope allowed it, and we'll just forget about it.
I don't think its a negative judgement on the Catholic church. its just having some fun with the idea of the Pope being a living representative of an omnipotent God. also it says "In gratitude, the Pope, they kissed his ring." this amuses me.
There is actually some sort of water rat in the USA that DOES substitute fish on fridays, or atleast in did a long time ago. The food network is funny sometimes.
"I also think it's about corruption in the catholic religion. The pope is calling a rat something else. Rat as in a sneaky, lying, dirty person. "We'll call it all forgotten when we're done."
Meaning, we'll look the other way I guess. We'll call rats something else because the pope allowed it, and we'll just forget about it."
I couldn't agree more. Like lots of Rasputina songs, they will use themselves as the irony. I think it's a lot about corruption or more like "looking the other way" corruption.