"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.
I'll write you a letter tomorrow
Tonight, I can't hold a pen
Someone's got a stamp that I can borrow
I promise not to blow the address again
Lights that flash in the evening
Through a crack in the drapes
Jesus rides beside me
He never buys any smokes
Hurry up, hurry up, ain't you had enough of this stuff?
Ashtray floors, dirty clothes, and filthy jokes
See you're high and lonesome
Try and try and try
Lights that flash in the evening
Through a hole in the drapes
I'll be home when I'm sleeping
I can't hardly wait
I can't wait, hardly wait
I can't wait, hardly wait
I can't wait, hardly wait
I can't wait, hardly wait
I can't wait, hardly wait
Tonight, I can't hold a pen
Someone's got a stamp that I can borrow
I promise not to blow the address again
Lights that flash in the evening
Through a crack in the drapes
Jesus rides beside me
He never buys any smokes
Hurry up, hurry up, ain't you had enough of this stuff?
Ashtray floors, dirty clothes, and filthy jokes
See you're high and lonesome
Try and try and try
Lights that flash in the evening
Through a hole in the drapes
I'll be home when I'm sleeping
I can't hardly wait
I can't wait, hardly wait
I can't wait, hardly wait
I can't wait, hardly wait
I can't wait, hardly wait
I can't wait, hardly wait
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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"
Mental Istid
Ebba Grön
Ebba Grön
This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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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.
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,
The first versions of the song are definitely better than the final product, in my opinion. Not only for the great lyrics, but how they performed it. There's something raw and desperate in both Paul's voice and Stinson's guitar strumming (both in the electric and the acoustic versions) that make it seem so genuine.
As a sixteen-year-old I could lie on my bedroom floor listening to this song on repeat for hours. It gave me some sort of comfort. Which is strange, though I've always known it had to be about a suicide.
Although I believe that the lyrics has some errors, due to the several different versions. This is like a mix from both the alternate version and the outtakes from the expanded Tim album.
The acoustic outtake version of Can't Hardly Wait goes something like this:
"I'll be there in an hour Take these two weeks there on foot Watering hole, scummy* water tower I'd climb to the top scream out loud if I could
I'll be sad in heaven You won't visit** me there
Jesus rides beside me He never buys any smokes Hurry up, hurry up I've had enough of the stuff Ashtray floors, dirty clothes, filthy jokes
Light flash in the evening guess we'll follow him there
I'll be there in an hour If there's a whole in the gate Climb to the top of this scummy* water tower screaming I can't hardly wait
I can't wait, I can't wait...."
*Should be correct if you compare it to the more common version of the song, but in the acoustic outtake it sounds like he's singing "cummy" och maybe "crummy"
** In other versions he uses "find" and "follow".
The electric outtake is a bit different goes something like this, I think:
"I'll be there in an hour Take half a month there on foot Watering hole, scummy* water tower Find it to the top I'll avoid if I could
I'll be sad in heaven You won't find me there
Jesus rides beside me He never buys any smokes Hurry up, hurry up I've had enough of the stuff Dirty floors, sleazy clothes, filthy jokes
I'll be there in the evening I guess I'll follow him there
I'll be there in an hour I'll find a whole in the gate Climb to the top of this scummy* water tower and I can't hardly wait
I can't wait, I can't wait...."
The alternate version from Please to meet me, sounds to me like something like this:
"I can't wait for hours Take half a month home on foot Watering hole, fucking water tower Scream on top I'll avoid if I could
Lights gonna flash in the evening You won't find me there
Jesus rides beside me He never buys any smokes Hurry up, hurry up I've had enough of the stuff Ashtray floors, dirty clothes, filthy jokes
We'll get there in the evening I can't hardly wait
Lights gonna flash tomorrow There's a whole in the gate I'll be riding* on this little tower I can't hardly awake**
I can't wait, I can't wait...."
*Or "rioting" or something? Hmm... could make sense. In some strange "I protest by taking my own life"-way
** Might be "I can't hardly wait", but it sounds a bit like a K!
Oh, silly me. Just realized I was listening to the alternate version from Tim, when this is the demo version lyrics. So, I take back the whole "error in lyrics"-thingie.
This version is a bit more clear about being the lead-up to a suicide. I can only guess that Paul changed the lyrics for the PTMM version to avoid redundancy with "The Ledge", though the PTMM version is still a suicide song, no doubt about it.
This version was produced by Alex Chilton and kicks major ass. Love the charging beat and Bob Stinson's great, restrained lead. The other version is nice too, but this one is definitive to me.
i think the line is 'i'll be safe in heaven'.