"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.
This much delight, fills columns to new heights
All these things about me you never can tell
Colors run prime, paint a picture so bright
All these things about me you never can tell
You make me sleep so badly invisible friend
Turn the dial on my words
I can feel them fall short
Turn the dial, chime alarm, chime alarm
Watch these hands move apart
Turn the dial on my words
I can see you staying here
Fierce steps shadow, life's will gone shallow
All these things about me you never can tell
You make me sleep so badly, invisible friend
You make me sleep so badly, invisible friend
You make me sleep so badly, invisible friend
Turn the dial on my words
I can feel them fall short
Turn the dial, chime alarm, chime alarm
Watch these hands move apart
Turn the dial on my words
I can see you staying here
All these things about me you never can tell
Colors run prime, paint a picture so bright
All these things about me you never can tell
You make me sleep so badly invisible friend
Turn the dial on my words
I can feel them fall short
Turn the dial, chime alarm, chime alarm
Watch these hands move apart
Turn the dial on my words
I can see you staying here
Fierce steps shadow, life's will gone shallow
All these things about me you never can tell
You make me sleep so badly, invisible friend
You make me sleep so badly, invisible friend
You make me sleep so badly, invisible friend
Turn the dial on my words
I can feel them fall short
Turn the dial, chime alarm, chime alarm
Watch these hands move apart
Turn the dial on my words
I can see you staying here
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There aren’t many things that’ll hurt more than giving love a chance against your better judgement only to have your heart crushed yet again. Ed Sheeran tells such a story on “Page.” On this track, he is devastated to have lost his lover and even more saddened by the feeling that he may never move on from this.
I think this song is abut being really into someone and not being able to express it or not telling them yet and thinking about them all the time.
"This much delight Fills columns to new heights All these things about me you never can tell
Colours run prime Paint a picture so bright All these things about me you never can tell You make me sleep so badly invisible friend"
I think the "invisible friend" is the thought of the person that is always around. And the "Sleeps so badly" is staying up to think about them.
The whole thing about her words falling short is like envisioning letting the person know and words not being adequate.
This song, my mirror...
Official lyrics from The Big Roar
This much delight Fills columns to new heights All these things about me you never can tell
Colours run prime Paint a picture so bright All these things about me you never can tell You make me sleep so badly invisible friend
Turn the dial on my words I can feel them fall short Turn the dial, chime alarm Watch these hands move apart Turn the dial on my words
I can see you staying here
Fierce steps shadow, Life's will gone shallow All these things about me you never can tell You make me sleep so badly invisible friend
Turn the dial on my words I can feel them fall short Turn the dial, chime alarm Watch these hands move apart Turn the dial on my words
I can see you staying here
"All these things about me you never can tell You make me sleep so badly invisible friend."
Like having a secret that you can't tell. Or just something that keeps you awake at night, thinking. Invisible friend could be that devil on your shoulder, whispering hateful things in your ear, telling you it's never gonna get better and you might as well give up. And if the problem is invisible, in your head, than it isn't real to anyone else...nobody gets it, nobody knows how to help unless the problems in their face.
It's about a long distance relationship online. That or a relationship that takes place predominantly online/puter-side.
"fills columns to new heights" = chatlog "All these things about me you never can tell" = lack of access to the other person's real life "Colors run prime, paint a picture so bright" = pics/images on your monitor (RedGreenBlue = prime/primary colors) "invisible friend" = long distance, remember? they just aren't there when you're sleeping, away from your puter.
"Turn the dial on my words / I can feel them fall short / Turn the dial, chime alarm / Watch these hands move apart" = Connect that part about sleep and this and it seems like being away from eachother is that period of sleep, be it figurative or literal, is what they need to be awoken from...or they feel that their words are not "waking up" the other person adequately and feel a distance grow between them thusly.
Actually, the primary colors are Red, Green and Yellow. You are correct about the color scheme for a computer, though.
"This much delight Fills columns to new heights"
i think "try my love" = "try the lock"
"make me sleep so badly invisible friend"
"turn the dial on my words, I can feel them fall short, turn the dial, chime alarm chime alarm, watch these hands move apart, turn the dial on my words"
It's not "chime alarm" or "try my love" it's "chime along, chime along"
I think that this song symbolizes a conflict with time.
Think of a clock:
"Turn the dial on my words, I can feel them fall short" like setting or manipulating the time on a clock to the point where her words are irrevlevent.
"Chime along" as in when a clock stricks 0'clock. Implies a dependance or a habit of following the clock.
"Hands move apart" when the two hands on a clock move apart as time goes on.
"make me sleep so badly, invisible friend" perhaps she can't sleep due to the sound of a ticking clock or is pressed for time and can't sleep, or is excited about something in the future and cannot sleep. Invisible friend could be that time is always there like a friend but is intangible, not a physical presence.
I'm not really sure how this reference encaptures the whole song but whenever I hear the chorus, this is what I think of.
one , it is chime along. i sang this song to my ex boyfriend.