"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 can't be more obvious
She's a pain
Won't even let me in
From the rain
All the windows are locked again
'Cause she's afraid
Of everything that I have to say
To her face
So try to look in my eyes
Tell me that you're not surprised
'Cause nothing is changing
Everyone has to lie sometimes
Do you know what it's like
To make up your mind?
Don't be alarmed when sinners stand
While the world is spinning
I can't be more obvious
I'm in pain
She won't even let me in
From the rain
All the pictures in the frames are cracked
'Cause she's afraid
Of everything they're gonna say
Behind her back
So try to look in my eyes
Tell me that you're not surprised, oh no
'Cause nothing is changing
Everyone has to lie sometimes
Do you know what it's like
To make up your mind?
Don't be alarmed when sinners stand
While the world is spinning (x2)
So look in my eyes
Tell me that you're not surprised
'Cause nothing is changing
Everyone has to lie sometimes
Do you know what it's like
To make up your mind?
Don't be alarmed when sinners stand
Don't be alarmed when sinners stand
While the world is spinning
She's a pain
Won't even let me in
From the rain
All the windows are locked again
'Cause she's afraid
Of everything that I have to say
To her face
So try to look in my eyes
Tell me that you're not surprised
'Cause nothing is changing
Everyone has to lie sometimes
Do you know what it's like
To make up your mind?
Don't be alarmed when sinners stand
While the world is spinning
I can't be more obvious
I'm in pain
She won't even let me in
From the rain
All the pictures in the frames are cracked
'Cause she's afraid
Of everything they're gonna say
Behind her back
So try to look in my eyes
Tell me that you're not surprised, oh no
'Cause nothing is changing
Everyone has to lie sometimes
Do you know what it's like
To make up your mind?
Don't be alarmed when sinners stand
While the world is spinning (x2)
So look in my eyes
Tell me that you're not surprised
'Cause nothing is changing
Everyone has to lie sometimes
Do you know what it's like
To make up your mind?
Don't be alarmed when sinners stand
Don't be alarmed when sinners stand
While the world is spinning
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Fast Car
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Lord Huron
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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"
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”
Holiday
Bee Gees
Bee Gees
@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
Amazing
Ed Sheeran
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to find some positivity in the situation. This track was written by Ed Sheeran from the perspective of his friend. From the track, we see this person fall deeper into the negative thoughts and slide further down the path of mental torment with every lyric.
It seems Nick likes to use weather as metaphors and when talking about rain its like he is referring to heartbreak, "All the windows are locked again" kind of obvious its about someone shutting him out again therefore this isn't the first time, the first line shows she's in pain and then mentions "Of everything that I have to say To her face" In the next verse its obvious the other person can't make up their mind about something and has perhaps lied. Nick mentioned that this song is about human nature and when people do what people do, Its seems like the other person has sinned "Don't be alarmed when sinners stand" but maybe what he means by this is that he shouldn't be surprised that the girl in the song did whatever she did, when he says "All the pictures in the frame are cracked And she's afraid" its like she is ruining what they have because she won't let him in.
I think Nick is trying to get close to this person but won't let him in by putting her guard up or "locking the windows" and she has been pushing people away and ruining her relationships with people from "all the pictures in the frames are cracked" perhaps because she is afraid of what people have to say about her or what people will think. "cause she's afraid of everything I have to say to her face" and "cause she's afraid of everything they're gonna say behind her back" That's all I could really come up with.
He said he wrote this song in Canada while shooting Camp Rock 2 and he said in his concert that "this songs are all about things that real to me, that I wanna share with you tonight" and he sing this song. Maybe this song is about a friend in the Camp.
I can't be more obvious She's a pain Won't even let me in From the rain
I feel like he's having a trouble to this girl who's dealing with something and she wont let him share the pain with him. I feel like rain is CRY, she's in pain.
All the windows are locked again 'Cause she's afraid Of everything that I have to say To her face
The girl is afraid of what he might say to her that's why she's shutting him out, again and again.
So try to look in my eyes Tell me that you're not surprised 'Cause nothing is changing Everyone has to lie sometimes
You can tell if someone is lying if the person can't look to the eyes. So he want her to look in his eyes. He is like saying I understand you and don't be surprise about it because it's human nature that everyone has to lie sometimes.
Do you know what it's like To make up your mind? Don't be alarmed when sinners stand While the world is spinning
But the girl still wont speak up. He's so down about it and just say to his self "Don't be alarmed when sinners stand, while the world is spinning" because it's the reality.
I can't be more obvious I'm in pain She won't even let me in From the rain
He's in pain because maybe he's so close to this girl but wont tell him what's wrong.
All the pictures in the frames are cracked 'Cause she's afraid Of everything they're gonna say Behind her back
Maybe this girl is having some issues or being paranoid, maybe she's doing something wrong or hiding something that she don't want people to know but she can't hide it because it's too obvious. Maybe she's mess up with something.
Nick is so concern about this girl that he made this song. I felt like he's angry with this girl because she's lying to him. She might saying she's fine but she's not. I felt this song is for Demi Lovato. She's bipolar and she harmed herself and nobody knows about it until she went on rehab on 2010.