"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.
Tell me actions speak louder
But there's something about her words, that hurt
Closing up and it's so late and
I'm the last one still waiting for ya, to lock the door
On our way home I realize
There's some kind of storm brewing in his eyes
Only veiled by a thin disguise
Now that I've done my time
I need to move on and I need you to try
'Cause we're out of goodbyes
We're out of goodbyes, out of goodbyes
Never asked you to change
But sadly you don't feel the same, about me
I wonder does your man still shudder when you touch his hand
Like this man
On our way home I realize
There's some kind of storm brewing in his eyes
Only veiled by a thin disguise
Now that I've done my time
I need to move on and I need you to try
'Cause we're out of goodbyes
We're out of goodbyes, we're out of goodbyes, we're out of goodbyes
Oh, ooh
But there's something about her words, that hurt
Closing up and it's so late and
I'm the last one still waiting for ya, to lock the door
On our way home I realize
There's some kind of storm brewing in his eyes
Only veiled by a thin disguise
Now that I've done my time
I need to move on and I need you to try
'Cause we're out of goodbyes
We're out of goodbyes, out of goodbyes
Never asked you to change
But sadly you don't feel the same, about me
I wonder does your man still shudder when you touch his hand
Like this man
On our way home I realize
There's some kind of storm brewing in his eyes
Only veiled by a thin disguise
Now that I've done my time
I need to move on and I need you to try
'Cause we're out of goodbyes
We're out of goodbyes, we're out of goodbyes, we're out of goodbyes
Oh, ooh
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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
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.
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,
This is an amazing song, just sayin'. I think its about a boy & a girl who dated, broke up & now she's dating someone else. They both still love each other, but they know they can't date again because they've redated & said goodbye too many times.
I wasn't a big fan of this song when I first heard it on the album. But then something clicked and I now really like the song. It's just a very simple, genuine song. I know it's just a song but I really feel bad for Adam Levine at the beginning of this song when he says that this chicks words do hurt haha.
Never thought a country song would be the best song on the album but it is. The story is about the struggles of moving on for good after a relationship is over. Here's my interpretation,
"Tell me actions speak louder But there's something about her words that hurt Closing up and it's so late and I'm the last one still waiting for you to lock the door"
The man is hurt from his woman's words more so than the actions of her leaving doesn't speak louder to him. The man is always the last one waiting for her to come back after leaving and closing the door on their relationship for good.
"On our way home I realize There's some kind of storm brewing in his eyes Only veiled by a thin disguise"
From the woman's perspective, she's finally realizing the man's hurting in this relationship with her and she can tell by just looking him in the eyes and he's hiding it barely.
Now that I've done my time I need to move on and I need you to try 'cause we're out of goodbyes
The man's done his time waiting for her and he can't handle another time where one of them leaves another, so he asks her to try to move on without him and basically never come back again into his life again.
"Never asked you to change But sadly you don't feel the same about me I wonder does your man still shudder when you touch his hand Like this man"
The man never asked the woman to change, but she doesn't feel the same about him. Yet,he still wonders if her new man loves her as much as he did.
This song reminds me of "this love" by maroon 5 in a lot of ways. Both songs symbolize how love can take a toll on someone where both people break up and leave each other, then get back together. It just comes to a point where enough heartbreak isn't worth it and both people need to move and never see each other again.
This sweet, sad song featuring country trio Lady Antebellum came together in a single day in Switzerland. Keyboardist Jesse Carmichael told Rolling Stone: "We're excited for a lot of new people to hear our band through that song."