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"
There you go
You're always so right
It's all a big show
It's all about you
You think you know
What everyone needs
You always take time
To criticize me
It seems like everyday
I make mistakes
I just can't get it right
It's like I'm the one
You love to hate
But not today
So shut up, shut up, shut up
Don't wanna hear it
Get out, get out, get out
Get out of my way
Step up, step up, step up
You'll never stop me
Nothing you say today
Is gonna bring me down
There you go
You never ask why
It's all a big lie
Whatever you do
You think you're special
But I know, and I know
And I know, and we know
That you're not
You're always there to point
Out my mistakes
And shove them in my face
It's like I'm the one
You love to hate
But not today
So shut up, shut up, shut up
Don't wanna hear it
Get out, get out, get out
Get out of my way
Step up, step up, step up
You'll never stop me
Nothing you say today
Is gonna bring me down
Is gonna bring me down
Will never bring me down
Don't tell me who I should be
And don't try to tell me what's right for me
Don't tell me what I should do
I don't wanna waste my time
I'll watch you fade away
So shut up, shut up, shut up
Don't wanna hear it
Get out, get out, get out
Get out of my way
Step up, step up, step up
You'll never stop me
Nothing you say today
Is gonna bring me down
So shut up, shut up, shut up
Don't wanna hear it
Get out, get out, get out
Get out of my way
Step up, step up, step up
You'll never stop me
Nothing you say today
Is gonna bring me down
Bring me down
(Shut up, shut up, shut up)
Won't bring me down
(Shut up, shut up, shut up)
Bring me down
(Shut up, shut up, shut up)
Won't bring me down
Shut up, shut up, shut up
You're always so right
It's all a big show
It's all about you
You think you know
What everyone needs
You always take time
To criticize me
It seems like everyday
I make mistakes
I just can't get it right
It's like I'm the one
You love to hate
But not today
So shut up, shut up, shut up
Don't wanna hear it
Get out, get out, get out
Get out of my way
Step up, step up, step up
You'll never stop me
Nothing you say today
Is gonna bring me down
There you go
You never ask why
It's all a big lie
Whatever you do
You think you're special
But I know, and I know
And I know, and we know
That you're not
You're always there to point
Out my mistakes
And shove them in my face
It's like I'm the one
You love to hate
But not today
So shut up, shut up, shut up
Don't wanna hear it
Get out, get out, get out
Get out of my way
Step up, step up, step up
You'll never stop me
Nothing you say today
Is gonna bring me down
Is gonna bring me down
Will never bring me down
Don't tell me who I should be
And don't try to tell me what's right for me
Don't tell me what I should do
I don't wanna waste my time
I'll watch you fade away
So shut up, shut up, shut up
Don't wanna hear it
Get out, get out, get out
Get out of my way
Step up, step up, step up
You'll never stop me
Nothing you say today
Is gonna bring me down
So shut up, shut up, shut up
Don't wanna hear it
Get out, get out, get out
Get out of my way
Step up, step up, step up
You'll never stop me
Nothing you say today
Is gonna bring me down
Bring me down
(Shut up, shut up, shut up)
Won't bring me down
(Shut up, shut up, shut up)
Bring me down
(Shut up, shut up, shut up)
Won't bring me down
Shut up, shut up, shut up
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Shut Up! Lyrics as written by Pierre Bouvier Charles-andre Comeau
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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OMG I love this song! I played it one day so loud, for my parents but I don't think they got the message!
thats funny yeah i dedicate this song to my mom!!!!
i really like this song
well, i have never heard the song, but i just read it, and hey, it sounds pretty awesome like all of the other simple plan songs out there. yeah, it's pretty cool.
when i saw them in concert last week this song was amazing. David said to think about how angry we are with Bush during the song.
yeah a simple plan must really hate Bush. they must have any idea about politics. the only thing wrong with Bush is that he hasnt yet outlawed MTV. then maybe all you little boys and girls would be forced to think for yourselves instead of buying whatever the fuck TRL says you should buy. and being "angry" at whoever some popstar tells you to be angry at.
Actually, no one buys what TRL says, they buy what they want to. I'm not 'angry' at Bush and this song in no way reminds me of him.
Me and my friend picked songs off their new CD that described us, and I picked this one. Its about telling people to just shut up. They think they are better than you, and try to bring you down. It also tells you, not to let them bring you down and to tell them to shut up and go take their stuck up selves elseware. Totally describes me =D
broken wings if you had read the post above mine you wouldve understood my references to bush and being 'angry'.
atthedrive-in: and what the hell are saying that you are thinking for yourself? And I can tell you a thousand things wrong with Mr. Bush. He's against abortion and homosexuals for example... and the biggest mistake of all...the war in Iraq. Don't tell me that wasn't wrong. I mean even Bush has realized that was a big mistake (even if he's not man enough to admit it) and he's not very smart...
oh, yeah, cos saddam hussein was a real good guy!damn it, why didnt we leave him in power? we are so stupid! fucking bush, why doesnt he just die already? im in the mood for some michael moore and simple plan and TRL and John Kerry! cya!
oh my god what a stupid argument! - it doesn't meen you like saddam just because you're agaisnt the war. i think saddam is much worse than bush. But I still thinks bush i a complete moron and a awful person