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"
It's going on 5, I want you to know
My spirit's alive, I want you to know
I'm getting down with the awkward moments
I'm getting down with the sour kiss
I'm getting down with the rumors in the back of the car
I'm getting down with it
On, on, on, on ah...on, on, on, on ah...
On, on, on, on ah...on, on, on, on ah...
Signal when you get to the top
Signal when you want me
When you want me to stop
We could, we could crash
We could, we could burn burn
We could take it
We could we could
Take it take it in turns
Getting down
On, on, on, on ah...on, on, on, on ah...
On, on, on, on ah...on, on, on, on ah...
I'm getting down with your new vocation
I'm getting down with your cute cut wrist
I'm getting down with your kisses and cross-stitches on it
I'm getting down with it
Here's a message from my old coat pocket
My spirit's alive and I want you to know
I'm getting down with the young drunk lovers
I'm getting down with the one-way pact
I'm getting down with the city and the pity of it
I'm getting down with it
On, on, on, on ah...on, on, on, on ah...
On, on, on, on ah...on, on, on, on ah...
On, on, on, on ah...on, on, on, on ah...
On, on, on, on ah...on, on, on, on ah...
My spirit's alive, I want you to know
I'm getting down with the awkward moments
I'm getting down with the sour kiss
I'm getting down with the rumors in the back of the car
I'm getting down with it
On, on, on, on ah...on, on, on, on ah...
On, on, on, on ah...on, on, on, on ah...
Signal when you get to the top
Signal when you want me
When you want me to stop
We could, we could crash
We could, we could burn burn
We could take it
We could we could
Take it take it in turns
Getting down
On, on, on, on ah...on, on, on, on ah...
On, on, on, on ah...on, on, on, on ah...
I'm getting down with your new vocation
I'm getting down with your cute cut wrist
I'm getting down with your kisses and cross-stitches on it
I'm getting down with it
Here's a message from my old coat pocket
My spirit's alive and I want you to know
I'm getting down with the young drunk lovers
I'm getting down with the one-way pact
I'm getting down with the city and the pity of it
I'm getting down with it
On, on, on, on ah...on, on, on, on ah...
On, on, on, on ah...on, on, on, on ah...
On, on, on, on ah...on, on, on, on ah...
On, on, on, on ah...on, on, on, on ah...
Lyrics submitted by silkstones
Getting Down Lyrics as written by Dennis Joyner Raashaun Casey
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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because jamie said so in the nylon interview
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But... Good one.
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i relate with all of u!!!!!!
Shouldn't the lyric in the last stanza be "I'm getting down with the one way pact," not "pack"? Like the promise was made by one lover but not the other?
That nylon interview was great. This song is also great, but when I saw them live they didn't play it :(
This song to me, personally, is someone getting out of a long term relationship. They are on the market again and "getting down" with being single and dating again. Hence the "awkward moments" and "sour kisses"...
First off, this is not "Getting Down" by DMX. It was written by The Kills.
Secondly, I cannot prove it, but this doesn't make sense to me..."cute cut wrist" should be "cute caress". The Kills are not some emo band who write songs about people cutting their wrists... Doesn't fit with the song, at all.