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"
Let the beat control you
Let the beat control you
Let the beat control you
Let the beat control you
All these people talking ‘bout you now
They don’t make no difference, no
We always have the rhythm here
In our blood and in our souls
So let the beat control you now
There’s nothing here to care about
Just you and me, let’s break it down
So follow me, I’ll show you how
All these people talking ‘bout you now
They don’t make no difference, no
We always have the rhythm here
In our blood and in our souls
So let the beat control you now
There’s nothing here to care about
Just you and me, let’s break it down
So follow me, I’ll show you how
The beat
The beat
The beat
The beat
The beat
The beat
The beat
The beat
Let that beat control your body
You and me, there’s no one watching
Come on, we can rock this party
All night long, believe me
Let that beat control your body
You and me, there’s no one watching
Come on, we can rock this party
All night long, believe me
There is nothing stopping you
There is nothing stopping me
So let that beat control your body, baby
There is nothing stopping you
There is nothing stopping me
So let that beat control your body, baby
All these people talking ‘bout you now
They don’t make no difference, no
We always have the rhythm here
In our blood and in our souls
So let the beat control you now
There’s nothing here to care about
Just you and me, let’s break it down
So follow me, I’ll show you how
All the people gather round now
All the people break it down now
There is nothing stopping you
There is nothing stopping me
So let that beat control your body, baby
There is nothing stopping you
There is nothing stopping me
So let that beat control your body, baby
All the people gather round now (So let that beat control your body. baby)
All the people break it down now (So let that beat control your body, baby)
The beat
The beat
The beat
The beat
Let the beat control you
Let the beat control you
Let the beat control you
All these people talking ‘bout you now
They don’t make no difference, no
We always have the rhythm here
In our blood and in our souls
So let the beat control you now
There’s nothing here to care about
Just you and me, let’s break it down
So follow me, I’ll show you how
All these people talking ‘bout you now
They don’t make no difference, no
We always have the rhythm here
In our blood and in our souls
So let the beat control you now
There’s nothing here to care about
Just you and me, let’s break it down
So follow me, I’ll show you how
The beat
The beat
The beat
The beat
The beat
The beat
The beat
The beat
Let that beat control your body
You and me, there’s no one watching
Come on, we can rock this party
All night long, believe me
Let that beat control your body
You and me, there’s no one watching
Come on, we can rock this party
All night long, believe me
There is nothing stopping you
There is nothing stopping me
So let that beat control your body, baby
There is nothing stopping you
There is nothing stopping me
So let that beat control your body, baby
All these people talking ‘bout you now
They don’t make no difference, no
We always have the rhythm here
In our blood and in our souls
So let the beat control you now
There’s nothing here to care about
Just you and me, let’s break it down
So follow me, I’ll show you how
All the people gather round now
All the people break it down now
There is nothing stopping you
There is nothing stopping me
So let that beat control your body, baby
There is nothing stopping you
There is nothing stopping me
So let that beat control your body, baby
All the people gather round now (So let that beat control your body. baby)
All the people break it down now (So let that beat control your body, baby)
The beat
The beat
The beat
The beat
Lyrics submitted by mrs-mojo-risin
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this is one of the most addicting songs i have ever heard. i'm pissed it won't be on their new album!
omg i love this!
it may not be on their upcoming album but it's on itunes :) they just put it up today.
such a great song.
Just buy the EP. It's pretty cool. It's definatley alot different then what they have put out before. Very twee, but i like it!
so ill be honest first listen- i hated it. it's def not their normal sound a lot poppier and dancier. they've always been a pop group, but this 1 million times poppier than the previous albums. on further listening, though, it is a good pop song. lyrics suck. but it is a fun song. if you want the best song from the new ep, though, i suggest cacophony.
this song makes me so happy. screw what everyone else says, let's just dance :)
yeah seriously, i love this song it's the first tilly song i ever heard and its amazing. great to listen to when you're feeling down.
Glad people here like it. I've heard from a lot of folks that they hate it. So what if T&TW wanna write a dance song?? And it's good, so whatev.