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"
We wasted so many truths
That we depend
On getting by
Another lie
On every other thing that dies
And as his voice beckons out
I hear the end
The end of trauma slowly setting in
My body seems to stop and freeze
Stop
Well I just dance the way I feel
Stop breathing
Imagine none of this is real
Imagine none of this is real
Well I just dance the way I feel
Well I just dance the way I feel
Well I just dance the way I feel
A simple crowd makes a movement on my space
I'm lashing out
I'm crashing down
On all the people in my way
I'm banning all of these ??? from this place
This place is ruined been affected
After all the time I paid
Stop
Well I just dance the way I feel
Stop breathing
Imagine none of this is real
Imagine none of this is real
Well I just dance the way I feel
Stop
Well I just dance the way I feel
Stop
Well I just dance the way I feel
Moving on to someone else
You're always open with yourself
But no one
I talk to no one
Always falling short of help
I choose to take this by myself
And go
And I just go
Stop
Well I just dance the way I feel
Stop breathing
Imagine none of this real
Imagine none of this real
Well I just dance the way I feel
Stop
Stop
Well I just dance the way I feel
That we depend
On getting by
Another lie
On every other thing that dies
And as his voice beckons out
I hear the end
The end of trauma slowly setting in
My body seems to stop and freeze
Stop
Well I just dance the way I feel
Stop breathing
Imagine none of this is real
Imagine none of this is real
Well I just dance the way I feel
Well I just dance the way I feel
Well I just dance the way I feel
A simple crowd makes a movement on my space
I'm lashing out
I'm crashing down
On all the people in my way
I'm banning all of these ??? from this place
This place is ruined been affected
After all the time I paid
Stop
Well I just dance the way I feel
Stop breathing
Imagine none of this is real
Imagine none of this is real
Well I just dance the way I feel
Stop
Well I just dance the way I feel
Stop
Well I just dance the way I feel
Moving on to someone else
You're always open with yourself
But no one
I talk to no one
Always falling short of help
I choose to take this by myself
And go
And I just go
Stop
Well I just dance the way I feel
Stop breathing
Imagine none of this real
Imagine none of this real
Well I just dance the way I feel
Stop
Stop
Well I just dance the way I feel
Lyrics submitted by gothic_hobbit
Dance The Way I Feel Lyrics as written by Joseph Louis Hutchinson Charlie Haddon
Lyrics © Global Talent Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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This is such a good song. To me, it's about letting go, dancing, forgetting.
RIP Charlie Haddon - Tragically lost his life jumping from a mast backstage at Pukkelpop 2010
an simple crowd makes an move and on my space i'm lashing out i'm crashing down on other people in my way
that is the most brutal segment of this song considering a)the song is about his battle with depression and suicide b)the reason he killed himself was because he crashed down on a girl doing a stage dive.
its like he made his suicide a piece of his music The best song i have ever heard, speaks to the Y gen like no other song. We are a very temperamental generation and we don't care about alot but we just dance the way we feel.
I think that this song is talking about how he is depressed and wants to commit suicide, but when he dances, he forgets about all of it and feels free. He becomes lost in the music as if that's the only thing that matters and he is happy. RIP Charles Haddon
Obviously about suicide. So sad, considering he's dead now. RIP Charlie. :( But the lyrics are about suicide- and as his voice beckons out i hear the end the end of trauma slowly setting in my body seems to stop and freeze
God calling?? I dunno but pretty depressing lyrics. i talk to no one always falling short of help i choose to take this by myself and go and i just go
Same for that again, falling short of help. amazing song, beautiful vocals. This band could've been amazing. So sad.
It's I'm banning all of these OBJECTS from this place..cheers..Matt.
Was just watching a video of this track the other day and it had the lyrics at the bottom and this time it said "I'm banning all of these HABITS from this place"!! And I was just thinking the other day that it could say "I'm banning all of these ADDICTS from this place", which could also work...so rather than help the situation, I've now offered three possibilities in order to further complicate the issue...story of my life!!!
this guy is a old skool raver whom feels the same way i do when i go out dancing.. every one gets in your way while dancing these days at festivals no one is dancing in lines anymore!!!!! so just dance the way you feel, dance hard and if you elbow them they will move soon enough!!!! fuck being nice these days!
we wasted so many truths that we depend on getting by another lie on every other thing that dies (the happy party vibe is what died) thats what this song is about!!!