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"
Too long and too little
Tell me when you gonna bring it on
Small fights and big stages
Never terrified enough to run
It's here and I can hear it
I can see it like a setting sun
This feeling I can take it
I take it in and then I move along
All lined up and built for pressure
(Step up, I'm on it)
Say your peace like it's the end
(Stand back, we're movin')
Low down or in the middle
Ain't enough to make me satisfied
It's all, all or nothing
Always starting on the highest high
You asked, so now you take it
I'll be gone before you hit your knees
Some things sting forever
Even if you never really bleed
All lined up and built for pressure
(Step up, I'm on it)
Say your peace like it's the end
(Stand back, we're movin')
One more push and this is over
(Stay down, you're done)
Hallelujah brother come on in (Amen)
All lined up and built for pressure
(Step up, I'm on it)
Say your peace like it's the end
(Stand back, we're movin')
One more push and this is over
(Stay down, you're done)
Hallelujah brother come on in (Amen)
Tell me when you gonna bring it on
Small fights and big stages
Never terrified enough to run
It's here and I can hear it
I can see it like a setting sun
This feeling I can take it
I take it in and then I move along
All lined up and built for pressure
(Step up, I'm on it)
Say your peace like it's the end
(Stand back, we're movin')
Low down or in the middle
Ain't enough to make me satisfied
It's all, all or nothing
Always starting on the highest high
You asked, so now you take it
I'll be gone before you hit your knees
Some things sting forever
Even if you never really bleed
All lined up and built for pressure
(Step up, I'm on it)
Say your peace like it's the end
(Stand back, we're movin')
One more push and this is over
(Stay down, you're done)
Hallelujah brother come on in (Amen)
All lined up and built for pressure
(Step up, I'm on it)
Say your peace like it's the end
(Stand back, we're movin')
One more push and this is over
(Stay down, you're done)
Hallelujah brother come on in (Amen)
Lyrics submitted by xOdad_jianx
Step Up (I'm On It) Lyrics as written by Jacob David Bunton Dallas Taliafello Taylor
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing
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