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"
Wake up, wake up, wake up
Do you feel the movement in your gut?
Just take two more pills
Of this, will be the last time
You've gotta make a hit,
You've gotta make it stick
Now, it's running through my blood
Yea, there's a fire that a ?word? that's been
Eating away at me
They wanna steal all my pride
They wanna steal all my dignity
I'm not gonna sit back (I'm not gonna sit back)
And let this one go ??
I don't want to move
I don't want to move slow, slow
I don't want to move
I don't want to move slow, slow
Well wake me up
When it's said and done
Cause I don't wanna be, no
No I don't want to be any part of this
Have you thought about
What we have been through
They say move faster
Can't hurry up
And give us the good one
Don't put up a fight
And don't make this any harder than it has to be
They wanna steal all my pride
They wanna steal all my dignity
I'm not gonna sit back, no
I just won't let this go ??
I don't want to move
I don't want to move slow, slow
I don't want to move
I don't want to move slow, slow
I don't want to move
I don't want to move slow, slow
I don't want to move
I don't want to move slow, slow
Do you feel the movement in your gut?
Just take two more pills
Of this, will be the last time
You've gotta make a hit,
You've gotta make it stick
Now, it's running through my blood
Yea, there's a fire that a ?word? that's been
Eating away at me
They wanna steal all my pride
They wanna steal all my dignity
I'm not gonna sit back (I'm not gonna sit back)
And let this one go ??
I don't want to move
I don't want to move slow, slow
I don't want to move
I don't want to move slow, slow
Well wake me up
When it's said and done
Cause I don't wanna be, no
No I don't want to be any part of this
Have you thought about
What we have been through
They say move faster
Can't hurry up
And give us the good one
Don't put up a fight
And don't make this any harder than it has to be
They wanna steal all my pride
They wanna steal all my dignity
I'm not gonna sit back, no
I just won't let this go ??
I don't want to move
I don't want to move slow, slow
I don't want to move
I don't want to move slow, slow
I don't want to move
I don't want to move slow, slow
I don't want to move
I don't want to move slow, slow
Lyrics submitted by Iheartstreaking
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Great song. Was this song on an album because its pretty good. The chorus almost seems to say that they dont want to move slow which would go against what duffman said which made seems. Maybe he means he doesnt want to move, but he wants to go slow. And the guitar solo is great, but a lot different than the usual saosin.