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"
Here in the world feel it flowing
River of life on a human journey
Don't be afraid of becoming the sea
Don't worry yourself, don't worry yourself
Don't worry yourself
Many stories will be left untold
But understand everything must go
Slow slow lover rub you down
We don't want no one hurting don't make a sound
Oh livin' is a journey, waking believing running
For shelter now, slow slow lover rub you down
We don't want no one hurting don't make a sound
Oh living is a journey, waking believing running
What's that you do you're running around
There's people that need you and you're letting down
And when it's time to care you always leave town
Don't hurry yourself, don't hurry yourself
Don't hurry yourself
There's some wildness there and mercy
It's the emptiness we love touching
Slow slow lover rub you down
We don't want no one hurting don't make a sound
Oh livin' is a journey, waking believing running
For shelter now, slow slow lover rub you down
We don't want no one hurting don't make a sound
Oh living is a journey, waking believing running
Give thanks and praise for good things you found
Humble people not ashamed nor proud
And always try to keep your feet on the ground
And love yourself
Slow slow lover rub you down
We don't want no one hurting don't make a sound
Oh livin' is a journey, waking believing running
For shelter now, slow slow lover rub you down
We don't want no one hurting don't make a sound
Oh living is a journey, waking believing running
River of life on a human journey
Don't be afraid of becoming the sea
Don't worry yourself, don't worry yourself
Don't worry yourself
Many stories will be left untold
But understand everything must go
Slow slow lover rub you down
We don't want no one hurting don't make a sound
Oh livin' is a journey, waking believing running
For shelter now, slow slow lover rub you down
We don't want no one hurting don't make a sound
Oh living is a journey, waking believing running
What's that you do you're running around
There's people that need you and you're letting down
And when it's time to care you always leave town
Don't hurry yourself, don't hurry yourself
Don't hurry yourself
There's some wildness there and mercy
It's the emptiness we love touching
Slow slow lover rub you down
We don't want no one hurting don't make a sound
Oh livin' is a journey, waking believing running
For shelter now, slow slow lover rub you down
We don't want no one hurting don't make a sound
Oh living is a journey, waking believing running
Give thanks and praise for good things you found
Humble people not ashamed nor proud
And always try to keep your feet on the ground
And love yourself
Slow slow lover rub you down
We don't want no one hurting don't make a sound
Oh livin' is a journey, waking believing running
For shelter now, slow slow lover rub you down
We don't want no one hurting don't make a sound
Oh living is a journey, waking believing running
Lyrics submitted by Livin_and_Rockin420
Running Lyrics as written by Tim Mahoney Douglas Martinez
Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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i agree with the grey fool.. haha that sounds funny. i also think it’s about taking notice of the things around you during the journey down the river of life (“don’t hurry yourself” which I think is the actual wording during the second verse)… like how you would notice the nice things if you took a journey down a river or if you were running… which I always related to because I used to run a lot and running was very calming like this song.