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"
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And I hope you feel my pain
Hope you don't forget my name
For the cause I claim Reason I came,
Tell me, was in all in vain
I walk all in chain
For the midnight rain
I sing And the man would say
Stop the music playing loud and clear
Instead I wanna hear
Oh lord that I wanna hear
Buts its loud and clear
And its deep inside my soul
(For dam nations near)
(pnc)
Yeah raise some hands say my name and let it rain X4
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And I refuse to lose
No I never been a type to quit
Ill properly give it now
And just turn back around
And that's one of many differences
Because I don't care what the distance is
I told you ill take it all the way
I couldn't just walk away
And just pretend like I don't have more to say
Stop the music playing low and clear
Instead I wanna hear
Oh lord that I wanna hear
Buts it's loud and clear
And its deep inside my soul
They can't hold me down no more
They got to let me go .
(pnc)
Raise some hands say my name and let it rain X4
(scribe)
Cause I know what I got to do
I couldn't stop now even if I wanted to
They told me give it up its impossible
And if I bury my head in the sand like the ostriches do
And I'm young and I still got a lot to prove
Can't stop won't stop unstoppable
Elevated broken down all obstacles
Until I head a voice from other side of the room Telling me to
Stop the music playing low and clear
Instead I wanna hear
Oh lord that I wanna hear
Buts it's loud and clear
And its deep inside my soul
They can't hold me down no more
They got to let me go
(For dam nations near)
(pnc)
Yeah raise some hands say my name and let it rain X8
And I hope you feel my pain
Hope you don't forget my name
For the cause I claim Reason I came,
Tell me, was in all in vain
I walk all in chain
For the midnight rain
I sing And the man would say
Stop the music playing loud and clear
Instead I wanna hear
Oh lord that I wanna hear
Buts its loud and clear
And its deep inside my soul
(For dam nations near)
(pnc)
Yeah raise some hands say my name and let it rain X4
(scribe)
And I refuse to lose
No I never been a type to quit
Ill properly give it now
And just turn back around
And that's one of many differences
Because I don't care what the distance is
I told you ill take it all the way
I couldn't just walk away
And just pretend like I don't have more to say
Stop the music playing low and clear
Instead I wanna hear
Oh lord that I wanna hear
Buts it's loud and clear
And its deep inside my soul
They can't hold me down no more
They got to let me go .
(pnc)
Raise some hands say my name and let it rain X4
(scribe)
Cause I know what I got to do
I couldn't stop now even if I wanted to
They told me give it up its impossible
And if I bury my head in the sand like the ostriches do
And I'm young and I still got a lot to prove
Can't stop won't stop unstoppable
Elevated broken down all obstacles
Until I head a voice from other side of the room Telling me to
Stop the music playing low and clear
Instead I wanna hear
Oh lord that I wanna hear
Buts it's loud and clear
And its deep inside my soul
They can't hold me down no more
They got to let me go
(For dam nations near)
(pnc)
Yeah raise some hands say my name and let it rain X8
Lyrics submitted by missmuckjjj
Stop the Music Lyrics as written by Taina Rangi Keelan Sam Luke Hansen
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Hipgnosis Songs Group
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Score, first post. Love this song, catchy as hell, good beat, cool little voice that says stop the msuic playing loud and clear... legend song basically about everyone trying to stop him from playing his music
it sucks
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LOL thank god there trying to stop him from singing, because his voice is crap, it does have a good beat though
these lyrics are wrong. the song is great, but these aren't the correct lyrics. well... not all of it, but it sure is messed up...