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"
So at my show on Monday
I was hoping someday
You'd be on your way to better things
It's not about your make-up
Or how you try to shape up
To these tiresome paper dreams
Paper dreams, honey
So now you pour your heart out
You're tellin' me you're far out
Not about to lie down for your cause
But you don't pull my strings
'Cause I'm a better man
Movin' onto better things
But, uh-oh, oh, I love her because
She moves in her own way
But, uh-oh, oh, she came to my show
Just to hear about my day
And at the show on Tuesday
She was in her mindset
Tempered furs and spangled boots
Looks are deceiving
Make me believe it
And these tiresome paper dreams
Paper dreams, honey, yeah
So won't you go far
Tell me you're a keeper
Not about to lie down for your cause
And you don't pull my strings
'Cause I'm a better man
Movin' onto better things
But, uh-oh, oh, I love her because
She moves in her own way
But, uh-oh, oh, she came to my show
Just to hear about my day
Yes, I wish that we never made it
Through all the summers
And kept them up instead of
Kickin' us back down to the suburbs
Yes, I wish that we never made it
Through all the summers
We kept them up instead of
Kickin' us back down to the suburbs
But, uh-oh, I love her because
She moves in her own way
But, uh-oh, she came to my show
Just to hear about my day
But, uh-oh, oh, I love her because
She moves in her own way
But, uh-oh, oh, she came to my show
Just to hear about my day
I was hoping someday
You'd be on your way to better things
It's not about your make-up
Or how you try to shape up
To these tiresome paper dreams
Paper dreams, honey
So now you pour your heart out
You're tellin' me you're far out
Not about to lie down for your cause
But you don't pull my strings
'Cause I'm a better man
Movin' onto better things
But, uh-oh, oh, I love her because
She moves in her own way
But, uh-oh, oh, she came to my show
Just to hear about my day
And at the show on Tuesday
She was in her mindset
Tempered furs and spangled boots
Looks are deceiving
Make me believe it
And these tiresome paper dreams
Paper dreams, honey, yeah
So won't you go far
Tell me you're a keeper
Not about to lie down for your cause
And you don't pull my strings
'Cause I'm a better man
Movin' onto better things
But, uh-oh, oh, I love her because
She moves in her own way
But, uh-oh, oh, she came to my show
Just to hear about my day
Yes, I wish that we never made it
Through all the summers
And kept them up instead of
Kickin' us back down to the suburbs
Yes, I wish that we never made it
Through all the summers
We kept them up instead of
Kickin' us back down to the suburbs
But, uh-oh, I love her because
She moves in her own way
But, uh-oh, she came to my show
Just to hear about my day
But, uh-oh, oh, I love her because
She moves in her own way
But, uh-oh, oh, she came to my show
Just to hear about my day
Lyrics submitted by Nuclear.Sky
She Moves In Her Own Way Lyrics as written by Luke Pritchard Hugh Murray Harris
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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