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"
I'm gonna make one hour in inte
Just a few minutes
I'm gonna get two days for the
Price of one
There's a one word rhyme
And that's called living
Thare's a one word love
Means plenty of giviing
I'm gonna give it 'til I'm done
But everybody keeps telling me to
Take it easy
But time doesn't sit down and wait
While I'm trying to get it done
But you're not me, thank god
You can take your time slowly
Makes me fell good just to watch
You lie down and have your fun
Take your time
Take your time
And I'll take my own time
(repeat 2x)
I can take it slowly or you can keep
Runnin' on runnin' on
When I put one foot in front of
The other
To me that doesn't mean walk that
Means run
I always want to start the race
Before the gates open
I always want to start the race
Before I hear the sound
Of the gun
But everybody keeps tellin' me to
Take it easy
But time doesn't sit down and wait
While I'm trying to get it done
But you're not me, thank god
You can take your time slowly
Makes me fell good just to watch
You lie down and have your fun
Take your time
Take your time
And I'll take my own time
And I'll take my own time
And I'll take my own time
And I'll take my own time
And I'll take my own time
And I'll take my own time
You say it'll take a you year
I say just take me a second
But there's room for both of us
Just open the room
You know a year of time sees so
Many changes
And the speed of light in the black
Of night
Makes a full moon
Just a few minutes
I'm gonna get two days for the
Price of one
There's a one word rhyme
And that's called living
Thare's a one word love
Means plenty of giviing
I'm gonna give it 'til I'm done
But everybody keeps telling me to
Take it easy
But time doesn't sit down and wait
While I'm trying to get it done
But you're not me, thank god
You can take your time slowly
Makes me fell good just to watch
You lie down and have your fun
Take your time
Take your time
And I'll take my own time
(repeat 2x)
I can take it slowly or you can keep
Runnin' on runnin' on
When I put one foot in front of
The other
To me that doesn't mean walk that
Means run
I always want to start the race
Before the gates open
I always want to start the race
Before I hear the sound
Of the gun
But everybody keeps tellin' me to
Take it easy
But time doesn't sit down and wait
While I'm trying to get it done
But you're not me, thank god
You can take your time slowly
Makes me fell good just to watch
You lie down and have your fun
Take your time
Take your time
And I'll take my own time
And I'll take my own time
And I'll take my own time
And I'll take my own time
And I'll take my own time
And I'll take my own time
You say it'll take a you year
I say just take me a second
But there's room for both of us
Just open the room
You know a year of time sees so
Many changes
And the speed of light in the black
Of night
Makes a full moon
Lyrics submitted by Major Valor
Take Your Time Lyrics as written by Grace Slick Peter Sears
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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