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"
Oh, hey, what a moment you have brought me to?
Such a freedom I have found in you
You're the healer who makes all things new, yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm not going back, I'm moving ahead
Here to declare to you my past is over in you
All things are made new, surrendered my life to Christ
I'm moving, moving forward, oh
You have risen with all power in your hands
You have given me a second chance
Hallelujah, hallelujah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, oh
I'm not going back, I'm moving ahead
Here to declare to you my past is over in you
All things are made new, surrendered my life to Christ
I'm moving
Not going back, moving ahead
Here to declare to you, my past is over in you
All things are made new, surrendered my life to Christ
I'm moving, moving forward
Said I'm moving forward, oh yeah
Singing you make all things new
Yes, you make all things new and I will follow you forward, oh
You make all things new
You make all things new and I will follow you forward
You make all things new (you make all things new)
You make all things new (you make all things new)
Yeah, and I will follow you, said I will follow you, said I will follow you, oh
You make all things new (you make all things new)
Yes, you make all things new and I will follow you forward
Oh, I will follow, follow, oh, oh
Such a freedom I have found in you
You're the healer who makes all things new, yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm not going back, I'm moving ahead
Here to declare to you my past is over in you
All things are made new, surrendered my life to Christ
I'm moving, moving forward, oh
You have risen with all power in your hands
You have given me a second chance
Hallelujah, hallelujah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, oh
I'm not going back, I'm moving ahead
Here to declare to you my past is over in you
All things are made new, surrendered my life to Christ
I'm moving
Not going back, moving ahead
Here to declare to you, my past is over in you
All things are made new, surrendered my life to Christ
I'm moving, moving forward
Said I'm moving forward, oh yeah
Singing you make all things new
Yes, you make all things new and I will follow you forward, oh
You make all things new
You make all things new and I will follow you forward
You make all things new (you make all things new)
You make all things new (you make all things new)
Yeah, and I will follow you, said I will follow you, said I will follow you, oh
You make all things new (you make all things new)
Yes, you make all things new and I will follow you forward
Oh, I will follow, follow, oh, oh
Lyrics submitted by CantGoOnWithoutYourLove
Moving Forward Lyrics as written by Roger Sanchez Israel Houghton
Lyrics © Capitol CMG Publishing, Integrity Music
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I just love this songgg!! Hes played this at my church a couple times and it was just amazingg! This song is pretty self explanatory. It's just about never going back to your old ways and realizing that God makes you new and He erases your past and all you have to do is just move forward with Him and surrender your life to Him. I just ADORE this song!!