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Stop For A Minute Lyrics

Oh oooh whoaa oooh
WHoaa ohhh oh-oh

Keane
Some days, feels my soul has left my body
Feel I’m floating high above me
Like I’m looking down upon me
(oooh oooh)

Start sinking, everytime I get to thinking
It’s easier to keep on moving
Never stop to let the truth in
(oooh oooh)

K'naan
Sometimes I feel like it’s all been done
Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one
Sometimes I wanna change everything I’ve ever done
Too tired to fight and yet too scared to run

Chorus : Keane
And if I stop for a minute
I think about things I really don’t wanna know
And I’m the first to admit it
Without you I’m a liner stranded in an ice floe

yeah!

K'naan
I feel like I’m a thief who has no faith
Maybe more than by the grade
Of the drugs you took that day

Sinking in the pain he’s been inflicting
Yet he’s feeling like the victim
Just a horoscope’s to blame

Keane
Sometimes I feel like a little lost child
Sometimes I feel like the chosen one
Sometimes I wanna shout out ’til everything goes quiet
Sometimes I wonder why I was ever born

Chorus : Keane
And if I stop for a minute
I think about things really I don’t wanna know
And I’m the first to admit it
Without you I’m child and so wherever you go
I will follow

K'naan
And baby you are just beautiful from crown to your cuticles
You held down my two sons
you never frown when duty calls
You know me,
I gave you more than you can handle
But you still keep a handle on it
even when I take something beautiful and vandal on it
No more females?
Well how come my emails got notes on a scandal
It’s like Eve with the apple,
A priest in the chapel
Overcome by the devil’s tackle
I’m still shackling the bad til I know

Keane
And if I stop for a minute
I think about things I really don’t wanna know

K'naan
So I guess I’m just a fiend
Consumed by the scene

Keane
And I’m the first to admit it
Without you I’m a liner stranded in an ice floe

K'naan
The stage and the screens
Where it’s just me and Keane

oooh oooh
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I absolutley love this song although i really dont know what it means so can someone tell me?

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I think the general message is that if you stop for a minute (no shit) and think about your life, you might realise things about yourself that can be hard to come to terms with, like realisations about yourself...

Cover art for Stop For A Minute lyrics by Keane

I can't believe there aren't more comments on this song, I love it. It's definitely about stopping and having introspective moments, thinking about yourself.

The lines "Without you i'm a child/ liner stranded in an ice floe" completely make this song, because with them, you realize that when he "stops for a minute", what he thinks about )and it's kind of a frightening thought, sometimes, to need someone that much) is that he absolutely needs this other person, to help him find direction.

At least, that's how I see it, and that's how I want to see it. He needs this person (K'Naan's part makes it pretty clear this is a lover he's talking about, in my opinion, they give him direction and help him out with everything, he feels lost without them. I think it's a sweet thought.

I don't know what the individual lines all mean, but this is the general idea.

Cover art for Stop For A Minute lyrics by Keane

"Sinking in the pain he's been inflicting Yet he's feeling like the victim Just a horoscope's to blame"

I like this verse. It think it's basically saying people who act negatively to other people wonder why they themselves get treated that way. And they end up blaming it things other than themselves. Hence, "just the horoscope's to blame". It's basically saying they think that they aren't the ones causing their own pain.

Cover art for Stop For A Minute lyrics by Keane

Some of K'Naan's part was cut out (after "I'm still shackling..").

It's: "I'm such a hassle every time I let my thoughts go I get baffled so I hardly pause I just crossed seas with these gnarly broads Cos it hurts me just to see what I finally lost So I guess I'm just a fiend Consumed by the scene The stage and the screens Where it's just me and Keane"

I think it's about pausing and realizing how much you need God or Jesus or a higher power to help you out because without that help you wouldn't be where you were.

 
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