Slow It Down

I’m sorry I’m not very good to write in English. This is my interpretation of this song, a very precious one for me. I think it’s about a girl and a boy who live relationships differently. Angie for me is a girl who don’t knows anything else then have sex with men, acting in public, smiling a lot, being always so happy. Everybody what to be her friend or what her body. She shinning and everybody what to have his part of light. But Angie is fragile, she reel inside, but nobody see that and when people have taking what they want, they left her there. She became too being cold, live a circle life where she make a show for everybody. Forgetting what reel love his, the softness and simple things.

The boy is one of rare who can feel all the fake attitude and he love her but it’s hard to see her act like this when it’s so simple for him, the simple happiness to have each other.

First verse is about how he feels beside her. He don’t appreciate the things she doing and the way she live. For him it’s dirty and that trouble him discover this make the love he have for her darker (velvet curtains don’t let sun pass by windows) and he sad.

The second verse for me talk about the love made for the lights, great love with passion romance. But I like the analyze of takatsch when you say kind of love who everybody see and admire, like on the spot light. The other kind of love for me is more like simple one, with no fireworks, kiss cheek and good night. The rest of the verse it’s more like she put red high heel to be seen by everyone and see look up his door with steel because she can’t share what she is. She lock up a lot of her inside self.

The Third verse it’s the harder for me to understand. Like she out again with other guys around her. And she will probably finish the night in one of these bedrooms. But he can’t see that because she won’t tell him. Smashed in my car window, like they will sleep whit her with no feelings, it is why they don’t touch the stereo, her heart where the music come from music make feelings…

He know that the key for her it’s to slow it down. Don’t have fast and animal sex. Just being soft and take time. Let him touch her, taste the simple things.

The fourth verse is about her comportment. She surely acting like she is the queen everywhere. She so comfortable every bar she go, smiling a lot, have subjective clothes. All the things that make everyone like her, want her. He want her to quit all this, he want to be the only one. To not have to be scare about other boys who want her for her fake show she always doing.

In the fifth verse But he know how she feel inside. She is so beautiful standing here real tall, like a queen, a beautiful girl, a precious one. She don’t care that much of these boys. They take what they want and she don’t want them to stay, not even for a cigarette. She don’t love easily.

For the six verse, they just go on with this relationship. They don’t look back of alle she doing and on what he don’t like. Like they are broken but they don’t fix anything. They decide to try to be a couple, love each other, but she didn’t know how and he don’t know how to teach her. So all just fall apart.

The end of the song just broke my heart. It’s like he talking to her. Like “we didn’t be able to love each other to fix you, to make you love you as I love you” something like that. Like he wanted so bad to build something with her, but that dosen’t work and now with time he see clearly what didn’t work. He know she have to slow it down, stop that fake show, be real, be able to show herself. He hope that she will be able someday and he tell her how. She may know went she acting fake and she have to want to change to live real love. Cause went she will feel real love, she will understand what it is.

what do you think?