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"
Go slow.
So that I can hear everything you're sayin.
Now I know you're goin.
You just threw this away.
You know i ain't gonna take it.
Go Slow.
You know you ain't gonna make it.
I know.
I can't make you stay.
But I'll be hurtin from the heat.
Running from the heat.
Well, well, was it something that I said.
I know that it was something I said.
From your heat now.
I'm going crazy trying hard to forget.
You know I'm trying to hard forget.
From your heat now.
Oh I just wanna go back hold on to the way that I was
Cuz you took away all my young life.
And I hate who I've become from your heat now.
From your heat it's comin, comin.
I know.
I'm givin in and believin every lie.
For now, the moon, it's night.
I turn off the light.
But you should put the foundation.
Go slow.
Now.
With your intimidation.
I know.
You turn away now I'll be hurt from the heat.
Heat.
Running from the Heat.
Well, well, was it something that I said.
I know that it was something I said.
From your heat now.
I'm going crazy trying hard to forget.
You know I'm trying to hard forget.
From your heat now.
Oh I wanna go back hold on to the way that I was
cuz you took away all my young life.
And I hate who I've become from your heat now.
From your heat it's comin, comin.
From the heat now.
From the heat now, now, now, now.
Well, Well, was it something that I said.
I know that it was something I said.
From your heat now.
Well, I'm going crazy trying hard to forget.
You know I'm trying to hard forget.
From your heat now.
Oh I wanna go back hold on to the way that I was
cuz you took away all my young life.
And I hate who I've become from your heat now.
Go back...
Go back...
From your heat now.
I just wanna go back. Go back. Go back.
Go back...
Go back...
So that I can hear everything you're sayin.
Now I know you're goin.
You just threw this away.
You know i ain't gonna take it.
Go Slow.
You know you ain't gonna make it.
I know.
I can't make you stay.
But I'll be hurtin from the heat.
Running from the heat.
Well, well, was it something that I said.
I know that it was something I said.
From your heat now.
I'm going crazy trying hard to forget.
You know I'm trying to hard forget.
From your heat now.
Oh I just wanna go back hold on to the way that I was
Cuz you took away all my young life.
And I hate who I've become from your heat now.
From your heat it's comin, comin.
I know.
I'm givin in and believin every lie.
For now, the moon, it's night.
I turn off the light.
But you should put the foundation.
Go slow.
Now.
With your intimidation.
I know.
You turn away now I'll be hurt from the heat.
Heat.
Running from the Heat.
Well, well, was it something that I said.
I know that it was something I said.
From your heat now.
I'm going crazy trying hard to forget.
You know I'm trying to hard forget.
From your heat now.
Oh I wanna go back hold on to the way that I was
cuz you took away all my young life.
And I hate who I've become from your heat now.
From your heat it's comin, comin.
From the heat now.
From the heat now, now, now, now.
Well, Well, was it something that I said.
I know that it was something I said.
From your heat now.
Well, I'm going crazy trying hard to forget.
You know I'm trying to hard forget.
From your heat now.
Oh I wanna go back hold on to the way that I was
cuz you took away all my young life.
And I hate who I've become from your heat now.
Go back...
Go back...
From your heat now.
I just wanna go back. Go back. Go back.
Go back...
Go back...
Lyrics submitted by kattrina
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It's all about the "heat," the passion, the pressure, the immediacy, all the extremes that contrast so well with the languid-esque nature of the music, itself. The lyrics "heat" is even built up and crescendo-ed upon repetition.
"Oh, I just want to go back, hold on, to the way that I was, 'cause you took away all my young life, and I hate what I've become." Not a line you throw away nonchalantly.
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This is also my fave song on the album. I connect to this song so much because for me it literally describes my relationship with my ex when we broke up.
To start off..the first verse to me is the break-up. "Go slow so that I can hear everythin your saying." Someone dealing with the news that it's over. They're realizing they can't do anything at this point to try to make the other person stay and they're having a hard time accepting it."Just threw this away" Sounds like just one bump in the road and the other person didn't care enough to make this work which pains the other person even more.
The heat for me is the pain. What came from this break-up. And they're trying to run away from it but all they can do is think about everything that has happened and it haunts them. They know they have to move on but it just hurts so much and because of it they've become someone else. Someone afraid and always in pain and unable to trust anyone again. They just want to be normal and happy again but because they put so much love into the relationship and got hurt because of it, they don't think they'll ever be the same.