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"
A day in LA
And millions of faces
Are looking for movement
'Cause everything's stuck
And everything's frozen
And everyone's broken
And nobody moves
And everyone's scared
That the motion will never come
This is the incompletion
Stuck in a line
Love is the movement
Love is a revolution
This is redemption
We don't have to slow back down
The stars are alive
They dance to the music
Of the deepest emotion
And all of the world
Is singing in time
As the heavens are caving in
Mysterious ways
Why God gave His life
To put motion inside my soul
It's bigger than cold religion
It's bigger than life
We're starting now
We don't have to slow back down
This is a revolution
And millions of faces
Are looking for movement
'Cause everything's stuck
And everything's frozen
And everyone's broken
And nobody moves
And everyone's scared
That the motion will never come
This is the incompletion
Stuck in a line
Love is the movement
Love is a revolution
This is redemption
We don't have to slow back down
The stars are alive
They dance to the music
Of the deepest emotion
And all of the world
Is singing in time
As the heavens are caving in
Mysterious ways
Why God gave His life
To put motion inside my soul
It's bigger than cold religion
It's bigger than life
We're starting now
We don't have to slow back down
This is a revolution
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This song was inspired to the singer 'Jon' from 'The Chronicles of Narnia' every night his dad would read them to him, before he feel asleep. And this one part stuck in his head "'Cause everything's stuck And everything's frozen And everyone's broken" that is when they walk into the castle and all of them are frozen and cemented. It is from book 2 'The lion the witch and the wardrobe'
this song is about the gifts god will give u, to be loved by god is the greatest feeling
god put motion in my soul
thanks for the info specs. This my favorite Switchfoot song, it builds upon itself and climaxes w/ 2 different groups of people singing 2 seperate lyrical parts. Great Song.
wow this song=amazing. The lyrics and music each bringing their own emotion, combine so well together that it becomes an explosion of emotion. I love it.
Well, the Bible says God is Love, so maybe it's about God just moving you...giving your life meaning.
sometimes when can forget how amazing God's love is. It can become mundane, ceremonial, and too religious (like when he says "cold religion"). I think Jon was trying to make us remember that God's love is a movement that is meant to be exciting, celebrated, and enthusiastic. We can't take it for granite. It's so much bigger than everything.
the line"mysterious ways why God gave his life to put motion inside my soul"explains the song for me. God died because he LOVED us so much. this song is about loving the way God does. we are nothing without love, God's love.(everyone's frozen, stuck etc.,)we can do many things with the love of God. we have to start now.
We don't have to slow back down!
the song is straight forward. jon tells us that love is the movement. our kindness, our words, our love for other people is a beautiful movement. but some of us arent moving. we're stuck and afraid. when love is a big movement in the world, then it will be a revolution leading to redemption by many people. thats the beauty of love. on the other hand we can never fully grasp how great God's love is, its a rehearsal. love is a movement thats bigger than religion. its a hard song to understand; but it is such an amaing song jon has written.
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