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"
I'll get the guns, the drugs
For my generation
I'll take the fall
The saints, across the nation
Yeah it's the sex, the Gods, the fakes, the frauds
They're messing with me
Come on, come on, come on
Let's get it on
Move to the music
Play that fucking music
Move it to the music yeah (Let's get it on)
Move to my music
Play that fucking music
Live through my music yeah
I'll get the guns, the drugs
To my generation
I'll take the fall
The saints, across the nation
Yeah it's the sex, the Gods, the freaks, the frauds
They're messing with me
Come on, come on, come on
Let's get it on
Move to the music
Play that fucking music
Move it to the music yeah (Let's get it on)
Move to my music
Play that fucking music
Live through my music yeah
Forget the lies, the money
We're in this together and through it all
They said that nothing's forever
Well they refused to see the change in me
Why won't they wake up?
Come on, come on, come on
Let's get it on
Move to the music
Play that fucking music
Move it to the music yeah (Let's get it on)
Move to my music
Play that fucking music
Live through my music yeah
Move to the music
Move it to the music yeah
Move to the music
Live through the music yeah
Move to the music
Move it to the music yeah
Move to my music
Live through my music yeah
Move to the music
Play that fucking music
Move it to the music yeah (Let's get it on)
Move to my music
Play that fucking music
Live through my music yeah
Move to the music
Play that fucking music
Move it to the music yeah (Let's get it on)
Move to my music
Play that fucking music
Live through my music yeah
For my generation
I'll take the fall
The saints, across the nation
Yeah it's the sex, the Gods, the fakes, the frauds
They're messing with me
Come on, come on, come on
Let's get it on
Move to the music
Play that fucking music
Move it to the music yeah (Let's get it on)
Move to my music
Play that fucking music
Live through my music yeah
I'll get the guns, the drugs
To my generation
I'll take the fall
The saints, across the nation
Yeah it's the sex, the Gods, the freaks, the frauds
They're messing with me
Come on, come on, come on
Let's get it on
Move to the music
Play that fucking music
Move it to the music yeah (Let's get it on)
Move to my music
Play that fucking music
Live through my music yeah
Forget the lies, the money
We're in this together and through it all
They said that nothing's forever
Well they refused to see the change in me
Why won't they wake up?
Come on, come on, come on
Let's get it on
Move to the music
Play that fucking music
Move it to the music yeah (Let's get it on)
Move to my music
Play that fucking music
Live through my music yeah
Move to the music
Move it to the music yeah
Move to the music
Live through the music yeah
Move to the music
Move it to the music yeah
Move to my music
Live through my music yeah
Move to the music
Play that fucking music
Move it to the music yeah (Let's get it on)
Move to my music
Play that fucking music
Live through my music yeah
Move to the music
Play that fucking music
Move it to the music yeah (Let's get it on)
Move to my music
Play that fucking music
Live through my music yeah
Lyrics submitted by a scar in the sky
Across The Nation Lyrics as written by James Alan Johnston Bryan Wayne Scott
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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that music is more then just beat.....its got emotion and shit
this song is full of emtion and it sums up this generation very welll from sex to religion. I see nothing wrong in this song and I hope more great songs follow.
Wow this song just makes me feel empowered...I don't know why. It's something to listen to when people piss you off and you need some theme music while you envision kicking their asses.
I like this song's beat and everything else in it. It's also the WWF Raw is War theme song.
naturally this is a song that pumps you up and kicks you in the ass from beginning to end like all other union tunes. but does anybody know where i can get an unedited version of this song
I think this song is supposed to be emotional and a pumped-up song, seeing as it is made for wrestling. Personally I'm not a wrestling fan but their choice of music has been really good lately. They need to put some unedited ones out on the 'net. I hate edited songs, especially when it's the only choice I have.
They are such a great band and they come from my city.The rock capital San Antonio,Texas . This song is great but I don't know what it means I heard it on the radio awhile back.
This is a good song, I love the verses, the chorus is a bit cheesey.
I also would like to hear it un-edited.
I think maybe it's about inspiration rock stars have for writing songs, or doing certain things. Sex, money, drugs, etc.
This song gets me pumped for RAW every monday. it's perfect and it fits great. Gotta love the lyrics.
The best part of the song is "and you refuse to see the change in me", which I can identify with because too many people cling to their previous view of the person I was, instead of the person I am now.