Can't Stop Now Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Silverdew 

Cover art for Can't Stop Now lyrics by Keane

I think it describes a person who places their relationship last on their list of priorities...they see the time spent with their partner as wasted time ("I noticed tonight that the world has been turning/While I've been stuck here dithering around"). Because of this they want to move on and do something more interesting, but feel that the other person is holding them back, so have to break it off first.

I guess for that explanation to fly they'd have to be lying when they said "I hate to let you down" and "It breaks my heart". Maybe they are lying. Men do that is not bitter at all... This song does relate too closely to my ex though.

I don't think that this is lying. You can regret something and it can break your heart to let someone down, but you just have to. People change. You can be sure of something in one moment but then the world is turning and you realize that you just can't take it anymore. You can drift away from a person without knowing it and if you already went far away in another direction, when you notice it, you can't stop anymore. This isn't wasted time, but it can happen that somebody moves on not noticing that the other one isn't following. You can be...