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"
Hey
Shut up and let me go
This hurts, I tell you so
For the last time you will kiss my lips
Now shut up and let me go
Your jeans were once so clean
I bet you changed your wardrobe since we met
Now, oh so easily you're over me
Gone is love
It's you that ought to be holding me
I'm not containable
This time love is not sustainable
I ain't freakin'
I ain't fakin' this
I ain't freakin'
I ain't fakin' this
I ain't freakin'
I ain't fakin' this
Shut up and let me go
Hey
Shut up and let me go
This hurts, well, I can't show
For the last time you had me in bits
Now shut up and let me go
For fear of living in regret
I've changed since from when we first met
Now, oh so easily you're over me
Gone is love
It's me that ought to be moving on
You're not adorable
I want something un-ignorable
I ain't freakin'
I ain't fakin' this
I ain't freakin'
I ain't fakin' this
I ain't freakin'
I ain't fakin' this
Shut up and let me go
Hey
Oh, love, hold this
Hey
Hey
Shut up and let me go
This hurts, I told you so
For the last time you will kiss my lips
Now shut up and let me go
Hey
Shut up and let me go
This hurts, I tell you so
For the last time you will kiss my lips
Now shut up and let me go
Your jeans were once so clean
I bet you changed your wardrobe since we met
Now, oh so easily you're over me
Gone is love
It's you that ought to be holding me
I'm not containable
This time love is not sustainable
I ain't freakin'
I ain't fakin' this
I ain't freakin'
I ain't fakin' this
I ain't freakin'
I ain't fakin' this
Shut up and let me go
Hey
Shut up and let me go
This hurts, well, I can't show
For the last time you had me in bits
Now shut up and let me go
For fear of living in regret
I've changed since from when we first met
Now, oh so easily you're over me
Gone is love
It's me that ought to be moving on
You're not adorable
I want something un-ignorable
I ain't freakin'
I ain't fakin' this
I ain't freakin'
I ain't fakin' this
I ain't freakin'
I ain't fakin' this
Shut up and let me go
Hey
Oh, love, hold this
Hey
Hey
Shut up and let me go
This hurts, I told you so
For the last time you will kiss my lips
Now shut up and let me go
Hey
Lyrics submitted by mrcleaver, edited by SwordslingerXx, kaleidoscopeeyes8, jaybles22
Shut Up and Let Me Go Lyrics as written by Jules De Martino Katie White
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Peermusic Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Love this song, discovered it through the new Apple ad.
It's definitely about a breakup. For some reason, the guy left her and said she didn't mean anything to him anymore, thus "Now oh so easily your over me / Gone is love."
However, the guy comes back to apologize, but the girl is in the process of moving on. The idea that he wants back is tempting ("It's you that ought to be holding me") but she knows that she needs to move on. This battled between herself is hurting her ("This hurts I told you so") She says that he was attracted to her, and that he was never really attractive to her ("You're not adorable / I was something unignorable.") And so, she tells him "shut up and let me go"
I think it's about an abrubt break up or maybe it's like after a break up and someones still trying to hold on and she just wants move on.
i agree
I definitely agree with nikooru, that's exactly how I interpreted it. this song is fantastic.
iPod song! I like this band... :)
i really really dont like 'thats not my name' but i really really like this song!
It's damn catchy really - I can't stop listening to it!
No big implicit lyrics here - very self explanatory. They break up, he broke her heart, he wants her back - she's having none of it as she's over him and can see right through him.
Singer is a babe. Really cute
katie is sooooooo pretty. and i love this song immensely.
well the song is catchy, but im gonna spell it out here... this song is about a resentful bitch who thought the relationship at her control, but then the guy leaves and she realizes that shes the one caught up in it and denies it believing hes the one that she feel like this because she was too good for him
nikooru has it exactly correct. this song basically is my life right now. stupid exboyfriends. >:[