Don’t Move

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Phantogram describes a close, if not intimate, relationship with someone suffering from addiction and severe anxiety. The chorus pleas for this turbulent person to stay… Read More

Nov. 1, 20111 viewer57.8K views

Don’t Move Lyrics

I'm not your nervous feeling
Each time we say goodnight
You picture buildings burning to the ground
From the basement to the streetlight
I'm not your drinking problem
A hole is in the sky
It's not your heart that you've been thinkin of
Just the feeling like you're gonna die

All you know how to do is
Shake shake
Keep your body still, keep your body still
All you do is
Shake shake shake
Keep your body still, keep your body still

I'm not your paranoia
When someone's at the door
Virgin fires calling out the throat of a body rising through the floor
I'm not your fortune teller
I'm not your spinning bed
I'm never like you
Uncomfortable too
This is starting to fuck with my head

All you know how to do is
Shake shake
Keep your body still, keep your body still
All you do is
Shake shake shake
Keep your body still, keep your body still

Don't you realize you're fine
Oh can't you see that you're fine
And know that you're still alive
You know that you're still alive
Oh don't you know you're alive
Don't you know you're alive
Burning in the sky

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Phantogram describes a close, if not intimate, relationship with someone suffering from addiction and severe anxiety. The chorus pleas for this turbulent person to stay still, to just be in peace, but this is frustratingly impossible.

The reasons for this person’s struggles are not directly disclosed, leaving the listener with an unresolved discomfort as one empathizes with the helplessness of the speaker to help this loved one and the day-to-day mental prison in which the speaker’s friend is living.