MICROBIOLOGY

This is love and I know it.
It's the best I can show it.
I take it slow.
Slower.
Get to know,
know her.

This is love and I know it.
That's the best I can show it.
We can take it slow.
Slower.
Get to know,
each other.

This is about two different people. The first verse is about one person and the second is about another. It didn't start out that way. I originally just started singing with my guitar in hands. And I was really singing about one person. However, as with life, it changed. I found myself in a completely different situation.

I'll go line by line:

"This is love and I know it," is simply a declarative. I had this feeling and I wanted to express it. I was fiddling around with the guitar sound, the thought hit me, and I had to just say what it was.
"It's the best I can show it." At first, this just seemed to me to the most obvious conclusion to the previous statement. It went through a few transformations. Then as I looked further into myself and brought the song out, I decided that the words should definitely be "It's the best I can show it." I thought that fit best because the pronoun would refer to the subject in the previous sentence. The subject would be love. And the best I can show love is love. I can show it by saying, "This is love." I'm also aware that the prounoun, "it's" could also refer to the first word in the first line, "This". Since the meaning of "This" hasn't been defined yet, I was appreciative of the dual meaning. To me, the love is the best I can show of a loosely defined "it", rather than an ambiguous "This" being shown.
"I take it slow. Slower." To be honest, this line was almost a justification. I could have said, "I'm a shy little boy inside and somehow still extremely intimidated by intimacy no matter how much I want it to happen." I thought some doublespeak would work better. And it certainly describes the situation at hand.
"Get to know,
know her."
It's really just an elaboration of the previous statement. At the same time, it's a definition of my desire. Getting to know somebody is what I was after in this instance. Also, "getting to know somebody" has it's own implications. Those implications seemed to me to be the best way of qualifying the previous line.

The second verse starts out with a repeat of the first line from the first verse. Same basic principal. Well, same basic sentence, too. However, the second line changes it a bit. It's different from the first because I say, "That's the best I can show it." Here, the idea was that the simple declarative in the first line was the best I could do to express my feelings. It's also indicative of a specific situation. I was actually having a conversation with somebody about the intensity of my feelings and it didn't go out that well. So, to me the "best I could show it" was to sing it about it days or weeks later. It's also relevant because of the fact that the person I was talking to wasn't receptive. The problem wasn't only that I was trying to say something difficult to discuss, but also that I was trying to say it to somebody who didn't know how to listen.
"We can take it slow.
Slower.
Get to know,
each other."
The last four lines are a description of the situation, in much the same way the final four lines in the first verse are descriptions of the prior circumstance. The first line here reads in my head, "We can take it slow." The position I occupied at the time was very different from what was described in the first verse. I was much more the aggressor in this case. The difference between the extremes is why I chose to talk about my experiences with these people in this song. In the first verse, I'm struggling with my shyness. I want to say something and I am insecure about it. However, in the second verse, I recognize the problem with not being so shy. The problem is defined in the last two lines of the song. The complication is not simply that you might miss something, but also that the other person may have also missed something. That is what I mean when I say "Get to know each other." It's always important that somebody else be allowed time to get to know you as well, for your own sake and their's.


Love,
Samuel