[Verse 1] In your eyes, there's a heavy blue One to love, and one to lose
Sweet divide, a heavy truth Water or wine, don't make me choose ●Water and wine can also depict “a hard choice to be made”. Human need water to live, but the taste of wine is irresistible. The condition of “you are forced to choose the only drink you can drink for the rest of your life” can emphasize the metaphor better.
[Pre-Chorus] I wanna feel the way that we did that summer night, night Drunk on a feeling, alone with the stars in the sky ●“Wolves” could draw inspiration from Selena’s on-again, off-again relationship with Justin Bieber. The pair dated from 2011 to 2014, but they seem to keep coming back to each other.
[Chorus] I've been running through the jungle
I've been running with the wolves ●Some fans believe “Wolves” is about Selena’s ongoing struggle with the autoimmune disease Lupus, which she was diagnosed with in 2013–mainly because “wolf” in Latin is “Lupus.”
To get to you, to get to you I've been down the darkest alleys Saw the dark side of the moon To get to you, to get to you
I've looked for love in every stranger ●Selena explains how she looks for love in anyone, expressing the fact that she is lonely and how she just wants to feel something.
Took too much to ease the anger ●“Took too much” might refer to the fact that she abused substances (i.e. drugs and/or alcohol) to try to forget the pain of what she went through.
All for you, yeah, all for you I've been running through the jungle I've been crying with the wolves To get to you, to get to you, to get to you
[Drop] To get to you To get to you
[Verse 2] Your fingertips trace my skin To places I have never been Blindly, I am following Break down these walls and come on in
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[Pre-Chorus] I wanna feel the way that we did that summer night, night Drunk on a feeling, alone with the stars in the sky
[Chorus] I've been running through the jungle I've been running with the wolves To get to you, to get to you I've been down the darkest alleys Saw the dark side of the moon To get to you, to get to you I've looked for love in every stranger Took too much to ease the anger All for you, yeah, all for you I've been running through the jungle I've been crying with the wolves To get to you, to get to you, to get to you
[Drop] To get to you To get to you
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Credit: @marshmellomusic on Instagram
[Chorus] I've been running through the jungle I've been running with the wolves To get to you, to get to you I've been down the darkest alleys Saw the dark side of the moon To get to you, to get to you I've looked for love in every stranger Took too much to ease the anger All for you, yeah, all for you I've been running through the jungle I've been crying with the wolves To get to you, to get to you, to get to you
MEANINGS/STORY
Selena Gomez: This was a song that I heard in Japan for the first time, and I was talking to Andrew Watt who is one of the writers I worked with for years, and he actually just played me a rough version and I thought it was really beautiful, and he sent it to Marshmello and created a really cool tone and a story with it, and the song is very beautiful and personal and the lyrics just have a whole story of its own. Weirdly, at the same time I was working on it in Japan, I was going through stuff, too, so it’s mirrored everything (credits to genius.com)
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