Moonlight

[UndoingTheLaces]

I think the thing about running and slowing down was more inspired by the movie. If you haven't seen it, the vampires move at incredible speeds. And Bella is hanging out with the family and they have to protect her from the other vampires. So it's both literal and figurative. She wants to become a vampire so she can keep up with him, in speed and in life, and he's trying to slow down to match her speed, and to keep her young mind from rushing into a decision that could affect her for all eternity.

Plus, vampires are immortal so the average life span of a human to them must seem like a few weeks to us, they would have to view time in a different way.

And of course it works as a metaphor for the wild rock and roll lifestyle that Stevie's lived through and two people who want to be together but can't.

It works on many levels.