Verse 1 begins telling the story of the song by introducing us to the personality side of Dan Reynolds that wants to accomplish something big. Verse 1 Falling too fast to prepare for this He wants to accomplish something with his life and doesn't want to give up until he's done it. But 'Whatever It Takes' for Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds is an ode to his own ambition. I think that if you had a title like 'Whatever It Takes' on another pop record, you'd think the song was going to be about a relationship and some guy telling some girl that he'd be there for her no matter what. I've already blogged about it and made a video explaining it, but it's time to get serious and to explain it line-by-line.
While waiting, I realized I hadn't blogged about 'Whatever It Takes' yet, so I decided I'd better give it a shot. We're moments away (at the time of the writing of this) from Imagine Dragons dropping Evolve and the seven songs from them that we haven't heard yet.