This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Just another Friday night
In the club on ladies night
Nothing really lookin' up
'Bout to bounce to another spot
She appeared across the bar
Such a bad ass superstar
Body like a race car
Can we share a drink its on me
[Chorus]
Pour a drink for my shorty right here
Throw it down
Give me the next dance
Cause I need me some ghetto romance
Tell your girls that you're rolling with me in the Bentley
And you had a change of plan
Cause you need you some ghetto romance
Sippin' Mo' and Alize
Tongue kissing
Thinking 'bout the love we could make
Gotta get her home
Gotta make her moan
Gotta think of all the right words to say
Incredible, so incredible
Break you down, make you purr like an animal
You make me wanna lay you on the bar
And give you this love, oh
You're so sexy
It's killing me
Every little move you make
The way you make it shake
The way you back into me
You're so lovely
The way you dance with me
Let's go back to the bar
And sip on something nice before we leave
[Chorus]
Just another Friday night
In the club on ladies night
Nothing really lookin up
'Bout to bounce to another spot
She appeared across the bar
Such a bad ass superstar
Body like a racecar
Can we share a drink its on me
Pour a drink for my shorty right here
Throw it down
Give me the next dance
Cause I need me some ghetto romance
Tell your girls that you're rolling with me in the Bentley
And you had a change of plan
Cause you need you some ghetto romance
Sippin' Mo and Alize
Tongue kissing
Thinking 'bout the love we could make
Gotta get her home
Gotta make her moan
Gotta think of all the right words to say
Incredible, so incredible
Break you down , make you pur like an animal
You make me wanna lay you on the bar
And give you this love, ohh
You're so sexy
It's killing me
Every little move you make
The way you make it shake
The way you back into me
You're so lovely
The way you dance with me
Let's go back to the bar
And sip on something nice before we leave
[Chorus]
In the club on ladies night
Nothing really lookin' up
'Bout to bounce to another spot
She appeared across the bar
Such a bad ass superstar
Body like a race car
Can we share a drink its on me
[Chorus]
Pour a drink for my shorty right here
Throw it down
Give me the next dance
Cause I need me some ghetto romance
Tell your girls that you're rolling with me in the Bentley
And you had a change of plan
Cause you need you some ghetto romance
Sippin' Mo' and Alize
Tongue kissing
Thinking 'bout the love we could make
Gotta get her home
Gotta make her moan
Gotta think of all the right words to say
Incredible, so incredible
Break you down, make you purr like an animal
You make me wanna lay you on the bar
And give you this love, oh
You're so sexy
It's killing me
Every little move you make
The way you make it shake
The way you back into me
You're so lovely
The way you dance with me
Let's go back to the bar
And sip on something nice before we leave
[Chorus]
Just another Friday night
In the club on ladies night
Nothing really lookin up
'Bout to bounce to another spot
She appeared across the bar
Such a bad ass superstar
Body like a racecar
Can we share a drink its on me
Pour a drink for my shorty right here
Throw it down
Give me the next dance
Cause I need me some ghetto romance
Tell your girls that you're rolling with me in the Bentley
And you had a change of plan
Cause you need you some ghetto romance
Sippin' Mo and Alize
Tongue kissing
Thinking 'bout the love we could make
Gotta get her home
Gotta make her moan
Gotta think of all the right words to say
Incredible, so incredible
Break you down , make you pur like an animal
You make me wanna lay you on the bar
And give you this love, ohh
You're so sexy
It's killing me
Every little move you make
The way you make it shake
The way you back into me
You're so lovely
The way you dance with me
Let's go back to the bar
And sip on something nice before we leave
[Chorus]
Lyrics submitted by KungFuChica
Ghetto Romance Lyrics as written by Timothy R. Kelly Joe L. Thomas
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
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