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"
They say love blind, so why can't I picture this girl mine?
Yea I dig her but I figure, I'm wasting this girl time
I'm running from relationships, scared to commit
Mad at monogamy, sexually, I'm a misfit
But this shit's, way too much fo me
Usually I can take'em and make'em a cut buddy
Yo mama probably see me, and say that I'm no good
I was born in the burbs, I was raised in the hood
We from two separate sides of life, two different backgrounds
Shawty been legit and I just started to rap now
I ain't tryin' to act now, I'm being real with you
Really, I just wanted to kick it and chill with you
But the picture got bigger, 'fo I could even paint it
Thoughts got deeper befo' a nigga could think
A player like me on this, strange ain't it?
One thing bout yo feelins is this, you can't change it
Yo perception on me, I don't think I can maintain
We flirting with disaster, this game we playing is dangerous
You the best thing that happened since I don became famous
But sometimes I think we should of remained strangers
[Chorus: Jazze Pha]
I, I chose you baby
(Stay with me now, stay with me, sing it for me shawty)
I, I, I, I, I chose you baby
(Ah, come on, uh, uh, uh see'mon)
I like you to pursue, but still I respect it to let it go
Give it time, give it room to breathe and let it grow
I'll just tell her when I'm ready to change, I'll let her know
Hate to say it, but til then be friends and nothing mo
Even though another time, another life, anotha place
I swear I know we could of been great
But rather than great, you lil' heart take the smile of yo face
So I can treat you right, I'm willing ta wait
And ain't shit fake, I know it sound funny coming from a felon
But I think I got a piece of was up in heaven
So to keep from, blocking mah blessings, think I better back up
Last thing a nigga need now is bad luck
But if my life was perfect shawty, I'da had her
I guess, I guess I don't deserve it, ballas tell me you ain't worth it
So I gots to hit the surface, I'll holla when I holla
Act like I don't want to see ya, and I'on want to call'er
[Chorus: x2]
Yea I dig her but I figure, I'm wasting this girl time
I'm running from relationships, scared to commit
Mad at monogamy, sexually, I'm a misfit
But this shit's, way too much fo me
Usually I can take'em and make'em a cut buddy
Yo mama probably see me, and say that I'm no good
I was born in the burbs, I was raised in the hood
We from two separate sides of life, two different backgrounds
Shawty been legit and I just started to rap now
I ain't tryin' to act now, I'm being real with you
Really, I just wanted to kick it and chill with you
But the picture got bigger, 'fo I could even paint it
Thoughts got deeper befo' a nigga could think
A player like me on this, strange ain't it?
One thing bout yo feelins is this, you can't change it
Yo perception on me, I don't think I can maintain
We flirting with disaster, this game we playing is dangerous
You the best thing that happened since I don became famous
But sometimes I think we should of remained strangers
[Chorus: Jazze Pha]
I, I chose you baby
(Stay with me now, stay with me, sing it for me shawty)
I, I, I, I, I chose you baby
(Ah, come on, uh, uh, uh see'mon)
I like you to pursue, but still I respect it to let it go
Give it time, give it room to breathe and let it grow
I'll just tell her when I'm ready to change, I'll let her know
Hate to say it, but til then be friends and nothing mo
Even though another time, another life, anotha place
I swear I know we could of been great
But rather than great, you lil' heart take the smile of yo face
So I can treat you right, I'm willing ta wait
And ain't shit fake, I know it sound funny coming from a felon
But I think I got a piece of was up in heaven
So to keep from, blocking mah blessings, think I better back up
Last thing a nigga need now is bad luck
But if my life was perfect shawty, I'da had her
I guess, I guess I don't deserve it, ballas tell me you ain't worth it
So I gots to hit the surface, I'll holla when I holla
Act like I don't want to see ya, and I'on want to call'er
[Chorus: x2]
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