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"
Are you ready?
Are you ready?
[Chorus:]
I get shopping sprees off the heezy
I get dough to blow, please believe me
Don't want the one on one
Take it easy
You're just the jump-off
I'm his breezy
I'm the one who knows him the best
I'm his one and only, nothing less
You don't want to take it there
Don't you see
He told me he loves me
Calls me his breezy
Let me break it down, break it down
I got it on lock and
I think you better stop
I heard you been checking for my boo
Who do you think he is, busy giving your best shot
But you couldn't get a call back
And even after all that
Caught you at the mall for a throwback
That's big pimping but you
Wouldn't listen, he's mine
Not yours but a fall back
I get shopping sprees off the heezy (Off the heezy)
I get dough to blow, please believe me (Please believe me)
Don't want the one on one
Take it easy
You're just the jump-off
I'm his breezy
I'm the one who knows him the best
I'm his one and only, nothing less
You don't want to take it there
Don't you see
He told me he loves me
Calls me his breezy (I'm his breezy)
Now I'mma let ya know to your face
You need a hit the brakes
Your about to make a major mistake
I'm gonna call you out, no doubt
Let me spell it out
Baby you ain't nothing but a fake
Cause I know what you want
And you ain't gotta front
So go ahead and pull another stunt
Remember that it's me that he loves
All he's thinking of
I'm the only one that he wants
[Chorus]
Cause what we have is so real
It's more than just dollar bills
This living lavish
Wouldn't matter if I didn't have his heart
Sorry shorty, he's mine
Better luck next time
You can have it
But I'll still be his girl
[Chorus: x2]
Are you ready?
[Chorus:]
I get shopping sprees off the heezy
I get dough to blow, please believe me
Don't want the one on one
Take it easy
You're just the jump-off
I'm his breezy
I'm the one who knows him the best
I'm his one and only, nothing less
You don't want to take it there
Don't you see
He told me he loves me
Calls me his breezy
Let me break it down, break it down
I got it on lock and
I think you better stop
I heard you been checking for my boo
Who do you think he is, busy giving your best shot
But you couldn't get a call back
And even after all that
Caught you at the mall for a throwback
That's big pimping but you
Wouldn't listen, he's mine
Not yours but a fall back
I get shopping sprees off the heezy (Off the heezy)
I get dough to blow, please believe me (Please believe me)
Don't want the one on one
Take it easy
You're just the jump-off
I'm his breezy
I'm the one who knows him the best
I'm his one and only, nothing less
You don't want to take it there
Don't you see
He told me he loves me
Calls me his breezy (I'm his breezy)
Now I'mma let ya know to your face
You need a hit the brakes
Your about to make a major mistake
I'm gonna call you out, no doubt
Let me spell it out
Baby you ain't nothing but a fake
Cause I know what you want
And you ain't gotta front
So go ahead and pull another stunt
Remember that it's me that he loves
All he's thinking of
I'm the only one that he wants
[Chorus]
Cause what we have is so real
It's more than just dollar bills
This living lavish
Wouldn't matter if I didn't have his heart
Sorry shorty, he's mine
Better luck next time
You can have it
But I'll still be his girl
[Chorus: x2]
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