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"
Yeah, that's tight (uh)
Check it, drop the drum right (yeah)
Put some horns in it, woo! (that's right)
Do it again (yeah yeah, ha oh oh alright, ha)
Give her what she want, give her what she want uh [repeat]
[Christina]
I see you lookin', uh
Like what you see?
Boy, now don't be shy
And look at her face in opportunity
[Nelly (Christina)]
She's right ya know (uh uh), she's right (ah)
Man, she's right ya know (uh uh), she's right (ow!)
You stand there looking at me (at me)
I stand here looking at you girl (at you boy)
You know exactly what's on my mind (yeah yeah)
[Christina (Nelly)]
It's just so easy to see (to see)
You came here looking for me (but uh uh)
But I don't do that type of thing all the time, yeah
(You want me to)
Come here boy
I got a little something for ya
(You got a little bit, can I get a little bit? yeah yeah)
And I don't know
(I don't know what it is but I just want to get to know ya, alright alright, yeah yeah)
[Chorus]
I need to dance,
(Tilt ya head back, tilt ya head back)
All night
(Bring it back up slowly, that's right)
I need ya to dance,
(Tilt ya head back, tilt ya head back)
All night
(Bring it back up slowly, that's right)
[Nelly]
Now situations, girl
They often change
Sometimes for the good
Sometimes for the bad, but who's to blame?
[Christina (Nelly):]
He's right ya know (uh uh), he's right (oh babygirl)
He's right ya know (uh uh), he's right, OW!
[Nelly (Christina):]
You stand there looking at me (at me)
I stand here looking at you girl (at you boy)
You know exactly what's on my mind (yeah yeah)
[Christina (Nelly)]
It's just so easy to see (to see)
You came here looking for me (but uh uh)
But I don't do that type of thing all the time, yeah
(You want me to)
Come here boy
I got a little something for ya
(You got a little bit, can I get a little bit? yeah yeah)
And I don't know
(I don't know what it is but I just want to get to know ya, alright alright..yeah yeah)
[Chorus]
Hustle for me, hustle (hustle)
Hustle for me, hustle (hustle)
Hustle for me, hustle (hustle)
Hustle for me, yeah
[Christina]
So, you got some nerve thinking you're so
I got a little bit of that
A little bit of this
A little bit of back
With a little bit of
[Nelly (Christina)]
You stand there looking at me (at me)
I stand here looking at you girl (at you boy)
You know exactly what's on my mind (yeah yeah)
[Christina (Nelly)]
It's just so easy to see (to see)
You came here looking for me (but uh uh)
But I don't do that type of thing all the time
(You want me to)
Come here boy
I got a little something for ya
(You got a little bit, can I get a little bit? yeah yeah)
And I don't know
(I don't know what it is but I just want to get to know ya, alright alright..yeah yeah)
[Chorus]
Hey! (Give her what she want, give her what she want uh)
Oh oh, oh yea, ha!
Oh Nelly!
Nelly, Nelly, you make me so sweaty baby
Yea yea yea yea yea yea OH!
Check it, drop the drum right (yeah)
Put some horns in it, woo! (that's right)
Do it again (yeah yeah, ha oh oh alright, ha)
Give her what she want, give her what she want uh [repeat]
[Christina]
I see you lookin', uh
Like what you see?
Boy, now don't be shy
And look at her face in opportunity
[Nelly (Christina)]
She's right ya know (uh uh), she's right (ah)
Man, she's right ya know (uh uh), she's right (ow!)
You stand there looking at me (at me)
I stand here looking at you girl (at you boy)
You know exactly what's on my mind (yeah yeah)
[Christina (Nelly)]
It's just so easy to see (to see)
You came here looking for me (but uh uh)
But I don't do that type of thing all the time, yeah
(You want me to)
Come here boy
I got a little something for ya
(You got a little bit, can I get a little bit? yeah yeah)
And I don't know
(I don't know what it is but I just want to get to know ya, alright alright, yeah yeah)
[Chorus]
I need to dance,
(Tilt ya head back, tilt ya head back)
All night
(Bring it back up slowly, that's right)
I need ya to dance,
(Tilt ya head back, tilt ya head back)
All night
(Bring it back up slowly, that's right)
[Nelly]
Now situations, girl
They often change
Sometimes for the good
Sometimes for the bad, but who's to blame?
[Christina (Nelly):]
He's right ya know (uh uh), he's right (oh babygirl)
He's right ya know (uh uh), he's right, OW!
[Nelly (Christina):]
You stand there looking at me (at me)
I stand here looking at you girl (at you boy)
You know exactly what's on my mind (yeah yeah)
[Christina (Nelly)]
It's just so easy to see (to see)
You came here looking for me (but uh uh)
But I don't do that type of thing all the time, yeah
(You want me to)
Come here boy
I got a little something for ya
(You got a little bit, can I get a little bit? yeah yeah)
And I don't know
(I don't know what it is but I just want to get to know ya, alright alright..yeah yeah)
[Chorus]
Hustle for me, hustle (hustle)
Hustle for me, hustle (hustle)
Hustle for me, hustle (hustle)
Hustle for me, yeah
[Christina]
So, you got some nerve thinking you're so
I got a little bit of that
A little bit of this
A little bit of back
With a little bit of
[Nelly (Christina)]
You stand there looking at me (at me)
I stand here looking at you girl (at you boy)
You know exactly what's on my mind (yeah yeah)
[Christina (Nelly)]
It's just so easy to see (to see)
You came here looking for me (but uh uh)
But I don't do that type of thing all the time
(You want me to)
Come here boy
I got a little something for ya
(You got a little bit, can I get a little bit? yeah yeah)
And I don't know
(I don't know what it is but I just want to get to know ya, alright alright..yeah yeah)
[Chorus]
Hey! (Give her what she want, give her what she want uh)
Oh oh, oh yea, ha!
Oh Nelly!
Nelly, Nelly, you make me so sweaty baby
Yea yea yea yea yea yea OH!
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