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"
Seventeen, tight jeans and she 'bout it
Wife beater tee, pretty teeth, yeah, she got 'em
Her body commands your attention
(She keeps it so gutta, man)
Can I take you out? (I'll pay for it)
Girl, I got enough (so we enjoy it)
I'm hoping that your mama don't mind
'Cause girl, I gotta make you mine, yeah
(Ooh) girl, give me a chance, I'ma take it
(Ooh) yeah, I know I'm young but I'll take it
(Ooh) I just gotta know, yeah
Is this love?
'Cause I gotta know
Is this real?
Girl, I gotta know
Is it you taking over my heart?
If it's love
Then all my girls and them
I gotta give them up (it's love)
My playing days is over, I gotta hang it up
I gotta know, I gotta know, yeah
Is this love?
If she gotta man, I don't care 'cause I need her
I got a girl, but if she want, I'ma leave her
She can be the girl that I'm putting on
(We keep it so gutta, man)
(Ooh) I'ma be that nigga that'll change her
(Ooh) make that other dude like a stranger
(Ooh) I just gotta know, tell me
Is this love?
'Cause I gotta know,
Is this real? (Yeah, yeah)
Girl, I gotta know
Is it you taking over my heart? (That's taking my heart)
If it's love (ooh, this love)
Then all my girls and them
I gotta give them up (it's love, oh)
My playing days is over, I gotta hang it up (my playing days is over)
I gotta know, I gotta know, yeah (I gotta know)
Is this love?
I ain't been doing much sleeping, just daydreaming
'Cause she's all up in my head and I can't take it
I ain't never, ever felt like this
(I gotta know) I gotta know
(I gotta know) is this how love really is?
Is this love?
'Cause I gotta know
Is this real? (Yeah, yeah)
Girl, I gotta know (oh)
Is it you taking over my heart? (Is it you girl, taking over me?)
If it's love
And all my girls and them
I gotta give them up (it's love)
My playing days is over, I gotta hang it up
I gotta know, I gotta know, yeah (I gotta know)
Is this love?
'Cause I gotta know
Is this real?
Girl, I gotta know
Is it you taking over my heart?
If it's love
Then all my girls and them
I gotta give them up (it's love)
My playing days is over, I gotta hang it up
I gotta know, I gotta know, yeah
Is this love?
Wife beater tee, pretty teeth, yeah, she got 'em
Her body commands your attention
(She keeps it so gutta, man)
Can I take you out? (I'll pay for it)
Girl, I got enough (so we enjoy it)
I'm hoping that your mama don't mind
'Cause girl, I gotta make you mine, yeah
(Ooh) girl, give me a chance, I'ma take it
(Ooh) yeah, I know I'm young but I'll take it
(Ooh) I just gotta know, yeah
Is this love?
'Cause I gotta know
Is this real?
Girl, I gotta know
Is it you taking over my heart?
If it's love
Then all my girls and them
I gotta give them up (it's love)
My playing days is over, I gotta hang it up
I gotta know, I gotta know, yeah
Is this love?
If she gotta man, I don't care 'cause I need her
I got a girl, but if she want, I'ma leave her
She can be the girl that I'm putting on
(We keep it so gutta, man)
(Ooh) I'ma be that nigga that'll change her
(Ooh) make that other dude like a stranger
(Ooh) I just gotta know, tell me
Is this love?
'Cause I gotta know,
Is this real? (Yeah, yeah)
Girl, I gotta know
Is it you taking over my heart? (That's taking my heart)
If it's love (ooh, this love)
Then all my girls and them
I gotta give them up (it's love, oh)
My playing days is over, I gotta hang it up (my playing days is over)
I gotta know, I gotta know, yeah (I gotta know)
Is this love?
I ain't been doing much sleeping, just daydreaming
'Cause she's all up in my head and I can't take it
I ain't never, ever felt like this
(I gotta know) I gotta know
(I gotta know) is this how love really is?
Is this love?
'Cause I gotta know
Is this real? (Yeah, yeah)
Girl, I gotta know (oh)
Is it you taking over my heart? (Is it you girl, taking over me?)
If it's love
And all my girls and them
I gotta give them up (it's love)
My playing days is over, I gotta hang it up
I gotta know, I gotta know, yeah (I gotta know)
Is this love?
'Cause I gotta know
Is this real?
Girl, I gotta know
Is it you taking over my heart?
If it's love
Then all my girls and them
I gotta give them up (it's love)
My playing days is over, I gotta hang it up
I gotta know, I gotta know, yeah
Is this love?
Lyrics submitted by xox_pandie_xox
Is This Love? Lyrics as written by Eric Dion Dawkins Harvey Jay Mason
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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