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, you know what baby?
No matter what I go through
No matter what I do
You're always there
To hold me down
And that's real
You tell me there's nothing better than me
So you draft me like I'm top pick of the league
Then, you gave me what I need
So fly, it was like you planted a seed
(Oh)
Even when there is trouble
(Oh)
You handle it before I know
(Oh)
So, I'm letting you know it's beautiful ? us together
Who can ask me for more?
Any time, any place I know you're down
You're the type I can trust to be around
The way you hear me and feel me
Got me loving you that much more really
Don't wanna see myself with anyone else
That's the way I feel
Got me so caught up
I'm stuck on you
So real, I know I got the truth
[Pre-chorus]
I'm the only one written on your lips
You and me so legitimate
Everything is about your chick
That's why were so exclusive
[Chorus]
You hold me, baby you hold me
(down)
You hold me, baby you hold me
(down)
You hold me, baby you hold me
(down)
You hold me, baby you hold me
(down)
[Chorus]
Hold me, yes you hold me down!
(I know you got me)
Hold me, yes you hold me down!
Hold me, yes you hold me down!
(You know I got you too)
No matter what you talk, you hold me down
(Aundrea)
So deep that I ain't worried
Thinking maybe you out there running the streets, no
You blend with me so perfectly
I swear you got me convinced you were meant for me
You're everything I've been missing
With you there's no second-guessing
You with me is a blessing
That I can't, and just won't let go of
Any time, any place I know you're down
You're the type I can trust to be around
The way you hear me and feel me
Got me loving you that much more really
[Wanita]
Don't wanna see myself with anyone else
That's the way I feel
Got me so caught up
I'm stuck on you
So real, I know I got the truth
[Pre-chorus]
I'm the only one written on your lips
You and me so legitimate
Everything is about your chick
(about your chick)
That's why were so exclusive
(so exclusive)
[Chorus]
You hold me, baby you hold me
(down)
You hold me, baby you hold me
(down)
You hold me, baby you hold me
(down)
You hold me, baby you hold me
(down)
(Ooh)
Got a life with you
Got it right with you, baby
[Dawn]
(ooh)
More than just a friend
More than just a man
Your
Everything I could ever need
You won my heart, got the best of me
I ain't gonna let another come between
I'ma hold you down the same way you hold me
[Pre-chorus]
I'm the only one written on your lips
(Heeeyyy)
You and me so legitimate
(so legitimate)
Everything is about your chick
That's why were so exclusive
(So exclusive)
[Chorus]
You hold me, baby you hold me
(down)
You hold me, baby you hold me
(baby you hold me down)
You hold me, baby you hold me
(know that you hold me)
You hold me, baby you hold me
(down)
[Pre-chorus]
I'm the only one written on your lips
(only one on you lips)
You and me so legitimate
(so legitimate)
Everything is about your chick
(Yes it is!)
That's why were so exclusive
[Chorus]
You hold me, baby you hold me
(down)
You hold me, baby you hold me
(you hold me down)
You hold me, baby you hold me
(you hold me down)
You hold me, baby you hold me
[Chorus]
You hold me, baby you hold me
(down)
You hold me, baby you hold me
(When I need you baby)
You hold me, baby you hold me
(You know when I need you baby)
You hold me, baby you hold me
You hold me, baby you hold me
Hold me
Yes, you hold me down
Hold me
Yes, you hold me down
Hold me
Yes, you hold me down
No matter what you talk
You hold me down
No matter what I go through
No matter what I do
You're always there
To hold me down
And that's real
You tell me there's nothing better than me
So you draft me like I'm top pick of the league
Then, you gave me what I need
So fly, it was like you planted a seed
(Oh)
Even when there is trouble
(Oh)
You handle it before I know
(Oh)
So, I'm letting you know it's beautiful ? us together
Who can ask me for more?
Any time, any place I know you're down
You're the type I can trust to be around
The way you hear me and feel me
Got me loving you that much more really
Don't wanna see myself with anyone else
That's the way I feel
Got me so caught up
I'm stuck on you
So real, I know I got the truth
[Pre-chorus]
I'm the only one written on your lips
You and me so legitimate
Everything is about your chick
That's why were so exclusive
[Chorus]
You hold me, baby you hold me
(down)
You hold me, baby you hold me
(down)
You hold me, baby you hold me
(down)
You hold me, baby you hold me
(down)
[Chorus]
Hold me, yes you hold me down!
(I know you got me)
Hold me, yes you hold me down!
Hold me, yes you hold me down!
(You know I got you too)
No matter what you talk, you hold me down
(Aundrea)
So deep that I ain't worried
Thinking maybe you out there running the streets, no
You blend with me so perfectly
I swear you got me convinced you were meant for me
You're everything I've been missing
With you there's no second-guessing
You with me is a blessing
That I can't, and just won't let go of
Any time, any place I know you're down
You're the type I can trust to be around
The way you hear me and feel me
Got me loving you that much more really
[Wanita]
Don't wanna see myself with anyone else
That's the way I feel
Got me so caught up
I'm stuck on you
So real, I know I got the truth
[Pre-chorus]
I'm the only one written on your lips
You and me so legitimate
Everything is about your chick
(about your chick)
That's why were so exclusive
(so exclusive)
[Chorus]
You hold me, baby you hold me
(down)
You hold me, baby you hold me
(down)
You hold me, baby you hold me
(down)
You hold me, baby you hold me
(down)
(Ooh)
Got a life with you
Got it right with you, baby
[Dawn]
(ooh)
More than just a friend
More than just a man
Your
Everything I could ever need
You won my heart, got the best of me
I ain't gonna let another come between
I'ma hold you down the same way you hold me
[Pre-chorus]
I'm the only one written on your lips
(Heeeyyy)
You and me so legitimate
(so legitimate)
Everything is about your chick
That's why were so exclusive
(So exclusive)
[Chorus]
You hold me, baby you hold me
(down)
You hold me, baby you hold me
(baby you hold me down)
You hold me, baby you hold me
(know that you hold me)
You hold me, baby you hold me
(down)
[Pre-chorus]
I'm the only one written on your lips
(only one on you lips)
You and me so legitimate
(so legitimate)
Everything is about your chick
(Yes it is!)
That's why were so exclusive
[Chorus]
You hold me, baby you hold me
(down)
You hold me, baby you hold me
(you hold me down)
You hold me, baby you hold me
(you hold me down)
You hold me, baby you hold me
[Chorus]
You hold me, baby you hold me
(down)
You hold me, baby you hold me
(When I need you baby)
You hold me, baby you hold me
(You know when I need you baby)
You hold me, baby you hold me
You hold me, baby you hold me
Hold me
Yes, you hold me down
Hold me
Yes, you hold me down
Hold me
Yes, you hold me down
No matter what you talk
You hold me down
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