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"
Nine, four, eight, one
B day
Mission one, I'm-a put this on
When he see me in this dress, I'm-a get me some, hey
Mission two, gotta make that call
Tell 'em get the bottles poppin' when they play my song, hey
Mission three, got my three best friends
Like we do it all the time, we gon' do it again, hey
Mission four, got the vintage Rolls
Drop a couple hundreds, tell 'em leave it at the door
I ain't worried, doing me tonight
A little sweat ain't never hurt nobody
While y'all standin' on the wall
I'm the one tonight gettin' bodied
Gettin' bodied (Gettin' bodied)
Gettin' bodied (Gettin' bodied)
Gettin' bodied (I'm the only one tonight gettin' bodied)
Gettin' bodied
Want my body (Gettin' bodied)
Won't you get me bodied? (Gettin' bodied)
If you want my body (I'm the only one tonight gettin' bodied)
Won't you get me bodied?
Hey can you get me bodied?
I wanna be myself tonight
Can you get me bodied?
I wanna be myself tonight
Don't you see my body?
I wanna let it out tonight
Wanna party, wanna dance, wanna be myself tonight
Mission five, skip to the front of the line
Let me fix my hair 'fore I go inside hey
Mission six, gotta check these chicks
'Cause you know they gon' block when I take these flicks hey
Mission seven, gotta make my rounds
Givin' eyes to the guys, now I think I found him hey
Mission eight, while we're conversating, we can skip small talk
Let's get right to the chase hey
I ain't worried, doing me tonight
A little sweat ain't never hurt nobody
While y'all standin' on the wall
I'm the one tonight gettin' bodied
Gettin' bodied (Gettin' bodied)
Gettin' bodied (Gettin' bodied)
Gettin' bodied (I'm the only one tonight gettin' bodied)
Gettin' bodied
Want my body (Gettin' bodied)
Won't you get me bodied? (Gettin' bodied)
If you want my body (I'm the only one tonight gettin' bodied)
Won't you get me bodied?
You see my body?
I gotta know, I'd like to know if you can get me bodied
I'm kinda tight, I'm feelin' right, I'd like to see somebody
I wanna let it out tonight
Wanna dance, wanna party, wanna be myself tonight
Can you get me bodied?
I wanna be myself tonight
Can you get me bodied?
I wanna be myself tonight
Don't you see my body?
I wanna let it out tonight
Wanna party, wanna dance, wanna be myself tonight
Baby, all I want
Is to let it go
Ain't no worries, no
We can dance all night
Get me bodied
That means come closer to me
While we grind to the beat
And your body is touchin' me
All I need
Is to let it be
Ain't no worries, no
Boy, dance with me
Feel my body
Don't stop, just come closer to me
While we grind to the beat
And your body is touchin' my body
Gettin' bodied
Ain't no shame 'cause I gotta get mine
I swing my hair and kick off my shoes
Come here, boy, and let me work on you
I ain't worried, doing me tonight
A little sweat ain't never hurt nobody
While y'all standin' on the wall
I'm the one tonight gettin' bodied
Gettin' bodied (Gettin' bodied)
Gettin' bodied (Gettin' bodied)
Gettin' bodied (I'm the only one tonight gettin' bodied)
Gettin' bodied
If you want my body (Gettin' bodied)
Won't you get me bodied? (Gettin' bodied)
If you want my body (I'm the only one tonight gettin' bodied)
Won't you get me bodied? Hey
B day
Mission one, I'm-a put this on
When he see me in this dress, I'm-a get me some, hey
Mission two, gotta make that call
Tell 'em get the bottles poppin' when they play my song, hey
Mission three, got my three best friends
Like we do it all the time, we gon' do it again, hey
Mission four, got the vintage Rolls
Drop a couple hundreds, tell 'em leave it at the door
I ain't worried, doing me tonight
A little sweat ain't never hurt nobody
While y'all standin' on the wall
I'm the one tonight gettin' bodied
Gettin' bodied (Gettin' bodied)
Gettin' bodied (Gettin' bodied)
Gettin' bodied (I'm the only one tonight gettin' bodied)
Gettin' bodied
Want my body (Gettin' bodied)
Won't you get me bodied? (Gettin' bodied)
If you want my body (I'm the only one tonight gettin' bodied)
Won't you get me bodied?
Hey can you get me bodied?
I wanna be myself tonight
Can you get me bodied?
I wanna be myself tonight
Don't you see my body?
I wanna let it out tonight
Wanna party, wanna dance, wanna be myself tonight
Mission five, skip to the front of the line
Let me fix my hair 'fore I go inside hey
Mission six, gotta check these chicks
'Cause you know they gon' block when I take these flicks hey
Mission seven, gotta make my rounds
Givin' eyes to the guys, now I think I found him hey
Mission eight, while we're conversating, we can skip small talk
Let's get right to the chase hey
I ain't worried, doing me tonight
A little sweat ain't never hurt nobody
While y'all standin' on the wall
I'm the one tonight gettin' bodied
Gettin' bodied (Gettin' bodied)
Gettin' bodied (Gettin' bodied)
Gettin' bodied (I'm the only one tonight gettin' bodied)
Gettin' bodied
Want my body (Gettin' bodied)
Won't you get me bodied? (Gettin' bodied)
If you want my body (I'm the only one tonight gettin' bodied)
Won't you get me bodied?
You see my body?
I gotta know, I'd like to know if you can get me bodied
I'm kinda tight, I'm feelin' right, I'd like to see somebody
I wanna let it out tonight
Wanna dance, wanna party, wanna be myself tonight
Can you get me bodied?
I wanna be myself tonight
Can you get me bodied?
I wanna be myself tonight
Don't you see my body?
I wanna let it out tonight
Wanna party, wanna dance, wanna be myself tonight
Baby, all I want
Is to let it go
Ain't no worries, no
We can dance all night
Get me bodied
That means come closer to me
While we grind to the beat
And your body is touchin' me
All I need
Is to let it be
Ain't no worries, no
Boy, dance with me
Feel my body
Don't stop, just come closer to me
While we grind to the beat
And your body is touchin' my body
Gettin' bodied
Ain't no shame 'cause I gotta get mine
I swing my hair and kick off my shoes
Come here, boy, and let me work on you
I ain't worried, doing me tonight
A little sweat ain't never hurt nobody
While y'all standin' on the wall
I'm the one tonight gettin' bodied
Gettin' bodied (Gettin' bodied)
Gettin' bodied (Gettin' bodied)
Gettin' bodied (I'm the only one tonight gettin' bodied)
Gettin' bodied
If you want my body (Gettin' bodied)
Won't you get me bodied? (Gettin' bodied)
If you want my body (I'm the only one tonight gettin' bodied)
Won't you get me bodied? Hey
Lyrics submitted by fxcking_turtle
Get Me Bodied Lyrics as written by Beyonce Knowles Solange Knowles
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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