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"
You gotta understand
You gotta understand
.... this...
c'mon (c'mon, c'mon)
Now understand this
I have a lot to say and today
I woke up feelin the power to get loose, okay?
First my name is spelled t to the a, are-why-n
I got the faith, no religion
So come on baby listen, with 20-20 vison
I'm not no competition, no decision
When you come to the club, you'll see my ass a wigglin'
La la la la la laaaa
It's like that and like this
Fast flips I twist
With an assist from my sib
The zig-zag scientist
In the lab we flip hits consistently
We be the be double o, m-k-a-t, see?
I'm free you can't catch me
My name is taryn, call me miss manning if you're nasty
I roll fast I roll the skates
Pass the ? ? extend the middle finger (why? )
Cause I'm a singer baby
Now understand this
I'm gonna take you to the promise land
So understand this
Now understand this, yeah
I think I got the master plan
So understand this
And if you need a longer look take a picture
Well, I got kat class and I got kat style
I keep my claws sharp with my boomkat nail file
Wa - wa- wa- wa- waaaaa
No one comes before me, so the top 40 had to sort me
Into a brand new category, no shit
So be a witness, as taryn gets to bust lyrics like no other
Now understand this
I'm gonna take you to the promise land
So understand this
Now understand this, yeah
I think I got the master plan
So understand this
And if you need a longer look take a picture
Stop!
Lala lalla la, la la la lala
[dj's part] just leave it up to the
Ah, waaa (you know how we do it)
Now understand this
I'm gonna getcha I'm gonna getcha'
And if you need a longer look take a picture
Shake your thangity thang thang
You gotta understand
.... this...
c'mon (c'mon, c'mon)
Now understand this
I have a lot to say and today
I woke up feelin the power to get loose, okay?
First my name is spelled t to the a, are-why-n
I got the faith, no religion
So come on baby listen, with 20-20 vison
I'm not no competition, no decision
When you come to the club, you'll see my ass a wigglin'
La la la la la laaaa
It's like that and like this
Fast flips I twist
With an assist from my sib
The zig-zag scientist
In the lab we flip hits consistently
We be the be double o, m-k-a-t, see?
I'm free you can't catch me
My name is taryn, call me miss manning if you're nasty
I roll fast I roll the skates
Pass the ? ? extend the middle finger (why? )
Cause I'm a singer baby
Now understand this
I'm gonna take you to the promise land
So understand this
Now understand this, yeah
I think I got the master plan
So understand this
And if you need a longer look take a picture
Well, I got kat class and I got kat style
I keep my claws sharp with my boomkat nail file
Wa - wa- wa- wa- waaaaa
No one comes before me, so the top 40 had to sort me
Into a brand new category, no shit
So be a witness, as taryn gets to bust lyrics like no other
Now understand this
I'm gonna take you to the promise land
So understand this
Now understand this, yeah
I think I got the master plan
So understand this
And if you need a longer look take a picture
Stop!
Lala lalla la, la la la lala
[dj's part] just leave it up to the
Ah, waaa (you know how we do it)
Now understand this
I'm gonna getcha I'm gonna getcha'
And if you need a longer look take a picture
Shake your thangity thang thang
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