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"
(Voice)
I been standin here waitin Mr. Postman
So-o-o patiently
For just a card, for just a letter
Sayin he's returning home to me
(Lil' Wayne)
Thats right darlin'
Its ya baby baby! (hah)
I got her waitin on me
She lookin kinda fly
She see me walkin' up and she run to the mailbox
She say its feels she's up in a cell block
and I open her cell lock
Im the
(Voice)
Postman
(Lil Wayne)
Just come to make my mail drop
More masculine than him
I'm nastier than him
I'm passin her and him
In something faster than them
And then he like: damn there go that bastard again
He the
(Voice)
Postman
(Lil Wayne)
and she correct him
and I respect her
and he protect her
and she neglect him
and he caress her
and she molest me
he must be weak cuz me, I'm just the
(Voice)
Postman
And when her man home,
Im the ghost, man
Why you think she holdin that pillow close man?
Why you think she wont open the bathroom door?
Shes no whore she want more of the
(Voice)
Postman
(Lil Wayne)
Girlfriend snatcher, i dont care if youre attached,
if thats her, then thats her,
and thats me to smash her,
now she hanging up her high ass skirt on the
(postman)
yeah baby i got that comeback,
I'm at your walls like a thumbtack,
so miss humpback i know what to do with all that,
fall back, I'll put you in the center
(postman)
That's big talk for a little guy,
But im walkin without reply,
she got her legs up, she tryin to walk in the a sky,
she calling for god, and she callin on I
she said:
(postman)
I'm like: "yea baby, im right here baby, he's here baby!"
She like: "yea baby!"
heres a chain letter and some magazines, keep it clean,
he will never think it was the
(postman)
yeah she love my gangsta, she feel my swagger,
I'm there every week just to give her her package,
I pick up her bills and I pick up her taxes,
You might find a few stamps on your mattress from the
(postman)
She want young holly grove in a envelope, im her private note and
you aint gotta know, im her fantasy,
she always got letters on the canopy, waiting for the
(postman)
no postal service i just got my social workin', and your girl is slurpin',
and this world is dirty, and your girl is nervous,
she give me head in the convertible im the
(postman)
kind and curtious, she love that in me, she love me in her,
and i love that plenty, it never fails, im sorry homeboy, but you got mail, im the
(postman)
(beat continues)
I been standin here waitin Mr. Postman
So-o-o patiently
For just a card, for just a letter
Sayin he's returning home to me
(Lil' Wayne)
Thats right darlin'
Its ya baby baby! (hah)
I got her waitin on me
She lookin kinda fly
She see me walkin' up and she run to the mailbox
She say its feels she's up in a cell block
and I open her cell lock
Im the
(Voice)
Postman
(Lil Wayne)
Just come to make my mail drop
More masculine than him
I'm nastier than him
I'm passin her and him
In something faster than them
And then he like: damn there go that bastard again
He the
(Voice)
Postman
(Lil Wayne)
and she correct him
and I respect her
and he protect her
and she neglect him
and he caress her
and she molest me
he must be weak cuz me, I'm just the
(Voice)
Postman
And when her man home,
Im the ghost, man
Why you think she holdin that pillow close man?
Why you think she wont open the bathroom door?
Shes no whore she want more of the
(Voice)
Postman
(Lil Wayne)
Girlfriend snatcher, i dont care if youre attached,
if thats her, then thats her,
and thats me to smash her,
now she hanging up her high ass skirt on the
(postman)
yeah baby i got that comeback,
I'm at your walls like a thumbtack,
so miss humpback i know what to do with all that,
fall back, I'll put you in the center
(postman)
That's big talk for a little guy,
But im walkin without reply,
she got her legs up, she tryin to walk in the a sky,
she calling for god, and she callin on I
she said:
(postman)
I'm like: "yea baby, im right here baby, he's here baby!"
She like: "yea baby!"
heres a chain letter and some magazines, keep it clean,
he will never think it was the
(postman)
yeah she love my gangsta, she feel my swagger,
I'm there every week just to give her her package,
I pick up her bills and I pick up her taxes,
You might find a few stamps on your mattress from the
(postman)
She want young holly grove in a envelope, im her private note and
you aint gotta know, im her fantasy,
she always got letters on the canopy, waiting for the
(postman)
no postal service i just got my social workin', and your girl is slurpin',
and this world is dirty, and your girl is nervous,
she give me head in the convertible im the
(postman)
kind and curtious, she love that in me, she love me in her,
and i love that plenty, it never fails, im sorry homeboy, but you got mail, im the
(postman)
(beat continues)
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holly grove is where lil wayne grew up in new orleans. young holly grove is a nickname wayne gave himself, ive heard it in a few other songs.
and she correct him, and I respect her, and he protect her, and she neglect him, and he caress her, and she molest me, he must be weak cuz me, I'm just the postman
best line of the song. whats the significance behind "postman" though