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"
Hey, I know what you used to
We gon' do something different tonight
Oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Now we gonna do this thing a lil' different tonight
You gon' come over and pick me up in your ride
You gon' knock then you gon' wait
Ooh, you gon' take me on a date
You gonna open my door and I'ma reach over and open yours
Gon' pay for dinner take me to see a movie
And whisper in my ear how bad you really wanna do me
Girl, now take me home and get up in my pants
Pour me up a shot and force me to the bed
I'm always on the top, tonight I'm on the bottom
'Cause we trading places
When I can't take no more, tell me you ain't stopping
'Cause we trading places
Now put it on me, baby, 'til I say, "Ooh-wee"
And tell me to shut up before the neighbors hear me
This is how it feels when you do it like me
We're trading places
Gon' get it, get it get it, get it get it
Gon' get it, get it get it, get it get it
Gon' get it, get it get it, get it get it
We're trading places
I plan on waking you up to a cup of Folgers
Pancakes and eggs, I owe ya breakfast in bed, oh baby
And your orange juice sitting on a coaster
Toast on the side, baby, strawberry and grape jelly
You finished? Let me get that tray
Pull the curtain from the window
Time to get up, baby, let me make this bed up, baby
Today we going shopping, blowin' thirty on me
Make it sixty, spend it like you really love me
Skip dinner and we gon' rent a movie
You order Chinese food right before you do me
You coming on strong, baby, let me wash me hands
She said, "Hurry up then get your to bed"
You get on top, tonight I'm on the bottom
'Cause we trading places
When I can't take no more, tell me you ain't stopping
'Cause we trading places
Now put it on me, baby, 'til I say, "Ooh-wee"
And tell me to shut up before the neighbors hear me
This is how it feels when you do it like me
We're trading places
Gon' get it, get it get it, get it get it (get it, get it, get it)
Gon' get it, get it get it, get it get it
Gon' get it, get it get it, get it get it
We trading places (yeah)
Wash the car (yeah)
I'm gonna walk the dog (yeah)
Take out the trash (yeah)
With nothing but your t-shirt on (ooh, yeah)
I'm gonna press your shirt (yeah)
I'm gonna wrinkle mines up (yeah)
In the kitchen goin' crazy we don't give a, what (yeah)
Where you want me?
Ooh-oh, oh, oh, baby
Give it to me baby, baby
Oh, oh, oh, ooh, baby
Baby, yeah, ooh
Oh, oh, oh
Ohh
Oh, ooh, oh
You get on top, tonight I'm on the bottom
'Cause we trading places
And when I can't take no more, you say you ain't stopping
'Cause we trading places
Now we gon' do this thing a lil' different tonight
Trading places
Stay tuned for part two
You've been me, I-I've been you
But we gon' switch this thing back
I'ma put it on your (on your)
We gon' do something different tonight
Oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Now we gonna do this thing a lil' different tonight
You gon' come over and pick me up in your ride
You gon' knock then you gon' wait
Ooh, you gon' take me on a date
You gonna open my door and I'ma reach over and open yours
Gon' pay for dinner take me to see a movie
And whisper in my ear how bad you really wanna do me
Girl, now take me home and get up in my pants
Pour me up a shot and force me to the bed
I'm always on the top, tonight I'm on the bottom
'Cause we trading places
When I can't take no more, tell me you ain't stopping
'Cause we trading places
Now put it on me, baby, 'til I say, "Ooh-wee"
And tell me to shut up before the neighbors hear me
This is how it feels when you do it like me
We're trading places
Gon' get it, get it get it, get it get it
Gon' get it, get it get it, get it get it
Gon' get it, get it get it, get it get it
We're trading places
I plan on waking you up to a cup of Folgers
Pancakes and eggs, I owe ya breakfast in bed, oh baby
And your orange juice sitting on a coaster
Toast on the side, baby, strawberry and grape jelly
You finished? Let me get that tray
Pull the curtain from the window
Time to get up, baby, let me make this bed up, baby
Today we going shopping, blowin' thirty on me
Make it sixty, spend it like you really love me
Skip dinner and we gon' rent a movie
You order Chinese food right before you do me
You coming on strong, baby, let me wash me hands
She said, "Hurry up then get your to bed"
You get on top, tonight I'm on the bottom
'Cause we trading places
When I can't take no more, tell me you ain't stopping
'Cause we trading places
Now put it on me, baby, 'til I say, "Ooh-wee"
And tell me to shut up before the neighbors hear me
This is how it feels when you do it like me
We're trading places
Gon' get it, get it get it, get it get it (get it, get it, get it)
Gon' get it, get it get it, get it get it
Gon' get it, get it get it, get it get it
We trading places (yeah)
Wash the car (yeah)
I'm gonna walk the dog (yeah)
Take out the trash (yeah)
With nothing but your t-shirt on (ooh, yeah)
I'm gonna press your shirt (yeah)
I'm gonna wrinkle mines up (yeah)
In the kitchen goin' crazy we don't give a, what (yeah)
Where you want me?
Ooh-oh, oh, oh, baby
Give it to me baby, baby
Oh, oh, oh, ooh, baby
Baby, yeah, ooh
Oh, oh, oh
Ohh
Oh, ooh, oh
You get on top, tonight I'm on the bottom
'Cause we trading places
And when I can't take no more, you say you ain't stopping
'Cause we trading places
Now we gon' do this thing a lil' different tonight
Trading places
Stay tuned for part two
You've been me, I-I've been you
But we gon' switch this thing back
I'ma put it on your (on your)
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Trading Places Lyrics as written by Carlos Alexander Mckinney Christopher A. Stewart
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Peermusic Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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