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"
Through the sheets, she climbs her way up to this bed singing melodies
Run my fingers in her hair and say come to me
First there is a no, then she says yes baby
She's the Dream of a billion men
Go girl
Go girl
See she made her way from nothing
Can't fault her for wanting something
She loves men that can afford (yea)
She wants to, live fancy
Trips to Monaco, designer names from head to toe (they're fancy)
On planes that fly clear across the roaming skies
Brilliant cars, Spend evenings among the stars (live fancy)
Diamond rings ooh ooh ooh oh
All those things, live fancy
All those things, live fancy
All those things, live fancy
All those things, live fancy
She spends her time
Aboard yachts if not, somewhere tasting wine
In Paris seducing me while we dine
She's only 23, but ahead of her time
She's the Dream of a billion men
Go girl
See she made her way from nothing
Can't fault her for wanting something
She loves men that can afford (yea)
She wants to, live fancy
Trips to Monaco, designer names from head to toe (they're fancy)
On planes that fly clear across the roaming skies
Brilliant cars, Spend evenings among the stars (live fancy)
Diamond rings ooh ooh ooh oh
All those things, live fancy
All those things, live fancy
All those things, live fancy
All those things, live fancy
'Cause of me all she do, is walk around in Italian shoes
She's probably a girl you used to know
I can see her beauty with both eyes closed
But you didn't notice she fell in love with what she noticed
That I'm fancy
Trips to Monaco, designer names from head to toe (I'm fancy)
On planes that fly clean across the roaming skies (I'm fancy)
Brilliant cars, Spend evenings among the stars (I'm fancy)
Diamond rings ooh ooh ooh oh
All those things (I live fancy)
All those things (I live fancy)
All those things (I live fancy)
All those things (I live fancy)
All those things (I live fancy)
All those things (I live fancy)
All those things (I live fancy)
All those things (I live fancy)
You can be from the hood, but I know you wanna live (fancy)
East Side, West Side, South Side, but you wanna live (fancy)
She's wit me, 'cause she wanna to live (fancy)
I'm with her, 'cause she's B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L
(and you know I cant deny her)
And deserving
She's deserving
She all on me 'cause all I do is ride around the Bentleys coups
Got no need she got me buying her them Fendi shoes
All we do is shop until we drop right there in the floor
All we do is make love foreign places til we cant no more
They say you can't buy love, man they lying
Is Christian LaCroix brings a smile, I'll buy it
If she wanna make love on the edge of the world, I'll buy it
Have anything she want cause she my girl, say it shawty got it
We flyer than flying in g5 jets
Or First class, coach class no disrespect
My New York apartment JFK
In the helicopter just the pilots going my way
I'm worldly swerving in Bentley whips
Don't even have to watch how I spend my chips
Dollars to Euros, I'm every nigga's hero
Cause even when I used to rock polo I was (fancy)
Run my fingers in her hair and say come to me
First there is a no, then she says yes baby
She's the Dream of a billion men
Go girl
Go girl
See she made her way from nothing
Can't fault her for wanting something
She loves men that can afford (yea)
She wants to, live fancy
Trips to Monaco, designer names from head to toe (they're fancy)
On planes that fly clear across the roaming skies
Brilliant cars, Spend evenings among the stars (live fancy)
Diamond rings ooh ooh ooh oh
All those things, live fancy
All those things, live fancy
All those things, live fancy
All those things, live fancy
She spends her time
Aboard yachts if not, somewhere tasting wine
In Paris seducing me while we dine
She's only 23, but ahead of her time
She's the Dream of a billion men
Go girl
See she made her way from nothing
Can't fault her for wanting something
She loves men that can afford (yea)
She wants to, live fancy
Trips to Monaco, designer names from head to toe (they're fancy)
On planes that fly clear across the roaming skies
Brilliant cars, Spend evenings among the stars (live fancy)
Diamond rings ooh ooh ooh oh
All those things, live fancy
All those things, live fancy
All those things, live fancy
All those things, live fancy
'Cause of me all she do, is walk around in Italian shoes
She's probably a girl you used to know
I can see her beauty with both eyes closed
But you didn't notice she fell in love with what she noticed
That I'm fancy
Trips to Monaco, designer names from head to toe (I'm fancy)
On planes that fly clean across the roaming skies (I'm fancy)
Brilliant cars, Spend evenings among the stars (I'm fancy)
Diamond rings ooh ooh ooh oh
All those things (I live fancy)
All those things (I live fancy)
All those things (I live fancy)
All those things (I live fancy)
All those things (I live fancy)
All those things (I live fancy)
All those things (I live fancy)
All those things (I live fancy)
You can be from the hood, but I know you wanna live (fancy)
East Side, West Side, South Side, but you wanna live (fancy)
She's wit me, 'cause she wanna to live (fancy)
I'm with her, 'cause she's B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L
(and you know I cant deny her)
And deserving
She's deserving
She all on me 'cause all I do is ride around the Bentleys coups
Got no need she got me buying her them Fendi shoes
All we do is shop until we drop right there in the floor
All we do is make love foreign places til we cant no more
They say you can't buy love, man they lying
Is Christian LaCroix brings a smile, I'll buy it
If she wanna make love on the edge of the world, I'll buy it
Have anything she want cause she my girl, say it shawty got it
We flyer than flying in g5 jets
Or First class, coach class no disrespect
My New York apartment JFK
In the helicopter just the pilots going my way
I'm worldly swerving in Bentley whips
Don't even have to watch how I spend my chips
Dollars to Euros, I'm every nigga's hero
Cause even when I used to rock polo I was (fancy)
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