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"
This goes out to all the rude girls on the dance floor,
It's your boy, Sean Kingston, y'all already know.
What a gwan!
The way that you move make me fall in love, ooha, ooha, ooha
Your sexy brown eyes, I can't get enough,
Oh girl you got me thinking 'bout da island ways,
The palm trees,
I'm kissing underneath da moon,
Oh baby girl you need some water,
Your body's getting hotter,
The sweat drippin' off of you.
Now break it down slow,
Where I'm from, girl, is how we do.
Now give me some more,
You got da whole club watching you.
You got me saying,
You dr-dr-drop it like an island girl,
You p-p-pop it like an island girl,
You g-g-got it like them island girls.
I don't know where you from but you dancing to the drums.
Like a island queen, your dancing like a island queen.
Oh, your such a pretty pretty little thing,
Tonight your my island queen.
Girl your royalty but what you doing here without your king,
I don't know, I don't know,
If it was up to me you'd be wearing my diamond ring.
Come home with me,
Take you over seas,
'Cause you move like that's where you belong.
Get your rest by the water,
Our body's getting hotter,
We be drumming to the early morn'
Now break it down slow,
Where I'm from, girl, is how we do.
Now give me some more,
You got da whole club watching you.
You got me saying,
You dr-dr-drop it like an island girl,
You p-p-pop it like an island girl,
You g-g-got it like them island girls.
I don't know where you from but you dancing to the drums.
Like a island queen, your dancing like a island queen.
Oh, your such a pretty pretty little thing,
Tonight your my island queen.
If your dancing with your queen,
Fellas, let me hear you sing, oh, oh
If your dancing with your king,
Ladies, let me hear your sing, oh, oh,
You take me to another place,
Where I'll watch you move your waist.
Oh girl I'm falling in love,
I don't know where your from,
But when you dance to the drums,
The whole club is watching you.
You got me saying,
You dr-dr-drop it like an island girl,
You p-p-pop it like an island girl,
You g-g-got it like them island girls.
I don't know where you from but you dancing to the drums.
Like an island queen, your dancing like an island queen.
Oh, your such a pretty pretty little thing,
Tonight your my island queen.
Ooha, oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh my I, my island queen,
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh my I, my island queen.
Ya!
This song was dedicated to all my island girls,
And if your not from the islands,
Come see me.
I'll put in a little island in ya.
It's your boy, Sean Kingston, y'all already know.
What a gwan!
The way that you move make me fall in love, ooha, ooha, ooha
Your sexy brown eyes, I can't get enough,
Oh girl you got me thinking 'bout da island ways,
The palm trees,
I'm kissing underneath da moon,
Oh baby girl you need some water,
Your body's getting hotter,
The sweat drippin' off of you.
Now break it down slow,
Where I'm from, girl, is how we do.
Now give me some more,
You got da whole club watching you.
You got me saying,
You dr-dr-drop it like an island girl,
You p-p-pop it like an island girl,
You g-g-got it like them island girls.
I don't know where you from but you dancing to the drums.
Like a island queen, your dancing like a island queen.
Oh, your such a pretty pretty little thing,
Tonight your my island queen.
Girl your royalty but what you doing here without your king,
I don't know, I don't know,
If it was up to me you'd be wearing my diamond ring.
Come home with me,
Take you over seas,
'Cause you move like that's where you belong.
Get your rest by the water,
Our body's getting hotter,
We be drumming to the early morn'
Now break it down slow,
Where I'm from, girl, is how we do.
Now give me some more,
You got da whole club watching you.
You got me saying,
You dr-dr-drop it like an island girl,
You p-p-pop it like an island girl,
You g-g-got it like them island girls.
I don't know where you from but you dancing to the drums.
Like a island queen, your dancing like a island queen.
Oh, your such a pretty pretty little thing,
Tonight your my island queen.
If your dancing with your queen,
Fellas, let me hear you sing, oh, oh
If your dancing with your king,
Ladies, let me hear your sing, oh, oh,
You take me to another place,
Where I'll watch you move your waist.
Oh girl I'm falling in love,
I don't know where your from,
But when you dance to the drums,
The whole club is watching you.
You got me saying,
You dr-dr-drop it like an island girl,
You p-p-pop it like an island girl,
You g-g-got it like them island girls.
I don't know where you from but you dancing to the drums.
Like an island queen, your dancing like an island queen.
Oh, your such a pretty pretty little thing,
Tonight your my island queen.
Ooha, oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh my I, my island queen,
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh my I, my island queen.
Ya!
This song was dedicated to all my island girls,
And if your not from the islands,
Come see me.
I'll put in a little island in ya.
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