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"
L to the O
V to the E
K to the I
N to the G
I don't know how he treat you
How they do it where you at
But all I'm tryna say is
You should know me like that (Killah)
(Where you at?) I'm just sayin' (it's the R&B Killah)
I'm just sayin' (you should know me like that)
(It's the R&B Killah)
Your man said get my money up (killah, Killah)
Get my money up
So I went and got my money up
And now I got this money up
I'm on the H-A-W-A-I-I
Dream dropped another one
Tell them niggas bye-bye
I got girls in the club
Girls in the church
Pull 'em all day
I take 'em off work
Got girls in the draft
Girls on my label
Girls at the bank
'Cause I'm about my paper
Got girls with weave
Girls without it
She like, "this all mine"
"Hmmm, I doubt it"
Girls in New York
Girls in L.A.
Got girls in Miami
Or wherever you stay
Got girls in Chicago
Girls in Toronto
Girls in Paris
Go anywhere I wanna go
Half to my main girl
Quarter to my side chick
I be on that fly shit
And you be on my shit
Your nigga keep playin'
Change where you layin'
I'm just sayin'
L to the O
V to the E
K to the I
N to the G
I don't know how he treat you
How they do it where you at
But all I'm tryna say is
You should know me like that
If you don't know me like that
If you don't know me like that
If you don't know me like that
If you don't know me like that
Girl, you should know me like that
You should know me like that
You should know me like that
You should know me like that
You don't know me like that
You don't know me like that
You don't know me like that
You don't know me like
Girl, you should know me like that
You should know me like that
You should know me like that
You should
I got girls in heels
Girls in Adidas
Tracy, Kim
Tameka, Fatima
Got girls on the Nuvo
Girls on Patron
Girls on that Belvedere
Pay me for the song
Got girls on my Sprint
My AT&T
Got girls on T-Mobile
Metro if it's local
Some fly private
Some fly Delta
Some of 'em act sidity
Some of 'em do whatever
Got a girl that's shy
A girl that's a freak
Got a girl when I'm sick
She watch what I eat
Got a girl up in Target
A girl outta college
Sorry ladies, but it ain't nothing like a smart bitch
Half to my main girl
Quarter to my side chick
I be on that fly shit
And you be on my shit
Your nigga keep playin'
Change where you layin'
I'm just sayin'
L to the O
V to the E
K to the I
N to the G
I don't know how they treat you
How they do it where you at
But all I'm tryna say is
You should know me like that
If you don't know me like that
If you don't know me like that
If you don't know me like that
If you don't know me like that
Girl, you should know me like that
You should know me like that
You should know me like that
You should know me like that
You don't know me like that
You don't know me like that
You don't know me like that
You don't know me like
Girl, you should know me like that
You should know me like that
You should know me like that
You should, ooh, whoa
If your man ain't treating you right
Shawty, let me get a "ooh, whoa" (ooh, whoa)
If your man ain't paying you right
Shawty let me get a "ooh, whoa" (ooh, whoa)
If your hair stay done
And your nails stay fixed
Put your hands in the air
If you know you the shit
Let me get a "uh, uh, uh, uh, ooh, whoa"
Let me get a "uh, uh, uh, uh, ooh, whoa"
L to the O
V to the E
K to the I
N to the G
I don't know how he treat you
How they do it where you at
But all I'm tryna say is
You should know me like that
If you don't know me like that
If you don't know me like that
If you don't know me like that
If you don't know me like that
Girl, you should know me like that
You should know me like that
You should know me like that
You should know me like that
You don't know me like that
You don't know me like that
You don't know me like that
You don't know me like
Girl, you should know me like that
You should know me like that
She like, "this all mine," hmm, I doubt it
V to the E
K to the I
N to the G
I don't know how he treat you
How they do it where you at
But all I'm tryna say is
You should know me like that (Killah)
(Where you at?) I'm just sayin' (it's the R&B Killah)
I'm just sayin' (you should know me like that)
(It's the R&B Killah)
Your man said get my money up (killah, Killah)
Get my money up
So I went and got my money up
And now I got this money up
I'm on the H-A-W-A-I-I
Dream dropped another one
Tell them niggas bye-bye
I got girls in the club
Girls in the church
Pull 'em all day
I take 'em off work
Got girls in the draft
Girls on my label
Girls at the bank
'Cause I'm about my paper
Got girls with weave
Girls without it
She like, "this all mine"
"Hmmm, I doubt it"
Girls in New York
Girls in L.A.
Got girls in Miami
Or wherever you stay
Got girls in Chicago
Girls in Toronto
Girls in Paris
Go anywhere I wanna go
Half to my main girl
Quarter to my side chick
I be on that fly shit
And you be on my shit
Your nigga keep playin'
Change where you layin'
I'm just sayin'
L to the O
V to the E
K to the I
N to the G
I don't know how he treat you
How they do it where you at
But all I'm tryna say is
You should know me like that
If you don't know me like that
If you don't know me like that
If you don't know me like that
If you don't know me like that
Girl, you should know me like that
You should know me like that
You should know me like that
You should know me like that
You don't know me like that
You don't know me like that
You don't know me like that
You don't know me like
Girl, you should know me like that
You should know me like that
You should know me like that
You should
I got girls in heels
Girls in Adidas
Tracy, Kim
Tameka, Fatima
Got girls on the Nuvo
Girls on Patron
Girls on that Belvedere
Pay me for the song
Got girls on my Sprint
My AT&T
Got girls on T-Mobile
Metro if it's local
Some fly private
Some fly Delta
Some of 'em act sidity
Some of 'em do whatever
Got a girl that's shy
A girl that's a freak
Got a girl when I'm sick
She watch what I eat
Got a girl up in Target
A girl outta college
Sorry ladies, but it ain't nothing like a smart bitch
Half to my main girl
Quarter to my side chick
I be on that fly shit
And you be on my shit
Your nigga keep playin'
Change where you layin'
I'm just sayin'
L to the O
V to the E
K to the I
N to the G
I don't know how they treat you
How they do it where you at
But all I'm tryna say is
You should know me like that
If you don't know me like that
If you don't know me like that
If you don't know me like that
If you don't know me like that
Girl, you should know me like that
You should know me like that
You should know me like that
You should know me like that
You don't know me like that
You don't know me like that
You don't know me like that
You don't know me like
Girl, you should know me like that
You should know me like that
You should know me like that
You should, ooh, whoa
If your man ain't treating you right
Shawty, let me get a "ooh, whoa" (ooh, whoa)
If your man ain't paying you right
Shawty let me get a "ooh, whoa" (ooh, whoa)
If your hair stay done
And your nails stay fixed
Put your hands in the air
If you know you the shit
Let me get a "uh, uh, uh, uh, ooh, whoa"
Let me get a "uh, uh, uh, uh, ooh, whoa"
L to the O
V to the E
K to the I
N to the G
I don't know how he treat you
How they do it where you at
But all I'm tryna say is
You should know me like that
If you don't know me like that
If you don't know me like that
If you don't know me like that
If you don't know me like that
Girl, you should know me like that
You should know me like that
You should know me like that
You should know me like that
You don't know me like that
You don't know me like that
You don't know me like that
You don't know me like
Girl, you should know me like that
You should know me like that
She like, "this all mine," hmm, I doubt it
Lyrics submitted by jjjonatron
Love King Lyrics as written by Terius Nash Carlos Mckinney
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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