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"
It's 12 o'clock and we just flew in
The hotel just sent up the Hen
Throw them ones on, and meet me in the lounge
Grab my ice and I'm ready to bounce
Soon as I walked out my door
Oh yeah man there she goes
I saw a fire on the fourteenth floor
Her A, said hey and my D, said oh
She's from the bright lights
I'm from the big city
She's gotta nice ass and got some big oohwees
Oh Lord this girl is so pretty
So let's do it to the Congo's
Spend you like a bank roll until you holla let's go
I got downstairs
She just left with her peeps
And I don't want to cause a scene
Ride out 24's in the Jeep
Cd playa bumpin JZ
Jet ski's big balling in the water
Yet I'm still looking for somebody's daughter
Across the street, on the beach
She came over here just to talk to me
She said
I hope that your feeling me (oh-oh)
Cause your eyes is killing me (oh-oh)
Boy you looking good (oh-oh)
I heard you from the hood (oh-oh)
I know you a ways from home (oh-oh)
You don't have to be alone (oh-oh)
Baby I'll be around (oh-oh)
Room 1420 If you down (oh-oh)
She's from the bright lights
I'm from the big city
She's gotta nice ass and got some big oohwees
Oh Lord this girl is so pretty
So let's do it to the Congo's
Spend you like a bank roll until you holla let's go
You know how we get down, spend it around here
Down in Cancun, Vidal Sasoon
Home girl look like Hollywood chick
Pink bandana, her up north gramma
I'm the dream girl, break it down
That's it girl, rock and bounce
This is for the girls in the six, all around the world
For a mid west girl, you got a big chest girl, uh
She's from the bright lights
I'm from the big city
She's gotta nice ass and got some big oohwees
Oh Lord this girl is so pretty
So let's do it to the Congo's
Spend you like a bank roll until you holla let's go
She's from the bright lights
I'm from the big city
She's gotta nice ass and got some big oohwees
Oh Lord this girl is so pretty
So let's do it to the Congo's
Spend you like a bank roll until you holla let's go
Hey girl, hey girl, you lookin' good
Hey girl, work it just like you should
Hey girl, hey girl your so fine
Don't you want to be by my side
Hey girl, hey girl, you lookin' good
Hey girl, work it just like you should
Hey girl, hey girl your so fine
Don't you want to be by my side
The hotel just sent up the Hen
Throw them ones on, and meet me in the lounge
Grab my ice and I'm ready to bounce
Soon as I walked out my door
Oh yeah man there she goes
I saw a fire on the fourteenth floor
Her A, said hey and my D, said oh
She's from the bright lights
I'm from the big city
She's gotta nice ass and got some big oohwees
Oh Lord this girl is so pretty
So let's do it to the Congo's
Spend you like a bank roll until you holla let's go
I got downstairs
She just left with her peeps
And I don't want to cause a scene
Ride out 24's in the Jeep
Cd playa bumpin JZ
Jet ski's big balling in the water
Yet I'm still looking for somebody's daughter
Across the street, on the beach
She came over here just to talk to me
She said
I hope that your feeling me (oh-oh)
Cause your eyes is killing me (oh-oh)
Boy you looking good (oh-oh)
I heard you from the hood (oh-oh)
I know you a ways from home (oh-oh)
You don't have to be alone (oh-oh)
Baby I'll be around (oh-oh)
Room 1420 If you down (oh-oh)
She's from the bright lights
I'm from the big city
She's gotta nice ass and got some big oohwees
Oh Lord this girl is so pretty
So let's do it to the Congo's
Spend you like a bank roll until you holla let's go
You know how we get down, spend it around here
Down in Cancun, Vidal Sasoon
Home girl look like Hollywood chick
Pink bandana, her up north gramma
I'm the dream girl, break it down
That's it girl, rock and bounce
This is for the girls in the six, all around the world
For a mid west girl, you got a big chest girl, uh
She's from the bright lights
I'm from the big city
She's gotta nice ass and got some big oohwees
Oh Lord this girl is so pretty
So let's do it to the Congo's
Spend you like a bank roll until you holla let's go
She's from the bright lights
I'm from the big city
She's gotta nice ass and got some big oohwees
Oh Lord this girl is so pretty
So let's do it to the Congo's
Spend you like a bank roll until you holla let's go
Hey girl, hey girl, you lookin' good
Hey girl, work it just like you should
Hey girl, hey girl your so fine
Don't you want to be by my side
Hey girl, hey girl, you lookin' good
Hey girl, work it just like you should
Hey girl, hey girl your so fine
Don't you want to be by my side
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