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"
J.M., y'all
Uh (come on)
J.M., y'all
Come on
J.M., y'all
Uh (uh)
J.M., y'all (uh-huh)
(Uh, uh) So So Def, come on
I know a dude named Jimmy, used to run up in me
Night time pissy drunk off the Henny and Rémy
I didn't mind it, when he fucked me from behind, it (uh-huh, what?)
Felt fine, 'specially when he used to grind it
He was a trick when I sucked his dick
He used to pass me bricks, credit cards and shit
Suck him to sleep, I took the keys to the Jeep
Tell him, "I'll be back," go fuck with some other cats (uh)
Flirtin', gettin' numbers in the summer (yeah)
Ho hop, raw top in my man's drop
Then this homie Jimmy, he's screamin', "Gimme" (uh-huh)
Lay me on my back, bustin' nuts all in me (what?)
After ten times we fucked, I think I bust twice
He was nice, kept my neck filled with ice
Put me in Chanels, kept me out Nikes
Called suckin' his dick, "rockin' the mic" (come on)
It was somethin' about this dude I couldn't stand (J.M., y'all)
Somethin' that coulda made his ass a real man
Somethin' I wanted, but I never was pushy
The motherfucker never ate my pussy (uh)
I don't want dick tonight (say, what?)
(Come on, come on)
Eat my pussy right
Uh, uh, uh, uh, Lil' Kim, Lil' Kim, bring it to me now
I know a dude named Ron Doo push a Q
Had a wild crew on Flatbush and Avenue U
Had a weed spot, used to pump African black
He used to seal his bag so his workers wouldn't tap
I used to see him in the Tunnel with buckets of Dom
Whisper in my ear he wanna get his fuck on
I dug him, so I fucked him, it wasn't nuttin'
He wanted me to suck him, but I didn't, I ain't frontin'
The sex was wack, a four-stroke creep
I jumped on the dick, rode his ass to sleep
He called next week, askin' why I ain't beep him
"I thought your ass was still sleepin'"
He laughed, told me he bought a new Path (what?)
Could he come over right fast and fuck my pretty ass?
I'll pass, nigga, the dick was trash
If sex was record sales you would be double glass (I like that)
Only way you seein' me is if you eatin' me (come on)
Downtown, taste my love like Horace Brown
Tryin' to impress me with your 5 G stones (it's J.M., y'all)
I give you ten G's, nigga, if you leave me alone, screamin'
I don't want dick tonight
Eat my pussy right
I don't want dick tonight (yeah, yeah)
Eat my pussy right
The moral of the story is this
You ain't lickin' this, you ain't stickin' this
And I got witnesses, ask any nigga I been with
They ain't hit shit 'til they stuck they tongue in this
I ain't with that frontin' shit
I got my own Benz, I got my own ends, immediate friends (that's right)
Me and my girls rock worlds of big niggas
Fuck for car keys and double-digit figures
Good dick I cherish, I could be blunt
I treat it like it's precious, I ain't gon' front
For limp dick niggas, that's frontin' like they Willy
Suck my pussy 'til they kill me, you feel me?
I don't want dick tonight
Eat my pussy right (say, what? Come on)
I don't want dick tonight
Eat my pussy right (uh, J.M., y'all)
I don't want dick tonight (it's J.M., y'all)
Eat my pussy right (Junior M.A.F.I.A., uh, it's J.M., y'all)
I don't want dick tonight (J.M., y'all)
Eat my pussy right (come on)
I don't want dick tonight (uh, like that, come on)
Eat my pussy right (it's J.M., y'all)
I don't want dick tonight
Eat my pussy right
I don't want dick tonight
Uh (come on)
J.M., y'all
Come on
J.M., y'all
Uh (uh)
J.M., y'all (uh-huh)
(Uh, uh) So So Def, come on
I know a dude named Jimmy, used to run up in me
Night time pissy drunk off the Henny and Rémy
I didn't mind it, when he fucked me from behind, it (uh-huh, what?)
Felt fine, 'specially when he used to grind it
He was a trick when I sucked his dick
He used to pass me bricks, credit cards and shit
Suck him to sleep, I took the keys to the Jeep
Tell him, "I'll be back," go fuck with some other cats (uh)
Flirtin', gettin' numbers in the summer (yeah)
Ho hop, raw top in my man's drop
Then this homie Jimmy, he's screamin', "Gimme" (uh-huh)
Lay me on my back, bustin' nuts all in me (what?)
After ten times we fucked, I think I bust twice
He was nice, kept my neck filled with ice
Put me in Chanels, kept me out Nikes
Called suckin' his dick, "rockin' the mic" (come on)
It was somethin' about this dude I couldn't stand (J.M., y'all)
Somethin' that coulda made his ass a real man
Somethin' I wanted, but I never was pushy
The motherfucker never ate my pussy (uh)
I don't want dick tonight (say, what?)
(Come on, come on)
Eat my pussy right
Uh, uh, uh, uh, Lil' Kim, Lil' Kim, bring it to me now
I know a dude named Ron Doo push a Q
Had a wild crew on Flatbush and Avenue U
Had a weed spot, used to pump African black
He used to seal his bag so his workers wouldn't tap
I used to see him in the Tunnel with buckets of Dom
Whisper in my ear he wanna get his fuck on
I dug him, so I fucked him, it wasn't nuttin'
He wanted me to suck him, but I didn't, I ain't frontin'
The sex was wack, a four-stroke creep
I jumped on the dick, rode his ass to sleep
He called next week, askin' why I ain't beep him
"I thought your ass was still sleepin'"
He laughed, told me he bought a new Path (what?)
Could he come over right fast and fuck my pretty ass?
I'll pass, nigga, the dick was trash
If sex was record sales you would be double glass (I like that)
Only way you seein' me is if you eatin' me (come on)
Downtown, taste my love like Horace Brown
Tryin' to impress me with your 5 G stones (it's J.M., y'all)
I give you ten G's, nigga, if you leave me alone, screamin'
I don't want dick tonight
Eat my pussy right
I don't want dick tonight (yeah, yeah)
Eat my pussy right
The moral of the story is this
You ain't lickin' this, you ain't stickin' this
And I got witnesses, ask any nigga I been with
They ain't hit shit 'til they stuck they tongue in this
I ain't with that frontin' shit
I got my own Benz, I got my own ends, immediate friends (that's right)
Me and my girls rock worlds of big niggas
Fuck for car keys and double-digit figures
Good dick I cherish, I could be blunt
I treat it like it's precious, I ain't gon' front
For limp dick niggas, that's frontin' like they Willy
Suck my pussy 'til they kill me, you feel me?
I don't want dick tonight
Eat my pussy right (say, what? Come on)
I don't want dick tonight
Eat my pussy right (uh, J.M., y'all)
I don't want dick tonight (it's J.M., y'all)
Eat my pussy right (Junior M.A.F.I.A., uh, it's J.M., y'all)
I don't want dick tonight (J.M., y'all)
Eat my pussy right (come on)
I don't want dick tonight (uh, like that, come on)
Eat my pussy right (it's J.M., y'all)
I don't want dick tonight
Eat my pussy right
I don't want dick tonight
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Not Tonight Lyrics as written by William B. Champlin Jay Joseph Graydon
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