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"
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
It's my first night in this spot
I can't front people jump okay it's rather hot
I'm with my brother, while roll he went and got the mole
He said he'll meet us at the party, yeah we just did the show
Now all my peeps is on the floor and they bouncin
The Lost Boyz is in the house, they're announcing (announcing)
We getting lifted with these honeys that we just met
They're dime pieces but ain't slidin with us yet
We gots to get our stroll on, hit the floor once
See eye to eye, he's on his way, he's bringin more pound
No need for my team to front in profile
Two shorties flirtin with Freaky Tah and B-Wild
I see my niggaz in suit, and he's chattin with
This genuine fine ass man (ass man)
Yo kid, I love it when my mind is in the right mist
If you with me throw your elves up like this
Everybody now
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
Yo shortie hop with the DK and Y all night
I think I'll walk over there and get my cry on
She playin hard to get, but when I get that
I'ma take it to the S's son I hit that
I can see it in the eyes, cause they don't lie
She's tryin hard to resist baby don't try
Now grab your drink come close to me
It's only right and that's way it's supposed to be
Now we loungin, chillin in the VIP
Got my nigga Ref and Bink with me
G Money & Jeff Star they at the bar
LB fam will, gear up to par
Off the boo and the Queens, shreed and the cuts
We represent fam nigga what
Givin love to everybody walkin by
Throw your elves in the air if you high
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
Now I'm wanderin who I'm goin home with
I got two chicks but only one is owned with
I got the whip down South plus some toe up
A favorite motherfucker safe from the floor up
Now the second one's hot cause she got class
See the first one's butt, she ain't got ass
Like she do, now you know how we do
We only fuck with the beat that will feed you
Now do I have to tell you what I did?
Grab my coat, cause shorties in a slid
to her diner, we got our eat on
You know my style kid; I got my treat on
So now we back at the last smokin Cannabis, Sativa
To the bone of the receiver
Put some sounds on as we end the herb
End and that, then again, this world
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
We can do this all night
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
It's my first night in this spot
I can't front people jump okay it's rather hot
I'm with my brother, while roll he went and got the mole
He said he'll meet us at the party, yeah we just did the show
Now all my peeps is on the floor and they bouncin
The Lost Boyz is in the house, they're announcing (announcing)
We getting lifted with these honeys that we just met
They're dime pieces but ain't slidin with us yet
We gots to get our stroll on, hit the floor once
See eye to eye, he's on his way, he's bringin more pound
No need for my team to front in profile
Two shorties flirtin with Freaky Tah and B-Wild
I see my niggaz in suit, and he's chattin with
This genuine fine ass man (ass man)
Yo kid, I love it when my mind is in the right mist
If you with me throw your elves up like this
Everybody now
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
Yo shortie hop with the DK and Y all night
I think I'll walk over there and get my cry on
She playin hard to get, but when I get that
I'ma take it to the S's son I hit that
I can see it in the eyes, cause they don't lie
She's tryin hard to resist baby don't try
Now grab your drink come close to me
It's only right and that's way it's supposed to be
Now we loungin, chillin in the VIP
Got my nigga Ref and Bink with me
G Money & Jeff Star they at the bar
LB fam will, gear up to par
Off the boo and the Queens, shreed and the cuts
We represent fam nigga what
Givin love to everybody walkin by
Throw your elves in the air if you high
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
Now I'm wanderin who I'm goin home with
I got two chicks but only one is owned with
I got the whip down South plus some toe up
A favorite motherfucker safe from the floor up
Now the second one's hot cause she got class
See the first one's butt, she ain't got ass
Like she do, now you know how we do
We only fuck with the beat that will feed you
Now do I have to tell you what I did?
Grab my coat, cause shorties in a slid
to her diner, we got our eat on
You know my style kid; I got my treat on
So now we back at the last smokin Cannabis, Sativa
To the bone of the receiver
Put some sounds on as we end the herb
End and that, then again, this world
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
All my ladies and mens this evening
We can do this all night
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