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"
[Chorus]
Oo-oao-oao-oo
Oo-oao-oaao-oo
Oo-oao-oao-oo
Oo-oao-oaao-oo.
Feel the love it's in the air, deep and burning love affair
Come on and touch the fire of my soul, I want to give you full control.
Come to me lover and let me do you right.
Let's play a game of no-shame this is the night.
Let's dance between the sheets to the sound of a heartbeat
And let me hear the things that burn beneath the heat.
Your moans and your groans feel soft to my ears.
To the point of no-return do I steer.
Grab a quick firm grip around the sexy hips, as your love juice drips to my back I slip.
Bolingo
[Chorus]
Fantasies of love come true, when I make sweet love to you
Before you got me going on, I want to love you all night long
[Chorus]
Bolingo, bolingo, this what keeps you on my mind
Bolingo, bolingo, we can make love anywhere, anytime
Bolingo, bolingo, boy you might feel we got a lot to share
Bolingo, bolingo, we can make love anytime anywhere
Talking bout' bolingo, talking bout' sweet love.
Talking bout' bolingo, talking bout' sweet love, love, love!
Honeys all around, but none of them fit the description, of my sexual prescription.
Beautiful, intelligent but they lack that 'uhhh' that gets me over the humps.
So I stroll them all down library halls, searching for a women that has it all.
A representation of an African queen, sheik and lean, but not only in my dream.
They say good things come to those who wait, but if I wait to long I just might be to late.
Oo-oao-oao-oo
Oo-oao-oaao-oo
Oo-oao-oao-oo
Oo-oao-oaao-oo.
Feel the love it's in the air, deep and burning love affair
Come on and touch the fire of my soul, I want to give you full control.
Come to me lover and let me do you right.
Let's play a game of no-shame this is the night.
Let's dance between the sheets to the sound of a heartbeat
And let me hear the things that burn beneath the heat.
Your moans and your groans feel soft to my ears.
To the point of no-return do I steer.
Grab a quick firm grip around the sexy hips, as your love juice drips to my back I slip.
Bolingo
[Chorus]
Fantasies of love come true, when I make sweet love to you
Before you got me going on, I want to love you all night long
[Chorus]
Bolingo, bolingo, this what keeps you on my mind
Bolingo, bolingo, we can make love anywhere, anytime
Bolingo, bolingo, boy you might feel we got a lot to share
Bolingo, bolingo, we can make love anytime anywhere
Talking bout' bolingo, talking bout' sweet love.
Talking bout' bolingo, talking bout' sweet love, love, love!
Honeys all around, but none of them fit the description, of my sexual prescription.
Beautiful, intelligent but they lack that 'uhhh' that gets me over the humps.
So I stroll them all down library halls, searching for a women that has it all.
A representation of an African queen, sheik and lean, but not only in my dream.
They say good things come to those who wait, but if I wait to long I just might be to late.
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