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"
[Intro]
One, two, three, four
[Strings]
I be's, I be's
I be's the baddest in the business
Givin' you more than Demi, keepin' Stevie Superstitious
No shit, I'm vicious
Hot like the kitchen, nigga
Introduction, Steff B's my cousin
[Sparkle]
Lately I've been wondering what the hell is goin' on
Off up in Vegas
Cuz every time I turn around
You're telling me that's where ya got to go
Now I've got mad love for you
But all of the sneaky things ya do
I can't take it, oh, no
You're going in and out of town
Some funny shit is goin' down
I can feel it, Oh
1 - Tell me
What the deal is
What's your business
See I gotta know what's going on, yeah
Tell me
What the deal is
What's your business
Oh baby won't you tell me
A junction, junction, what's your function
Is it your job or is it me
Open my eyes so I can see
You never call when you're away
Tired of the lonely days, oh, oh
Repeat 1
Biz, oh yeah
[Strings]
I be's the baddest in the business
Givin' you more than Demi, keepin' Stevie Superstitious
No shit, I'm vicious
Hot like the kitchen, nigga
I'm coming up like the raven
Net's convention
Darkish like the pension
Richie, I'm rich and sportin' fear
Rocks choking the wrists'es
Romantic only when I'm counting G's
Love my enemies
Please, nigga's hit them knees
Now who the fuck you seein'
In Vegas every weekend
Tellin' lies make me wanna kick your fuckin' teeth in
Peepin' you on the internet
House in Nevada, home in Chicago
Who gotcha, Strings
Repeat 1
Biz, oh yeah
Repeat 1 while:
Tell me why you're running in and out of town
I think some funny shitin' is goin' down
Tell me what the big shit is
I gotta know what's goin' on
One, two, three, four
[Strings]
I be's, I be's
I be's the baddest in the business
Givin' you more than Demi, keepin' Stevie Superstitious
No shit, I'm vicious
Hot like the kitchen, nigga
Introduction, Steff B's my cousin
[Sparkle]
Lately I've been wondering what the hell is goin' on
Off up in Vegas
Cuz every time I turn around
You're telling me that's where ya got to go
Now I've got mad love for you
But all of the sneaky things ya do
I can't take it, oh, no
You're going in and out of town
Some funny shit is goin' down
I can feel it, Oh
1 - Tell me
What the deal is
What's your business
See I gotta know what's going on, yeah
Tell me
What the deal is
What's your business
Oh baby won't you tell me
A junction, junction, what's your function
Is it your job or is it me
Open my eyes so I can see
You never call when you're away
Tired of the lonely days, oh, oh
Repeat 1
Biz, oh yeah
[Strings]
I be's the baddest in the business
Givin' you more than Demi, keepin' Stevie Superstitious
No shit, I'm vicious
Hot like the kitchen, nigga
I'm coming up like the raven
Net's convention
Darkish like the pension
Richie, I'm rich and sportin' fear
Rocks choking the wrists'es
Romantic only when I'm counting G's
Love my enemies
Please, nigga's hit them knees
Now who the fuck you seein'
In Vegas every weekend
Tellin' lies make me wanna kick your fuckin' teeth in
Peepin' you on the internet
House in Nevada, home in Chicago
Who gotcha, Strings
Repeat 1
Biz, oh yeah
Repeat 1 while:
Tell me why you're running in and out of town
I think some funny shitin' is goin' down
Tell me what the big shit is
I gotta know what's goin' on
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Vegas Lyrics as written by R. Kelly
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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