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"
Rap
2000 Jon be why'all, N.A.S. why'all
To the def why'all, come on, get it right
Look at them brown nosein' my click pullin' up with purple roses
Purple diamonds pinky rings purple Dozia
Heaven had to mold her, look at the earth she bangin'
Gucci purse wondering what ghetto that she came from
She gangsta from her head to her feet
By birth I'm her soldier bet the pearl tongues sweet
And I felt the world wind when we met
She felt like something I'd never forget
Something you had to witness
Perfect physical fitness alerted all my 5 senses
I said my name is Nas love and who's the girl next to ya
This my man Boogotti I'd like to introduce ya
Well for once in our lives
Something we feel just might be real if we try
If we try babe
I know I'm giving you love
But is it really enough for you to be satisfied
You always know that you're beautiful
Do you see the beauty that I see inside
Inside you
So much that I want to do
Traveled the world to find the girl for sure was you
Can I prove it to ya
What if I show you the finer things
La dee dah
The finer things in life
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Mama just you and I (you and I)
Hit you with some love tonight
(Hit you with some love tonight)
Hit you with some love tonight
What if for once in your life
Everything you want to feel is real in my mind
Gotcha on my mind
Like makin' love to ya right
Your body is telling me everything I need to
I want to do it tonight (all night)
Baby, please say that you can stay a long time
Please say that you can spend the night
With me
What's up with the house on the beach
You're gonna sip a little apple martini
I want you to just lay back and let me free
Your insecurities
Rap
If I was you man, your knowledge would expand till we both were equal
Chillin' on islands where the sand and the ocean is deep blue
They're three things that I got on my list
You qualify, you my Miss, I count em down like this
Number one you got to be real
Don't lie to me bout monogamy
See hone get out of my grill
Love me if I'm locked up or out on appeal
Keep it tight when I'm in it ask me how does it feel
Number two easy to do be who you are
Be with me a real "G" with every beat of your heart
And number three last but not least give me peace
And I show you the world most girls ain't lucky to see
Jon be
What if I show you the finer things
La dee dah
The finer things in life
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Mama just you and I (you and I)
Hit you with some love tonight
(Hit you with some love tonight)
Hit you with some love tonight
What if I show you the finer things
La dee dah
The finer things in life
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Mama just you and I (you and I)
Hit you with some love tonight
(Hit you with some love tonight)
Hit you with some love tonight
Mama just you and I (you and I)
Hit you with some love tonight
(Hit you with some love tonight)
Hit you with some love tonight
What if I show you the finer things
La dee dah
The finer things in life
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Mama just you and I (you and I)
Hit you with some love tonight
(Hit you with some love tonight)
Hit you with some love tonight
2000 Jon be why'all, N.A.S. why'all
To the def why'all, come on, get it right
Look at them brown nosein' my click pullin' up with purple roses
Purple diamonds pinky rings purple Dozia
Heaven had to mold her, look at the earth she bangin'
Gucci purse wondering what ghetto that she came from
She gangsta from her head to her feet
By birth I'm her soldier bet the pearl tongues sweet
And I felt the world wind when we met
She felt like something I'd never forget
Something you had to witness
Perfect physical fitness alerted all my 5 senses
I said my name is Nas love and who's the girl next to ya
This my man Boogotti I'd like to introduce ya
Well for once in our lives
Something we feel just might be real if we try
If we try babe
I know I'm giving you love
But is it really enough for you to be satisfied
You always know that you're beautiful
Do you see the beauty that I see inside
Inside you
So much that I want to do
Traveled the world to find the girl for sure was you
Can I prove it to ya
What if I show you the finer things
La dee dah
The finer things in life
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Mama just you and I (you and I)
Hit you with some love tonight
(Hit you with some love tonight)
Hit you with some love tonight
What if for once in your life
Everything you want to feel is real in my mind
Gotcha on my mind
Like makin' love to ya right
Your body is telling me everything I need to
I want to do it tonight (all night)
Baby, please say that you can stay a long time
Please say that you can spend the night
With me
What's up with the house on the beach
You're gonna sip a little apple martini
I want you to just lay back and let me free
Your insecurities
Rap
If I was you man, your knowledge would expand till we both were equal
Chillin' on islands where the sand and the ocean is deep blue
They're three things that I got on my list
You qualify, you my Miss, I count em down like this
Number one you got to be real
Don't lie to me bout monogamy
See hone get out of my grill
Love me if I'm locked up or out on appeal
Keep it tight when I'm in it ask me how does it feel
Number two easy to do be who you are
Be with me a real "G" with every beat of your heart
And number three last but not least give me peace
And I show you the world most girls ain't lucky to see
Jon be
What if I show you the finer things
La dee dah
The finer things in life
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Mama just you and I (you and I)
Hit you with some love tonight
(Hit you with some love tonight)
Hit you with some love tonight
What if I show you the finer things
La dee dah
The finer things in life
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Mama just you and I (you and I)
Hit you with some love tonight
(Hit you with some love tonight)
Hit you with some love tonight
Mama just you and I (you and I)
Hit you with some love tonight
(Hit you with some love tonight)
Hit you with some love tonight
What if I show you the finer things
La dee dah
The finer things in life
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Mama just you and I (you and I)
Hit you with some love tonight
(Hit you with some love tonight)
Hit you with some love tonight
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Finer Things Lyrics as written by Brent Jones Derrick Hodge
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