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"
Shorty you've got to be bout 17
Sporting your daddy truck on 23s
You are the finest girl I've ever seen
And I want to be in your world
I gotta be I gotta be
Can you spend a little time with me
Can we kick a little fantasy
Can you tell me
You with this game I'm playin baby
Baby girl if you're feelin' me (Holla)
If you really likin' what you see (Holla)
It makes no difference to be where you at
When I holla baby holla back (wont you won't you)
Holla
Girl I'm thinkin' you should be with me (Holla)
If you think I got a chance to breathe (Holla)
It makes no difference to be where you at
When I holla baby holla back
Your body up about to cause a scene
Youngest girl, and so sexy (Yeah, my goodness)
I know that you can't stay out all night
And baby that's alright with me
So come and swing it up with me
Can you spend a little time with me
Can we kick a little fantasy
Can you tell me
You with this game I'm playin baby
Baby girl if you're feelin' me (Holla)
If you really likin' what you see (Holla)
It makes no difference to be where you at
When I holla baby holla back (wont you won't you)
Holla
Girl I'm thinkin' you should be with me (Holla)
If you think I got a chance to breathe (Holla)
It makes no difference to be where you at
When I holla baby holla back
If you decide we can do whatever you want to do tonight
Girl I want to roll with you tonight
So holla back if its alright
Holla back (yeah yeah yeah)
Baby girl if you're feelin' me (Holla)
If you really likin' what you see (Holla)
It makes no difference to be where you at
When I holla baby holla back (wont you won't you)
Holla
Girl I'm thinkin' you should be with me (Holla)
If you think I got a chance to breathe (Holla)
It makes no difference to be where you at
When I holla baby holla back
Sporting your daddy truck on 23s
You are the finest girl I've ever seen
And I want to be in your world
I gotta be I gotta be
Can you spend a little time with me
Can we kick a little fantasy
Can you tell me
You with this game I'm playin baby
Baby girl if you're feelin' me (Holla)
If you really likin' what you see (Holla)
It makes no difference to be where you at
When I holla baby holla back (wont you won't you)
Holla
Girl I'm thinkin' you should be with me (Holla)
If you think I got a chance to breathe (Holla)
It makes no difference to be where you at
When I holla baby holla back
Your body up about to cause a scene
Youngest girl, and so sexy (Yeah, my goodness)
I know that you can't stay out all night
And baby that's alright with me
So come and swing it up with me
Can you spend a little time with me
Can we kick a little fantasy
Can you tell me
You with this game I'm playin baby
Baby girl if you're feelin' me (Holla)
If you really likin' what you see (Holla)
It makes no difference to be where you at
When I holla baby holla back (wont you won't you)
Holla
Girl I'm thinkin' you should be with me (Holla)
If you think I got a chance to breathe (Holla)
It makes no difference to be where you at
When I holla baby holla back
If you decide we can do whatever you want to do tonight
Girl I want to roll with you tonight
So holla back if its alright
Holla back (yeah yeah yeah)
Baby girl if you're feelin' me (Holla)
If you really likin' what you see (Holla)
It makes no difference to be where you at
When I holla baby holla back (wont you won't you)
Holla
Girl I'm thinkin' you should be with me (Holla)
If you think I got a chance to breathe (Holla)
It makes no difference to be where you at
When I holla baby holla back
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Holla Back Lyrics as written by Harvey Jay Mason Damon E Thomas
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