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"
Missy Elliot
" Ugly "
Hey boy, I dont mean to be rude
But the way you comin on
Made me catch an attitude
You wanna know, 'What the deal?'
And whats up with your grill
Cuz you ugly so please
Stop talkin junk in my ear
[Chorus]
Turn the lights off
Turn the lights off
Yea you ugly
But wooooooo!
Theres some hoes in here
Turn the lights off
Turn the lights off
Boy you ugly
So wooooooo!
Wont you dissappear
Sorry, to hurt your beliefs
Cuz boy you think you
Are so appealing
You keep steppin to me
But we will never be
Cuz you ugly, so there
Will be no conversating
[Chorus]
Turn the lights off
Turn the lights off
Yea you ugly
But wooooooo!
Theres some hoes in here
Turn the lights off
Turn the lights off
Boy you ugly
So wooooooo!
Wont you dissappear
When the lights off
Boy you look real good
Wanna give you my number
But something tell me 'dont do it'
When the lights come on
And I see your face up close
Damn you ugly as hell
And on top of that
You broke as a joke
How dare you walk up
On me like you supa fine
As long as you stuck in here
You know every chick is mine
Aint no way
You gon take me home
Awww you ugly!
Boy what done hit your face
It musta been a can of mase
I aint got nottin to say
Just 2 words out there
Oil of Olay
Boy just gimme some space
Ugly is not a very good case
That outfit is just a waste
Cuz it aint doin jack for your face
Thats why girls runnin away
Like roaches when they hit raid
It might be foul to say
But its foul for you to look that way
And now I dont want your chedder
I dont care what you say, whatever
Cuz me and you will never be
Damn, you so ugly
You sure is ugly!
Awwwwww you ugly!
Now Tina on the mic
A match ugly
When I spit first nights
Boy you make me wanna
Breed and ???
So I cant even envision
Gettin numbers you give
Yea baby lets politic
Did your momma let you out like this?
I know you wanna do me baby
Man, but i'm kinda into cuties lately
Matter a fact homeboy
Lemme hook you up
Heres 2 bucks
Go and get your fade inched up
Dont mistake my statement
For a clown
We can keep it on the downlow
??? and no
Maaaan, you ugly!
[Chorus]
Turn the lights off
Turn the lights off
Yea you ugly
But wooooooo!
Theres some hoes in here
Turn the lights off
Turn the lights off
Boy you ugly
So wooooooo!
Wont you dissappear
" Ugly "
Hey boy, I dont mean to be rude
But the way you comin on
Made me catch an attitude
You wanna know, 'What the deal?'
And whats up with your grill
Cuz you ugly so please
Stop talkin junk in my ear
[Chorus]
Turn the lights off
Turn the lights off
Yea you ugly
But wooooooo!
Theres some hoes in here
Turn the lights off
Turn the lights off
Boy you ugly
So wooooooo!
Wont you dissappear
Sorry, to hurt your beliefs
Cuz boy you think you
Are so appealing
You keep steppin to me
But we will never be
Cuz you ugly, so there
Will be no conversating
[Chorus]
Turn the lights off
Turn the lights off
Yea you ugly
But wooooooo!
Theres some hoes in here
Turn the lights off
Turn the lights off
Boy you ugly
So wooooooo!
Wont you dissappear
When the lights off
Boy you look real good
Wanna give you my number
But something tell me 'dont do it'
When the lights come on
And I see your face up close
Damn you ugly as hell
And on top of that
You broke as a joke
How dare you walk up
On me like you supa fine
As long as you stuck in here
You know every chick is mine
Aint no way
You gon take me home
Awww you ugly!
Boy what done hit your face
It musta been a can of mase
I aint got nottin to say
Just 2 words out there
Oil of Olay
Boy just gimme some space
Ugly is not a very good case
That outfit is just a waste
Cuz it aint doin jack for your face
Thats why girls runnin away
Like roaches when they hit raid
It might be foul to say
But its foul for you to look that way
And now I dont want your chedder
I dont care what you say, whatever
Cuz me and you will never be
Damn, you so ugly
You sure is ugly!
Awwwwww you ugly!
Now Tina on the mic
A match ugly
When I spit first nights
Boy you make me wanna
Breed and ???
So I cant even envision
Gettin numbers you give
Yea baby lets politic
Did your momma let you out like this?
I know you wanna do me baby
Man, but i'm kinda into cuties lately
Matter a fact homeboy
Lemme hook you up
Heres 2 bucks
Go and get your fade inched up
Dont mistake my statement
For a clown
We can keep it on the downlow
??? and no
Maaaan, you ugly!
[Chorus]
Turn the lights off
Turn the lights off
Yea you ugly
But wooooooo!
Theres some hoes in here
Turn the lights off
Turn the lights off
Boy you ugly
So wooooooo!
Wont you dissappear
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