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"
I put it down for the L-B-C
(I put it down for a place called Queens)
You know I represent the 213
(I hold it down for the big city)
I keep it gangsta for all my young G's
(All the P Y T's with their own car keys)
I put it down for all the ladies
(ladies, ladies, ladies)
It's all about you
I tried to look the other way
The day you passed me by
I saw you holding Q Tip's hand
And girl damn near died
They way you hold that cosmo
Just fits you to a tee
But I just wish that you were sitting
Right next to me
I wonder what was on God's mind
The day that He made you
I know He wrote a new commandment
After He was through
But every time I see you
I find something new
But I just gotta have you
I really want you
I just gotta have you
I really want you
I just gotta have you
Me and nephew snoop was eating
At the serving spoon
And my partner skin it back
Was sitting with us too
And all of a sudden
Your body was in sight
I couldn't finish breakfast
Now something just ain't right
Now Snoop is looking like
What the fuck is wrong with you?
I said, "I know you understand"
You've been through a few
But this one was special, special to me
Is it my imagination killing me
I really want you
I just gotta have you
You, I ever want is you
I just gotta have you
All I really want is you
I just can't fake it no more
I can't take it no more
I need you in my life for sure
My wife for sure
No turning back on ya
It's on and crackin'
Pure satisfaction
Girl that's what's happenin'
I appropriate game
You know my name
Abstract hits
And the bag top splits
My man need a lady
No matter the kind
A diamond shinning like you
You know is hard to find
Time brings change
And change brings time
My nephew want you
'Cause you so fine
A woman choose a man
It's a real mote
Make a choice 'cause me and Ray
We never have beef
Me and Snoop we go hard
Real macaroni's
Why you think that we want
To have this ceremony.
Snoop Dog
It's something special bout you baby boo
I need to know right here right now
What you really wanna do
I really want you I just gotta have you I really want you I just gotta have you
I really want you I just gotta have you I really want you I just gotta have you
(I put it down for a place called Queens)
You know I represent the 213
(I hold it down for the big city)
I keep it gangsta for all my young G's
(All the P Y T's with their own car keys)
I put it down for all the ladies
(ladies, ladies, ladies)
It's all about you
I tried to look the other way
The day you passed me by
I saw you holding Q Tip's hand
And girl damn near died
They way you hold that cosmo
Just fits you to a tee
But I just wish that you were sitting
Right next to me
I wonder what was on God's mind
The day that He made you
I know He wrote a new commandment
After He was through
But every time I see you
I find something new
But I just gotta have you
I really want you
I just gotta have you
I really want you
I just gotta have you
Me and nephew snoop was eating
At the serving spoon
And my partner skin it back
Was sitting with us too
And all of a sudden
Your body was in sight
I couldn't finish breakfast
Now something just ain't right
Now Snoop is looking like
What the fuck is wrong with you?
I said, "I know you understand"
You've been through a few
But this one was special, special to me
Is it my imagination killing me
I really want you
I just gotta have you
You, I ever want is you
I just gotta have you
All I really want is you
I just can't fake it no more
I can't take it no more
I need you in my life for sure
My wife for sure
No turning back on ya
It's on and crackin'
Pure satisfaction
Girl that's what's happenin'
I appropriate game
You know my name
Abstract hits
And the bag top splits
My man need a lady
No matter the kind
A diamond shinning like you
You know is hard to find
Time brings change
And change brings time
My nephew want you
'Cause you so fine
A woman choose a man
It's a real mote
Make a choice 'cause me and Ray
We never have beef
Me and Snoop we go hard
Real macaroni's
Why you think that we want
To have this ceremony.
Snoop Dog
It's something special bout you baby boo
I need to know right here right now
What you really wanna do
I really want you I just gotta have you I really want you I just gotta have you
I really want you I just gotta have you I really want you I just gotta have you
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