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 knew just what I had to be
When I heard you say what you said to me
To every dude in sight
Look like you working up an appetite for the night, check it
By then I just sat at the back
Peeping you out, the way you act
Getting out of line
And I make you get back in your place
All is well and all is cool
Stay in your place, don't be no fool
Get along tonight
You look like the type that would try to fight
Been a friend to me, you don't want to up and
Better play it cool
Don't know what I might to
[Chorus]
Cornbread, fish, and collard greens
I got what you need
If you want it (cause I'm pimp, girl)
If you want it (I'm a pimp, girl)
Cornbread, fish, and collard greens
I got what you need (what you need)
If you want it (I can rock your world)
If you want it (I'm bigger juice than jheri curl
Now tell me do you really think
You can walk around like your shit don't stink
I'm on to you
Oh baby girl, I'm on to you (I'm watching you)
Take it slow, change your speed
If it's food for thought that you really need
Better stake your claim, get with it
Stay in your lane, stop swerving
Take a seat, sit in the back
I don't appreciate the way you act
You need to fix yourself, hurry up and go fix yourself
Can't do nothing, won't nothin' now
Everything's gonna pass you by
Better wisen up (wisen up)
Stop trippin' on love
Cornbread, fish, and collard greens
I got what you need
If you want it (cause I'm pimp, girl) if you want
I can rock you are world
Juice in jheri curl
Cornbread, fish, and collard greens
I got what you need
If you want it (cause I'm pimp, girl) if you want
I can rock you are world
Juice in jheri curl
If you let me take you there
[Chorus: x2]
When I heard you say what you said to me
To every dude in sight
Look like you working up an appetite for the night, check it
By then I just sat at the back
Peeping you out, the way you act
Getting out of line
And I make you get back in your place
All is well and all is cool
Stay in your place, don't be no fool
Get along tonight
You look like the type that would try to fight
Been a friend to me, you don't want to up and
Better play it cool
Don't know what I might to
[Chorus]
Cornbread, fish, and collard greens
I got what you need
If you want it (cause I'm pimp, girl)
If you want it (I'm a pimp, girl)
Cornbread, fish, and collard greens
I got what you need (what you need)
If you want it (I can rock your world)
If you want it (I'm bigger juice than jheri curl
Now tell me do you really think
You can walk around like your shit don't stink
I'm on to you
Oh baby girl, I'm on to you (I'm watching you)
Take it slow, change your speed
If it's food for thought that you really need
Better stake your claim, get with it
Stay in your lane, stop swerving
Take a seat, sit in the back
I don't appreciate the way you act
You need to fix yourself, hurry up and go fix yourself
Can't do nothing, won't nothin' now
Everything's gonna pass you by
Better wisen up (wisen up)
Stop trippin' on love
Cornbread, fish, and collard greens
I got what you need
If you want it (cause I'm pimp, girl) if you want
I can rock you are world
Juice in jheri curl
Cornbread, fish, and collard greens
I got what you need
If you want it (cause I'm pimp, girl) if you want
I can rock you are world
Juice in jheri curl
If you let me take you there
[Chorus: x2]
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Cornbread, Fish & Collard Greens Lyrics as written by James Jason Poyser Anthony Cornelius Hamilton
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