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"
Ladies and gentlemen
Limp Bizkit and Snoop Dogg
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
You ready to roll?
Tell me when you're ready to go
Tell me when you're ready to roll
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
You ready to roll?
Tell me when you're ready to go
Tell me when you're ready to roll
I got the keys baby, put your mind at ease baby
Go playa, layin' the cheese baby
I know you bitin', bitin' my steez baby
But I came, came to please baby
Don't wait, lay the greeze baby
Don't flake, shake the knees baby
Your fella's mad at me baby, oh well, enemies baby
Who's braggin' they raggin' on me baby?
Who's breath is draggin' on me baby?
Who steps through all agony baby?
Who's checks are bigger than me baby?
Who thinks before it goes down baby?
Who rocks in every town baby?
I don't know if it ain't me
Must be a clone on this microphone baby
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
You ready to roll?
Tell me when you're ready to go
Tell me when you're ready to roll
Red light, green light (you know I'm down)
Red light, green light
Red light, green light (you know I'm down)
Red light, green light
Red light, green light(you know I'm down)
You ready to roll?
Tell me when you're ready to go (and ready to go)
Tell me when you're ready to roll
Jump in the who ride, slide to the rhythm of
Snoop D.O. double G nigga from the dub
I represent it to the fullest everywhere I go
Guaranteed to bust a ho, yeah I'm so original
I don't have to, I told you from the get go
I like to lay low with my niggas blowin' endo
We like to drink, talk shit, and spit at bitches
And that's the way we do it, sometimes we hittin' switches
In the low-rider slidin' to the hood and back
It's Snoop Dogg in the muthafuckin' Cadillac
They call it Snoop Deville for real
I get the money and I never ever pop no pills
I used to pop'em, I'm lyin' to these motherfuckers now
I used to do all kind of shit when I was wild
They used to call me lil' bow wow now I'm big bow wow
In this motherfucka bustin' a freestyle
Snoop dogg is in the place to see, do it with my nephew
Freddy D (That's me)
Ooh wee, in the place to see
Snoop D.G. double G from the D.P.G.C.
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
You ready to roll?
Tell me when you're ready to go
Tell me when you're ready to roll
Red light, green light (you know I'm down)
Red light, green light
Red light, green light (you know I'm down)
Red light, green light
Red light, green light (you know I'm down)
You ready to roll?
Tell me when you're ready to go (and ready to go)
Tell me when you're ready to roll
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Tell me when you're ready to roll
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Tell me when you're ready to go
Tell me when you're ready to roll
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Tell me when you're ready to roll
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Tell me when you're ready to go
Tell me when you're ready to roll
Look who's talkin' it up baby
One more chalkin' it up baby
Star maps stalkin' it up baby
My dogs barkin' it up baby
Who'd a thought I'd be layin it down baby?
Who'd a thought I'd be turnin' your frown baby?
Never know about things these days baby
'Til your cell phone rings and it's me baby
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
You ready to roll?
Tell me when you're ready to go
Tell me when you're ready to roll
Red light, green light (you know I'm down)
Red light, green light
Red light, green light (you know I'm down)
Red light, green light
Red light, green light (you know I'm down)
You ready to roll?
Tell me when you're ready to go (and ready to go)
Tell me when you're ready to roll
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Tell me when you're ready to roll
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Tell me when you're ready to go
Tell me when you're ready to roll
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Tell me when you're ready to roll
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Tell me when you're ready to go
Tell me when you're ready to roll
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Tell me when you're ready to roll
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Tell me when you're ready to go
Limp Bizkit and Snoop Dogg
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
You ready to roll?
Tell me when you're ready to go
Tell me when you're ready to roll
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
You ready to roll?
Tell me when you're ready to go
Tell me when you're ready to roll
I got the keys baby, put your mind at ease baby
Go playa, layin' the cheese baby
I know you bitin', bitin' my steez baby
But I came, came to please baby
Don't wait, lay the greeze baby
Don't flake, shake the knees baby
Your fella's mad at me baby, oh well, enemies baby
Who's braggin' they raggin' on me baby?
Who's breath is draggin' on me baby?
Who steps through all agony baby?
Who's checks are bigger than me baby?
Who thinks before it goes down baby?
Who rocks in every town baby?
I don't know if it ain't me
Must be a clone on this microphone baby
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
You ready to roll?
Tell me when you're ready to go
Tell me when you're ready to roll
Red light, green light (you know I'm down)
Red light, green light
Red light, green light (you know I'm down)
Red light, green light
Red light, green light(you know I'm down)
You ready to roll?
Tell me when you're ready to go (and ready to go)
Tell me when you're ready to roll
Jump in the who ride, slide to the rhythm of
Snoop D.O. double G nigga from the dub
I represent it to the fullest everywhere I go
Guaranteed to bust a ho, yeah I'm so original
I don't have to, I told you from the get go
I like to lay low with my niggas blowin' endo
We like to drink, talk shit, and spit at bitches
And that's the way we do it, sometimes we hittin' switches
In the low-rider slidin' to the hood and back
It's Snoop Dogg in the muthafuckin' Cadillac
They call it Snoop Deville for real
I get the money and I never ever pop no pills
I used to pop'em, I'm lyin' to these motherfuckers now
I used to do all kind of shit when I was wild
They used to call me lil' bow wow now I'm big bow wow
In this motherfucka bustin' a freestyle
Snoop dogg is in the place to see, do it with my nephew
Freddy D (That's me)
Ooh wee, in the place to see
Snoop D.G. double G from the D.P.G.C.
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
You ready to roll?
Tell me when you're ready to go
Tell me when you're ready to roll
Red light, green light (you know I'm down)
Red light, green light
Red light, green light (you know I'm down)
Red light, green light
Red light, green light (you know I'm down)
You ready to roll?
Tell me when you're ready to go (and ready to go)
Tell me when you're ready to roll
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Tell me when you're ready to roll
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Tell me when you're ready to go
Tell me when you're ready to roll
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Tell me when you're ready to roll
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Tell me when you're ready to go
Tell me when you're ready to roll
Look who's talkin' it up baby
One more chalkin' it up baby
Star maps stalkin' it up baby
My dogs barkin' it up baby
Who'd a thought I'd be layin it down baby?
Who'd a thought I'd be turnin' your frown baby?
Never know about things these days baby
'Til your cell phone rings and it's me baby
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
Red light, green light
You ready to roll?
Tell me when you're ready to go
Tell me when you're ready to roll
Red light, green light (you know I'm down)
Red light, green light
Red light, green light (you know I'm down)
Red light, green light
Red light, green light (you know I'm down)
You ready to roll?
Tell me when you're ready to go (and ready to go)
Tell me when you're ready to roll
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Tell me when you're ready to roll
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Tell me when you're ready to go
Tell me when you're ready to roll
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Tell me when you're ready to roll
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Tell me when you're ready to go
Tell me when you're ready to roll
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Tell me when you're ready to roll
Freak baby, freak freak baby
Tell me when you're ready to go
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Red Light - Green Light Lyrics as written by Leor Diamnt Calvin Broadus
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