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"
Shoo do, shoo
Shoo do, shoo do do do do
Shoo do, oh shoo do do do
Oh, many say
That I'm too young (to let you know)
To let you know just just where I'm coming from
Oh, but you will see
That it's just a
Matter of time (my love will surely)
My love will surely make you mine
Ooh, living in a world of ghetto life
Everybody around seems so uptight
But nothing's wrong
It's alright with my man, my man
I like the kinds of ways we have our fun
His loving ways send me on and on
Yeah, hey, with my man
People out there can understand
I'm giving him something he can feel
Ah ha ha, to let you know my love is real
(This love is real)
So much love for us to feel
So much hope for material things
Are they only in my dreams?
So I, so I write this song for you
To prove that real things
Do come true (tell me what it means)
Tell me what it means, I wanna know, baby
Living in a world of ghetto life
Everybody around seems so uptight
But nothing's wrong
It's alright with my man
I like the kinds of ways we have our fun
His loving ways send me on and on
Ooh, with my man
(People out there) People out there, can you understand
I'm giving him something he can feel
I sure want you to have it, baby
To let you know my love is real
My love is real, real, real
Giving him something he can feel
I want you to know my love
(This love is real)
Giving him something he can feel
Gonna give you whatcha, whatcha really need, babe
Giving him something he can feel
Can you feel it, can you feel it, feel it, feel it, feel it
Giving him something he can feel
I feel it, ooh, we feel it, baby
Giving him something he can feel
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Giving him something he can feel
Feel it, babe, feel it, babe, feel it, babe
Giving him something he can feel
Yeah, feel it, babe
Shoo do, shoo do do do do
Shoo do, oh shoo do do do
Oh, many say
That I'm too young (to let you know)
To let you know just just where I'm coming from
Oh, but you will see
That it's just a
Matter of time (my love will surely)
My love will surely make you mine
Ooh, living in a world of ghetto life
Everybody around seems so uptight
But nothing's wrong
It's alright with my man, my man
I like the kinds of ways we have our fun
His loving ways send me on and on
Yeah, hey, with my man
People out there can understand
I'm giving him something he can feel
Ah ha ha, to let you know my love is real
(This love is real)
So much love for us to feel
So much hope for material things
Are they only in my dreams?
So I, so I write this song for you
To prove that real things
Do come true (tell me what it means)
Tell me what it means, I wanna know, baby
Living in a world of ghetto life
Everybody around seems so uptight
But nothing's wrong
It's alright with my man
I like the kinds of ways we have our fun
His loving ways send me on and on
Ooh, with my man
(People out there) People out there, can you understand
I'm giving him something he can feel
I sure want you to have it, baby
To let you know my love is real
My love is real, real, real
Giving him something he can feel
I want you to know my love
(This love is real)
Giving him something he can feel
Gonna give you whatcha, whatcha really need, babe
Giving him something he can feel
Can you feel it, can you feel it, feel it, feel it, feel it
Giving him something he can feel
I feel it, ooh, we feel it, baby
Giving him something he can feel
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Giving him something he can feel
Feel it, babe, feel it, babe, feel it, babe
Giving him something he can feel
Yeah, feel it, babe
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Something He Can Feel Lyrics as written by Curtis Mayfield
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