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"
Call me, call me, all you gotta do is call me call me, all you gotta do
Is call me call me, all you gotta do is call me call me
[Chorus]
Now you can call me when you're chilling all alone
Or being naughty cause your nigga not at home
All you gotta do is holla to the phone
And I'm a be through there with some good tree to blow
Plus you're telling me your dude ain't been servin' ya swell
So I'm a hit it real good and provoke ya to tell
If he's a player then he knows the rules very well
Nigga, you're broad chose me, she rollin' wit' me
I said Kid pick me up a sack I'm on my way
With a little sticky icky and that potent Bombay
You can jerk me, call me, hit me on the cellular
I'm slidin' though so quick I'm so into her
Baby girl you keep it jumpin'
And I love the way you do that little thing with your tongue (Yeah!)
Forever realer than the rest of them niggas better believe baby girl I'm the one
But hold on let me answer the other line somebody calling me
DJ Ice's hittin' me
Baby you know how the ballin' be
See he got Stevie on the phone 'bout a show for 20
Communication rule the nation baby I got plenty
If you don't mind I'm a head outta town
When I honk the horn twice I need some head to go down
Take that frown off your face girl I'll be back soon
Don't have that line disconnected I'm a need that soon
[Chorus]
See I was in my black 'lac
Laid back like a fat mack
She pulled up in a black ac
On top of that she brought a fat sack (I'm in love)
Said my boyfriend's been cheatin' and he left me all alone
I saw your number in my phone
And I was just thinkin', hopin' me and you can zone, go and zone
I said yeah I just say you can call me
I'm just playin' girl I'm really glad ya called me
We can cruise, sip some brew or go straight to the telly
Pop some lead and let's get ready, swear you'll never forget it
It's all about you and me
Movin', creepin' just for one night
All it takes is one night
To have ya really down to ride
And I ain't even tryna turn ya on girl
But it's a wonderful thing to bone the world
[Chorus]
I'm a beat it, beat it, beat it up for ya
Beat it 'till ya go to sleep
Girl ya better call me
Tell me when you playin' wit'
Call me when ya fingers wet
Girl, girl ya better call me
I'm a do you how you like it
And I'm a hold mine 'till ya get it
So put my number in that phone
And don't ya forget it
Don't ya not dail it
Don't know what ya missin'
Not braggin' but I bet I can take ya there
I know ya love it come here and I'm a make ya forget
Just for a couple of hours, shower, you can go right back to ya life, just holla
When ya need me I know I got ya number girl
Scoop through grab you and I'm ready out on the ones
I'm coming tonight
I got what I want and she hold it, so glad she caught it
Real thugstas gon' do what I said, grab bread
And then I'll be right there, call me
[Chorus]
Is call me call me, all you gotta do is call me call me
[Chorus]
Now you can call me when you're chilling all alone
Or being naughty cause your nigga not at home
All you gotta do is holla to the phone
And I'm a be through there with some good tree to blow
Plus you're telling me your dude ain't been servin' ya swell
So I'm a hit it real good and provoke ya to tell
If he's a player then he knows the rules very well
Nigga, you're broad chose me, she rollin' wit' me
I said Kid pick me up a sack I'm on my way
With a little sticky icky and that potent Bombay
You can jerk me, call me, hit me on the cellular
I'm slidin' though so quick I'm so into her
Baby girl you keep it jumpin'
And I love the way you do that little thing with your tongue (Yeah!)
Forever realer than the rest of them niggas better believe baby girl I'm the one
But hold on let me answer the other line somebody calling me
DJ Ice's hittin' me
Baby you know how the ballin' be
See he got Stevie on the phone 'bout a show for 20
Communication rule the nation baby I got plenty
If you don't mind I'm a head outta town
When I honk the horn twice I need some head to go down
Take that frown off your face girl I'll be back soon
Don't have that line disconnected I'm a need that soon
[Chorus]
See I was in my black 'lac
Laid back like a fat mack
She pulled up in a black ac
On top of that she brought a fat sack (I'm in love)
Said my boyfriend's been cheatin' and he left me all alone
I saw your number in my phone
And I was just thinkin', hopin' me and you can zone, go and zone
I said yeah I just say you can call me
I'm just playin' girl I'm really glad ya called me
We can cruise, sip some brew or go straight to the telly
Pop some lead and let's get ready, swear you'll never forget it
It's all about you and me
Movin', creepin' just for one night
All it takes is one night
To have ya really down to ride
And I ain't even tryna turn ya on girl
But it's a wonderful thing to bone the world
[Chorus]
I'm a beat it, beat it, beat it up for ya
Beat it 'till ya go to sleep
Girl ya better call me
Tell me when you playin' wit'
Call me when ya fingers wet
Girl, girl ya better call me
I'm a do you how you like it
And I'm a hold mine 'till ya get it
So put my number in that phone
And don't ya forget it
Don't ya not dail it
Don't know what ya missin'
Not braggin' but I bet I can take ya there
I know ya love it come here and I'm a make ya forget
Just for a couple of hours, shower, you can go right back to ya life, just holla
When ya need me I know I got ya number girl
Scoop through grab you and I'm ready out on the ones
I'm coming tonight
I got what I want and she hold it, so glad she caught it
Real thugstas gon' do what I said, grab bread
And then I'll be right there, call me
[Chorus]
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