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, Kelly's back
Told y'all I was gonna bump like this
Y'all didn't think that I could bump like this
Said, I told y'all I was gonna bump like this
Turn around, then I make it jump like this (ladies)
You wanna keep that boy, then make it jump like this
Y'all didn't think that I could make it bump like this
See, I told y'all, y'all was gonna jump like this
How you not gon' know it when it hit like this?
Ladies, drama, leave it home
If he ain't got it right by now, then scratch him off
They just called me, said it's about twenty strong
They standin' at the door, don't wanna take us on
The ring, let it go 'bout three months ago
The pain ain't stressin' me no more
The girl that they used to know done changed
Now they sayin' this before they mention my name
Told y'all I was gonna bump like this
Y'all didn't think that I could bump like this
Said, I told y'all I was gonna bump like this
Turn around, then I make it jump like this (ladies)
You wanna keep that boy, then make it jump like this
Y'all didn't think that I could make it bump like this
See, I told y'all, y'all was gonna jump like this
How you not gon' know it when it hit like this?
See satellite 664, came up real slow, put a good game on me
Told him, "Partner, don't get too close or come too bold"
'Cause the quick ain't for me
Got my girls all here, no enemies, always family please
All of your personal info
I ain't thinkin' 'bout love, I just tryin' to get it up
Pop a bottle, talk a lot of bullshit
And let's, let's go
Told y'all I was gonna bump like this
Y'all didn't think that I could bump like this
Said, I told y'all I was gonna bump like this
Turn around, then I make it jump like this (ladies)
You wanna keep that boy, then make it jump like this
Y'all didn't think that I could make it bump like this
See, I told y'all, y'all was gonna jump like this
How you not gon' know it when it hit like this?
Tonight I ain't feelin' no (stress)
To my girls that's lookin' their best
Won't you go and show it off for us?
(Ladies, go on, throw your hands up)
And if he's all in your head
Just forget all the things that he said
Girl, this is yours, do whatever you want to
(Ladies, go on, throw your hands up)
Hear these words out my mouth, now, tell you how it's goin' down
Kelly, E-V-E, we comin' through and got 'em bowin' down
Ladies, can you feel it? It's an anthem you can bounce around
Give you just a sec to take your breath, bring it back now
Dudes get excited, seein' what they like, and
Hopin' you the one you choose, hope they get invited
Late night rendezvous is all right
But we lovin' how the club vibratin', it's enticing
Let the beat knock, trust me, we ain't gon' stop
Here 'til the light's up, watch us take over the spot
Few mad looks from them chicks you know
And from them dudes who be jealous of a chick wit' dough
Pop another bottle for them, keep my life movin'
No time for the drama, watch me blow through them
I know I sound confident, I'm supposed to though
We do it big, how we live, Kelly told you so, come on
Told y'all I was gonna bump like this
Y'all didn't think that I could bump like this
Said, I told y'all I was gonna bump like this
Turn around, then I make it jump like this (all my ladies)
You wanna keep that boy, then make it jump like this
Y'all didn't think that I could make it bump like this
See, I told y'all, y'all was gonna jump like this
How you not gon' know it (when it hit like this?)
Hit like this (like this, like this)
Told y'all I was gonna bump like this
Y'all didn't think that I could bump like this
Said, I told y'all I was gonna bump like this
Turn around, then I make it jump like this (ladies)
You wanna keep that boy, then make it jump like this
Y'all didn't think that I could make it bump like this
See, I told y'all, y'all was gonna jump like this
How you not gon' know it when it hit like this?
Ladies, drama, leave it home
If he ain't got it right by now, then scratch him off
They just called me, said it's about twenty strong
They standin' at the door, don't wanna take us on
The ring, let it go 'bout three months ago
The pain ain't stressin' me no more
The girl that they used to know done changed
Now they sayin' this before they mention my name
Told y'all I was gonna bump like this
Y'all didn't think that I could bump like this
Said, I told y'all I was gonna bump like this
Turn around, then I make it jump like this (ladies)
You wanna keep that boy, then make it jump like this
Y'all didn't think that I could make it bump like this
See, I told y'all, y'all was gonna jump like this
How you not gon' know it when it hit like this?
See satellite 664, came up real slow, put a good game on me
Told him, "Partner, don't get too close or come too bold"
'Cause the quick ain't for me
Got my girls all here, no enemies, always family please
All of your personal info
I ain't thinkin' 'bout love, I just tryin' to get it up
Pop a bottle, talk a lot of bullshit
And let's, let's go
Told y'all I was gonna bump like this
Y'all didn't think that I could bump like this
Said, I told y'all I was gonna bump like this
Turn around, then I make it jump like this (ladies)
You wanna keep that boy, then make it jump like this
Y'all didn't think that I could make it bump like this
See, I told y'all, y'all was gonna jump like this
How you not gon' know it when it hit like this?
Tonight I ain't feelin' no (stress)
To my girls that's lookin' their best
Won't you go and show it off for us?
(Ladies, go on, throw your hands up)
And if he's all in your head
Just forget all the things that he said
Girl, this is yours, do whatever you want to
(Ladies, go on, throw your hands up)
Hear these words out my mouth, now, tell you how it's goin' down
Kelly, E-V-E, we comin' through and got 'em bowin' down
Ladies, can you feel it? It's an anthem you can bounce around
Give you just a sec to take your breath, bring it back now
Dudes get excited, seein' what they like, and
Hopin' you the one you choose, hope they get invited
Late night rendezvous is all right
But we lovin' how the club vibratin', it's enticing
Let the beat knock, trust me, we ain't gon' stop
Here 'til the light's up, watch us take over the spot
Few mad looks from them chicks you know
And from them dudes who be jealous of a chick wit' dough
Pop another bottle for them, keep my life movin'
No time for the drama, watch me blow through them
I know I sound confident, I'm supposed to though
We do it big, how we live, Kelly told you so, come on
Told y'all I was gonna bump like this
Y'all didn't think that I could bump like this
Said, I told y'all I was gonna bump like this
Turn around, then I make it jump like this (all my ladies)
You wanna keep that boy, then make it jump like this
Y'all didn't think that I could make it bump like this
See, I told y'all, y'all was gonna jump like this
How you not gon' know it (when it hit like this?)
Hit like this (like this, like this)
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