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"
Toby Love
Scott Little, ay
It's that little chico Pitbull
Now let me see you go to work on that strip pole
I love it when you work that, hit the floor
Bring it back, twerk that, gimme some more
Humpback, humpback, hoochie mama
All I really want is some coochie, mama
Baby, you a star when you work the pole
We don't make it rain, we make it snow
We can go fast then break it down slow
From the window to the wall
Get low
This is for the strippers that be stripping for them tips
Big ol' ass, big ol' tits
Fat ass pussy, pretty ass lips
Baby your amazing
Dime con quien andas ya, no mientas más
Siempre inventas una excusa para trabajar
My boys done told me que tú andas mal
So baby tell me
No le hagas caso, daddy
Solo soy tuya, amor
Deja que se mueran de envidia, no bailo desnuda
Así es que tú me pagas
Me mientes en la cara
Caíste en la trampa
You can't play me
You must go
I caught you on that stripper pole
Ain't never gonna trust you, no
Ass in the air, grabbin' dollars while you droppin' like
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
Girl, you don't know the half of it
I found you out last Friday
Thought I was out to get you
At the club I met Peaches
She said she knew your secret
I asked if you were hookin' or creepin'
I had a quick lap dance
Damn near skeed in my pants (whoa)
Look how bitches got me
Sweatin' in my white tee
Lovin' how she do me
Then I saw you in stilettos and a thong
Shaking that booty to the "Do the Brown" song (do the Brown)
Shorty gots to go, ooh oh
You must go
I caught you on that stripper pole
Ain't never gonna trust you, no
Ass in the air, grabbin' dollars while you droppin' like
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
You must go
I caught you on that stripper pole
Ain't never gonna trust you, no
Ass in the air, grabbin' dollars while you droppin' like
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
Let me see you climb the pole to the top
Let go, make it drop
Make it clap, don't stop
One cheek at a time don't stop
I've been waiting all night to see you take it off
I got some paper baby you can take it all
What you wanna do?
Let me know, we can go to the back boom, boom fo' sho
These just them things that be going down in them strip clubs
Bend over, baby, come over and get these crispy dubs
No le hagas caso daddy
Solo soy tuya, amor
Deja que se mueran de envidia, no bailo desnuda
Así es que tú me pagas
Me mientes en la cara
Caíste en la trampa
You can't play me
You must go
I caught you on that stripper pole
Ain't never gonna trust you, no
Ass in the air, grabbin' dollars while you droppin' like
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
You must go
I caught you on that stripper pole
Ain't never gonna trust you, no
Ass in the air, grabbin' dollars while you droppin' like
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
How you gonna play this thug?
Así te quería ver
Scott Little, ay
It's that little chico Pitbull
Now let me see you go to work on that strip pole
I love it when you work that, hit the floor
Bring it back, twerk that, gimme some more
Humpback, humpback, hoochie mama
All I really want is some coochie, mama
Baby, you a star when you work the pole
We don't make it rain, we make it snow
We can go fast then break it down slow
From the window to the wall
Get low
This is for the strippers that be stripping for them tips
Big ol' ass, big ol' tits
Fat ass pussy, pretty ass lips
Baby your amazing
Dime con quien andas ya, no mientas más
Siempre inventas una excusa para trabajar
My boys done told me que tú andas mal
So baby tell me
No le hagas caso, daddy
Solo soy tuya, amor
Deja que se mueran de envidia, no bailo desnuda
Así es que tú me pagas
Me mientes en la cara
Caíste en la trampa
You can't play me
You must go
I caught you on that stripper pole
Ain't never gonna trust you, no
Ass in the air, grabbin' dollars while you droppin' like
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
Girl, you don't know the half of it
I found you out last Friday
Thought I was out to get you
At the club I met Peaches
She said she knew your secret
I asked if you were hookin' or creepin'
I had a quick lap dance
Damn near skeed in my pants (whoa)
Look how bitches got me
Sweatin' in my white tee
Lovin' how she do me
Then I saw you in stilettos and a thong
Shaking that booty to the "Do the Brown" song (do the Brown)
Shorty gots to go, ooh oh
You must go
I caught you on that stripper pole
Ain't never gonna trust you, no
Ass in the air, grabbin' dollars while you droppin' like
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
You must go
I caught you on that stripper pole
Ain't never gonna trust you, no
Ass in the air, grabbin' dollars while you droppin' like
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
Let me see you climb the pole to the top
Let go, make it drop
Make it clap, don't stop
One cheek at a time don't stop
I've been waiting all night to see you take it off
I got some paper baby you can take it all
What you wanna do?
Let me know, we can go to the back boom, boom fo' sho
These just them things that be going down in them strip clubs
Bend over, baby, come over and get these crispy dubs
No le hagas caso daddy
Solo soy tuya, amor
Deja que se mueran de envidia, no bailo desnuda
Así es que tú me pagas
Me mientes en la cara
Caíste en la trampa
You can't play me
You must go
I caught you on that stripper pole
Ain't never gonna trust you, no
Ass in the air, grabbin' dollars while you droppin' like
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
You must go
I caught you on that stripper pole
Ain't never gonna trust you, no
Ass in the air, grabbin' dollars while you droppin' like
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
How you gonna play this thug?
Así te quería ver
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