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"
Yeah
Shorty when ya come over
I know just what to do girl to make you feel right
Ya know I know ya
Go on, come be a freak for me when ya come tonight
I wanna show ya
Things you ain't never seen girl you're just my type
Ya know I know ya
Go on, come do all the things you know I like
I want you to show me what you know baby
But I'm a teach you new tricks
Introduce you to my ghetto karmasutricks
Close ya eyes, imagine being stress-free
Open ya eyes between ya thighs, baby that's me
When I push the pressure to pleasure it's so hard to measure
You leave me on ya mind 'cause nobody do it better
The intensity so real, damn shorty hold still
Then it's back to the action baby you know the drill
I can tell you wanted me girl
You ain't gotta worry no more
You keep my bottles cold and you pop 'em
As soon as I walk in the door
These dude don't know me from Adam and Eve
That's why they can't mess up my flow
And when this beat drops, your heart stops
You feel it from your head to your toes
If you know what I'm talking about (Hey girl)
Let me see you work it out (Hey girl)
Girl that's what I'm talking about (Come on Justin, talk to 'em)
I got sexy ladies all over the floor
You're talking to one of the greatest
Who did it before
Now I'm back with one of my latest
Just letting you know
That I got sexy ladies so back up some more
Let me take it off
I know a little girly from uptown
Just waiting just to cater to me
I know a little Betty from downtown
That'll do anything that I please
All my other people that dance around
When they hear me rocking the groove
Now it might sound cocky
But is it really cocky if you know that it's true?
If you know what I'm talking about (Hey girl)
Let me see you work it out (Hey girl)
Girl that's what I'm talking about (Come on Justin, talk to 'em)
I got sexy ladies all over the floor
You're talking to one of the greatest
Who did it before
Now I'm back with one of my latest
Just letting you know
That I got sexy ladies so back up some more
Let me take it off
Sexy, sexy, sexy
Walk that body, talk that body
Sexy, sexy, sexy
Walk that body, talk that body
Sexy, sexy, sexy
Walk that body, talk that body
Sexy, sexy, sexy
Walk that body, talk that body
Give it to me baby, come on give it to me baby
Now baby come on give me some more
I said give it to me baby, come on give it to me baby
Now baby come on give me some more
Give it to me missionary, doggy-style, cowgirl, low while
Kissing it below the neck, everything dripping wet
Latex safe sex, ya I do that correct
Like that as much as I like that baby ya I bet
Sexy, sexy, sexy
Walk that body, talk that body
(Slow down girl)
Sexy, sexy, sexy
Walk that body, talk that body
(Slow down girl)
Sexy, sexy, sexy
Walk that body, talk that body
(Slow down girl)
Sexy, sexy, sexy
Walk that body
I got sexy ladies all over the floor
You're talking to one of the greatest
Who did it before
Now I'm back with one of my latest
Just letting you know
That I got sexy ladies so back up some more
Let me take ït off
Shorty when ya come over
I know just what to do girl to make you feel right
Ya know I know ya
Go on, come be a freak for me when ya come tonight
I wanna show ya
Things you ain't never seen girl you're just my type
Ya know I know ya
Go on, come do all the things you know I like
I want you to show me what you know baby
But I'm a teach you new tricks
Introduce you to my ghetto karmasutricks
Close ya eyes, imagine being stress-free
Open ya eyes between ya thighs, baby that's me
When I push the pressure to pleasure it's so hard to measure
You leave me on ya mind 'cause nobody do it better
The intensity so real, damn shorty hold still
Then it's back to the action baby you know the drill
I can tell you wanted me girl
You ain't gotta worry no more
You keep my bottles cold and you pop 'em
As soon as I walk in the door
These dude don't know me from Adam and Eve
That's why they can't mess up my flow
And when this beat drops, your heart stops
You feel it from your head to your toes
If you know what I'm talking about (Hey girl)
Let me see you work it out (Hey girl)
Girl that's what I'm talking about (Come on Justin, talk to 'em)
I got sexy ladies all over the floor
You're talking to one of the greatest
Who did it before
Now I'm back with one of my latest
Just letting you know
That I got sexy ladies so back up some more
Let me take it off
I know a little girly from uptown
Just waiting just to cater to me
I know a little Betty from downtown
That'll do anything that I please
All my other people that dance around
When they hear me rocking the groove
Now it might sound cocky
But is it really cocky if you know that it's true?
If you know what I'm talking about (Hey girl)
Let me see you work it out (Hey girl)
Girl that's what I'm talking about (Come on Justin, talk to 'em)
I got sexy ladies all over the floor
You're talking to one of the greatest
Who did it before
Now I'm back with one of my latest
Just letting you know
That I got sexy ladies so back up some more
Let me take it off
Sexy, sexy, sexy
Walk that body, talk that body
Sexy, sexy, sexy
Walk that body, talk that body
Sexy, sexy, sexy
Walk that body, talk that body
Sexy, sexy, sexy
Walk that body, talk that body
Give it to me baby, come on give it to me baby
Now baby come on give me some more
I said give it to me baby, come on give it to me baby
Now baby come on give me some more
Give it to me missionary, doggy-style, cowgirl, low while
Kissing it below the neck, everything dripping wet
Latex safe sex, ya I do that correct
Like that as much as I like that baby ya I bet
Sexy, sexy, sexy
Walk that body, talk that body
(Slow down girl)
Sexy, sexy, sexy
Walk that body, talk that body
(Slow down girl)
Sexy, sexy, sexy
Walk that body, talk that body
(Slow down girl)
Sexy, sexy, sexy
Walk that body
I got sexy ladies all over the floor
You're talking to one of the greatest
Who did it before
Now I'm back with one of my latest
Just letting you know
That I got sexy ladies so back up some more
Let me take ït off
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Sexy Ladies [Remix] Lyrics as written by Floyd Nathaniel Hills Justin R. Timberlake
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Anthem Entertainment, Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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