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"
Chorus: That's Shawty Lo That's Shawty Lo.....That's Shawty Lo That's Shawty Lo (yea) Who that man from Bankhead you already know that's Shawty Lo (who) that's Shawty Lo (okay) Everywhere I be (aye) and everywhere I go that's Shawty Lo (who) that's Shawty Lo (okay) Pull up to my hood show love to my folks that's Shawty lo ( LO)that's Shawty Lo (yea)who that man from Bankhead you already know that's Shawty Lo (yea)that's Shawty Lo
Verse1: Every summer(every summer)I make nice cream I'm in the hood buying chiilin ice cream The streets love me and the kids too Showing much love that's what da kid do Hood barbecue turn them into two It was looking rough Guess who came through Me I add two they can't do for me It made it possible so I can do for me I love my n*gga be show me a recipe I make a lot of money but is this shit can feed and I can do for she and I can do for he now everbody know it so sang along with
Chorus: Who that man from Bankhead you already know that's Shawty Lo (who) that's Shawty Lo (okay) Everywhere I be (aye) and everywhere I go that's Shawty Lo (who) that's Shawty Lo (okay) Pull up to my hood show love to my folks that's Shawty lo ( LO)that's Shawty Lo (yea)who that man from Bankhead you already know that's Shawty Lo (yea)that's Shawty Lo
Verse2: When I was just a kid I used to move for dad brand new Micheal Jordans Chicago public air and I know how it is So now I'm giving back and no I don't think I'm this and no I don't think I'm that I don't think it's wrong You might not think it's right but I was in da hood gettin off da white I was living life cash not swoll and these are the tales from Shawty Lo
Chorus: Who that man from Bankhead you already know that's Shawty Lo (who) that's Shawty Lo (okay) Everywhere I be (aye) and everywhere I go that's Shawty Lo (who) that's Shawty Lo (okay) Pull up to my hood show love to my folks that's Shawty lo ( LO)that's Shawty Lo (yea)who that man from Bankhead you already know that's Shawty Lo (yea)that's Shawty Lo
Verse3: Some say it's love but it's really mine I come from da gutta and I'm really high born home spine it put me on top and I'm doing good with da little I got I would neva stop doing what I do I do it for my people what about you You can catch Lo poppin at da store signing autographs snappin pictures with my folks
Chorus: Who that man from Bankhead you already know that's Shawty Lo (who) that's Shawty Lo (okay) Everywhere I be (aye) and everywhere I go that's Shawty Lo (who) that's Shawty Lo (okay) Pull up to my hood show love to my folks that's Shawty lo ( LO)that's Shawty Lo (yea)who that man from Bankhead you already know that's Shawty Lo (yea)that's Shawty Lo
Verse1: Every summer(every summer)I make nice cream I'm in the hood buying chiilin ice cream The streets love me and the kids too Showing much love that's what da kid do Hood barbecue turn them into two It was looking rough Guess who came through Me I add two they can't do for me It made it possible so I can do for me I love my n*gga be show me a recipe I make a lot of money but is this shit can feed and I can do for she and I can do for he now everbody know it so sang along with
Chorus: Who that man from Bankhead you already know that's Shawty Lo (who) that's Shawty Lo (okay) Everywhere I be (aye) and everywhere I go that's Shawty Lo (who) that's Shawty Lo (okay) Pull up to my hood show love to my folks that's Shawty lo ( LO)that's Shawty Lo (yea)who that man from Bankhead you already know that's Shawty Lo (yea)that's Shawty Lo
Verse2: When I was just a kid I used to move for dad brand new Micheal Jordans Chicago public air and I know how it is So now I'm giving back and no I don't think I'm this and no I don't think I'm that I don't think it's wrong You might not think it's right but I was in da hood gettin off da white I was living life cash not swoll and these are the tales from Shawty Lo
Chorus: Who that man from Bankhead you already know that's Shawty Lo (who) that's Shawty Lo (okay) Everywhere I be (aye) and everywhere I go that's Shawty Lo (who) that's Shawty Lo (okay) Pull up to my hood show love to my folks that's Shawty lo ( LO)that's Shawty Lo (yea)who that man from Bankhead you already know that's Shawty Lo (yea)that's Shawty Lo
Verse3: Some say it's love but it's really mine I come from da gutta and I'm really high born home spine it put me on top and I'm doing good with da little I got I would neva stop doing what I do I do it for my people what about you You can catch Lo poppin at da store signing autographs snappin pictures with my folks
Chorus: Who that man from Bankhead you already know that's Shawty Lo (who) that's Shawty Lo (okay) Everywhere I be (aye) and everywhere I go that's Shawty Lo (who) that's Shawty Lo (okay) Pull up to my hood show love to my folks that's Shawty lo ( LO)that's Shawty Lo (yea)who that man from Bankhead you already know that's Shawty Lo (yea)that's Shawty Lo
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