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"
Mya
"The Only One"
Verse
Baby,I know you think I play games
With your heart when I hold back.
It doesn't mean that I don't want you
It's just I'm alittle selfish,and I don't like to share
I know you be thinking sometimes I be
Brushing you off that I got another man
But boy that's not the case
I'm so damn attracted to you,but I want to
Do it right,so I fight the feelings cus I'm worth
The wait.Your bodies playing like crazy
Your swagger got me like damn,
So gangsta but grown and sexy
Everything I want in a man.
You make a chick want to take it off
And give it to you right now,but I gotta know
Wuts up,before we cut,and that's wus up
Because I wanna be
(Chorus)
The only one, the only one
'not yo main chick,not yo main chick'
The only one,the only one
So sexy,but can you handle it,
So much love that I got in store,
Places you ain't been before,I'll give you mine
If you give me yours,open all leave
Behind closed doors,I gotta be
The only one,the only one
Verse 2
Now here we are,all alone in this empty room
And it's getting real crazy,against the wall
Got me bent up,I'm bout to fuck up,
So stop wait a minute baby
I already know you got a lot of woman in your life
(cus you so fly)
And I don't want to get hurt
You make a chick wanna take it off
And give it to you right now,
I wanna get to know you better
But I let it go because I wanna be
(Chorus)
The only one,the only one
'not yo main chick,not yo main chick'
The only one,the only one
Sexy chick,but can you handle it
So much love that I got in store,
Places you ain't been before,I'll give you mine
If you give me yours,open all leave
Behind closed doors,cus I gotta be
"the only one,the only one"
(Bridge x2)
I'll be waitin for ya, I'll be waitin
Hope ya waitin for me,hope ya waitin
I really don't need to tell you
You already know you fine
It ain't one girl in this world
Who would'nt stand in line
So I'm gon' test my patience
Let you enjoy yo fame and
When you done wit dem hoes
And wanna roll wit a real chick
She right here waitin...
No doubt I puts in down,but boy
You just not ready yet.What chick you
Know drive a stick, sick in the kitchen
And look like this.So if your serious,
Serious about loveing me
This ain't no hit and run I gotta be The only one.
(Chorus)
"The Only One"
Verse
Baby,I know you think I play games
With your heart when I hold back.
It doesn't mean that I don't want you
It's just I'm alittle selfish,and I don't like to share
I know you be thinking sometimes I be
Brushing you off that I got another man
But boy that's not the case
I'm so damn attracted to you,but I want to
Do it right,so I fight the feelings cus I'm worth
The wait.Your bodies playing like crazy
Your swagger got me like damn,
So gangsta but grown and sexy
Everything I want in a man.
You make a chick want to take it off
And give it to you right now,but I gotta know
Wuts up,before we cut,and that's wus up
Because I wanna be
(Chorus)
The only one, the only one
'not yo main chick,not yo main chick'
The only one,the only one
So sexy,but can you handle it,
So much love that I got in store,
Places you ain't been before,I'll give you mine
If you give me yours,open all leave
Behind closed doors,I gotta be
The only one,the only one
Verse 2
Now here we are,all alone in this empty room
And it's getting real crazy,against the wall
Got me bent up,I'm bout to fuck up,
So stop wait a minute baby
I already know you got a lot of woman in your life
(cus you so fly)
And I don't want to get hurt
You make a chick wanna take it off
And give it to you right now,
I wanna get to know you better
But I let it go because I wanna be
(Chorus)
The only one,the only one
'not yo main chick,not yo main chick'
The only one,the only one
Sexy chick,but can you handle it
So much love that I got in store,
Places you ain't been before,I'll give you mine
If you give me yours,open all leave
Behind closed doors,cus I gotta be
"the only one,the only one"
(Bridge x2)
I'll be waitin for ya, I'll be waitin
Hope ya waitin for me,hope ya waitin
I really don't need to tell you
You already know you fine
It ain't one girl in this world
Who would'nt stand in line
So I'm gon' test my patience
Let you enjoy yo fame and
When you done wit dem hoes
And wanna roll wit a real chick
She right here waitin...
No doubt I puts in down,but boy
You just not ready yet.What chick you
Know drive a stick, sick in the kitchen
And look like this.So if your serious,
Serious about loveing me
This ain't no hit and run I gotta be The only one.
(Chorus)
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