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"
As I clearly remember, it was the end of December,
In fact, it wasn't long ago
Just before we took it down, do you remember now?
Said a lot of disrespectful things, still in my head
And I been up stressing since,
Hoping and prayin'.
I ain't walkin' out, I just wanna talk it out
I got nothing but love for u baby,
But you're breakin' my heart, driving me crazy.
That's when my palms start sweating
And my brain starts thinking that,
I start chasing the Henny V-S-O-P (Hennessey),
Blood shots in my eyes from all the tears that I've cried,
Duckin' Jacob in the 2-door coupe
What we have is as real as it gets, I don't want to live with regrets..
Ain't ate all week and im losing sleep
I'm trying hard to get you to see
That there's no you without me..
The love we built built from the ground
Is all coming down now, and aint no cookin' at home
Since my baby's been gone..
I've done lost all kinds of weight
Still im keeping my faith, I just want you to know that
You're the other half of me
I don't know where we're headed
Now all I know is that I got it really, really, really badâ?¦
Now it's been 3 whole months since we both split up
And ever since that day I been having bad luck,
I really didn't mean it I know sometimes I can be crazy
Baby but you're the one that drives me crazy.
But I can't see myself without you now,
Tell me how the hell that would sound..
Tell Me
That's when my palms start sweating
And my brain starts thinking that,
I start chasing the Henny V-S-O-P (Hennessey),
Blood shots in my eyes from all the tears that I've cried,
Duckin' Jacob in the 2-door coupe
What we have is as real as it gets, I don't want to live with regrets
Ain't ate all week and I'm losing sleep
I'm trying hard to get you to see
That there's no you without me
The love we built built from the ground
Is all coming down now, and ain't no cookin' at home
Since my baby's been gone..
I've done lost all kinds of weight
Still I'm keeping my faith I just want you to know that
You're the other half of me
What we have is as real as it gets, I don't want to live with regrets
Ain't ate all week and im losing sleep
I'm trying hard to get you to see
That there's no you without me
The love we built built from the ground
Is all coming down now, and ain't no cookin' at home
Since my baby's been gone
I've done lost all kinds of weight
Still I'm keeping my faith I just want you to know that
You're the other half of me
In fact, it wasn't long ago
Just before we took it down, do you remember now?
Said a lot of disrespectful things, still in my head
And I been up stressing since,
Hoping and prayin'.
I ain't walkin' out, I just wanna talk it out
I got nothing but love for u baby,
But you're breakin' my heart, driving me crazy.
That's when my palms start sweating
And my brain starts thinking that,
I start chasing the Henny V-S-O-P (Hennessey),
Blood shots in my eyes from all the tears that I've cried,
Duckin' Jacob in the 2-door coupe
What we have is as real as it gets, I don't want to live with regrets..
Ain't ate all week and im losing sleep
I'm trying hard to get you to see
That there's no you without me..
The love we built built from the ground
Is all coming down now, and aint no cookin' at home
Since my baby's been gone..
I've done lost all kinds of weight
Still im keeping my faith, I just want you to know that
You're the other half of me
I don't know where we're headed
Now all I know is that I got it really, really, really badâ?¦
Now it's been 3 whole months since we both split up
And ever since that day I been having bad luck,
I really didn't mean it I know sometimes I can be crazy
Baby but you're the one that drives me crazy.
But I can't see myself without you now,
Tell me how the hell that would sound..
Tell Me
That's when my palms start sweating
And my brain starts thinking that,
I start chasing the Henny V-S-O-P (Hennessey),
Blood shots in my eyes from all the tears that I've cried,
Duckin' Jacob in the 2-door coupe
What we have is as real as it gets, I don't want to live with regrets
Ain't ate all week and I'm losing sleep
I'm trying hard to get you to see
That there's no you without me
The love we built built from the ground
Is all coming down now, and ain't no cookin' at home
Since my baby's been gone..
I've done lost all kinds of weight
Still I'm keeping my faith I just want you to know that
You're the other half of me
What we have is as real as it gets, I don't want to live with regrets
Ain't ate all week and im losing sleep
I'm trying hard to get you to see
That there's no you without me
The love we built built from the ground
Is all coming down now, and ain't no cookin' at home
Since my baby's been gone
I've done lost all kinds of weight
Still I'm keeping my faith I just want you to know that
You're the other half of me
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Otha Half Lyrics as written by Jaheim Hoagland Brandon Alexander Hodge
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