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"
Boy you know you get me high
Wont you take me for a ride
Tell me where you want to go
Tell me where you want to go
Yo, its that dancefloor 808
She hit me like a 808
Have you all night, vodka straight
Bottles up, you and me
Me and you, on a trip
All night flight, girl lets dip
Lickin' my lips I'm in the zone
And I cant really say what I'm sippin' on
But you taste good to me
Girls like you make history
Sure does sound like a hit to me
Now che-e-e-ck out this beat
Now, you got it
You got it goin' on, goin' on and on and on and on and on
Boy you know you get me high
Won't you take me for a ride
Tell me where you want to go
Tell me where you want to go
I'm your Bonnie, you’re my Clyde
I’ll be your “ride or die”
Tell me where you want to go
Tell me where you want to go
T-t-t-to the top of the worlddd
T-t-t-to the top of the worlddd
Your daddy must have been a drug dealer (why?)
'Cause you dope
You the Bonnie to my Clyde, Juliet and Romeo
Your daddy must have been a drug dealer (why?)
I don’t know, I'm just saying anything to get me up inside your throat
Is it workin'?
I'm just playin'
Man this bottle got me sayin'
I don’t ever wanna lose, lose ya right now
T-t-t-to the top of the worlddd
Tell me where you want to go
Tell me where you want to go
Tell me where you want to go
Tell me where you want to go
Where, you wanna, where you wanna go?
Where, you wanna, where you wanna go?
Where, you wanna, where you wanna go?
Where, you wanna, where you wanna go?
T-t-t-to the top of the worlddd
Wont you take me for a ride
Tell me where you want to go
Tell me where you want to go
Yo, its that dancefloor 808
She hit me like a 808
Have you all night, vodka straight
Bottles up, you and me
Me and you, on a trip
All night flight, girl lets dip
Lickin' my lips I'm in the zone
And I cant really say what I'm sippin' on
But you taste good to me
Girls like you make history
Sure does sound like a hit to me
Now che-e-e-ck out this beat
Now, you got it
You got it goin' on, goin' on and on and on and on and on
Boy you know you get me high
Won't you take me for a ride
Tell me where you want to go
Tell me where you want to go
I'm your Bonnie, you’re my Clyde
I’ll be your “ride or die”
Tell me where you want to go
Tell me where you want to go
T-t-t-to the top of the worlddd
T-t-t-to the top of the worlddd
Your daddy must have been a drug dealer (why?)
'Cause you dope
You the Bonnie to my Clyde, Juliet and Romeo
Your daddy must have been a drug dealer (why?)
I don’t know, I'm just saying anything to get me up inside your throat
Is it workin'?
I'm just playin'
Man this bottle got me sayin'
I don’t ever wanna lose, lose ya right now
T-t-t-to the top of the worlddd
Tell me where you want to go
Tell me where you want to go
Tell me where you want to go
Tell me where you want to go
Where, you wanna, where you wanna go?
Where, you wanna, where you wanna go?
Where, you wanna, where you wanna go?
Where, you wanna, where you wanna go?
T-t-t-to the top of the worlddd
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Top of the World Lyrics as written by Joseph Ward Simmons Darryl Matthews Mcdaniels
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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