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"
Yo, One score, seven years ago,
These girls popped out hot and hit the floor
We got black, latina, white, asian,
Jesus, united nations come in the door
We gon’ level up, eleven plus, we don’t quit,
Drop it low, now through the switch
Make ‘em dizzy with the big bass droppin’ down.
[The doctor will see you now]
Uh, Ladies, ladies, let me find a pen,
Cause I’ma check you out and I’ma sign you in.
Darth Vader vitamins, for J-Jackie Chan…
Wait up, damn, can I start again.
Buckle up, buckle in, grab a drink, lets begin,
I’m enjoying destroying the beats the DJ spins
You can’t come in girl. Naw, cutie I'm toying,
We’re equal opportunity for booty employment.
CHORUS:
Before the sunrise spend all your cash like,
This is the best night of your life.
Get up on that ass, like you got the last piece in the world
It’s a Feeding Frenzy. {here we go}
Yo ready, sweaty, gonna slide and slip
You got to find the handles and grab the hips
Can’t see nothing in the fog on the floor
Jungle full of wild mammals, gorillas and the mist,
Red bull vodka, ice, quick,
Cold like the war with the Soviets.
It’s hot as hell.
Shit, can we get a dehumidifier up on in this bitch
Got birds in the hand but that bush is bumping.
Set to stun, approach with caution,
Like a 747, you go go
Boeing in the sky like Yo Yo
Ma in heaven like “oh no...”,
Yoko double baggin’ like “whoa hoe…”
You put on a good show but you got hairy feet like Frodo’s were,
Better take hobbit ass back to Middle Earth.
REPEAT CHORUS
These girls popped out hot and hit the floor
We got black, latina, white, asian,
Jesus, united nations come in the door
We gon’ level up, eleven plus, we don’t quit,
Drop it low, now through the switch
Make ‘em dizzy with the big bass droppin’ down.
[The doctor will see you now]
Uh, Ladies, ladies, let me find a pen,
Cause I’ma check you out and I’ma sign you in.
Darth Vader vitamins, for J-Jackie Chan…
Wait up, damn, can I start again.
Buckle up, buckle in, grab a drink, lets begin,
I’m enjoying destroying the beats the DJ spins
You can’t come in girl. Naw, cutie I'm toying,
We’re equal opportunity for booty employment.
CHORUS:
Before the sunrise spend all your cash like,
This is the best night of your life.
Get up on that ass, like you got the last piece in the world
It’s a Feeding Frenzy. {here we go}
Yo ready, sweaty, gonna slide and slip
You got to find the handles and grab the hips
Can’t see nothing in the fog on the floor
Jungle full of wild mammals, gorillas and the mist,
Red bull vodka, ice, quick,
Cold like the war with the Soviets.
It’s hot as hell.
Shit, can we get a dehumidifier up on in this bitch
Got birds in the hand but that bush is bumping.
Set to stun, approach with caution,
Like a 747, you go go
Boeing in the sky like Yo Yo
Ma in heaven like “oh no...”,
Yoko double baggin’ like “whoa hoe…”
You put on a good show but you got hairy feet like Frodo’s were,
Better take hobbit ass back to Middle Earth.
REPEAT CHORUS
Lyrics submitted by mlfm256
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