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"
First lady on the floor, move sexy in Dior
As we, go on and on and on from the dusk till the dawn
Fully vapin' on the song, it's a ball not a prom
Have a pour at the bar, at the promenade yo shorty lookin' gorge
The allure of a star
They applaud and in awe
The chips in her palm, what's a pigeon to a swan?
A queen to a pawn?
Luxury is on looking to explore, the Bambi on the lawn
Red carpet to the car, in a garment from the gods
I drips and Bogart you're a target from the start
Assassinate the look murdering the gown
Fashion-Killa, the body dipped in brown
Get the picture, nobody fit the crown
She's the winner, (in) the lobby with a smile!
Jet black weave bout the length of a mile
Jet black feet while I clever craft styles
Miss I'll flip this and dip-dip twaow!
Miss, I been this, you must've missed out
Dope when dressed up, ya boy strung out
His Girl is pressed, now behave, calm down
Sip on old grapes and be laid lounge
Baby you look late, come peep my now
Giving them good taste, the great's don't have
Mommy keep blaze, better get that cake
Shimmy it on stage, I'm giving them good face
Somebody on her page, somebody is amazed
It's just another day for the dame, just another day for the dame
I am Miss Icon and I swore, I saw
A shade of green on ya and I took (I took)
Time to teach ya, taught an allure, allure
A la-dy you wasn't before
Finer, free, high-modern and more (and more)
You favor me, now how I adore ya!
Do you, dine or tea, Italian for two?
A day to be around here with you with you
Grand champ, it's the bougie the handsome
Romance in advance, hit ya boo on her Samsung
Beach bunnies, from Aruba to Cancun
Ya bitch save money just to move with the anthem
So prepare my niggas, gourmet grape taste, we rare my niggas
He where? He wear flair, beware my niggas
You scared, you see-through, you clear my nigga
You boys Scooby and Doo, I'm really groovy and frost
You niggas cooped in a hoop, I'm Cooley High in the Porsche
I put these niggas on mute, to whom it may not concern
I got the bitch with the juice, you got the bitch with the germ
2Pac in the coup, west side with the herb
I got a flock of the hoots, a-list of the birds
White model the muse, Arizona the first
I took a trip from the Moon, to JFK for that work
I am Miss Icon, I've seen you all of green
High-modern miss, I taught I'll teach you how to allure! Dine or Tea
Italian miss, I oughta meet ya darling, how finer free now how I adore ya!
I am Miss Icon, I've seen you all of green
High-modern miss, I taught I'll teach you how to allure! Dine or Tea
Italian miss, I oughta meet ya darling, how finer free now how I adore ya!
I am Miss Icon and I swore, I saw
A shade of green on ya and I took (I took)
Time to teach ya, taught an allure, allure
A la-dy you wasn't before
Finer, free, high-modern and more (and more)
You favor me, now how I adore ya!
Do you, dine or tea, Italian for two?
A day to be around here with you with you
As we, go on and on and on from the dusk till the dawn
Fully vapin' on the song, it's a ball not a prom
Have a pour at the bar, at the promenade yo shorty lookin' gorge
The allure of a star
They applaud and in awe
The chips in her palm, what's a pigeon to a swan?
A queen to a pawn?
Luxury is on looking to explore, the Bambi on the lawn
Red carpet to the car, in a garment from the gods
I drips and Bogart you're a target from the start
Assassinate the look murdering the gown
Fashion-Killa, the body dipped in brown
Get the picture, nobody fit the crown
She's the winner, (in) the lobby with a smile!
Jet black weave bout the length of a mile
Jet black feet while I clever craft styles
Miss I'll flip this and dip-dip twaow!
Miss, I been this, you must've missed out
Dope when dressed up, ya boy strung out
His Girl is pressed, now behave, calm down
Sip on old grapes and be laid lounge
Baby you look late, come peep my now
Giving them good taste, the great's don't have
Mommy keep blaze, better get that cake
Shimmy it on stage, I'm giving them good face
Somebody on her page, somebody is amazed
It's just another day for the dame, just another day for the dame
I am Miss Icon and I swore, I saw
A shade of green on ya and I took (I took)
Time to teach ya, taught an allure, allure
A la-dy you wasn't before
Finer, free, high-modern and more (and more)
You favor me, now how I adore ya!
Do you, dine or tea, Italian for two?
A day to be around here with you with you
Grand champ, it's the bougie the handsome
Romance in advance, hit ya boo on her Samsung
Beach bunnies, from Aruba to Cancun
Ya bitch save money just to move with the anthem
So prepare my niggas, gourmet grape taste, we rare my niggas
He where? He wear flair, beware my niggas
You scared, you see-through, you clear my nigga
You boys Scooby and Doo, I'm really groovy and frost
You niggas cooped in a hoop, I'm Cooley High in the Porsche
I put these niggas on mute, to whom it may not concern
I got the bitch with the juice, you got the bitch with the germ
2Pac in the coup, west side with the herb
I got a flock of the hoots, a-list of the birds
White model the muse, Arizona the first
I took a trip from the Moon, to JFK for that work
I am Miss Icon, I've seen you all of green
High-modern miss, I taught I'll teach you how to allure! Dine or Tea
Italian miss, I oughta meet ya darling, how finer free now how I adore ya!
I am Miss Icon, I've seen you all of green
High-modern miss, I taught I'll teach you how to allure! Dine or Tea
Italian miss, I oughta meet ya darling, how finer free now how I adore ya!
I am Miss Icon and I swore, I saw
A shade of green on ya and I took (I took)
Time to teach ya, taught an allure, allure
A la-dy you wasn't before
Finer, free, high-modern and more (and more)
You favor me, now how I adore ya!
Do you, dine or tea, Italian for two?
A day to be around here with you with you
Lyrics submitted by omgitsmoosh
JFK Lyrics as written by Azealia Banks Alexander Green
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Downtown Music Publishing
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