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"
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I'm a dreamer, step, step out the Beemer
'Bout to do it big, stretch, stretch limousine, uh
I'm a dreamer, step, step out the Beemer
Angel in the clouds, rain down, best believe it
I'm a dreamer, step, step out the Beemer
'Bout to do it big, stretch, stretch limousine, uh
I'm a dreamer, step, step out the Beemer
Angel in the clouds, rain down, yeah, yeah
Beemer on Monday (flex)
Benz on a Tuesday (Benz, Benz, Benz)
Lambo' on Wednesday (Lambo' on, Lambo' on)
'Rari on Thursday (flex with my friends)
Thank God it's Friday (thank God)
Thank God it's flex on my haters, and ride day (skrrt, skrrt)
Purple and yellow, I'm mixy (mix it up)
I need my exes to miss me (need you to miss me up)
'Member the days they would diss me (diss me)
I know they out tryna get me (now they wanna hit me up)
'Member they said I wouldn't get it, I got it
I went to go get it, I get it, I got it
I went to go get it, I get it, I got it
I went to go get it, I get it, I got it
Went to go get it, I get it, I got it
Went to go sleep while I dream 'bout this money
These boys tryna hit me up
But I'm on my job, so no, I'm not on it
Bake, bake, bake, bake
I'm not a chef, but I'm gettin' caked
When I was ten, I was on my way
Askin' my Daddy that I was gon' make it
Independent in my whip like "rrr"
In my baggy jeans, I'm pullin' up like skrrt
Diamonds, diamonds on my wrist
Charli, Charli, where you been?
Yeah, this party's kinda shit
Should we dip in your whip?
Ahh
I'm a dreamer, step, step out the Beemer
'Bout to do it big, stretch, stretch limousine, uh
I'm a dreamer, step, step out the Beemer
Angel in the clouds, rain down, best believe it
I'm a dreamer, step, step out the Beemer
'Bout to do it big, stretch, stretch limousine, uh
I'm a dreamer, step, step out the Beemer
Angel in the clouds, rain down, yeah
Yeah, I'm an angel in the atmosphere
Up in the penthouse, come and say my name
But sometimes I just wanna disappear
So then I spread my wings and fly away
Yeah, I'm an angel in the atmosphere
Up in the penthouse, come and say my name
But sometimes I just wanna disappear
So then I spread my wings and fly (Fly, fl-fl-fly, fly)
I'm a dreamer, step, step out the Beemer
'Bout to do it big, stretch, stretch limousine, uh
I'm a dreamer, step, step out the Beemer
Angel in the clouds, rain down, best believe it
I'm a dreamer, step, step out the Beemer
'Bout to do it big, stretch, stretch limousine, uh
I'm a dreamer, step, step out the Beemer
Angel in the clouds, rain down, yeah, yeah
Dreamer, dreamer
Beemer, Beemer
Dreamer, dreamer, dreamer
Beemer, Beemer, yeah
Dreamer, dreamer
Beemer, Beemer
Dreamer, dreamer, dreamer
Beemer, Beemer
I'm a dreamer, step, step out the Beemer
'Bout to do it big, stretch, stretch limousine, uh
I'm a dreamer, step, step out the Beemer
Angel in the clouds, rain down, best believe it
I'm a dreamer, step, step out the Beemer
'Bout to do it big, stretch, stretch limousine, uh
I'm a dreamer, step, step out the Beemer
Angel in the clouds, rain down, yeah, yeah
Beemer on Monday (flex)
Benz on a Tuesday (Benz, Benz, Benz)
Lambo' on Wednesday (Lambo' on, Lambo' on)
'Rari on Thursday (flex with my friends)
Thank God it's Friday (thank God)
Thank God it's flex on my haters, and ride day (skrrt, skrrt)
Purple and yellow, I'm mixy (mix it up)
I need my exes to miss me (need you to miss me up)
'Member the days they would diss me (diss me)
I know they out tryna get me (now they wanna hit me up)
'Member they said I wouldn't get it, I got it
I went to go get it, I get it, I got it
I went to go get it, I get it, I got it
I went to go get it, I get it, I got it
Went to go get it, I get it, I got it
Went to go sleep while I dream 'bout this money
These boys tryna hit me up
But I'm on my job, so no, I'm not on it
Bake, bake, bake, bake
I'm not a chef, but I'm gettin' caked
When I was ten, I was on my way
Askin' my Daddy that I was gon' make it
Independent in my whip like "rrr"
In my baggy jeans, I'm pullin' up like skrrt
Diamonds, diamonds on my wrist
Charli, Charli, where you been?
Yeah, this party's kinda shit
Should we dip in your whip?
Ahh
I'm a dreamer, step, step out the Beemer
'Bout to do it big, stretch, stretch limousine, uh
I'm a dreamer, step, step out the Beemer
Angel in the clouds, rain down, best believe it
I'm a dreamer, step, step out the Beemer
'Bout to do it big, stretch, stretch limousine, uh
I'm a dreamer, step, step out the Beemer
Angel in the clouds, rain down, yeah
Yeah, I'm an angel in the atmosphere
Up in the penthouse, come and say my name
But sometimes I just wanna disappear
So then I spread my wings and fly away
Yeah, I'm an angel in the atmosphere
Up in the penthouse, come and say my name
But sometimes I just wanna disappear
So then I spread my wings and fly (Fly, fl-fl-fly, fly)
I'm a dreamer, step, step out the Beemer
'Bout to do it big, stretch, stretch limousine, uh
I'm a dreamer, step, step out the Beemer
Angel in the clouds, rain down, best believe it
I'm a dreamer, step, step out the Beemer
'Bout to do it big, stretch, stretch limousine, uh
I'm a dreamer, step, step out the Beemer
Angel in the clouds, rain down, yeah, yeah
Dreamer, dreamer
Beemer, Beemer
Dreamer, dreamer, dreamer
Beemer, Beemer, yeah
Dreamer, dreamer
Beemer, Beemer
Dreamer, dreamer, dreamer
Beemer, Beemer
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Dreamer Lyrics as written by Brittany Talia Hazzard Charlotte Emma Aitchison
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Hipgnosis Songs Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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