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"
(Yeaaaaaaa) (yeeeehaahh!)
(Yall see that girl?
Man you like the way she walk) (I wish she was mine)
Fresh!
Every night I see you on the dancefloor
Fresh!
Flirting with fellas, I be watching girl
Your body smell like heaven baby!
Fresh!
Your lips is like vanilla!
Yeaaa HO!
Let me sock it to ya, sock-sock it, (sock it to yah)
(42nd Street) Ho!
(I'mma get that girl)(yea?)
(gotta have it all)
Fresh!
I saw you from a distance girl!
Fresh!
And you got me really hopin (I been hopin baby)
Fresh!
The way you wear your jeans so tight
Fresh!
Your blouse all loose and open!
Yeaaa Ho!
Baby sock it to me, so I can sock it to yah (he's a maniac)
Ho!
(Girl moaning)(Yea) uh!
(You better stop) (hmm mm hmm!)
Fresh! Fresh! Fresh! Fresh!
Fresh x 9
awwwww Fresh!
That girl is fresh, shawty ride it
That girl is fresshhhh, you know it
That girl is fresh, woo ooo baby (shawty ride it)
That girl is fresh, you know it
That girl is fresh (shawty ride it)
That girl is fresh, you know it!
That girl is fresh, (shawty ride it)
that girl is fresh, you know it x 4
(Walk so fresh, talk so fresh,
your just so fresh) x 2 (say what)
We like it x 4
The boy caucus, the fifty walkas
the night stalkas! The native new yorker
The first and last, and all that jazz
We're the furious five and Grandmaster flash!
I'm Melle Mel
and I'm Mr. Ness
Hey here, I'm Raheim and you're just so fresh
The Kidd Creole
and I'm Cowboy
and Grandmaster Flash is yours to enjoy
Fresh! sock, sock it to yah baby to sock it to me, sock it, sock it to yah (x2)
Fresh!
Don't you know I love you girl
Fresh!
Baby my love is strong, its gettin stronger hah
Fresh!
And I want you for my lady!
Fresh!
Don't you really turn me on!
Yeaa ho!
ah ahh
Don't you see that girl
yea, yea, yea
(Gorilla Noises)
Come on everybody, rock with me one time, everybody come on!
Just throw your hands in the air, and wave them from right to left
and if you want to do your fast grip, pass the test
everybody sayin get Fresh (Get fresh!)
Get fresh! (Get Fresh!)
And ya don't stop
I say what's that word when you want the loot (Juice! Juice!) x 2
Everybody if you love your mother! (If you love your mother)
If you really really really really love your mother!
jump! x 4
jump (jump)
jump (jump)
jump (jump)
jump (jump)
Ayeee, say I love my mother! (I love my mother!)
Fresh!
Sock it to me, so I can sock it to yah,
baby sock it to me, so I can sock it to yah
Fresh!
Sock it to me, so I can sock it to yah,
baby sock it to me, so I can sock it to yah
Fresh!
Sock it to me, so I can sock it to yah,
baby sock it to me, so I can sock it to yah
Fresh! Fresh!
Fresh! x 4
Fresh!
Sock it to me, so I can sock it to yah!
Grandmaster Flash! (On the wheels of steel!)
Fresh!
Sock it to me, so I can sock it to yah!
The furious five got a lot of appeal!
Fresh!
Sock it to me, so I can sock it to yah!
Young ladies in the place, I know you want to get -
Fresh!
Fresh! Fresh!
Fresh! x 4
Hey don't you know that, she's fresh!
(Yall see that girl?
Man you like the way she walk) (I wish she was mine)
Fresh!
Every night I see you on the dancefloor
Fresh!
Flirting with fellas, I be watching girl
Your body smell like heaven baby!
Fresh!
Your lips is like vanilla!
Yeaaa HO!
Let me sock it to ya, sock-sock it, (sock it to yah)
(42nd Street) Ho!
(I'mma get that girl)(yea?)
(gotta have it all)
Fresh!
I saw you from a distance girl!
Fresh!
And you got me really hopin (I been hopin baby)
Fresh!
The way you wear your jeans so tight
Fresh!
Your blouse all loose and open!
Yeaaa Ho!
Baby sock it to me, so I can sock it to yah (he's a maniac)
Ho!
(Girl moaning)(Yea) uh!
(You better stop) (hmm mm hmm!)
Fresh! Fresh! Fresh! Fresh!
Fresh x 9
awwwww Fresh!
That girl is fresh, shawty ride it
That girl is fresshhhh, you know it
That girl is fresh, woo ooo baby (shawty ride it)
That girl is fresh, you know it
That girl is fresh (shawty ride it)
That girl is fresh, you know it!
That girl is fresh, (shawty ride it)
that girl is fresh, you know it x 4
(Walk so fresh, talk so fresh,
your just so fresh) x 2 (say what)
We like it x 4
The boy caucus, the fifty walkas
the night stalkas! The native new yorker
The first and last, and all that jazz
We're the furious five and Grandmaster flash!
I'm Melle Mel
and I'm Mr. Ness
Hey here, I'm Raheim and you're just so fresh
The Kidd Creole
and I'm Cowboy
and Grandmaster Flash is yours to enjoy
Fresh! sock, sock it to yah baby to sock it to me, sock it, sock it to yah (x2)
Fresh!
Don't you know I love you girl
Fresh!
Baby my love is strong, its gettin stronger hah
Fresh!
And I want you for my lady!
Fresh!
Don't you really turn me on!
Yeaa ho!
ah ahh
Don't you see that girl
yea, yea, yea
(Gorilla Noises)
Come on everybody, rock with me one time, everybody come on!
Just throw your hands in the air, and wave them from right to left
and if you want to do your fast grip, pass the test
everybody sayin get Fresh (Get fresh!)
Get fresh! (Get Fresh!)
And ya don't stop
I say what's that word when you want the loot (Juice! Juice!) x 2
Everybody if you love your mother! (If you love your mother)
If you really really really really love your mother!
jump! x 4
jump (jump)
jump (jump)
jump (jump)
jump (jump)
Ayeee, say I love my mother! (I love my mother!)
Fresh!
Sock it to me, so I can sock it to yah,
baby sock it to me, so I can sock it to yah
Fresh!
Sock it to me, so I can sock it to yah,
baby sock it to me, so I can sock it to yah
Fresh!
Sock it to me, so I can sock it to yah,
baby sock it to me, so I can sock it to yah
Fresh! Fresh!
Fresh! x 4
Fresh!
Sock it to me, so I can sock it to yah!
Grandmaster Flash! (On the wheels of steel!)
Fresh!
Sock it to me, so I can sock it to yah!
The furious five got a lot of appeal!
Fresh!
Sock it to me, so I can sock it to yah!
Young ladies in the place, I know you want to get -
Fresh!
Fresh! Fresh!
Fresh! x 4
Hey don't you know that, she's fresh!
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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