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"
Well alright everybody
Let your hair down
If you got on a wig like some people think I got on
And this is my own beautiful hair
What they do with it fellas?
Take it off
I said get down with it
Do the jazz
Come on, baby
Going to watch everybody wag
I said, come on, baby
I wanna see everybody do the jazz
I said, come on baby
It's been a long long time, woo!
Baby, wanna to watch everybody move around
I said, come on baby
Wanna see everybody make some sound
Oh it's alright
Singing, "It's alright"
Woo! Yeah, yeah yeah, my my my my
Singing, "It's alright"
My my my, yeah
Everybody raise both your hands
Everybody, everywhere
I said, clap your hands
Everybody clap your hands
Oh yeah, my my my my
Woo! Yeah, my my my my
Everybody raise your right hand
Everybody, everywhere
I said, snap your finger
Come on little girl snap your finger, come on little boy
Woo! Yeah, yeah, yeah
My my my my
Oh yeah, my my my my
Everybody get their grooving on, moving
Don't be no fool, let's go
Everybody, let's go, come on, get in line
I said, stomp your feet
Now listen to my beat
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah
My my my my
Woo! Yeah, my my my my
Oh one more time
I'm saying one more time
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
My my my my, woo!
One more time
My my my my
Oh, it's alright yeah
Oh Lord singing, it's alright
Hey hey, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
My my my my, Woo! yeah
My my my my, let's go
Oh, It'a alright
Let your hair down
If you got on a wig like some people think I got on
And this is my own beautiful hair
What they do with it fellas?
Take it off
I said get down with it
Do the jazz
Come on, baby
Going to watch everybody wag
I said, come on, baby
I wanna see everybody do the jazz
I said, come on baby
It's been a long long time, woo!
Baby, wanna to watch everybody move around
I said, come on baby
Wanna see everybody make some sound
Oh it's alright
Singing, "It's alright"
Woo! Yeah, yeah yeah, my my my my
Singing, "It's alright"
My my my, yeah
Everybody raise both your hands
Everybody, everywhere
I said, clap your hands
Everybody clap your hands
Oh yeah, my my my my
Woo! Yeah, my my my my
Everybody raise your right hand
Everybody, everywhere
I said, snap your finger
Come on little girl snap your finger, come on little boy
Woo! Yeah, yeah, yeah
My my my my
Oh yeah, my my my my
Everybody get their grooving on, moving
Don't be no fool, let's go
Everybody, let's go, come on, get in line
I said, stomp your feet
Now listen to my beat
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah
My my my my
Woo! Yeah, my my my my
Oh one more time
I'm saying one more time
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
My my my my, woo!
One more time
My my my my
Oh, it's alright yeah
Oh Lord singing, it's alright
Hey hey, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
My my my my, Woo! yeah
My my my my, let's go
Oh, It'a alright
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Get Down with It Lyrics as written by Richard Penniman
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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