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"
Aye
Turn me up
Lets get it
Lets Go
Didn't wanna watch me now that I'm poppin bitches be calling me cocky
Me and my niggas turned up in the lobby got a bad bitch beside me
Nice lil ass she built like Roxy and she be calling me papi
Hatin is a hobby Feeling like Gotti please don't try me
Might as well hit the light switch
All my diamonds shine when light hit
Blowing up like I'm ISIS
Aint no telling who I might hit
Went and spent a dollar on some sense
Now my credit giving white bitch
Ain't no sleep when you at the bottom yea all I do is work the Night Shift
Botta Bing Botta Boom
Look who stepped in the room
Cleaning up shop
Come thru sweeping ya block that mean I'm toting a broom
Big body Chevy look like a space ship I'm parkin that shit on the moon
And this just a fact Everything look better black
We don't do business with coons
You niggas iffy it's a new king in the city
You can take that like Diddy
Shawty got ass and titties throwing me the kitty
I'm only gone fuck if she pretty
All of this Envy over a couple of pennies niggas be watching ya Benjis
He turned to an op
Know that he gotta get dropped
That's an appropriate ending
Got Big stones no flint
Sitting right up under my dick
Aint wasting no time I'm tryna get rich
So why would I give af about a bitch
Same hood same clique
Meanwhile you on the fence
Making yo grandmother proud cuz you nigga love to switch
Didn't wanna watch me now that I'm poppin bitches be calling me cocky
Me and my niggas turned up in the lobby got a bad bitch beside me
Nice lil ass she built like Roxy and she be calling me papi
Hatin is a hobby Feeling like Gotti please don't try me
Might as well hit the light switch
All my diamonds shine when light hit
Blowing up like I'm ISIS
Aint no telling who I might hit
Went and spent a dollar on some sense
Now my credit giving white bitch
Ain't no sleep when you at the bottom yea all I do is work the Night Shift
Bada Boom
Bada Bing
Look who stepped in the ring
Ali shuffle in case a nigga wanna tussle you don't want war with the team
Incredible Hulk cuz I get mad money that's just the way I get green
And all of you actors get a cinematic shot I'm just directing the scene
Look at the screen name buzzing like a nat it's the return of the mack
Hit up the club get to throwing a couple stacks she get to throwing it back
Count up the money dare you try to take it from
We gone treat you like Zombie (Headache)
Lift ya spirit with the Tommy
Then it's a wrap like a mummy
Aye I got the juice It aint a fluke
Shawty got glutes I finna scoop
Bad lil foreign pitching to me knock it out the park babe Ruth
All her bottoms she want em red
All my Dollars I want em blue
Day Shift I'm in a suit
Night shift I'm in the zoo
Didn't wanna watch me now that I'm poppin bitches be calling me cocky
Me and my niggas turned up in the lobby got a bad bitch beside me
Nice lil ass she built like Roxy and she be calling me papi
Hatin is a hobby Feeling like Gotti please don't try me
Might as well hit the light switch
All my diamonds shine when light hit
Blowing up like I'm ISIS
Aint no telling who I might hit
Went and spent a dollar on some sense
Now my credit giving white bitch
Ain't no sleep when you at the bottom yea all I do is work the Night Shift
Hit up the club get to throwing a couple stacks she get to throwing it back
Turn me up
Lets get it
Lets Go
Didn't wanna watch me now that I'm poppin bitches be calling me cocky
Me and my niggas turned up in the lobby got a bad bitch beside me
Nice lil ass she built like Roxy and she be calling me papi
Hatin is a hobby Feeling like Gotti please don't try me
Might as well hit the light switch
All my diamonds shine when light hit
Blowing up like I'm ISIS
Aint no telling who I might hit
Went and spent a dollar on some sense
Now my credit giving white bitch
Ain't no sleep when you at the bottom yea all I do is work the Night Shift
Botta Bing Botta Boom
Look who stepped in the room
Cleaning up shop
Come thru sweeping ya block that mean I'm toting a broom
Big body Chevy look like a space ship I'm parkin that shit on the moon
And this just a fact Everything look better black
We don't do business with coons
You niggas iffy it's a new king in the city
You can take that like Diddy
Shawty got ass and titties throwing me the kitty
I'm only gone fuck if she pretty
All of this Envy over a couple of pennies niggas be watching ya Benjis
He turned to an op
Know that he gotta get dropped
That's an appropriate ending
Got Big stones no flint
Sitting right up under my dick
Aint wasting no time I'm tryna get rich
So why would I give af about a bitch
Same hood same clique
Meanwhile you on the fence
Making yo grandmother proud cuz you nigga love to switch
Didn't wanna watch me now that I'm poppin bitches be calling me cocky
Me and my niggas turned up in the lobby got a bad bitch beside me
Nice lil ass she built like Roxy and she be calling me papi
Hatin is a hobby Feeling like Gotti please don't try me
Might as well hit the light switch
All my diamonds shine when light hit
Blowing up like I'm ISIS
Aint no telling who I might hit
Went and spent a dollar on some sense
Now my credit giving white bitch
Ain't no sleep when you at the bottom yea all I do is work the Night Shift
Bada Boom
Bada Bing
Look who stepped in the ring
Ali shuffle in case a nigga wanna tussle you don't want war with the team
Incredible Hulk cuz I get mad money that's just the way I get green
And all of you actors get a cinematic shot I'm just directing the scene
Look at the screen name buzzing like a nat it's the return of the mack
Hit up the club get to throwing a couple stacks she get to throwing it back
Count up the money dare you try to take it from
We gone treat you like Zombie (Headache)
Lift ya spirit with the Tommy
Then it's a wrap like a mummy
Aye I got the juice It aint a fluke
Shawty got glutes I finna scoop
Bad lil foreign pitching to me knock it out the park babe Ruth
All her bottoms she want em red
All my Dollars I want em blue
Day Shift I'm in a suit
Night shift I'm in the zoo
Didn't wanna watch me now that I'm poppin bitches be calling me cocky
Me and my niggas turned up in the lobby got a bad bitch beside me
Nice lil ass she built like Roxy and she be calling me papi
Hatin is a hobby Feeling like Gotti please don't try me
Might as well hit the light switch
All my diamonds shine when light hit
Blowing up like I'm ISIS
Aint no telling who I might hit
Went and spent a dollar on some sense
Now my credit giving white bitch
Ain't no sleep when you at the bottom yea all I do is work the Night Shift
Hit up the club get to throwing a couple stacks she get to throwing it back
Lyrics submitted by yuri_sucupira
Night Shift Lyrics as written by Thomas Cook Jr
Lyrics © O/B/O DistroKid
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i can't believe no one has writen about this song!! this is am awesome OAR song ! it gets anyone into such a good mood and i can totally relate to it. everyone needs money and everyone has that "one" in there head! but that one "with eyes as blue as the sea" just "looks directly through me" GEZZ!!!! he hit the nail RIGHT on the head with that one!
This is my favorite Oar song. I love the live version! I this that is sums it what every guy feels at one point or another ; )
great song.
live version with stir it up is fucking awesome
a great versio of this is on a cartoon by cartoon joe i believe
I always thought that it was a love that was discovered while on cocaine. Then its 3 AM and hes trying to go to bed, with a lady (his love) and a lady (the white biatch) all going through his head at once. That would also explain why he can be working full time and still have no money
yea, im sure OAR is really into the drug scene
this is a great song, especially the live version where it goes into stir it up,, and i especially like the lyric change in the live version "with eyes as brown as can be"
reflectyion, ure thinking to much on these lyrics, its definetly not about cocaine
I want to kill this song.
This song is about Cocaine. The lady that is running through his head is Cocaine, aka "white girl". It is 3am, he can not go to bed even though he wants to, he ran out of money on the night shift(spending it on cocaine.) He has been working 5 days full time but never has any money...what are your thoughts?
Thats the dumbest thing I've ever heard. First of all, it doesnt say anything about a "white girl" so that reference is out the window. You've obviously never been in a similar situation to the one the song writer was in. I know I kinda am right now being a college student. I'm in love with my girlfriend and want to keep buying her things and taking care of her so the bills keep piling up so I'm working the night shift to try and get ahead but I still have no money because i spend it all on her.