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"
Uh
Ayo Timbaland, see what they don't understand
Is we about to flip our whole style on 'em
For two double zero one (hey)
And for those of you who hated (hey)
You only made us more creative (ow)
Misdemeanor, uh
You don't want to speak my name
Mess around, get that ass blown away (brrah)
Fool gone away, I ain't even like your tail anyway
Missy got somethin' to say
I ride down the block in an Escalade
Bling-bling all in your face
I think you might need to put on your shades
Rah, I know you feel me though
You hatin' on me, but you hear me tho ugh
Twenty inch rims sittin' crazy low
Ah, I'm a crazy ho
I'ma keep the party live
Me and Timbaland gon' flip it tonight
Keep your hands in the sky
Wave 'em round like you're crazy high
Huh, time to lick shots
Time to see you dance
Hey you, why you frontin'?
Brrah, time to lick shots
Time to see you dance
Hey you, why you frontin'?
Brrah
You don't know who I be
Your mammy never tell you not to fuck wit' me?
If I give you head, you'll never leave
Rah, stop sweatin' me
Flip it on the black hand side
Look it here, boy, don't you even try it
Make me dislocate your spine
My rings put your shine like turpentine
What you comin' 'round here now for?
Baby, hell no, you just want my dough
Get your black ass on the floor
Fool touch me, that's a no-no
Rah, Mr. DJ won't you play that song
Tell the freaks shake they nasty thongs
Hey boys, won't you sing along ?
'Cause we gone rock the party til' the early morn'
Huh, time to lick shots
Time to see you dance
Hey you, why you frontin'?
Brrah, time to lick shots
Time to see you dance
Hey you, why you frontin'?
Brrah
Y'all don't hear me (hot)
You got your guns but you don't scare me (ooh)
Originality is leery (uh)
My only style and I ain't sharin' (back up, back up,easy now)
Hey y'all (hot)
Let's turn it up and tear the club down (uh)
Grab your drinks and give me two rounds (zoo)
I'll break you off, I'm goin' down-down
Watch yourself, I'm about to turn it up
Huh, time to lick shots
Time to see you dance
Hey you, why you frontin'?
Brrah, time to lick shots
Time to see you dance
Hey you, why you frontin'?
Brrah
Uh, uh, uh, uh
Uh, uh, uh, uh
Mmm, mmm, mmm
Listen, listen, uh
Huh, time to lick shots
Time to see you dance
Hey you, why you frontin'?
Brrah, time to lick shots
Time to see you dance
Hey you, why you frontin'?
Brrah (uh)
Ayo Timbaland, see what they don't understand
Is we about to flip our whole style on 'em
For two double zero one (hey)
And for those of you who hated (hey)
You only made us more creative (ow)
Misdemeanor, uh
You don't want to speak my name
Mess around, get that ass blown away (brrah)
Fool gone away, I ain't even like your tail anyway
Missy got somethin' to say
I ride down the block in an Escalade
Bling-bling all in your face
I think you might need to put on your shades
Rah, I know you feel me though
You hatin' on me, but you hear me tho ugh
Twenty inch rims sittin' crazy low
Ah, I'm a crazy ho
I'ma keep the party live
Me and Timbaland gon' flip it tonight
Keep your hands in the sky
Wave 'em round like you're crazy high
Huh, time to lick shots
Time to see you dance
Hey you, why you frontin'?
Brrah, time to lick shots
Time to see you dance
Hey you, why you frontin'?
Brrah
You don't know who I be
Your mammy never tell you not to fuck wit' me?
If I give you head, you'll never leave
Rah, stop sweatin' me
Flip it on the black hand side
Look it here, boy, don't you even try it
Make me dislocate your spine
My rings put your shine like turpentine
What you comin' 'round here now for?
Baby, hell no, you just want my dough
Get your black ass on the floor
Fool touch me, that's a no-no
Rah, Mr. DJ won't you play that song
Tell the freaks shake they nasty thongs
Hey boys, won't you sing along ?
'Cause we gone rock the party til' the early morn'
Huh, time to lick shots
Time to see you dance
Hey you, why you frontin'?
Brrah, time to lick shots
Time to see you dance
Hey you, why you frontin'?
Brrah
Y'all don't hear me (hot)
You got your guns but you don't scare me (ooh)
Originality is leery (uh)
My only style and I ain't sharin' (back up, back up,easy now)
Hey y'all (hot)
Let's turn it up and tear the club down (uh)
Grab your drinks and give me two rounds (zoo)
I'll break you off, I'm goin' down-down
Watch yourself, I'm about to turn it up
Huh, time to lick shots
Time to see you dance
Hey you, why you frontin'?
Brrah, time to lick shots
Time to see you dance
Hey you, why you frontin'?
Brrah
Uh, uh, uh, uh
Uh, uh, uh, uh
Mmm, mmm, mmm
Listen, listen, uh
Huh, time to lick shots
Time to see you dance
Hey you, why you frontin'?
Brrah, time to lick shots
Time to see you dance
Hey you, why you frontin'?
Brrah (uh)
Lyrics submitted by spliphstar
Lick Shots Lyrics as written by Missy Elliott Timothy Mosley
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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This song is tyte. Time to lick shots!