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"
I'm doin' this for all my ladies
I know you you thinkin'
"Yo, it sounds like a lullaby," right?
But this is for you
Get into it
I got your legs spread all over the bed
Hands clenched in the sheets
Hair wild as hell I know
The only thin' on your mind is sexin' me
Girl, I can feel your temperature risin'
You should feel my nature too
Come on you it's gonna be a bumpy ride
Girl, lets do what we came to do
Girl, when we make love all night
When we make good love all night
When we make love all night
We really make love
Girl, when we make love all night
When we make good love all night
When we make love all night
We really make love (come to daddy, baby)
On the balcony grippin' the rails
Slowly I'm pullin' you near
Sayin', "Shh, babe, don't make to much noise
There's a lot of people that live around here"
Emotions runnin' high
My hands planted on your thighs
You feel me goin' up and down
And round and round and round
Girl, when we make love all night (your sexy body)
When we make good love all night
When we make love all night (all over you)
We really make love (you over me, my body)
Girl, when we make love all night (baby)
When we make good love all night (when I touch you)
When we make love all night
We really make love (we're makin' sweet, sweet love)
In your driveway in the back seat
Windows tinted its gettin' deep
Fog all over the glass
I don't know how long I can last
With you moanin' crazy
Girl, keep on callin' me
I'll take you to ecstasy
And when I'm done, you'll be fast asleep
Girl, when we make love all night (when we makin' good love, oh, oh)
When we make good love all night
When we make love all night (lovin', ooh, baby)
We really make love
Girl, when we make love all night (ooh yeah)
When we make good love all night (keep me mind all night)
When we make love all night (I can hear you baby)
We really make love (everybody)
If it's the house, at the mall, in the jeep, babe
In the tub in the pool or the beach, babe (don't matter to me)
Get your grove on (get your grove on)
Get your grove on (if you, if you gotta lady get you groove on)
If it's the house, at the mall, in the jeep, babe (touch her body)
In the tub in the pool or the beach, babe (get inside her mind)
Get your grove on (if you can)
Get your grove on (baby, do it to me)
Girl, when we make love all night
I mean we make good love all night (you got me goin')
When we make love all night (just thinkin' about your body)
We really make love (oh-oh, yeah)
Girl, when we make love all night (my family sees it)
When we make good love all night (always fought for you)
When we make love all night ('cause you're inside of my mind)
We really make love (and I love the way you feel)
Girl, I love it when we're on the floor
Girl, I love it when we're on the couch
Yes, I love it when we're in the kitchen
Girl, I love it when I'm down town
Yes, I love it when you go down
Girl, I love it when your all around
Yes, I love it
I love you, baby
When we makin' good love
When we makin' good love
I know you you thinkin'
"Yo, it sounds like a lullaby," right?
But this is for you
Get into it
I got your legs spread all over the bed
Hands clenched in the sheets
Hair wild as hell I know
The only thin' on your mind is sexin' me
Girl, I can feel your temperature risin'
You should feel my nature too
Come on you it's gonna be a bumpy ride
Girl, lets do what we came to do
Girl, when we make love all night
When we make good love all night
When we make love all night
We really make love
Girl, when we make love all night
When we make good love all night
When we make love all night
We really make love (come to daddy, baby)
On the balcony grippin' the rails
Slowly I'm pullin' you near
Sayin', "Shh, babe, don't make to much noise
There's a lot of people that live around here"
Emotions runnin' high
My hands planted on your thighs
You feel me goin' up and down
And round and round and round
Girl, when we make love all night (your sexy body)
When we make good love all night
When we make love all night (all over you)
We really make love (you over me, my body)
Girl, when we make love all night (baby)
When we make good love all night (when I touch you)
When we make love all night
We really make love (we're makin' sweet, sweet love)
In your driveway in the back seat
Windows tinted its gettin' deep
Fog all over the glass
I don't know how long I can last
With you moanin' crazy
Girl, keep on callin' me
I'll take you to ecstasy
And when I'm done, you'll be fast asleep
Girl, when we make love all night (when we makin' good love, oh, oh)
When we make good love all night
When we make love all night (lovin', ooh, baby)
We really make love
Girl, when we make love all night (ooh yeah)
When we make good love all night (keep me mind all night)
When we make love all night (I can hear you baby)
We really make love (everybody)
If it's the house, at the mall, in the jeep, babe
In the tub in the pool or the beach, babe (don't matter to me)
Get your grove on (get your grove on)
Get your grove on (if you, if you gotta lady get you groove on)
If it's the house, at the mall, in the jeep, babe (touch her body)
In the tub in the pool or the beach, babe (get inside her mind)
Get your grove on (if you can)
Get your grove on (baby, do it to me)
Girl, when we make love all night
I mean we make good love all night (you got me goin')
When we make love all night (just thinkin' about your body)
We really make love (oh-oh, yeah)
Girl, when we make love all night (my family sees it)
When we make good love all night (always fought for you)
When we make love all night ('cause you're inside of my mind)
We really make love (and I love the way you feel)
Girl, I love it when we're on the floor
Girl, I love it when we're on the couch
Yes, I love it when we're in the kitchen
Girl, I love it when I'm down town
Yes, I love it when you go down
Girl, I love it when your all around
Yes, I love it
I love you, baby
When we makin' good love
When we makin' good love
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I think it means that The "guy" wants to make love not just have sex he wants it to mean something.
i feel that hes try'nt o say to make love with women jsut dont fuck them!!!!!!
I LOVE THIS SONG!!!! ITS JUST SAYING THAT HE DOSENT JUST WANT TO FUCK FOR PLEASURE HE WANTS TO MAKE LOVE MEANING HE TRUELY DOES LOVE THE GURL
He loves the girl and wants to be intimate with her, not just have sex with her.
This is a very cool song. I agree with all of your opions on what the song means.
Great love song
i l0ve this song .. its soo great . wat its really sayin is that theres a difference between fucking nd makin l0ve .. nd he wants to make l0ve
Just hearing the tone in his voice makes you wanna 'make love'.
hes got such a sexy voice so he can get away with singing sexy songs like this
yeah... I'd have to agree w/ everyone else's opinions. This WAS me and my ex-boyfriends song back when this song came out. But now we're over. Still was a good relationship song to have.