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"
Boom boom boom, now let me here you say way-ooh
Me say boom boom boom, now everybody say way-ooh
Me say boom boom boom, now let me here you say way-ooh
Me say boom boom boom, now everybody say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Way-ooh
Way-ooh
Way-ooh
Way-ooh
Now hear this
This is The Outhere Brothers
Back in the room
Ready to rock the world with the boom
So I hope you can stand the vibration
'Cause we're 'bout to rock the entire nation
All right, here we go
Me say me say boom boom boom, now let me here you say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Me say boom boom boom, now everybody say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Me say boom boom boom, now let me here you say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Me say boom boom boom, now everybody say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Boom boom boom, now let me here you say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Me say boom boom boom, now everybody say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Me say boom boom boom, now let me here you say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Me say boom boom boom, now everybody say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Girl, your booty is so round I just want to play around
Let me take you one more time, I won't stop until your mine
But if I cannot be with you maybe I could have a taste
Put your arms around me, girl, and your kisses on my face (ow)
I came to make you shake it 'til you break it
Caress your body until your naked
Bend you over, grab your shoulder
Slip my peter inside your folder
Make you sweat, get you wetter
Pump it faster to make it better
Dim the the lights then lock the room
'Cause now it's time for me to hit that boom
Boom boom boom, now let me here you say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Me say boom boom boom, now everybody say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Me say boom boom boom, now let me here you say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Me say boom boom boom, now everybody say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Girl, your booty is so round I just want to play around
Let me take you one more time, I won't stop until your mine
But if I cannot be with you maybe I could have a taste
Put your arms around me, girl, and your kisses on my face (ow)
Geronimo, look out below
Here comes the brother with the offbeat flow
I just fell from the mothership
Outhere Brothers 'bout to rip it on another tip
Slip, don't tripm check out how I do it
Malik is in the house, I'll turn your body into fluid
As I come from the depths of doom
I step back, punch, pow with the boom
Boom boom boom, now let me here you say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Me say boom boom boom, now everybody say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Me say boom boom boom, now let me here you say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Me say boom boom boom, now everybody say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Let me here you say way-ooh
Let me here you say way-ooh
Let-let-let me here you say way-ooh
Let me here you say
Let-let-let me here you say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Boom boom boom, now let me here you say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Me say boom boom boom, now everybody say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Me say boom boom boom, now let me here you say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Me say boom boom boom, now everybody say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Me say boom boom boom, now everybody say way-ooh
Me say boom boom boom, now let me here you say way-ooh
Me say boom boom boom, now everybody say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Way-ooh
Way-ooh
Way-ooh
Way-ooh
Now hear this
This is The Outhere Brothers
Back in the room
Ready to rock the world with the boom
So I hope you can stand the vibration
'Cause we're 'bout to rock the entire nation
All right, here we go
Me say me say boom boom boom, now let me here you say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Me say boom boom boom, now everybody say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Me say boom boom boom, now let me here you say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Me say boom boom boom, now everybody say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Boom boom boom, now let me here you say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Me say boom boom boom, now everybody say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Me say boom boom boom, now let me here you say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Me say boom boom boom, now everybody say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Girl, your booty is so round I just want to play around
Let me take you one more time, I won't stop until your mine
But if I cannot be with you maybe I could have a taste
Put your arms around me, girl, and your kisses on my face (ow)
I came to make you shake it 'til you break it
Caress your body until your naked
Bend you over, grab your shoulder
Slip my peter inside your folder
Make you sweat, get you wetter
Pump it faster to make it better
Dim the the lights then lock the room
'Cause now it's time for me to hit that boom
Boom boom boom, now let me here you say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Me say boom boom boom, now everybody say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Me say boom boom boom, now let me here you say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Me say boom boom boom, now everybody say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Girl, your booty is so round I just want to play around
Let me take you one more time, I won't stop until your mine
But if I cannot be with you maybe I could have a taste
Put your arms around me, girl, and your kisses on my face (ow)
Geronimo, look out below
Here comes the brother with the offbeat flow
I just fell from the mothership
Outhere Brothers 'bout to rip it on another tip
Slip, don't tripm check out how I do it
Malik is in the house, I'll turn your body into fluid
As I come from the depths of doom
I step back, punch, pow with the boom
Boom boom boom, now let me here you say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Me say boom boom boom, now everybody say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Me say boom boom boom, now let me here you say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Me say boom boom boom, now everybody say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Let me here you say way-ooh
Let me here you say way-ooh
Let-let-let me here you say way-ooh
Let me here you say
Let-let-let me here you say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Boom boom boom, now let me here you say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Me say boom boom boom, now everybody say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Me say boom boom boom, now let me here you say way-ooh (way-ooh)
Me say boom boom boom, now everybody say way-ooh (way-ooh)
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