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"
Pass me the lazerbeam
Make me wipe off and licka them clean
Pass me the lazerbeam
Make me wipe off and licka them clean
Bud Gaugh comes with his M-16
Snow come with the AK to the 47
Lovin' the lovin' the lovin' the lovin' the dj
All over a town called LA
I woke up in the morning
I was at Ramy's pad
I looked up and saw Bud going to town
On a little fine henia that he met the night before
He knew he was the man
But he knew she was a whore
Oh yeah, they comin', they comin', they comin', with a boss dj
He took the money home and gave it to Sancho
But that's the way the money goes
Rise it up and let the talent flow
Cause give it love time and they said give it away
We went downtown to a town called LA
It was half an hour drive about driving from Long Beach
But still every time I'm feeling so out of reach
So I went down to club Lingerie
We took a big bus all the way to LA
When we stepped out all the people said
Ay we wanna drinka, drinka, drinka
Said uppa get get up on the dance floor
And lovin', lovin', make the music lovin' me
Take all the love and make it walk over me
When we got home end of the night i was sick
15 minutes later she was up up on the dick
I said lord, lord, lord make the lovin' give away
I don't have protection so I'll just make my mistake
But blue balls always take all your love away
You love and you love and you love but you one can't say
And this is how it happened to me
Went down to the clinic, positive HIV
HIV was never no friend to me
I love, I love, I leave, I leave it anyway
But oh god please I'll protect after this
Never want no music make me feel God blessed
Said I Love, I love, I love, I love, I love
I love, I love, I love, I love, I love
One DJ causing trouble
Take your love away from me
Make me wipe off and licka them clean
Pass me the lazerbeam
Make me wipe off and licka them clean
Bud Gaugh comes with his M-16
Snow come with the AK to the 47
Lovin' the lovin' the lovin' the lovin' the dj
All over a town called LA
I woke up in the morning
I was at Ramy's pad
I looked up and saw Bud going to town
On a little fine henia that he met the night before
He knew he was the man
But he knew she was a whore
Oh yeah, they comin', they comin', they comin', with a boss dj
He took the money home and gave it to Sancho
But that's the way the money goes
Rise it up and let the talent flow
Cause give it love time and they said give it away
We went downtown to a town called LA
It was half an hour drive about driving from Long Beach
But still every time I'm feeling so out of reach
So I went down to club Lingerie
We took a big bus all the way to LA
When we stepped out all the people said
Ay we wanna drinka, drinka, drinka
Said uppa get get up on the dance floor
And lovin', lovin', make the music lovin' me
Take all the love and make it walk over me
When we got home end of the night i was sick
15 minutes later she was up up on the dick
I said lord, lord, lord make the lovin' give away
I don't have protection so I'll just make my mistake
But blue balls always take all your love away
You love and you love and you love but you one can't say
And this is how it happened to me
Went down to the clinic, positive HIV
HIV was never no friend to me
I love, I love, I leave, I leave it anyway
But oh god please I'll protect after this
Never want no music make me feel God blessed
Said I Love, I love, I love, I love, I love
I love, I love, I love, I love, I love
One DJ causing trouble
Take your love away from me
Lyrics submitted by fourtyoz
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