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"
You know we don't care at all
Let, let me see you up, up against the wall
Alright
Two-step
I was just doin' my thing
Hanging out at the spot
You know the place we go
The music's John Blaze hot
And everybody was feeling the DJ (the DJ)
Smoke cleared and I saw a beautiful lady
The lights went low
And the disco ball came down
She walked up to me slow
And you know what happens now
The girl was fine and she knew she had game
What more do I have to say?
She took my hand
We never said a word at all
We started grindin'
Shawty had me up against the wall
Ask me about tomorrow
You know that I don't care at all
I just got caught up
When she had me up against the wall
You know we don't care at all
Just get caught up when you're up against the wall
We don't, we don't care at all
You know we don't care at all
Let, let me see you up, up against the wall
It's almost two o'clock
It's time to make my move
The after hours spot
Is where I'm going to
'Cause I gotta have some more
Lookin' for somebody to hit the dance floor
And lucky for me, I see
A fine young lady's eying me
The lights are low
And our friends were all around
I walked up to her slow
And you know what happens now
She turned around
And she worked in the worst way (the worst way)
What more, do I have to say?
She took my hand
We never said a word at all
We started grindin'
Shawty had me up against the wall
Ask me about tomorrow
You know that I don't care at all
I just got caught up
When she had me up against the wall
Shawty had me up against the wall
Mirror, mirror on the wall
Who's the cutest one you saw?
She's underneath the disco ball
The disco ball, the disco ball
Standing next to strobe lights
Dancin' hot, looking tight
The freak show do come out at night
Out at night, night, night, night
What more do I have to say? (Two-step)
She took my hand
We never said a word at all
We starting grindin'
Shawty had me up against the wall
Ask me about tomorrow
You know that I don't care at all
I just got caught up when
She had me up against the wall (ooh,yeah)
She took my hand
We never said a word at all
We started grindin'
Shawty had me up against the wall
Ask me about tomorrow
You know that I don't care at all
I just got caught up
(At all) when she had me up against the wall
I just got caught up when you had me up against the wall
We don't, we don't care at all
You know we don't care at all
You just get caught up when you're up against the wall
We don't, we don't care at all
You know we don't care at all
Let, let me see you up, up against the wall
We don't, we don't care at all
You know we don't care at all
You just get caught up when you're up against the wall
We don't, we don't care at all
You know we don't care at all
Let, let me see you up, up against the wall
Let, let me see you up, up against the wall
Alright
Two-step
I was just doin' my thing
Hanging out at the spot
You know the place we go
The music's John Blaze hot
And everybody was feeling the DJ (the DJ)
Smoke cleared and I saw a beautiful lady
The lights went low
And the disco ball came down
She walked up to me slow
And you know what happens now
The girl was fine and she knew she had game
What more do I have to say?
She took my hand
We never said a word at all
We started grindin'
Shawty had me up against the wall
Ask me about tomorrow
You know that I don't care at all
I just got caught up
When she had me up against the wall
You know we don't care at all
Just get caught up when you're up against the wall
We don't, we don't care at all
You know we don't care at all
Let, let me see you up, up against the wall
It's almost two o'clock
It's time to make my move
The after hours spot
Is where I'm going to
'Cause I gotta have some more
Lookin' for somebody to hit the dance floor
And lucky for me, I see
A fine young lady's eying me
The lights are low
And our friends were all around
I walked up to her slow
And you know what happens now
She turned around
And she worked in the worst way (the worst way)
What more, do I have to say?
She took my hand
We never said a word at all
We started grindin'
Shawty had me up against the wall
Ask me about tomorrow
You know that I don't care at all
I just got caught up
When she had me up against the wall
Shawty had me up against the wall
Mirror, mirror on the wall
Who's the cutest one you saw?
She's underneath the disco ball
The disco ball, the disco ball
Standing next to strobe lights
Dancin' hot, looking tight
The freak show do come out at night
Out at night, night, night, night
What more do I have to say? (Two-step)
She took my hand
We never said a word at all
We starting grindin'
Shawty had me up against the wall
Ask me about tomorrow
You know that I don't care at all
I just got caught up when
She had me up against the wall (ooh,yeah)
She took my hand
We never said a word at all
We started grindin'
Shawty had me up against the wall
Ask me about tomorrow
You know that I don't care at all
I just got caught up
(At all) when she had me up against the wall
I just got caught up when you had me up against the wall
We don't, we don't care at all
You know we don't care at all
You just get caught up when you're up against the wall
We don't, we don't care at all
You know we don't care at all
Let, let me see you up, up against the wall
We don't, we don't care at all
You know we don't care at all
You just get caught up when you're up against the wall
We don't, we don't care at all
You know we don't care at all
Let, let me see you up, up against the wall
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