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"
This is not a direct derogatory towards women
This is only the meaning of what a trick is
Whoa (trick)
Whoa whoa whoa whoa
At the end of the night she think it ain't fun
If the homies can't have none (trick)
Whoa whoa whoa whoa (trick)
If you got a tight back
Whoa whoa whoa whoa
She's in it for the night (trick)
I ain't ain't the one
Back up girl you need to chill
You need to slow it down
You move too fast for me yeah
I'm letting you know the deal
And every time you come around
You're trying to be down
But you keep getting clowned
Girl you need to quit
Cause don't nobody love a trick
See a trick will give you some
At the end of the night she think it ain't fun
If the homies can't have none
want to get your thing on
It won't take long
Cause a trick will give it up
If you got a tight back
She's in it for the night
For me she ain't the one
Cause I need a real love
And not just a hit and run
Everybody gets to hit
It don't take much cause you're a freak
If you think he's a playa balling
You'll be on the phone calling (trick)
Trying to get a late night creep
And every time you come around
You're trying to be down
But you keep getting clowned
Girl you need to quit
Cause don't nobody love a trick
See a trick will give you some
At the end of the night she think it ain't fun
If the homies can't have none
want to get your thing on
It won't take long
Cause a trick will give it up
If you got a tight back
She's in it for the night
For me she ain't the one
Cause I need a real love
And not just a hit and run
For all the girls with no class
We don't want it, we don't want it
For all the girls that move too fast
We don't need it, we don't need it
See what I need is a girl who's got my back
Now jumping in the back of every Jeep or Cadillac
A girl that don't give it up on the first date
Can you relate?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
See a trick gets her some
At the end of the night she think it ain't fun
want to get your thing on
It won't take long
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
This is not a direct derogatory towards women
This is only the meaning of what a trick is
I need a real love and not just a hit and run
See a trick will give you some
At the end of the night she think it ain't fun
If the homies can't have none
want to get your thing on
It won't take long
Cause a trick will give it up
If you got a tight back
She's in it for the night
For me she ain't the one
Cause I need a real love
And not just a hit and run
At the end of the night she think it ain't fun if whoa, whoa, yeah
want to get your thing on
It won't take long
Cause a trick will give it up
See I need a girl who's right for me
Someone that will love me endlessly yeah
I need a real love and not just a hit and run
At the end of the night she think it ain't fun if whoa, whoa, yeah
want to get your thing on
It won't take long
Cause a trick will give it up
See I need a girl who's right for me
For me she ain't the one
See a trick will give you some
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
This is only the meaning of what a trick is
Whoa (trick)
Whoa whoa whoa whoa
At the end of the night she think it ain't fun
If the homies can't have none (trick)
Whoa whoa whoa whoa (trick)
If you got a tight back
Whoa whoa whoa whoa
She's in it for the night (trick)
I ain't ain't the one
Back up girl you need to chill
You need to slow it down
You move too fast for me yeah
I'm letting you know the deal
And every time you come around
You're trying to be down
But you keep getting clowned
Girl you need to quit
Cause don't nobody love a trick
See a trick will give you some
At the end of the night she think it ain't fun
If the homies can't have none
want to get your thing on
It won't take long
Cause a trick will give it up
If you got a tight back
She's in it for the night
For me she ain't the one
Cause I need a real love
And not just a hit and run
Everybody gets to hit
It don't take much cause you're a freak
If you think he's a playa balling
You'll be on the phone calling (trick)
Trying to get a late night creep
And every time you come around
You're trying to be down
But you keep getting clowned
Girl you need to quit
Cause don't nobody love a trick
See a trick will give you some
At the end of the night she think it ain't fun
If the homies can't have none
want to get your thing on
It won't take long
Cause a trick will give it up
If you got a tight back
She's in it for the night
For me she ain't the one
Cause I need a real love
And not just a hit and run
For all the girls with no class
We don't want it, we don't want it
For all the girls that move too fast
We don't need it, we don't need it
See what I need is a girl who's got my back
Now jumping in the back of every Jeep or Cadillac
A girl that don't give it up on the first date
Can you relate?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
See a trick gets her some
At the end of the night she think it ain't fun
want to get your thing on
It won't take long
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
This is not a direct derogatory towards women
This is only the meaning of what a trick is
I need a real love and not just a hit and run
See a trick will give you some
At the end of the night she think it ain't fun
If the homies can't have none
want to get your thing on
It won't take long
Cause a trick will give it up
If you got a tight back
She's in it for the night
For me she ain't the one
Cause I need a real love
And not just a hit and run
At the end of the night she think it ain't fun if whoa, whoa, yeah
want to get your thing on
It won't take long
Cause a trick will give it up
See I need a girl who's right for me
Someone that will love me endlessly yeah
I need a real love and not just a hit and run
At the end of the night she think it ain't fun if whoa, whoa, yeah
want to get your thing on
It won't take long
Cause a trick will give it up
See I need a girl who's right for me
For me she ain't the one
See a trick will give you some
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
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