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"
[Chorus]
If I lace you, would you lace me back
If I blaze you, would you blaze me back
Spending big faces on the things you like
When ya gonna put me down
If I ride for you, die for you
If I floss at any cost for you
Shorty, all I want to know from you
Is when ya gonna put me down
First time I saw you, I was breathless
Looking flawless, fifty on the necklace
And I had to add you to my guest list
Let you pass, I had to put it down
We sipped and kicked a little convo'
It's time to head back to the condo
And I know what we both came here for
Let me know what you're feeling now
Do you want to open up and show me your love
Stop playing around and putting me down
Stop holding back, you gotta react
When ya gonna hold me down
You're perking, plus we're working
All this flirting got me hurting
When you know I don't deserve this girl
Why ya gonna hold me down
[Chorus]
Shorty I'm not trying to put a rush on you
Can't keep leaving me with my love on blue
Nobody's here, we better make our move
I want to get into you
You won't have to floss, I want to cop that
Fronting on my love, now shorty stop that
What's it gonna be
When are we gonna put it down
I need to know right now
Do you want to open up and show me your love
Stop playing around and putting me down
Stop holding back, you gotta react
When ya gonna hold me down
[Chorus]
On the top floor in the president's suite
Hit the tinted windows in the back of my jeep
Or your friend's house on the living room couch
If you let me hit it, I'ma blaze it out
Won't you open up, let me come on in
And I'll never stop, we can do it again
Cause you take it right where I want to be
You got me in ecstasy
I want to know
I gotta know when you're gonna let me see it
When you goin' let me hit it
'cause girl you know I'm gonna get it
I want to know
I gotta know when you're gonna let me see it
When you goin' let me hit it
'cause girl you know I'm gonna get it
[Chorus: x2]
I want to know
I gotta know when you're gonna let me see it
When you goin' let me hit it
Cause girl you know I'm gonna get it
I gotta know
If you're spending my dough
I gotta know
Spending my dough
If I lace you, would you lace me back
If I blaze you, would you blaze me back
Spending big faces on the things you like
When ya gonna put me down
If I ride for you, die for you
If I floss at any cost for you
Shorty, all I want to know from you
Is when ya gonna put me down
First time I saw you, I was breathless
Looking flawless, fifty on the necklace
And I had to add you to my guest list
Let you pass, I had to put it down
We sipped and kicked a little convo'
It's time to head back to the condo
And I know what we both came here for
Let me know what you're feeling now
Do you want to open up and show me your love
Stop playing around and putting me down
Stop holding back, you gotta react
When ya gonna hold me down
You're perking, plus we're working
All this flirting got me hurting
When you know I don't deserve this girl
Why ya gonna hold me down
[Chorus]
Shorty I'm not trying to put a rush on you
Can't keep leaving me with my love on blue
Nobody's here, we better make our move
I want to get into you
You won't have to floss, I want to cop that
Fronting on my love, now shorty stop that
What's it gonna be
When are we gonna put it down
I need to know right now
Do you want to open up and show me your love
Stop playing around and putting me down
Stop holding back, you gotta react
When ya gonna hold me down
[Chorus]
On the top floor in the president's suite
Hit the tinted windows in the back of my jeep
Or your friend's house on the living room couch
If you let me hit it, I'ma blaze it out
Won't you open up, let me come on in
And I'll never stop, we can do it again
Cause you take it right where I want to be
You got me in ecstasy
I want to know
I gotta know when you're gonna let me see it
When you goin' let me hit it
'cause girl you know I'm gonna get it
I want to know
I gotta know when you're gonna let me see it
When you goin' let me hit it
'cause girl you know I'm gonna get it
[Chorus: x2]
I want to know
I gotta know when you're gonna let me see it
When you goin' let me hit it
Cause girl you know I'm gonna get it
I gotta know
If you're spending my dough
I gotta know
Spending my dough
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