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"
Job done, want to have fun
Gonna call my girls gonna get my hair done
So I dress tight, with my heels high
And I think about the moves I'm a pull tonight
When I roll up, out front
Guys looking over like they want some
Make way, sexy
For me and my ladies
[Chorus]
Hear the sound of the DJ playing our jam
Glass down, grab a man
Move to the floor, it's time to get down
Ding ding, first round
Hand on my hips as we start to dip
Close range, full clip
Temptation, sensations, vibrations
My one night stand
Act wild but I got style
Cause I ain't sipping if it ain't crystal
High class, nice ass
Spend your money but I got my own cash
Good vibes, so right
Thank you for the dance tonight
Feel free, baby
Keep looking 'cause you can't have me
[Chorus]
Hand on my hips as we start to dip
Close range, full clip
Temptation, sensations, vibrations
My one night stand
Hey why'all get up get up it's a one night stand
Here I come again with my rhyming slang
I said ride to the rhythm as I flip this sound
Flip this sound we're gonna move around
Mis-Teeq we're coming back again
Love of the music inside your membrane
Yo, I'm gonna burn you with my lyrical flame
Start the game
Come follow me it's time to play
Now don't you get the wrong impression
It's just a dance
I'm with my girlfriends hanging out
To mislead wasn't my intention
Nothing more to say
[Chorus: x2]
Hand on my hips as we start to dip
Close range, full clip
Temptation, sensations, vibrations
My one night stand
[Chorus]
Hand on my hips as we start to dip
Close range, full clip
Temptation, sensations, vibrations
My one night stand
Gonna call my girls gonna get my hair done
So I dress tight, with my heels high
And I think about the moves I'm a pull tonight
When I roll up, out front
Guys looking over like they want some
Make way, sexy
For me and my ladies
[Chorus]
Hear the sound of the DJ playing our jam
Glass down, grab a man
Move to the floor, it's time to get down
Ding ding, first round
Hand on my hips as we start to dip
Close range, full clip
Temptation, sensations, vibrations
My one night stand
Act wild but I got style
Cause I ain't sipping if it ain't crystal
High class, nice ass
Spend your money but I got my own cash
Good vibes, so right
Thank you for the dance tonight
Feel free, baby
Keep looking 'cause you can't have me
[Chorus]
Hand on my hips as we start to dip
Close range, full clip
Temptation, sensations, vibrations
My one night stand
Hey why'all get up get up it's a one night stand
Here I come again with my rhyming slang
I said ride to the rhythm as I flip this sound
Flip this sound we're gonna move around
Mis-Teeq we're coming back again
Love of the music inside your membrane
Yo, I'm gonna burn you with my lyrical flame
Start the game
Come follow me it's time to play
Now don't you get the wrong impression
It's just a dance
I'm with my girlfriends hanging out
To mislead wasn't my intention
Nothing more to say
[Chorus: x2]
Hand on my hips as we start to dip
Close range, full clip
Temptation, sensations, vibrations
My one night stand
[Chorus]
Hand on my hips as we start to dip
Close range, full clip
Temptation, sensations, vibrations
My one night stand
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