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"
Shake it up
Shake it up, girl
Shake it up, bass
Hey
Shake it up
Shake it up
She makes me think of lightning in skies
(Her name) she's sexy
How else is God supposed to write?
(Her name) she's sexy
Move (move), she wants to move (yeah)
But you're hogging her, you're guarding her
She wants to move (she wants to move)
She wants to move (she wants to move, yeah)
But you're hogging her (yeah), you're guarding her (damn)
Mister
Look at your girl, she loves it (look at her)
I can see it in her eyes
She (come here, babe) hopes this lasts forever (uh, uh)
Hey (uh)
Her off-beat dance makes me fantasize
(Her curves) she's sexy
Her ass is a spaceship I want to ride
(Her ass) she's sexy
Move, she wants to move (c'mon)
But you're hogging her (bass), you're guarding her
She wants to move (to move)
She wants to move (oh, no, move)
But you're hogging her (oh, yeah, move), you're guarding her
Beat it
Mister
Look at your girl, she loves it (I know you love it, girl)
I can see it in her eyes, she
Hopes this lasts forever (hey)
Hey
Yeah, this is your part, girl
Uh, this is your part, girl
(Move, she wants to move) c'mon
Ow (move, she wants to move), yeah
Man (and move, she wants to move)
Move, she wants to move
But you're hogging her, you're guarding her
Beat it
Mister
Look at your girl (damn), she loves it (shake it up)
I can see it in her eyes, she
Hopes this lasts forever
Hey, c'mon
Mister
Look at your girl (look at your girl) she loves it (she wants me)
I can see it in her eyes, she (huh)
Hopes this lasts forever, hey
Somebody get us some water in here
It's hot
(Yo, why you, why, why you, why you wit' that fool?)
It's hot y'all, hey
Ha, ha, ha-ha-ha
Ha-ha-ha
Ugh
(I like it when you wet, baby)
Yeah
Shake it up, girl
Shake it up, bass
Hey
Shake it up
Shake it up
She makes me think of lightning in skies
(Her name) she's sexy
How else is God supposed to write?
(Her name) she's sexy
Move (move), she wants to move (yeah)
But you're hogging her, you're guarding her
She wants to move (she wants to move)
She wants to move (she wants to move, yeah)
But you're hogging her (yeah), you're guarding her (damn)
Mister
Look at your girl, she loves it (look at her)
I can see it in her eyes
She (come here, babe) hopes this lasts forever (uh, uh)
Hey (uh)
Her off-beat dance makes me fantasize
(Her curves) she's sexy
Her ass is a spaceship I want to ride
(Her ass) she's sexy
Move, she wants to move (c'mon)
But you're hogging her (bass), you're guarding her
She wants to move (to move)
She wants to move (oh, no, move)
But you're hogging her (oh, yeah, move), you're guarding her
Beat it
Mister
Look at your girl, she loves it (I know you love it, girl)
I can see it in her eyes, she
Hopes this lasts forever (hey)
Hey
Yeah, this is your part, girl
Uh, this is your part, girl
(Move, she wants to move) c'mon
Ow (move, she wants to move), yeah
Man (and move, she wants to move)
Move, she wants to move
But you're hogging her, you're guarding her
Beat it
Mister
Look at your girl (damn), she loves it (shake it up)
I can see it in her eyes, she
Hopes this lasts forever
Hey, c'mon
Mister
Look at your girl (look at your girl) she loves it (she wants me)
I can see it in her eyes, she (huh)
Hopes this lasts forever, hey
Somebody get us some water in here
It's hot
(Yo, why you, why, why you, why you wit' that fool?)
It's hot y'all, hey
Ha, ha, ha-ha-ha
Ha-ha-ha
Ugh
(I like it when you wet, baby)
Yeah
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