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"
Oh yeah, mmm (oh yeah)
Harder, harder, oh yeah
Oh, harder, oh yeah, give it to me
Harder, oh, oh yeah, oh-oh, oh yeah, oh, oh yeah
Ow, she's a brick house
Yeah, she's mighty, mighty, just a-lettin' it all hang out
Ah, she's a brick house
That lady's stacked, and that's a fact
Ain't holding nothing back
Ah, she's a brick house
Well put together, everybody knows
This is how the story goes
She knows she's got everything
That a woman needs to get a man, hey, hey, yeah (ow)
How can she lose with her she use?
Thirty six-twenty four-thirty six, what a winning hand
Ah, she's a brick house
Yeah, she's mighty, mighty, just a-lettin' it all hang out
Ah, she's a brick house
Well, she's the one, the only one
Built like a amazon, wow
The clothes she wears, the sexy ways
Make an old man wish for younger days, wow, wow
She knows she's built and knows how to please
Sure enough, can knock a strong man to his knees
Ow, she's a brick house
Yeah, she's mighty, mighty, just a-lettin' it all hang out
Ah, she's a brick house
That lady's stacked, and that's a fact
Ain't holding nothing back
Ow
Shake it down, shake it down now
Shake it down, shake it down now
Shake it down, shake it down now
Ah, ah, ah, yeah
I'm the chick from the south built like a brick house
Bad to the bone, fatty girl, stallion
Brick house amazon, I stay fly, yo
With a body that a grown man would cry for
When I walk, niggas whistle
I keep 'em hotter than a missile
When I'm doin' my thizzle
Thirty six-twenty four-thirty six
Hands on my hips when I walk with a switch
Gaudier dress with Ferragamo stilettos
Classy, but you can tell I'm still ghetto
Prada this, Escada this
Fit slim in the waist with a lot in the bac, whoa
Petite, but I'm thick to death
I'm the baddest bitch, y'all can keep the rest
Brick house and my walk is mean
And I stay on the scene, so fresh, so clean
Harder, harder, oh yeah
Oh, harder, oh yeah, give it to me harder
She's a brick house
Yeah, she's mighty, mighty, just a lettin' it all hang out
Ah, she's a brick house
That lady's stacked, that's a fact
Ain't holding nothing back
Ah, she's a brick house
Well, she's the one, the only one
Built like a amazon, well
Break it down now, uh, uh
Break it down now, yeah
Break it down now, uh, uh
Break it down now, yeah
Break it down now, uh, uh
Break it down now, yeah
Break it down now, uh, uh
Break it down now, yeah
Harder, harder, oh yeah
Oh, harder, oh yeah, give it to me
Harder, oh, oh yeah, oh-oh, oh yeah, oh, oh yeah
Ow, she's a brick house
Yeah, she's mighty, mighty, just a-lettin' it all hang out
Ah, she's a brick house
That lady's stacked, and that's a fact
Ain't holding nothing back
Ah, she's a brick house
Well put together, everybody knows
This is how the story goes
She knows she's got everything
That a woman needs to get a man, hey, hey, yeah (ow)
How can she lose with her she use?
Thirty six-twenty four-thirty six, what a winning hand
Ah, she's a brick house
Yeah, she's mighty, mighty, just a-lettin' it all hang out
Ah, she's a brick house
Well, she's the one, the only one
Built like a amazon, wow
The clothes she wears, the sexy ways
Make an old man wish for younger days, wow, wow
She knows she's built and knows how to please
Sure enough, can knock a strong man to his knees
Ow, she's a brick house
Yeah, she's mighty, mighty, just a-lettin' it all hang out
Ah, she's a brick house
That lady's stacked, and that's a fact
Ain't holding nothing back
Ow
Shake it down, shake it down now
Shake it down, shake it down now
Shake it down, shake it down now
Ah, ah, ah, yeah
I'm the chick from the south built like a brick house
Bad to the bone, fatty girl, stallion
Brick house amazon, I stay fly, yo
With a body that a grown man would cry for
When I walk, niggas whistle
I keep 'em hotter than a missile
When I'm doin' my thizzle
Thirty six-twenty four-thirty six
Hands on my hips when I walk with a switch
Gaudier dress with Ferragamo stilettos
Classy, but you can tell I'm still ghetto
Prada this, Escada this
Fit slim in the waist with a lot in the bac, whoa
Petite, but I'm thick to death
I'm the baddest bitch, y'all can keep the rest
Brick house and my walk is mean
And I stay on the scene, so fresh, so clean
Harder, harder, oh yeah
Oh, harder, oh yeah, give it to me harder
She's a brick house
Yeah, she's mighty, mighty, just a lettin' it all hang out
Ah, she's a brick house
That lady's stacked, that's a fact
Ain't holding nothing back
Ah, she's a brick house
Well, she's the one, the only one
Built like a amazon, well
Break it down now, uh, uh
Break it down now, yeah
Break it down now, uh, uh
Break it down now, yeah
Break it down now, uh, uh
Break it down now, yeah
Break it down now, uh, uh
Break it down now, yeah
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If it weren't for the inclusion of Trina, this song might have been almost tolerable. I love Rob Zombie, but this just kind of made me sigh and thing "you can do better, Bobby."
i also think this song is pretty funny
My dad seems to enjoy this song, which disturbs me greatly. It's...interesting. Not something I thought Rob Zombie would do. And Trina? Hehe. Nice.