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"
You know Kathie Lee, you are a very special woman.
I don't mean special in a Mary Tyler Moore way...
Or an extra-value meal at Happy Burger way...
No, I mean SPECIAL...
Like... The song of the hummingbird
As it gets ready to find that female hummingbird
And -- make sweet love to it -- all night long.
Just two hummingbirds moaning' and groanin'
And letting their bodies caress and touch each other in ecstasy...
Slowly, the male hummingbird gets behind the female hummingbird
And eases his way into her golden valley
Gliding gently in and out, in and out, ooh, in and out.
Two hummingbirds doin' it doggy style all night long.
Until finally the male hummingbird screams with passion and lets his little humming gravy fly all over the nest.
And it makes me wanna... it makes me wanna sing this special song for you, yeah, baby, yeah mama.
Ooh Kathie Lee, you're such a special woman to me,
How I'd love to lay you down
And lick every inch of your body
With my tongue
Kathie Lee, you're my sexual fantasy
How 'bout you and me?
Get it together and make sweet love...
'Cause nobody can take your place
No way they can match your face,
No, you got it goin' on in a way so clear
I just wanna buy you a beer
I thought maybe tonight at seven thirty or seven, I could come by and...
Pick you up in my car
(No substitute) No substitute for you
(No substitute)
No baby there's (no substitute) for you girl
(No substitute) for you now
I know you love my body so much
It's something you can't help but touch, ooh
I might let you if you promise to be gentle,
Now I'm gettin' all sentimental
Maybe tonight after pickin' you up in my car we can park down over by the gas station that closed two weeks ago and make love in the back seat and...
Drop you off at home
(No substitute) No substitute for you
(No substitute) No baby there's
(No substitute) Come on baby say it
(No substitute) For you now
Now you remember our two hummingbirds.
Well after their night of passion, the male hummingbird couldn't sleep or eat.
All he could think about was that incredible night when things were flyin' all over the place and beaks were where they shouldn't be.
So he put his beak lips together and whistled a song.
Calling that female hummingbird back for another night of fire.
Just like I'm calling out for you, baby.
Hey, get your ass over here for some good lovin'.
There's only one word that can describe you,
You're a flippityfloppityhootchymamawoowoo
You've got everything I ever wanted
My metaphors have all been exhausted
So what say you and I forget about this singin' and songin' and act like a couple
of hummingbirds ourselves...
And get down to some business
(No substitute) No substitute for you
(No, no, no substitute)
No baby there's (no substitute) for you girl
(No substitute) for you girl (no substitute)
For you (no, no, no, no, no, no substitute)
For you girl
Ladies and gentlemen, the Fabulous Chefettes
(No) no (no) subs (subs) sti (tute) for (you)
Ba (by) no (no) no no no (no) for you yeah,
(No substitute) for you Kathie Lee, yeah
I don't mean special in a Mary Tyler Moore way...
Or an extra-value meal at Happy Burger way...
No, I mean SPECIAL...
Like... The song of the hummingbird
As it gets ready to find that female hummingbird
And -- make sweet love to it -- all night long.
Just two hummingbirds moaning' and groanin'
And letting their bodies caress and touch each other in ecstasy...
Slowly, the male hummingbird gets behind the female hummingbird
And eases his way into her golden valley
Gliding gently in and out, in and out, ooh, in and out.
Two hummingbirds doin' it doggy style all night long.
Until finally the male hummingbird screams with passion and lets his little humming gravy fly all over the nest.
And it makes me wanna... it makes me wanna sing this special song for you, yeah, baby, yeah mama.
Ooh Kathie Lee, you're such a special woman to me,
How I'd love to lay you down
And lick every inch of your body
With my tongue
Kathie Lee, you're my sexual fantasy
How 'bout you and me?
Get it together and make sweet love...
'Cause nobody can take your place
No way they can match your face,
No, you got it goin' on in a way so clear
I just wanna buy you a beer
I thought maybe tonight at seven thirty or seven, I could come by and...
Pick you up in my car
(No substitute) No substitute for you
(No substitute)
No baby there's (no substitute) for you girl
(No substitute) for you now
I know you love my body so much
It's something you can't help but touch, ooh
I might let you if you promise to be gentle,
Now I'm gettin' all sentimental
Maybe tonight after pickin' you up in my car we can park down over by the gas station that closed two weeks ago and make love in the back seat and...
Drop you off at home
(No substitute) No substitute for you
(No substitute) No baby there's
(No substitute) Come on baby say it
(No substitute) For you now
Now you remember our two hummingbirds.
Well after their night of passion, the male hummingbird couldn't sleep or eat.
All he could think about was that incredible night when things were flyin' all over the place and beaks were where they shouldn't be.
So he put his beak lips together and whistled a song.
Calling that female hummingbird back for another night of fire.
Just like I'm calling out for you, baby.
Hey, get your ass over here for some good lovin'.
There's only one word that can describe you,
You're a flippityfloppityhootchymamawoowoo
You've got everything I ever wanted
My metaphors have all been exhausted
So what say you and I forget about this singin' and songin' and act like a couple
of hummingbirds ourselves...
And get down to some business
(No substitute) No substitute for you
(No, no, no substitute)
No baby there's (no substitute) for you girl
(No substitute) for you girl (no substitute)
For you (no, no, no, no, no, no substitute)
For you girl
Ladies and gentlemen, the Fabulous Chefettes
(No) no (no) subs (subs) sti (tute) for (you)
Ba (by) no (no) no no no (no) for you yeah,
(No substitute) for you Kathie Lee, yeah
Lyrics submitted by xturricanx
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