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"
This is the house that funk built
Groove Armada style
All right, I'm checkin' all you this evening an' see you sittin around
But we ain't gonna have none of that this evening, child
That's right, don't be lookin' at me like that
See my name's gran'ma funky y'all
Funky if you're nasty darlin'
And you've got to stay nasty
But see, I need a little more volume, you know what I'm sayin'
Give me volume on everything 'cause I want you to hear me
I wanna hear myself against the world
Check it out
If you all love gran'ma funky y'all you're my gran' babies
So get ready to get down, get funky, get loose
I see you baby
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
I see you baby
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
I see you baby
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
I see you baby
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
I see you baby
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
Woah, close your eyes
And get sexy with it
Woah
I know y'all know what I'm talkin about
Don't be lookin at me like that now, I see ya
Come on, I see ya, get busy with it
Break it on down
I see you baby
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
I see you baby
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that a
Uh, right
Uh, come on
Uh, right
Uh, whoo
Uh, right
Uh, come on
Uhhh right
Break it on down
Oh this party gotat go on all
Aww
Whoo
Uh, right
Break it on down
I see you baby
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
I see you baby
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
I see you baby
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
I see you baby
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
This is the house that funk built
Groove Armada style
Groove Armada style
All right, I'm checkin' all you this evening an' see you sittin around
But we ain't gonna have none of that this evening, child
That's right, don't be lookin' at me like that
See my name's gran'ma funky y'all
Funky if you're nasty darlin'
And you've got to stay nasty
But see, I need a little more volume, you know what I'm sayin'
Give me volume on everything 'cause I want you to hear me
I wanna hear myself against the world
Check it out
If you all love gran'ma funky y'all you're my gran' babies
So get ready to get down, get funky, get loose
I see you baby
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
I see you baby
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
I see you baby
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
I see you baby
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
I see you baby
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
Woah, close your eyes
And get sexy with it
Woah
I know y'all know what I'm talkin about
Don't be lookin at me like that now, I see ya
Come on, I see ya, get busy with it
Break it on down
I see you baby
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
I see you baby
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that a
Uh, right
Uh, come on
Uh, right
Uh, whoo
Uh, right
Uh, come on
Uhhh right
Break it on down
Oh this party gotat go on all
Aww
Whoo
Uh, right
Break it on down
I see you baby
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
I see you baby
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
I see you baby
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
I see you baby
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
Shakin' that ass
This is the house that funk built
Groove Armada style
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