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"
Come on, come on
Woo, huh, oh-oh, we got the fire, oh, oh
Oh-oh, you're gonna rock to this (uh-huh)
You're gonna drop to this (come on, come on)
10 o'clock, weekend
'Bout to head out to the garden of Eden (uh-huh)
Go my shelltoes and my cap on
Before I hit the door I got to get my cellphone
Bout to call my boys and see what's up? (Uh-huh)
Are you rollin with this chick or what? (What?)
Meet me at the spot
I'll be the one round the back in the crop top
DJ, gimme a beat I can rock to
I want a joint you can drop to (uh)
The ceiling is caving in
The speakers is rumbling
DJ, gimme a beat I can rock to (rock this)
I want a joint you can drop to
The ceiling is caving in (oh, oh)
The speakers is rumbling (uh-huh)
Turn it up, bump the bass (woo)
'Cause we bout to tear the roof off this place
Shake ya ass, (yeah) check ya glass
Put your hands up, let the track blast
Yo, this beat is so ridiculous (uh-huh)
I think this dancefloor's about to bust (uh)
Everybody on the wall
Better press 'cause it's bout to be last call
We ain't trying to leave the club
Now let me show you how to get crunk
Hit the floor, (hit the floor) lock the door (lock the door)
It's time I go
DJ, gimme a beat I can rock to
I want a joint you can drop to
The ceiling is caving in
The speakers is rumbling
DJ, gimme a beat I can rock to
I want a joint you can drop to
The ceiling is caving in
The speakers is rumbling
If you came to dance, clap your hands
Ladies grab your man and
Feel the bass, go uh-uh
All in your face go uh-uh
If you came to dance, clap your hands
Ladies grab your man and
Feel the bass, go uh-uh
All in your face go uh-uh
DJ, gimme a beat I can rock to
I want a joint you can drop to
The ceiling is caving in
The speakers is rumbling
DJ, gimme a beat I can rock to
I want a joint you can drop to
The ceiling is caving in
The speakers is rumbling
DJ, gimme a beat I can rock to
I want a joint you can drop to
The ceiling is caving in
The speakers is rumbling
DJ, gimme a beat I can rock to
I want a joint you can drop to
The ceiling is caving in
The speakers is rumbling
Give me a beat I can
I want a joint you can
(DJ) give me a beat I can
I want a joint you can (rock to, ooh-ooh)
(Rock to, ooh-ooh)
Woo, huh, oh-oh, we got the fire, oh, oh
Oh-oh, you're gonna rock to this (uh-huh)
You're gonna drop to this (come on, come on)
10 o'clock, weekend
'Bout to head out to the garden of Eden (uh-huh)
Go my shelltoes and my cap on
Before I hit the door I got to get my cellphone
Bout to call my boys and see what's up? (Uh-huh)
Are you rollin with this chick or what? (What?)
Meet me at the spot
I'll be the one round the back in the crop top
DJ, gimme a beat I can rock to
I want a joint you can drop to (uh)
The ceiling is caving in
The speakers is rumbling
DJ, gimme a beat I can rock to (rock this)
I want a joint you can drop to
The ceiling is caving in (oh, oh)
The speakers is rumbling (uh-huh)
Turn it up, bump the bass (woo)
'Cause we bout to tear the roof off this place
Shake ya ass, (yeah) check ya glass
Put your hands up, let the track blast
Yo, this beat is so ridiculous (uh-huh)
I think this dancefloor's about to bust (uh)
Everybody on the wall
Better press 'cause it's bout to be last call
We ain't trying to leave the club
Now let me show you how to get crunk
Hit the floor, (hit the floor) lock the door (lock the door)
It's time I go
DJ, gimme a beat I can rock to
I want a joint you can drop to
The ceiling is caving in
The speakers is rumbling
DJ, gimme a beat I can rock to
I want a joint you can drop to
The ceiling is caving in
The speakers is rumbling
If you came to dance, clap your hands
Ladies grab your man and
Feel the bass, go uh-uh
All in your face go uh-uh
If you came to dance, clap your hands
Ladies grab your man and
Feel the bass, go uh-uh
All in your face go uh-uh
DJ, gimme a beat I can rock to
I want a joint you can drop to
The ceiling is caving in
The speakers is rumbling
DJ, gimme a beat I can rock to
I want a joint you can drop to
The ceiling is caving in
The speakers is rumbling
DJ, gimme a beat I can rock to
I want a joint you can drop to
The ceiling is caving in
The speakers is rumbling
DJ, gimme a beat I can rock to
I want a joint you can drop to
The ceiling is caving in
The speakers is rumbling
Give me a beat I can
I want a joint you can
(DJ) give me a beat I can
I want a joint you can (rock to, ooh-ooh)
(Rock to, ooh-ooh)
Lyrics submitted by sparklefairy
DJ Lyrics as written by Carsten Schack Kenneth Karlin
Lyrics © Kanjian Music, Universal Music Publishing Group, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Unison Rights S.L., Songtrust Ave, Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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