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"
Wanna get you home, home
Wanna get you home, home
Wanna get you home, home
Wanna get you home
Wanna get you home, home
Wanna get you home, home
Wanna get you home, home
I'm going home
[Chorus]
You keep on talking all that shit up on ya 2-way and ya phone
Girl, but when I get u home (hit it, hit it uh oh)
You and I alone (hit it, hit it uh oh)
And the house is (A A)
And the bed is (I I)
Bathroom is (O O)
And the kitchen is (U U)
When I get home
You and I alone
Now come and tell me where u get dat from
Now Twista he out here messing with all da ladies
Ask what I wanna hit dat fo'
'Cause u sexy and I'm a balla baby
Ask me why I got a nasty mouth
You da one steady trippin' wit da sassy mouth
But when get u into da apartment that's when it get up and sparkin'
And that's when we let all da passion out
Like da way u walk in slow in da room
And smelling sweet as a rose
And looking good in da red thong
Looking thick as hell do it to me well
Got me sprung
And I know I got ya head gone
Either slow or faster girl
When I gone how u trippin' is a disaster
When I step up to da tunes of da neptunes u wanna bring drama
And that's when I gotta ask u girl why
[Chorus]
When u were sleep last night
After rubbin' u down and making passionate love
I put on a pair of Air Force Ones, six figures of jewelry
And met my guys at da club
Pulled up out front and we had to stunt
Homie was sittin' on 26s
We about to do da dummy from da blow
Blow a little money steady in da scummy wit these bitches
That's about when u stunt in da car
Tell my whole mothetfuckers how I stunt at da bar
'Cause you startin' trippin' when u were in da crib sleep
But u don't even need to get started at all
You know I'm in da V.I.P.
Lookin' at all this ass and I'm finna to leave
I'm finna to cut you as soon as I'm out
But u steady u gotta gotta wit da motherfuckin' drama
Girl shut up what da fuck is talkin' about
[Chorus]
Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey
Girl don't u worry about me fallin' to sleep
Girl it's early
I'll kiss u up from ya head to feet don't u worry
My appetite is no thin, sweet and nothin' so curvy
I grab u like we don't have all night
Even though it's early
Trippin' on me when I go to da mall
Trippin' on me when I go to da club
Trippin' on me when I kick it wit my boyz
You be trippin' on me when I'm on da tour bus
You don't trip when I getcha gone
You don't trip when I getcha chrome
You be trippin on me when I'm away from u
But I bet u don't trip when I get u home
Wanna get you home, home
Wanna get you home, home
Wanna get you home, home
Wanna get you home
Wanna get you home, home
Wanna get you home, home
Wanna get you home, home
I'm going home
[Chorus]
A A
I I
O O
U U
Wanna get you home, home
Wanna get you home, home
Wanna get you home
Wanna get you home, home
Wanna get you home, home
Wanna get you home, home
I'm going home
[Chorus]
You keep on talking all that shit up on ya 2-way and ya phone
Girl, but when I get u home (hit it, hit it uh oh)
You and I alone (hit it, hit it uh oh)
And the house is (A A)
And the bed is (I I)
Bathroom is (O O)
And the kitchen is (U U)
When I get home
You and I alone
Now come and tell me where u get dat from
Now Twista he out here messing with all da ladies
Ask what I wanna hit dat fo'
'Cause u sexy and I'm a balla baby
Ask me why I got a nasty mouth
You da one steady trippin' wit da sassy mouth
But when get u into da apartment that's when it get up and sparkin'
And that's when we let all da passion out
Like da way u walk in slow in da room
And smelling sweet as a rose
And looking good in da red thong
Looking thick as hell do it to me well
Got me sprung
And I know I got ya head gone
Either slow or faster girl
When I gone how u trippin' is a disaster
When I step up to da tunes of da neptunes u wanna bring drama
And that's when I gotta ask u girl why
[Chorus]
When u were sleep last night
After rubbin' u down and making passionate love
I put on a pair of Air Force Ones, six figures of jewelry
And met my guys at da club
Pulled up out front and we had to stunt
Homie was sittin' on 26s
We about to do da dummy from da blow
Blow a little money steady in da scummy wit these bitches
That's about when u stunt in da car
Tell my whole mothetfuckers how I stunt at da bar
'Cause you startin' trippin' when u were in da crib sleep
But u don't even need to get started at all
You know I'm in da V.I.P.
Lookin' at all this ass and I'm finna to leave
I'm finna to cut you as soon as I'm out
But u steady u gotta gotta wit da motherfuckin' drama
Girl shut up what da fuck is talkin' about
[Chorus]
Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey
Girl don't u worry about me fallin' to sleep
Girl it's early
I'll kiss u up from ya head to feet don't u worry
My appetite is no thin, sweet and nothin' so curvy
I grab u like we don't have all night
Even though it's early
Trippin' on me when I go to da mall
Trippin' on me when I go to da club
Trippin' on me when I kick it wit my boyz
You be trippin' on me when I'm on da tour bus
You don't trip when I getcha gone
You don't trip when I getcha chrome
You be trippin on me when I'm away from u
But I bet u don't trip when I get u home
Wanna get you home, home
Wanna get you home, home
Wanna get you home, home
Wanna get you home
Wanna get you home, home
Wanna get you home, home
Wanna get you home, home
I'm going home
[Chorus]
A A
I I
O O
U U
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