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"
Boy stop
It's about to be a girl fight
Some new shit yeah
Brook Valentine
Uh huh uh huh
Big Boi
A Lil Jon!
Sending this one out to all the ladies who got beef with another bitch
Just walk to that bitch and tell her
What'd you tell her?
It's about to be a what!
Girl fight!
We 'bout to swang them thangs
We 'bout to throw them blows
We 'bout to swang them thangs
It's about to be a what, girl fight!
There she goes talkin' her mess
All around town
Making me stress
I need to get this off my chest
And if her friend want some then she'll be next
It really ain't that complicated
Ya'll walking 'round looking all frustrated
Want some plates come on let's make it
Ya actin' real hard but I know ya'll fakin'
I wasn't really the one who startin' this
Really don't know why you're talkin' shit
You're about to catch one right in your lip
It's about to be a what, girl fight!
I wasn't really the one who startin' this
Really don't know why you're talkin' shit
You're about to catch one right in your lip
It's about to be a what, girl fight!
We 'bout to throw them blows
We 'bout to swang them thangs'
We 'bout to swang them thangs
We 'bout to throw them blows
We 'bout to swang them thangs
It's about to be a what, girl fight!
We're on our way to the neighborhood
The reason why we comin' is understood
Me and my girls
We're down the ride
Steppin' your hair's pulled up and your girls outside
Don't be tryna call your cousin on me
Don't forget that I got some wit me
'Bout to go real far bout to swang them thangs
'Bout to el elbows all in your grain
I wasn't really the one who startin' this
Really don't know why you're talkin' shit
You're about to catch one right in your lip
It's about to be a what, girl fight!
We 'bout to throw them blows
We 'bout to swang them thangs
We 'bout to throw them blows
We 'bout to swang them thangs
It's about to be a what, girl fight!
Oh I know you don't want me to spend your dough
Oh I know
Oh I know you don't want me to spend your dough
But I'm about to own your things
Oh snap these bitches they act like cats
In the middle of the dance floor now they're preparing to scrap
They're takin' out their scrunchies, and they're pullin' off their press-ons
The one on the right is the girlfriend (What)
And the one on the left is the other woman
Someone please call the security these girls too purty
To get down to the nitty titty
I mean the nitty gritty
I mean her titties pretty
I'm trippin' bein' silly willy man
We 'bout to throw them blows
We 'bout to throw them blows
We 'bout to swang them thangs
We 'bout to swang them thangs
We 'bout to throw them blows
We 'bout to swang them thangs
Swang them thangs
It's about to be a what, girl fight!
We 'bout to throw them blows (don't act like you don't know)
We 'bout to swang them thangs (we're right outside your door)
(Saw you peeking out your window)
Now you ain't talkin' noise no more
We 'bout to throw them blows (don't act like you don't know)
(Don't act like you don't know)
We 'bout to swang them thangs
Saw you peeking out your window
Now you ain't talkin' noise no more
Bitch come outside
Subliminal
Don't act like you don't see me
It's about to be a, girl fight
It's about to be a girl fight
Some new shit yeah
Brook Valentine
Uh huh uh huh
Big Boi
A Lil Jon!
Sending this one out to all the ladies who got beef with another bitch
Just walk to that bitch and tell her
What'd you tell her?
It's about to be a what!
Girl fight!
We 'bout to swang them thangs
We 'bout to throw them blows
We 'bout to swang them thangs
It's about to be a what, girl fight!
There she goes talkin' her mess
All around town
Making me stress
I need to get this off my chest
And if her friend want some then she'll be next
It really ain't that complicated
Ya'll walking 'round looking all frustrated
Want some plates come on let's make it
Ya actin' real hard but I know ya'll fakin'
I wasn't really the one who startin' this
Really don't know why you're talkin' shit
You're about to catch one right in your lip
It's about to be a what, girl fight!
I wasn't really the one who startin' this
Really don't know why you're talkin' shit
You're about to catch one right in your lip
It's about to be a what, girl fight!
We 'bout to throw them blows
We 'bout to swang them thangs'
We 'bout to swang them thangs
We 'bout to throw them blows
We 'bout to swang them thangs
It's about to be a what, girl fight!
We're on our way to the neighborhood
The reason why we comin' is understood
Me and my girls
We're down the ride
Steppin' your hair's pulled up and your girls outside
Don't be tryna call your cousin on me
Don't forget that I got some wit me
'Bout to go real far bout to swang them thangs
'Bout to el elbows all in your grain
I wasn't really the one who startin' this
Really don't know why you're talkin' shit
You're about to catch one right in your lip
It's about to be a what, girl fight!
We 'bout to throw them blows
We 'bout to swang them thangs
We 'bout to throw them blows
We 'bout to swang them thangs
It's about to be a what, girl fight!
Oh I know you don't want me to spend your dough
Oh I know
Oh I know you don't want me to spend your dough
But I'm about to own your things
Oh snap these bitches they act like cats
In the middle of the dance floor now they're preparing to scrap
They're takin' out their scrunchies, and they're pullin' off their press-ons
The one on the right is the girlfriend (What)
And the one on the left is the other woman
Someone please call the security these girls too purty
To get down to the nitty titty
I mean the nitty gritty
I mean her titties pretty
I'm trippin' bein' silly willy man
We 'bout to throw them blows
We 'bout to throw them blows
We 'bout to swang them thangs
We 'bout to swang them thangs
We 'bout to throw them blows
We 'bout to swang them thangs
Swang them thangs
It's about to be a what, girl fight!
We 'bout to throw them blows (don't act like you don't know)
We 'bout to swang them thangs (we're right outside your door)
(Saw you peeking out your window)
Now you ain't talkin' noise no more
We 'bout to throw them blows (don't act like you don't know)
(Don't act like you don't know)
We 'bout to swang them thangs
Saw you peeking out your window
Now you ain't talkin' noise no more
Bitch come outside
Subliminal
Don't act like you don't see me
It's about to be a, girl fight
Lyrics submitted by bouncergrl1980
Girlfight Lyrics as written by Lamarquis Jefferson Antwan Patton
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Peermusic Publishing, Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
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This is a great anthem to any girl in the hood that needed to prove herself. Fighting in the hood is kind of like a right of passage. In middle school I noticed some girls were targeting me and I didn't know why. It was so annoying. Then finally i had enough and threw down. After that everyone left me alone. Fights happen a lot in the hood. Way more than in the burbs. I think women from the hood are harder and don't take verbal abuse lightly and aren't really scared to get their ass whooped.
This sounds exactly like what Im thinking about this chick at the moment
The rap part of the song makes me uncomfortable. This is a nice song, very catchy and motivating, but every line from the male vocalist ruins it. He turns a song about strong women being violent into a song about two women fighting over an unfaithful guy who boinked them both-- and this rapper comments on their breasts and hair for absolutely no reason, and it throws off the mood of the song how upbeatly he says his piece. It makes me imagine two rival girl gangs meeting in an abandoned building or something to fight, and some dude drunkenly wandering in and loudly making rhymes about their breasts and how attractive they are, and none of the girls stopping to take notice of him because they're too busy pulling hair and kicking eachother's asses, and the man just won't leave and keeps standing there in the middle giggling and rhyming random things throughout the whole fight. The mental image is jarring to say the least. Cut out the rap part and the song is great.