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"
I've got everything I want in my life except a girlfriend
Just copped a Bentley and it's parked in my garage
A two o'clock appointment made for my massage
And everywhere we go they know just who we are
There they go it's them ghetto superstars
The latest throw backs and the ones on my feet
Get off the Benz and them I'm off up in the Jeep
Takin flicks with chicks that look like 'Licia Keys
All of that I'm still missin' one thing
A Girlfriend, Girlfriend (Everything I've wanted)
I need a girlfriend, girlfriend (And everything I've)
A girlfriend, girlfriend (Would you be my...?)
Would you be my girlfriend, Girlfriend
We hit the mall buyin' up all the Nike suits
I'm being pampered while I'm chilling by the pool
From the show to the limo to the club
Hands in the air showin' nothin' but some love
Got plenty clothes, plenty ice plenty cash
A pretty swope plenty abs plenty shhh
I got every single thing that I need
Except for a main squeeze
(I need a)
A Girlfriend, Girlfriend (Girlfriend)
I need a girlfriend, girlfriend (I need, I need)
A girlfriend, girlfriend (Would you be my?)
Would you be my girlfriend, Girlfriend
Alright Alright
We got B2K up in this piece
(Tell me who's gonna be my girlfriend?)
And we need all the ladies out there
lookin' for a nice fella to get up out yo seat c'mon!
(And who I bet needs a real man?)
Put all hand up Put all hands up
(And who's gonna ride or die with me?)
Yeah who's gonna be that ride or die chick for me tonight?
(Who's gonna give B2K what they need?)
I need a thick with big hips that's just my motivation
No more game preperation, This is pimperation
She must be ready and steady for a grown man session
I'm talkin' willin' to learn, A Lil Fizz lesson
Now she playin' at it again and now we arguin'
Talkin' girls talk mess and tellin' all her friends
When I seen this new chick tonight
And I'ma make her my girlfriend, my girlfriend
(I need a girlfriend)
A Girlfriend, Girlfriend (someone for me)
I need a girlfriend, girlfriend (that's all I need)
A girlfriend, girlfriend (In my life)
Would you be my girlfriend, Girlfriend (I need a)
A Girlfriend, Girlfriend (someone call my own)
I need a girlfriend, girlfriend
(Spend some money on & I'm gonna take her out)
A girlfriend, girlfriend (Show her what I'm all about)
Would you be my girlfriend, Girlfriend
Just copped a Bentley and it's parked in my garage
A two o'clock appointment made for my massage
And everywhere we go they know just who we are
There they go it's them ghetto superstars
The latest throw backs and the ones on my feet
Get off the Benz and them I'm off up in the Jeep
Takin flicks with chicks that look like 'Licia Keys
All of that I'm still missin' one thing
A Girlfriend, Girlfriend (Everything I've wanted)
I need a girlfriend, girlfriend (And everything I've)
A girlfriend, girlfriend (Would you be my...?)
Would you be my girlfriend, Girlfriend
We hit the mall buyin' up all the Nike suits
I'm being pampered while I'm chilling by the pool
From the show to the limo to the club
Hands in the air showin' nothin' but some love
Got plenty clothes, plenty ice plenty cash
A pretty swope plenty abs plenty shhh
I got every single thing that I need
Except for a main squeeze
(I need a)
A Girlfriend, Girlfriend (Girlfriend)
I need a girlfriend, girlfriend (I need, I need)
A girlfriend, girlfriend (Would you be my?)
Would you be my girlfriend, Girlfriend
Alright Alright
We got B2K up in this piece
(Tell me who's gonna be my girlfriend?)
And we need all the ladies out there
lookin' for a nice fella to get up out yo seat c'mon!
(And who I bet needs a real man?)
Put all hand up Put all hands up
(And who's gonna ride or die with me?)
Yeah who's gonna be that ride or die chick for me tonight?
(Who's gonna give B2K what they need?)
I need a thick with big hips that's just my motivation
No more game preperation, This is pimperation
She must be ready and steady for a grown man session
I'm talkin' willin' to learn, A Lil Fizz lesson
Now she playin' at it again and now we arguin'
Talkin' girls talk mess and tellin' all her friends
When I seen this new chick tonight
And I'ma make her my girlfriend, my girlfriend
(I need a girlfriend)
A Girlfriend, Girlfriend (someone for me)
I need a girlfriend, girlfriend (that's all I need)
A girlfriend, girlfriend (In my life)
Would you be my girlfriend, Girlfriend (I need a)
A Girlfriend, Girlfriend (someone call my own)
I need a girlfriend, girlfriend
(Spend some money on & I'm gonna take her out)
A girlfriend, girlfriend (Show her what I'm all about)
Would you be my girlfriend, Girlfriend
Lyrics submitted by ButNeverOutgunned
Girlfriend Lyrics as written by Mary J Blige Gilbert Alexander Askey
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Downtown Music Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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