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"
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Its Akon man, my man P, it's the magic city baby.
Yo I think we got one on this one
So all them haters, wanna scream our name,
let them keep on calling.
And they won't support us before, and they wanna scream
now let them keep on calling, we just goin' let them keep on
calling, baby, just keep calling, so keep on calling.
And for our supporters, you y'all can just keep calling as long
as you want……..keep on calling.
I use to be a born a cornera all day, try'n figure out what's
goin' get me out there, dope filling and hugging the block, I
got them found out thing goin' get me no where. Used to keep
a nine milli for protection, just in case a nigger wanna take
my bred, then a voice came down from the sky and
said “Akon use your head”.
Had to re-a-valuate my thoughts, and think about what got
me this far, this far, had to keep a strong faith and believing,
know one day I'd be a star, a star. But I knew that it wouldn't
come easy, come easy, seen a hole lot a hate and believe
meh, Believe meh, despite all the bull shit, we had to still
work hard, to get to where we are.
[CHORUS]
So, when you hear them calling out Akon, let them keep on
calling, when you hear the world calling out P-Money, let them
keep on calling, cause we went through hell n back to get
here, so keep on calling, let me hear ya now, let me hear ya
now, let me hear just keep on calling.
Senegal, West Africa, to New Zealand, New Zealand, bless
the heart to give to make music with meaning, with meaning.
Cause I never thought I'd come this far, (ooh yeah), wid a
man tran, and a fancy car (ooh yeah) never thought success
would come this quick in the beginning, but I seen it.
And all along I'm sitting there thinking its harder when you
came from the hood, came from the hood. And all I had to do
was put my mind to it, and realize it was all good, it was all
good. Becoz one I got ridda what help me down, just believe I wasn't turning
back, (turning back) I had to keep on moving and a keep on
grooving, right here on this P-Money track, and so…
[CHORUS]
When you hear them calling out Akon, let them keep on
calling, when you hear the world calling out P-Money, let them
keep on calling, cause we went through hell n back to get
here, so keep on calling, let me hear ya now, let me hear ya
now, let me hear just keep on calling.
Keep on calling, keep on calling, just keep on calling, keep on
calling, just keep on calling, keep on calling,
just keep on calling, keep on calling.
When you hear them calling out Akon, let them keep on
calling, when you hear the world calling out P-Money, let them
keep on calling, cause we went through hell n back to get
here, so keep on calling, let me hear ya now, let me hear ya
now, let me hear just keep on calling.
Check
Its Akon man, my man P, it's the magic city baby.
Yo I think we got one on this one
So all them haters, wanna scream our name,
let them keep on calling.
And they won't support us before, and they wanna scream
now let them keep on calling, we just goin' let them keep on
calling, baby, just keep calling, so keep on calling.
And for our supporters, you y'all can just keep calling as long
as you want……..keep on calling.
I use to be a born a cornera all day, try'n figure out what's
goin' get me out there, dope filling and hugging the block, I
got them found out thing goin' get me no where. Used to keep
a nine milli for protection, just in case a nigger wanna take
my bred, then a voice came down from the sky and
said “Akon use your head”.
Had to re-a-valuate my thoughts, and think about what got
me this far, this far, had to keep a strong faith and believing,
know one day I'd be a star, a star. But I knew that it wouldn't
come easy, come easy, seen a hole lot a hate and believe
meh, Believe meh, despite all the bull shit, we had to still
work hard, to get to where we are.
[CHORUS]
So, when you hear them calling out Akon, let them keep on
calling, when you hear the world calling out P-Money, let them
keep on calling, cause we went through hell n back to get
here, so keep on calling, let me hear ya now, let me hear ya
now, let me hear just keep on calling.
Senegal, West Africa, to New Zealand, New Zealand, bless
the heart to give to make music with meaning, with meaning.
Cause I never thought I'd come this far, (ooh yeah), wid a
man tran, and a fancy car (ooh yeah) never thought success
would come this quick in the beginning, but I seen it.
And all along I'm sitting there thinking its harder when you
came from the hood, came from the hood. And all I had to do
was put my mind to it, and realize it was all good, it was all
good. Becoz one I got ridda what help me down, just believe I wasn't turning
back, (turning back) I had to keep on moving and a keep on
grooving, right here on this P-Money track, and so…
[CHORUS]
When you hear them calling out Akon, let them keep on
calling, when you hear the world calling out P-Money, let them
keep on calling, cause we went through hell n back to get
here, so keep on calling, let me hear ya now, let me hear ya
now, let me hear just keep on calling.
Keep on calling, keep on calling, just keep on calling, keep on
calling, just keep on calling, keep on calling,
just keep on calling, keep on calling.
When you hear them calling out Akon, let them keep on
calling, when you hear the world calling out P-Money, let them
keep on calling, cause we went through hell n back to get
here, so keep on calling, let me hear ya now, let me hear ya
now, let me hear just keep on calling.
Lyrics submitted by ButNeverOutgunned
Keep On Calling (feat. P Money) Lyrics as written by Peter James Wadams Aliaune Thiam
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Songtrust Ave, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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