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"
Breaking it off and setting it off in the real way
Making the girls them chill their mind (feel fine)
Making them have a good time
Yeah, man, S Peezy, yo, long side RiRi
Come down now, Rihanna
Take it to them, take it to them, girl
Break it off, boy, this has got me feeling naughty
I wanna know, boy, if I can be your shorty (most definitely)
Set it off, boy, make me hot all over my body
(Break it off, take it off, no miss take it off)
Break it off tonight (yo)
Break it off, boy, this has got me feeling naughty
I wanna know, boy, if I can be your shorty (yo, yo)
Set it off, boy, make me hot all over my body (yeah, yeah)
Break it off tonight (yo, yo)
Struggle and pain wha she fell all de while
And she want a good man fi give her de style
Wild child
So she deh pon me file
It's a long time now me wha plow
Plow de sile meh car run, run like de nile
And de most energy meh whan gi her tonight
Give her tonight
An' mek she feel right
Make she fly like a kite that reach a new height
'Cah we give it to de gyal dem
Make dem reel up and bawl
And make dem (start call)
Anytime she want it back she ha fi call (Dutty Paul)
Admittin' it on de spot I know de real (Sean Paul)
When de traits so great
'Cause she feelin' top up and tall wat de ting say
Break it off, boy, this has got me feeling naughty (immediate, if not before)
I wanna know, boy, if I can be your shorty (boom, ba)
Set it off, boy, make me hot all over my body
(Break it off, take it off, no miss take it off)
Break it off tonight (yo)
Break it off, boy, this has got me feeling naughty
I wanna know, boy, if I can be your shorty (yo, yo)
Set it off, boy, make me hot all over my body
(Yeah, yeah, yo, yo, yagga, yo)
Break it off tonight
(RiRi, S Peezy, yo, yo)
No doubt
Gyal, you shoulda know SP and a scout
Naughty sweat so shout
Make ya bawl out, shout
Make ya holla me gah give affection in your direction
We go all out
Gyal, just follow we if ya love energy
If ya whan pedigree
Cruise like Penelope
Make a see yuh just bounce wit de Dutty
We keep givin' you de Q to de U to de A (yea) to de L to de I to de T to de Y
Girl, I got to try (try)
Take yuh booty make you reach to de S-K-Y
Woman, I got to say (say)
Da way you move is makin' me high
Girl, cuh yuh know say yuh S to de E to de X to de Y (boom, ba, boom, ba)
Break it off, boy, 'cause you got me feeling naughty
Let me know, boy, if I can be your shorty (sexyness)
Set it off, boy, make me hot all over my body
(Yo, yagga yo, no doubt)
Break it off tonight (Yo, RiRi)
Break it off, boy, this has got me feeling naughty
I wanna know, boy, if I can be your shorty
(Blaze up on no rain, no stressy)
Set it off, boy, make me hot all over my body
Break it off tonight (yeah, yo, yo, yo)
Boy (uh huh)
The way you push up on me I
Waan' get da roughest wuk dun know ya like (ay, yo, ay, yo)
Fuh sho we gonna break it off tonight (yoga, macchugga, uh)
Ooh, boy
We really shouldn't waste no time (sing it)
Come let me back up on ya dance halls tight (bring it)
And I'm hopin', baby, you don't mind
'Cause I really wanna break it off tonight (instantaneous)
Break it off, boy, 'cause you got me feeling naughty (hey)
I wanna know, boy, if I can be your shorty
Set it off, boy, make me hot all over my body (baby girl)
Break it off tonight
(Yo, baby girl, yo, give it up, give it up, sen' on)
Break it off, boy, 'cause you got me feeling naughty (yo)
I wanna know, boy, if I can be your shorty
Set it off, boy, make me hot all over my body
Break it off tonight
Making the girls them chill their mind (feel fine)
Making them have a good time
Yeah, man, S Peezy, yo, long side RiRi
Come down now, Rihanna
Take it to them, take it to them, girl
Break it off, boy, this has got me feeling naughty
I wanna know, boy, if I can be your shorty (most definitely)
Set it off, boy, make me hot all over my body
(Break it off, take it off, no miss take it off)
Break it off tonight (yo)
Break it off, boy, this has got me feeling naughty
I wanna know, boy, if I can be your shorty (yo, yo)
Set it off, boy, make me hot all over my body (yeah, yeah)
Break it off tonight (yo, yo)
Struggle and pain wha she fell all de while
And she want a good man fi give her de style
Wild child
So she deh pon me file
It's a long time now me wha plow
Plow de sile meh car run, run like de nile
And de most energy meh whan gi her tonight
Give her tonight
An' mek she feel right
Make she fly like a kite that reach a new height
'Cah we give it to de gyal dem
Make dem reel up and bawl
And make dem (start call)
Anytime she want it back she ha fi call (Dutty Paul)
Admittin' it on de spot I know de real (Sean Paul)
When de traits so great
'Cause she feelin' top up and tall wat de ting say
Break it off, boy, this has got me feeling naughty (immediate, if not before)
I wanna know, boy, if I can be your shorty (boom, ba)
Set it off, boy, make me hot all over my body
(Break it off, take it off, no miss take it off)
Break it off tonight (yo)
Break it off, boy, this has got me feeling naughty
I wanna know, boy, if I can be your shorty (yo, yo)
Set it off, boy, make me hot all over my body
(Yeah, yeah, yo, yo, yagga, yo)
Break it off tonight
(RiRi, S Peezy, yo, yo)
No doubt
Gyal, you shoulda know SP and a scout
Naughty sweat so shout
Make ya bawl out, shout
Make ya holla me gah give affection in your direction
We go all out
Gyal, just follow we if ya love energy
If ya whan pedigree
Cruise like Penelope
Make a see yuh just bounce wit de Dutty
We keep givin' you de Q to de U to de A (yea) to de L to de I to de T to de Y
Girl, I got to try (try)
Take yuh booty make you reach to de S-K-Y
Woman, I got to say (say)
Da way you move is makin' me high
Girl, cuh yuh know say yuh S to de E to de X to de Y (boom, ba, boom, ba)
Break it off, boy, 'cause you got me feeling naughty
Let me know, boy, if I can be your shorty (sexyness)
Set it off, boy, make me hot all over my body
(Yo, yagga yo, no doubt)
Break it off tonight (Yo, RiRi)
Break it off, boy, this has got me feeling naughty
I wanna know, boy, if I can be your shorty
(Blaze up on no rain, no stressy)
Set it off, boy, make me hot all over my body
Break it off tonight (yeah, yo, yo, yo)
Boy (uh huh)
The way you push up on me I
Waan' get da roughest wuk dun know ya like (ay, yo, ay, yo)
Fuh sho we gonna break it off tonight (yoga, macchugga, uh)
Ooh, boy
We really shouldn't waste no time (sing it)
Come let me back up on ya dance halls tight (bring it)
And I'm hopin', baby, you don't mind
'Cause I really wanna break it off tonight (instantaneous)
Break it off, boy, 'cause you got me feeling naughty (hey)
I wanna know, boy, if I can be your shorty
Set it off, boy, make me hot all over my body (baby girl)
Break it off tonight
(Yo, baby girl, yo, give it up, give it up, sen' on)
Break it off, boy, 'cause you got me feeling naughty (yo)
I wanna know, boy, if I can be your shorty
Set it off, boy, make me hot all over my body
Break it off tonight
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Break It Off Lyrics as written by Sean Henriques Donovan Keith Bennett
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing, Ultra Tunes, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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