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"
Hey, hey
Hey, hey
Ayy, ayy, ayy, ayy
I wanna get down, down, down, down (hey, hey)
Down, down, down (hey, hey)
Get down (ayy, ayy)
We can get down (ayy, ayy)
Uh, Mr. West is in the building, children, ladies
Call the shrink up, they about to go crazy
Hold your drinks up like you was celebratin'
Hold your guns if they is hella hatin'
I'm so clean and them, they got rabies
I can see it through the lens of my RayB-
Ans, Wayfarers, mm-hmm
'Ye do you play fair? Mmm-mmm
Grab your remote for the reason they made TiVo
Snap your Nikons at the icon with Nikes on
I heard you like to do it with the lights on
But I really make babies when the mic's on
Check out all my kids, that bought all my cribs
Got me out of that apartment, you have got to pardon him
I am so retarded with a spit like a retarded kid that spits
Oops, I ain't mean to say that s-
I told my homie Chris, these chicks is dangerous
You need a girl that's A-list
Not one that just barely made it on a list
'Cause from wall to wall, we got it poppin' right now
It's a hundred girls, tryna get down, down, down
Baby girl, gotta tell you
Seen you somewhere before, you look familiar
You had a red shirt, Gucci slacks
And a Gucci bag to match it
Tell me you remember that, baby girl
But, lady, never mind that
Can I take you out later? And here's my contact
Can you do me this favor? Let me spend this paper
On you 'cause it's just sitting and let's just spend it and go
Let me, let me
Guarantee, guarantee
I'll make your day, yeah, yeah
Okay
I wanna get down, down, down, down (hey, hey, get down)
Down, down, down (hey, hey, get down)
Get down (ayy, ayy, whoa-oh)
We can get down (ayy, ayy, down)
The way I see it, girl, you a perfect ten
That's why I'm all on you, baby, you got me wonderin'
What to do, what to say, don't want to come off lame
Girl, do you got a man?
Better yet, girl, what's your name?
Just let me, let me
Guarantee, guarantee
I'll make your day, yeah, yeah
Okay
Now if you with it, shawty, shawty
Let me, let me
Take your bad away
Baby, can we dream, just for today?
I wanna get down, down, down, down (hey, hey, not even crazy, gotta get down)
Down, down, down (hey, hey, down)
Get down (ayy, ayy, oh)
We can get down (ayy, ayy, we can get down)
I wanna get down, down, down, down (hey, hey, get down)
Down, down, down (hey, hey, down)
Get down (ayy, ayy, hey)
We can get down (ayy, ayy, oh, baby)
Down, down, down, down (hey, hey, not even crazy, gotta get down)
Down, down, down (hey, hey, down)
Get down (ayy, ayy, whoa-oh)
We can get down (ayy, ayy, down)
I wanna get down, down, down, down (hey, hey, oh, baby, baby, baby, please)
Down, down, down (hey, hey, get down)
Get down (ayy, ayy)
We can get down (ayy, ayy)
To all my ladies, sexy ladies (hey, hey, hey, hey)
I wanna get down with y'all (ayy, ayy, ayy, ayy)
Hey, hey
Ayy, ayy, ayy, ayy
I wanna get down, down, down, down (hey, hey)
Down, down, down (hey, hey)
Get down (ayy, ayy)
We can get down (ayy, ayy)
Uh, Mr. West is in the building, children, ladies
Call the shrink up, they about to go crazy
Hold your drinks up like you was celebratin'
Hold your guns if they is hella hatin'
I'm so clean and them, they got rabies
I can see it through the lens of my RayB-
Ans, Wayfarers, mm-hmm
'Ye do you play fair? Mmm-mmm
Grab your remote for the reason they made TiVo
Snap your Nikons at the icon with Nikes on
I heard you like to do it with the lights on
But I really make babies when the mic's on
Check out all my kids, that bought all my cribs
Got me out of that apartment, you have got to pardon him
I am so retarded with a spit like a retarded kid that spits
Oops, I ain't mean to say that s-
I told my homie Chris, these chicks is dangerous
You need a girl that's A-list
Not one that just barely made it on a list
'Cause from wall to wall, we got it poppin' right now
It's a hundred girls, tryna get down, down, down
Baby girl, gotta tell you
Seen you somewhere before, you look familiar
You had a red shirt, Gucci slacks
And a Gucci bag to match it
Tell me you remember that, baby girl
But, lady, never mind that
Can I take you out later? And here's my contact
Can you do me this favor? Let me spend this paper
On you 'cause it's just sitting and let's just spend it and go
Let me, let me
Guarantee, guarantee
I'll make your day, yeah, yeah
Okay
I wanna get down, down, down, down (hey, hey, get down)
Down, down, down (hey, hey, get down)
Get down (ayy, ayy, whoa-oh)
We can get down (ayy, ayy, down)
The way I see it, girl, you a perfect ten
That's why I'm all on you, baby, you got me wonderin'
What to do, what to say, don't want to come off lame
Girl, do you got a man?
Better yet, girl, what's your name?
Just let me, let me
Guarantee, guarantee
I'll make your day, yeah, yeah
Okay
Now if you with it, shawty, shawty
Let me, let me
Take your bad away
Baby, can we dream, just for today?
I wanna get down, down, down, down (hey, hey, not even crazy, gotta get down)
Down, down, down (hey, hey, down)
Get down (ayy, ayy, oh)
We can get down (ayy, ayy, we can get down)
I wanna get down, down, down, down (hey, hey, get down)
Down, down, down (hey, hey, down)
Get down (ayy, ayy, hey)
We can get down (ayy, ayy, oh, baby)
Down, down, down, down (hey, hey, not even crazy, gotta get down)
Down, down, down (hey, hey, down)
Get down (ayy, ayy, whoa-oh)
We can get down (ayy, ayy, down)
I wanna get down, down, down, down (hey, hey, oh, baby, baby, baby, please)
Down, down, down (hey, hey, get down)
Get down (ayy, ayy)
We can get down (ayy, ayy)
To all my ladies, sexy ladies (hey, hey, hey, hey)
I wanna get down with y'all (ayy, ayy, ayy, ayy)
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Its: "I can see it through the lens of my Ray-B-ans wayfarers MmHm Ye, do you play fair? MmMm" "at the icon with Nikes on" "Check out all my kids that bought all my cribs" I didn't notice the references to the previous singles Wall to Wall and Poppin in Kanye's verse. Ye killed it. The hook is sampled from 4 Non Blondes - What's Up Hot hot hot!
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