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"
Oh, oh, oh (Adelso on this)
Oh, oh, oh
Yeah
Wish I had one more time
Wish I had one more time
'Cause if I had the chance, I would take it
If you give me your heart one more time on God, I wouldn't break it
Wish I had one more time
Oh-woah-woah, ooh-woah, oh-oh
Let me talk my-
If I had one more time
I would fuck you like I used to
I know you don't trust me like you used to
One more time
Fuck you like I used to
I know you don't trust me like you used to
One more time
I would fuck you like I used to
I wish you could trust me like you used to
One more time
Baby, you should give me one more time, ooh-woah, ooh-woah
And I don't like to call you when you with your friends
'Cause I know you gon' put me on your Bluetooth
And I was tryna call you on your phone
But it be hard 'cause we ain't speakin' like we used to, no, no, no
If you think you a bubble, girl, I'd hate to burst you up
And I'm J.I the don, nigga, you could search me up
The opposition was never my competition
Now they in the back fillin' up clips
Thinkin' they gon' Nerf me up
You got the right to call me stupid if I ever let that happen
And I was broke as fuck, never thought I'd make it rappin'
I was sellin' books and CD's just to eat, I was trappin'
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Just know you a replacement if you fuck wit him after me
And I ain't trippin' off no nigga who take bitches out to Applebee's (ha)
I'ma zelle you sixty bucks to pay for the bill
If I had one more time
I would fuck you like I used to
I know you don't trust me like you used to
One more time
Fuck you like I used to
I know you don't trust me like you used to
One more time
I would fuck you like I used to
I wish you could trust me like you used to
One more time
Baby, you should give me one more time, ooh-woah, ooh-woah
Fuck love, I ain't tryna move it up no more (yeah)
And fuck you, I ain't showin' you no love no more, no, oh
'Cause I don't give a fuck no more
I ain't showin' niggas love no more
Got me feelin' like I'm done with love
Got me feelin' like I'm done with-
Oh, oh, oh
Yeah
Wish I had one more time
Wish I had one more time
'Cause if I had the chance, I would take it
If you give me your heart one more time on God, I wouldn't break it
Wish I had one more time
Oh-woah-woah, ooh-woah, oh-oh
Let me talk my-
If I had one more time
I would fuck you like I used to
I know you don't trust me like you used to
One more time
Fuck you like I used to
I know you don't trust me like you used to
One more time
I would fuck you like I used to
I wish you could trust me like you used to
One more time
Baby, you should give me one more time, ooh-woah, ooh-woah
And I don't like to call you when you with your friends
'Cause I know you gon' put me on your Bluetooth
And I was tryna call you on your phone
But it be hard 'cause we ain't speakin' like we used to, no, no, no
If you think you a bubble, girl, I'd hate to burst you up
And I'm J.I the don, nigga, you could search me up
The opposition was never my competition
Now they in the back fillin' up clips
Thinkin' they gon' Nerf me up
You got the right to call me stupid if I ever let that happen
And I was broke as fuck, never thought I'd make it rappin'
I was sellin' books and CD's just to eat, I was trappin'
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Just know you a replacement if you fuck wit him after me
And I ain't trippin' off no nigga who take bitches out to Applebee's (ha)
I'ma zelle you sixty bucks to pay for the bill
If I had one more time
I would fuck you like I used to
I know you don't trust me like you used to
One more time
Fuck you like I used to
I know you don't trust me like you used to
One more time
I would fuck you like I used to
I wish you could trust me like you used to
One more time
Baby, you should give me one more time, ooh-woah, ooh-woah
Fuck love, I ain't tryna move it up no more (yeah)
And fuck you, I ain't showin' you no love no more, no, oh
'Cause I don't give a fuck no more
I ain't showin' niggas love no more
Got me feelin' like I'm done with love
Got me feelin' like I'm done with-
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'I wish all my pitfalls could be caught by this call'
makes more sense for the happy cheerio's sung at the end.