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"
Oooh Weee! Oooh Weee!
Can ya......Can ya feel it? (I can feel it)... Parum pum pum
Can ya......Can ya feel it? (I can feel it), feel this drum
That's the sound of the man workin' on dat rhydum'
And we ain't gonna stop until yal workin' wid 'em
No time for standing for poses
Got to be movin' like Moses
And when that Funk comes together
You'll be holding ya noses
(Hands up) we da band, but we ain't plugging it up
(Stand up) if you can stand, you can't be sitting to rock
(Back up) back up if you not willing to ride,
Cause we going on a tour, (alright) where we going?
Fat, Fat Boys, way back , that's from the eighties
Fresh like Dougie, inspiration...we were babies
Get up on the stage, we go vocal, they go crazy
We got somethin' for the fellows, this ain't only for the ladies.........
Can ya......Can ya feel it? (I can feel it)... Parum pum pum
Can ya......Can ya feel it? (I can feel it), feel this drum
You wanna ticket to the show cause ya heard that it's vocal,
Where you at on the map? It don't matter we go local.
The label wanted commercial, so we had a rehersal
Dial ####### and get the infomercial
(Hold up) wait a minute, you mean that's all with your mouth
(Roll up) and we gon' bring it from the north to the south
(Own up) you ain't never rode like this before
Ain't no sleepin' on this tour, (for sure)
Where we going?
Can ya......Can ya feel it? (I can feel it)... Parum pum pum
Can ya......Can ya feel it? (I can feel it), feel this drum
Oldschool!! The oldschool connects the whole groove, "that's cool"...
The "that's Cool" connects the hi hats, next rule.
The hi hat connects you to the snare, here's one
The snare drum connects you to the big kick drum.
You know the kick drum connects you to the heavy bass note,
And then the bass note connects the 808, all throat.
The 808 completes the bottom and the melody seals it,
And now we all come together and we ask "Can ya feel it?"
Can ya......Can ya feel it? (I can feel it)... Parum pum pum
Can ya......Can ya feel it? (I can feel it), feel this drum
With the final concoction, standing still ain't an options
Now we bouncing like a family, yea legal adoption.
Yal ain't moving yet, that I can't except
How many sounds we gotta imitate to getcha' respect.
(Don't stop) we in the flow, can't cha' see that we movin'
(Hip hop) that's the style of the music we using.
(First drop), last drop, you best get all you can get
Yal getting tired on this tour?........(Not yet) Where we going?
"He's Biz Markie" yo make the music with ya mouth
(Nobody, Nobody beats the Biz)
"That's incedible"...20 years later...still edible
Bghghghgh! Stick 'em, ha, ha, ha, Yea we copied it
Don't worry be happy, we gonna do dis just like Bobby did
Can ya......Can ya feel it? (I can feel it)... Parum pum pum
Can ya......Can ya feel it? (I can feel it), feel this drum.
Can ya......Can ya feel it? (I can feel it)... Parum pum pum
Can ya......Can ya feel it? (I can feel it), feel this drum
That's the sound of the man workin' on dat rhydum'
And we ain't gonna stop until yal workin' wid 'em
No time for standing for poses
Got to be movin' like Moses
And when that Funk comes together
You'll be holding ya noses
(Hands up) we da band, but we ain't plugging it up
(Stand up) if you can stand, you can't be sitting to rock
(Back up) back up if you not willing to ride,
Cause we going on a tour, (alright) where we going?
Fat, Fat Boys, way back , that's from the eighties
Fresh like Dougie, inspiration...we were babies
Get up on the stage, we go vocal, they go crazy
We got somethin' for the fellows, this ain't only for the ladies.........
Can ya......Can ya feel it? (I can feel it)... Parum pum pum
Can ya......Can ya feel it? (I can feel it), feel this drum
You wanna ticket to the show cause ya heard that it's vocal,
Where you at on the map? It don't matter we go local.
The label wanted commercial, so we had a rehersal
Dial ####### and get the infomercial
(Hold up) wait a minute, you mean that's all with your mouth
(Roll up) and we gon' bring it from the north to the south
(Own up) you ain't never rode like this before
Ain't no sleepin' on this tour, (for sure)
Where we going?
Can ya......Can ya feel it? (I can feel it)... Parum pum pum
Can ya......Can ya feel it? (I can feel it), feel this drum
Oldschool!! The oldschool connects the whole groove, "that's cool"...
The "that's Cool" connects the hi hats, next rule.
The hi hat connects you to the snare, here's one
The snare drum connects you to the big kick drum.
You know the kick drum connects you to the heavy bass note,
And then the bass note connects the 808, all throat.
The 808 completes the bottom and the melody seals it,
And now we all come together and we ask "Can ya feel it?"
Can ya......Can ya feel it? (I can feel it)... Parum pum pum
Can ya......Can ya feel it? (I can feel it), feel this drum
With the final concoction, standing still ain't an options
Now we bouncing like a family, yea legal adoption.
Yal ain't moving yet, that I can't except
How many sounds we gotta imitate to getcha' respect.
(Don't stop) we in the flow, can't cha' see that we movin'
(Hip hop) that's the style of the music we using.
(First drop), last drop, you best get all you can get
Yal getting tired on this tour?........(Not yet) Where we going?
"He's Biz Markie" yo make the music with ya mouth
(Nobody, Nobody beats the Biz)
"That's incedible"...20 years later...still edible
Bghghghgh! Stick 'em, ha, ha, ha, Yea we copied it
Don't worry be happy, we gonna do dis just like Bobby did
Can ya......Can ya feel it? (I can feel it)... Parum pum pum
Can ya......Can ya feel it? (I can feel it), feel this drum.
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