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"
And the hours shakin
But I was running on empty baby
Do you know what that can do to you
Looks like I need a little jet fuel
It was 6AM I was drunk off gin
Swervin through the lanes all over
I had a brunette woo woo
She had a body like a corvette
vroom vroom
Soon me and you will hit the both
I'll be buzzin like a fly on shit to you
And there's somethin when I slide up into you
So comfortable
You come for me and i'll come for you
I'll meet you in the middle l
ike a twinkies fillin
Give me a sip of that drink you're spillin
Give me a sip of that drink you're spillin
It was Saturday night
I was feelin alright
I bought a ticket to paradise
Her daddy was away on a business trip
She said "Shwayze, you wanna hit this shit?" You wanna hit this shit? You wanna hit this shit? You wanna hit this shit? You wanna hit this shit? Yeah i'm about too.
And the hours shakin
But I was running on empty baby
Do you know what that can do to you
Looks like I need a little jet fuel
I filled up at a spot hit the road
Stopped a couple houses down the road
Her best friend Roe opened the door
She said "woah, motherfucker your dick is exposed!"
I gave her a smile, said "Child, I know!"
Give me a sip of that drink you're spillin
It was Saturday night
I was feelin alright
I bought a ticket to paradise
Her daddy was away on a business trip
She said "Shwayze, you wanna hit this shit?" You wanna hit this shit? You wanna hit this shit? You wanna hit this shit? You wanna hit this shit? Yeah i'm about too.
I got home smelling like cheap cologne
Lookin like an empty glass of jack and coke
I said woah I need a wakeup call
Wake up girl, i'll leave my door unlocked
Little miss slipped in a slip
Silk butterscotch dip spillin on my quilt
Lift up her legs til i get to the feature presentation vibration breakin the bed
The lovely maiden got me shakin my head
Leavin the sheets all covered in sweat
Blood and tears you'd think it was a soap opera these are my golden years
It was Saturday night
I was feelin alright
I bought a ticket to paradise
Her daddy was away on a business trip
She said "Shwayze, you wanna hit this shit?" You wanna hit this shit? You wanna hit this shit? You wanna hit this shit? You wanna hit this shit? Yeah i'm about too.
I'll be buzzin like a fly on shit to you
And it's gimme a sip of that drink you're spillin x 2
It was Saturday night
I was feelin alright
I bought a ticket to paradise
Her daddy was away on a business trip
She said "Shwayze, you wanna hit this shit?" You wanna hit this shit? You wanna hit this shit? You wanna hit this shit? You wanna hit this shit? Yeah i'm about too.
But I was running on empty baby
Do you know what that can do to you
Looks like I need a little jet fuel
It was 6AM I was drunk off gin
Swervin through the lanes all over
I had a brunette woo woo
She had a body like a corvette
vroom vroom
Soon me and you will hit the both
I'll be buzzin like a fly on shit to you
And there's somethin when I slide up into you
So comfortable
You come for me and i'll come for you
I'll meet you in the middle l
ike a twinkies fillin
Give me a sip of that drink you're spillin
Give me a sip of that drink you're spillin
It was Saturday night
I was feelin alright
I bought a ticket to paradise
Her daddy was away on a business trip
She said "Shwayze, you wanna hit this shit?" You wanna hit this shit? You wanna hit this shit? You wanna hit this shit? You wanna hit this shit? Yeah i'm about too.
And the hours shakin
But I was running on empty baby
Do you know what that can do to you
Looks like I need a little jet fuel
I filled up at a spot hit the road
Stopped a couple houses down the road
Her best friend Roe opened the door
She said "woah, motherfucker your dick is exposed!"
I gave her a smile, said "Child, I know!"
Give me a sip of that drink you're spillin
It was Saturday night
I was feelin alright
I bought a ticket to paradise
Her daddy was away on a business trip
She said "Shwayze, you wanna hit this shit?" You wanna hit this shit? You wanna hit this shit? You wanna hit this shit? You wanna hit this shit? Yeah i'm about too.
I got home smelling like cheap cologne
Lookin like an empty glass of jack and coke
I said woah I need a wakeup call
Wake up girl, i'll leave my door unlocked
Little miss slipped in a slip
Silk butterscotch dip spillin on my quilt
Lift up her legs til i get to the feature presentation vibration breakin the bed
The lovely maiden got me shakin my head
Leavin the sheets all covered in sweat
Blood and tears you'd think it was a soap opera these are my golden years
It was Saturday night
I was feelin alright
I bought a ticket to paradise
Her daddy was away on a business trip
She said "Shwayze, you wanna hit this shit?" You wanna hit this shit? You wanna hit this shit? You wanna hit this shit? You wanna hit this shit? Yeah i'm about too.
I'll be buzzin like a fly on shit to you
And it's gimme a sip of that drink you're spillin x 2
It was Saturday night
I was feelin alright
I bought a ticket to paradise
Her daddy was away on a business trip
She said "Shwayze, you wanna hit this shit?" You wanna hit this shit? You wanna hit this shit? You wanna hit this shit? You wanna hit this shit? Yeah i'm about too.
Lyrics submitted by letlovein
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