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 there, pretty girl
You know, exactly what you got
And I don't, blame you at all
You can't resist it
Especially when the lights so bright
And the money so right
And it's comin' in every single night
She don't wanna leave
She just stuck in
Houstatlantavegas (ayy), Houstatlantavegas (ayy)
Houstatlantavegas (ayy), Houstatlanta, she just stuck in
Houstatlantavegas (ayy), Houstatlantavegas (ayy)
Houstatlantavegas (ayy), Houstatlantavegas
And she dance to the song
And she dance to the song
And it go, "Hey, now, now, watch her go down"
Oh, woah, oh
She doesn't ever worry
If she wants it, she'll get it on her own
She knows, there's more to life
And she's scared, of endin' up alone
Throw your ones up in the air
Throw your ones up in the air for her
Throw your ones up in the air
'Cause the ones you throw will get her outta
Houstatlantavegas (ayy), Houstatlantavegas (ayy)
Houstatlantavegas (ayy), Houstatlanta, she just stuck in
Houstatlantavegas (ayy), Houstatlantavegas (ayy)
Houstatlantavegas (ayy), Houstatlantavegas
And she dance to the song
And she dance to the song
And it go, "Hey now, now, watch her go down"
Oh, woah, oh
We all got dreams and we all star reachin'
All start peakin', All-Star Weekend
One hotel room that all y'all sleep in
Housekeeping knock to see if all y'all decent
Young girls envy the life y'all leadin'
Never satisfied with a nice calm evenin'
You be at the games lookin' right all season
But you always with me, on the night y'all leavin'
Ass low, ass low, I always request you
You go get fucked up and we just show up at your rescue
Carry you inside, get you some water and undress you
I give you my all and the next morning you'll forget who
Or why, or how, or when
Tonight it's prolly 'bout to happen all over again
And she live in a mindset that I could never move to
Until you find yourself, it's impossible to lose you
Uh, because I never had you
Although I would be glad to
I'd probably go and tattoo
Your name on my heart
I swear, I start, to think
That I'm going crazy
Throw your ones up in the air
Throw your ones up in the air for her
Throw your ones up in the air
'Cause the ones you throw will get her outta
Houstatlantavegas (ayy), Houstatlantavegas (ayy)
Houstatlantavegas (ayy), Houstatlanta, she just stuck in
Houstatlantavegas (ayy), Houstatlantavegas (ayy)
Houstatlantavegas (ayy), Houstatlantavegas
And she dance to the song
And she dance, to the song
And it go, "Hey now, now, watch her go down"
Oh, woah, oh
You know, exactly what you got
And I don't, blame you at all
You can't resist it
Especially when the lights so bright
And the money so right
And it's comin' in every single night
She don't wanna leave
She just stuck in
Houstatlantavegas (ayy), Houstatlantavegas (ayy)
Houstatlantavegas (ayy), Houstatlanta, she just stuck in
Houstatlantavegas (ayy), Houstatlantavegas (ayy)
Houstatlantavegas (ayy), Houstatlantavegas
And she dance to the song
And she dance to the song
And it go, "Hey, now, now, watch her go down"
Oh, woah, oh
She doesn't ever worry
If she wants it, she'll get it on her own
She knows, there's more to life
And she's scared, of endin' up alone
Throw your ones up in the air
Throw your ones up in the air for her
Throw your ones up in the air
'Cause the ones you throw will get her outta
Houstatlantavegas (ayy), Houstatlantavegas (ayy)
Houstatlantavegas (ayy), Houstatlanta, she just stuck in
Houstatlantavegas (ayy), Houstatlantavegas (ayy)
Houstatlantavegas (ayy), Houstatlantavegas
And she dance to the song
And she dance to the song
And it go, "Hey now, now, watch her go down"
Oh, woah, oh
We all got dreams and we all star reachin'
All start peakin', All-Star Weekend
One hotel room that all y'all sleep in
Housekeeping knock to see if all y'all decent
Young girls envy the life y'all leadin'
Never satisfied with a nice calm evenin'
You be at the games lookin' right all season
But you always with me, on the night y'all leavin'
Ass low, ass low, I always request you
You go get fucked up and we just show up at your rescue
Carry you inside, get you some water and undress you
I give you my all and the next morning you'll forget who
Or why, or how, or when
Tonight it's prolly 'bout to happen all over again
And she live in a mindset that I could never move to
Until you find yourself, it's impossible to lose you
Uh, because I never had you
Although I would be glad to
I'd probably go and tattoo
Your name on my heart
I swear, I start, to think
That I'm going crazy
Throw your ones up in the air
Throw your ones up in the air for her
Throw your ones up in the air
'Cause the ones you throw will get her outta
Houstatlantavegas (ayy), Houstatlantavegas (ayy)
Houstatlantavegas (ayy), Houstatlanta, she just stuck in
Houstatlantavegas (ayy), Houstatlantavegas (ayy)
Houstatlantavegas (ayy), Houstatlantavegas
And she dance to the song
And she dance, to the song
And it go, "Hey now, now, watch her go down"
Oh, woah, oh
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