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"
[R. Kelly:]
N-N-Number one, sex that we're having here girl (Ooh)
This is this is number one, sex that we're having here girl (Ooh)
[Keri:]
Girl I know you've been waiting for me, yeah yeah yeah.
And I know you been feening for me, yeah yeah yeah.
But you aint gotta wait no more girl I'm coming over.
Just leave the back door open and ooh ooh girl I'm hoping that it's tight.
Cause what I'm about to do to you tonight.
Ooh girl, what I'm about to do to you girl will make your toes curl.
I know you aint have it before girl but this is number one.
[R. Kelly:]
N-N-Number one, sex that we're having here girl (Ooh)
This is this is number one, sex that we're having here girl (Ooh)
N-N-Number one, sex that we're having here girl (Ooh)
This is this is number one, sex that we're having here girl (Ooh)
[Keri:]
This aint nothing girl that you ever had in your life.
Them other lames you been with aint even ch-ch-chip the ice.
Cause what I got up in these draws, you be like Kelly he the boss.
He the man, oh my god, he the pussy champion.
Baby girl I hope you ready cause I'm about to put it down.
Baby girl show your experience cause I'm about to show you mine.
Lets do the karmasutros, crouching tiger.
Girl its raining but I hope it's fire.
Cause what Im about to do to you will make your girls want it.
I'll be having you screaming 'You the best', now you know it's number one.
[R. Kelly:]
N-N-Number one, sex that we're having here girl (Ooh)
This is this is number one, sex that we're having here girl (Ooh)
N-N-Number one, sex that we're having here girl (Ooh)
This is this is number one, sex that we're having here girl (Ooh)
[Keri:]
Now baby girl, I don't want you think this aint about you.
Cause this right here, right now is about you and only you.
Can this be love, cause girl you're making me feel.
So take my hand, girl I'll be your man.
Girl it's number one.
[R. Kelly:]
N-N-Number one, sex that we're having here girl (Ooh)
This is this is number one, sex that we're having here girl (Ooh)
N-N-Number one, sex that we're having here girl (Ooh)
This is this is number one, sex that we're having here girl (Ooh)
N-N-Number one, sex that we're having here girl (Ooh)
This is this is number one, sex that we're having here girl (Ooh)
[Keri:]
Girl I know you've been waiting for me, yeah yeah yeah.
And I know you been feening for me, yeah yeah yeah.
But you aint gotta wait no more girl I'm coming over.
Just leave the back door open and ooh ooh girl I'm hoping that it's tight.
Cause what I'm about to do to you tonight.
Ooh girl, what I'm about to do to you girl will make your toes curl.
I know you aint have it before girl but this is number one.
[R. Kelly:]
N-N-Number one, sex that we're having here girl (Ooh)
This is this is number one, sex that we're having here girl (Ooh)
N-N-Number one, sex that we're having here girl (Ooh)
This is this is number one, sex that we're having here girl (Ooh)
[Keri:]
This aint nothing girl that you ever had in your life.
Them other lames you been with aint even ch-ch-chip the ice.
Cause what I got up in these draws, you be like Kelly he the boss.
He the man, oh my god, he the pussy champion.
Baby girl I hope you ready cause I'm about to put it down.
Baby girl show your experience cause I'm about to show you mine.
Lets do the karmasutros, crouching tiger.
Girl its raining but I hope it's fire.
Cause what Im about to do to you will make your girls want it.
I'll be having you screaming 'You the best', now you know it's number one.
[R. Kelly:]
N-N-Number one, sex that we're having here girl (Ooh)
This is this is number one, sex that we're having here girl (Ooh)
N-N-Number one, sex that we're having here girl (Ooh)
This is this is number one, sex that we're having here girl (Ooh)
[Keri:]
Now baby girl, I don't want you think this aint about you.
Cause this right here, right now is about you and only you.
Can this be love, cause girl you're making me feel.
So take my hand, girl I'll be your man.
Girl it's number one.
[R. Kelly:]
N-N-Number one, sex that we're having here girl (Ooh)
This is this is number one, sex that we're having here girl (Ooh)
N-N-Number one, sex that we're having here girl (Ooh)
This is this is number one, sex that we're having here girl (Ooh)
Lyrics submitted by taylorkash
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I love this song!!! The meaning is quite clear. Keri Hilson is speaking for R. Kelly. Not sure why, kind of puts a twist on the song. But nonetheless its a great, and really catchy. Love it!