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"
How low can you go? How low can you go?
How low can you go? How low can you go?
How low can you go? How low can you go?
How low can you go? How low can you go?
How low can you go? How low can you go?
How low can you go? How low can you go?
How low can you go? How low can you go?
How low can you go? How low can you go?
Luda!
She could go lower than I ever really thought she could,
Face down, ass up!
The top of your booty jiggling out your jeans,
Baby pull your pants up,
I like it when I see you do it,
Better then I ever seen it done before,
A lot of women drop it to the ground,
But how low can you go?
Lower then your mama's ever seen it in her life time,
Never would've imagined did not even in her right mind,
Practice in front of that mirror,
Now you doing it on the dance floor,
Mad cause I can't get wit chick ya just show me how to dance (Oh!)
I may not wanna get low so I post it up kinda like a playa do,
But if you come to the crib,
Then I might show you girls a thang or two,
Yea I think you a superstar wit' a ass like that you gotta blow,
Before you make it big,
There's just one thing that I gotta know
How low can you go? How low can you go?
How low can you go? How low can you go?
How low can you go? How low can you go?
How low can you go? How low can you go?
I could go low (go low) lower than you know,
I could go low,(go low) lower than you know,
Go low (go low) lower than you know,
Go low (go low) lower than you know,
I be like nick-nac-paddy-wack,
Oh where my kitty cat give a dog a bone,
How many licks does it takes
Till I get to the center and let a realer nigga take you home,
I could make me show stop,
Soon as you hear this flow pop,
From A-T-L-A-N-T-A and all the way down to your block,
Put the needle on a record and I make her get lower than a Lamborghini,
And if she really gettin' low then I'm a shoot a video and put it all on T-V,
Cause I like that French vanilla and the caramel,
But when it comes to chocolate,
I know that very well,
Asian persuasion,
No discrimination,
I love how they seem to please us,
I wanna taste them butterican pican peanut buttercups like Reese's Pieces,
Cause I think you a superstar,
With a ass like that you gotta blow,
Before you make it big,
Well there just one thing I gotta know
How low can you go? How low can you go?
How low can you go? How low can you go?
How low can you go? How low can you go?
How low can you go? How low can you go?
I could go low, (go low) lower than you know,
I could go low (go low) lower than you know,
I could go low (go low) lower than you know,
Go low (go low) lower than you know,
Drop it, hit it, dump it, split it,
Don't stop, (Get it, get it)
Put it on reverse just to rack it up,
Let me put some Luda in it,
Show me what you workin' wit',
I'll show you some of this bank roll,
Yea you a superstar but there's one thing I gotta know so
How low can you go? How low can you go?
How low can you go? How low can you go?
How low can you go? How low can you go?
How low can you go? How low can you go?
I could go low, (go low) lower than you know,
I could go low (go low) lower than you know,
I could go low (go low) lower than you know,
Go low (go low) lower than you know,
How low can you go? How low can you go?
How low can you go? How low can you go?
How low can you go? How low can you go?
How low can you go? How low can you go?
How low can you go? How low can you go?
How low can you go? How low can you go?
How low can you go? How low can you go?
Luda!
She could go lower than I ever really thought she could,
Face down, ass up!
The top of your booty jiggling out your jeans,
Baby pull your pants up,
I like it when I see you do it,
Better then I ever seen it done before,
A lot of women drop it to the ground,
But how low can you go?
Lower then your mama's ever seen it in her life time,
Never would've imagined did not even in her right mind,
Practice in front of that mirror,
Now you doing it on the dance floor,
Mad cause I can't get wit chick ya just show me how to dance (Oh!)
I may not wanna get low so I post it up kinda like a playa do,
But if you come to the crib,
Then I might show you girls a thang or two,
Yea I think you a superstar wit' a ass like that you gotta blow,
Before you make it big,
There's just one thing that I gotta know
How low can you go? How low can you go?
How low can you go? How low can you go?
How low can you go? How low can you go?
How low can you go? How low can you go?
I could go low (go low) lower than you know,
I could go low,(go low) lower than you know,
Go low (go low) lower than you know,
Go low (go low) lower than you know,
I be like nick-nac-paddy-wack,
Oh where my kitty cat give a dog a bone,
How many licks does it takes
Till I get to the center and let a realer nigga take you home,
I could make me show stop,
Soon as you hear this flow pop,
From A-T-L-A-N-T-A and all the way down to your block,
Put the needle on a record and I make her get lower than a Lamborghini,
And if she really gettin' low then I'm a shoot a video and put it all on T-V,
Cause I like that French vanilla and the caramel,
But when it comes to chocolate,
I know that very well,
Asian persuasion,
No discrimination,
I love how they seem to please us,
I wanna taste them butterican pican peanut buttercups like Reese's Pieces,
Cause I think you a superstar,
With a ass like that you gotta blow,
Before you make it big,
Well there just one thing I gotta know
How low can you go? How low can you go?
How low can you go? How low can you go?
How low can you go? How low can you go?
How low can you go? How low can you go?
I could go low, (go low) lower than you know,
I could go low (go low) lower than you know,
I could go low (go low) lower than you know,
Go low (go low) lower than you know,
Drop it, hit it, dump it, split it,
Don't stop, (Get it, get it)
Put it on reverse just to rack it up,
Let me put some Luda in it,
Show me what you workin' wit',
I'll show you some of this bank roll,
Yea you a superstar but there's one thing I gotta know so
How low can you go? How low can you go?
How low can you go? How low can you go?
How low can you go? How low can you go?
How low can you go? How low can you go?
I could go low, (go low) lower than you know,
I could go low (go low) lower than you know,
I could go low (go low) lower than you know,
Go low (go low) lower than you know,
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I created an account just so I could say how bad this song is. Ludas fallen off a cliff, extremely extremely disappointing.