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"
Party hear ya and get there
Party hear ya and get there
Come on!
Wow, wow, wow
Get it on, get ready
Wave your hands up in the air
Wow, wow, wow
Get up, get ready
Everybody, everywhere
Wave your hands throw it on to the sound
You always up there I know you're gettin' down
Can we pay for your hair-do-do
Hey ma now when we should out to get an attitude
Hey come on y'all your love is really cute
We put it down and shoot it boy cause when they knock
You got place it up and live, give it up
We got the party cross in here
Nobody knows what place it is
You gotta early play and live
Nobody take what a pray in here you gotta pay
So why you come on let's rock this right
Wow, wow, wow
Get it on, get ready
Wave your hands up in the air
Wow, wow, wow
Get up, get ready
Everybody, everywhere
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow
The girls gotta get up tonight
When the ladies gettin' our happy hour
Harlika 'cause you wanna grow
Tonight is the night, get down to the shore
I knocked on my liquid, there you sit and flow a ticket
Move my out versus to trick it
We gotta take it slow, give it up
You gotta joy for all night long
By the way all your brickets
You gotta take and leave me crown
Boys wanna come along sittin' here now on the bay
Clap your hands and let's rock this place
Wow, wow, wow
Get it on, get ready
Wave your hands up in the air
What?
Wow, wow, wow
Get up, get ready
Yeah!
Everybody, everywhere
Wow, wow, wow
Get it on, get ready
Wave your hands up in the air
Wow, wow, wow
Get up, get ready
Everybody, everywhere
Na-na-na-na-na-na-na
Everybody get your hands up
Na-na-na-na-na
Everybody get your hands up
Na-na-na-na-na-na-na
Everybody get your hands up
Na-na-na-na-na
Boys wanna come along sittin' here now on the bay
So why you come on let's rock this right
Wow, wow, wow
Get it on, get ready
Wave your hands up in the air
Wow, wow, wow
Get up, get ready
Everybody, everywhere
Wow, wow, wow
Get it on, get ready
Wow, wow, wow
Get it on, get ready
Wow, wow, wow
Get it on, get ready
Wow, wow, wow
Get up, get ready
You got to look, you got to look, you got to go get it on
You got to look, you got to look, you got to go get it on
You got to
Got to
You got to
Got to
You got to go get it on
Now go get it on
Wow, wow, wow
Get it on, get ready
Wave your hands up in the air
Wow, wow, wow
Get up, get ready
Everybody, everywhere
Wow, wow, wow
Get it on, get ready
Wave your hands up in the air
Wow, wow, wow
Get up, get ready
Everybody, everywhere
Aaahh!
Wow, wow, wow
Party hear ya and get there
Come on!
Wow, wow, wow
Get it on, get ready
Wave your hands up in the air
Wow, wow, wow
Get up, get ready
Everybody, everywhere
Wave your hands throw it on to the sound
You always up there I know you're gettin' down
Can we pay for your hair-do-do
Hey ma now when we should out to get an attitude
Hey come on y'all your love is really cute
We put it down and shoot it boy cause when they knock
You got place it up and live, give it up
We got the party cross in here
Nobody knows what place it is
You gotta early play and live
Nobody take what a pray in here you gotta pay
So why you come on let's rock this right
Wow, wow, wow
Get it on, get ready
Wave your hands up in the air
Wow, wow, wow
Get up, get ready
Everybody, everywhere
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow
The girls gotta get up tonight
When the ladies gettin' our happy hour
Harlika 'cause you wanna grow
Tonight is the night, get down to the shore
I knocked on my liquid, there you sit and flow a ticket
Move my out versus to trick it
We gotta take it slow, give it up
You gotta joy for all night long
By the way all your brickets
You gotta take and leave me crown
Boys wanna come along sittin' here now on the bay
Clap your hands and let's rock this place
Wow, wow, wow
Get it on, get ready
Wave your hands up in the air
What?
Wow, wow, wow
Get up, get ready
Yeah!
Everybody, everywhere
Wow, wow, wow
Get it on, get ready
Wave your hands up in the air
Wow, wow, wow
Get up, get ready
Everybody, everywhere
Na-na-na-na-na-na-na
Everybody get your hands up
Na-na-na-na-na
Everybody get your hands up
Na-na-na-na-na-na-na
Everybody get your hands up
Na-na-na-na-na
Boys wanna come along sittin' here now on the bay
So why you come on let's rock this right
Wow, wow, wow
Get it on, get ready
Wave your hands up in the air
Wow, wow, wow
Get up, get ready
Everybody, everywhere
Wow, wow, wow
Get it on, get ready
Wow, wow, wow
Get it on, get ready
Wow, wow, wow
Get it on, get ready
Wow, wow, wow
Get up, get ready
You got to look, you got to look, you got to go get it on
You got to look, you got to look, you got to go get it on
You got to
Got to
You got to
Got to
You got to go get it on
Now go get it on
Wow, wow, wow
Get it on, get ready
Wave your hands up in the air
Wow, wow, wow
Get up, get ready
Everybody, everywhere
Wow, wow, wow
Get it on, get ready
Wave your hands up in the air
Wow, wow, wow
Get up, get ready
Everybody, everywhere
Aaahh!
Wow, wow, wow
Lyrics submitted by ForTehLulz
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