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"
(No doubt)
Oh, there go that bullshit again
You heard that shit? Nah, I ain't hear that
That's that bullshit from the other day
They done took the Buffalo Girls beat and changed it all around
They playin' themselves
You remind me when I reminisce of you (yeah)
All the freaky things I want to do to you (that's right)
Rub me up (rub me up), rub me down (rub me down)
Rub me all around (what?)
Kiss me here (kiss me here), kiss me there (kiss me there)
Kiss me everywhere
Tell me what the cost to get in line
'Cause you are mine tonight (let's go again tonight)
Gonna give you all I got to give (if only for one night)
If only for one night
I will love you right (I don't care if you diss me, uh)
I will do you right (I don't care if you don't want me, come on)
Baby, baby, won't you be my baby, baby?
Be my baby, baby, baby, baby
(Come on, come on, ha)
Baby, baby, won't you be my baby, baby?
Be my baby, baby, baby, baby (yo, ha)
Nah I mean? Gon' set it like this, what?
Now I forgot how to forget so I remember your face
With your pretty accent, wearin' man-attract scent
Others fakin' constantly, stakin' out pockets of dreams
Always tryin' to sham too that's why they crave champagne
But the blame still remains not to be on you
I know your style and your love lasts long like the island I'm from
I'm on the drum, man, and it's all good
'Cause I flexed on your ex, make sure he understood
That you would, never again want to be his wife
So we connect lips to hips, and uh, eyes to thighs
You're my sophisticated, lady
All mine, if you wasn't I'd go crazy
Baby, baby
(Two, two, yeah, baby) won't you be my baby, baby?
(This is, uh, Posda on the microphone)
Be my baby, baby, baby, baby
(WRMS rocks the best, hey, hey, hey)
(It's the Fatman Scoop Wonder ear in your hand)
Baby, baby (that was JFB)
Won't you be my baby, baby? ("Baby Baby Baby Ooh Baby")
Be my baby, baby, baby, baby
(I pick my nose, wash my clothes and be back in a minute)
Baby, baby (with Busta Rhymes, the Mighty Infamous)
Won't you be my baby, baby? (Zhané, A Tribe Called Quest, nonetheless WRMS)
Be my baby, baby, baby, baby
(Fatman Scoop tryna get this rap loot, yeah, yeah)
Oh, there go that bullshit again
You heard that shit? Nah, I ain't hear that
That's that bullshit from the other day
They done took the Buffalo Girls beat and changed it all around
They playin' themselves
You remind me when I reminisce of you (yeah)
All the freaky things I want to do to you (that's right)
Rub me up (rub me up), rub me down (rub me down)
Rub me all around (what?)
Kiss me here (kiss me here), kiss me there (kiss me there)
Kiss me everywhere
Tell me what the cost to get in line
'Cause you are mine tonight (let's go again tonight)
Gonna give you all I got to give (if only for one night)
If only for one night
I will love you right (I don't care if you diss me, uh)
I will do you right (I don't care if you don't want me, come on)
Baby, baby, won't you be my baby, baby?
Be my baby, baby, baby, baby
(Come on, come on, ha)
Baby, baby, won't you be my baby, baby?
Be my baby, baby, baby, baby (yo, ha)
Nah I mean? Gon' set it like this, what?
Now I forgot how to forget so I remember your face
With your pretty accent, wearin' man-attract scent
Others fakin' constantly, stakin' out pockets of dreams
Always tryin' to sham too that's why they crave champagne
But the blame still remains not to be on you
I know your style and your love lasts long like the island I'm from
I'm on the drum, man, and it's all good
'Cause I flexed on your ex, make sure he understood
That you would, never again want to be his wife
So we connect lips to hips, and uh, eyes to thighs
You're my sophisticated, lady
All mine, if you wasn't I'd go crazy
Baby, baby
(Two, two, yeah, baby) won't you be my baby, baby?
(This is, uh, Posda on the microphone)
Be my baby, baby, baby, baby
(WRMS rocks the best, hey, hey, hey)
(It's the Fatman Scoop Wonder ear in your hand)
Baby, baby (that was JFB)
Won't you be my baby, baby? ("Baby Baby Baby Ooh Baby")
Be my baby, baby, baby, baby
(I pick my nose, wash my clothes and be back in a minute)
Baby, baby (with Busta Rhymes, the Mighty Infamous)
Won't you be my baby, baby? (Zhané, A Tribe Called Quest, nonetheless WRMS)
Be my baby, baby, baby, baby
(Fatman Scoop tryna get this rap loot, yeah, yeah)
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