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"
I know a girl named Renee from around the way
She like to do it all day sippin' Alizae
Brought her back, from Atlanta, GA
Posted up in the Bay she say she do whatever I say
Got a cousin named Shanee who loves to play
Doin' it "My Way" like Usher Raymond
A bad chick
From the Camen Islands
Profilin', stylin'
Bout to have 'em both wowin'
Smilin' at the ass
In high heels
I sit back
An watch 'em peel off they clothes
They want to serve me like Vogues
In a sideshow
The main shows are high an dope
Remote controlled like Tyco
"Bad" like Michael Jackson
Stone cold mackin'
Lights, camera, action
They got me laughin', 'cause I'm high
And I'm filmin' low budget
And I'm rubbin' on a stomach
Renee lovin' it
Shanee suckin' her lips
Rubbin' her hips
Talkin' bout call up some mo friends
Aight, I'll hit Mr. Taylor in the Benz
Tell him "Once again it's on, I got to turkeys in the ozone gettin it on,
Come on homes?"
I know a girl named Renee from around the way
She like to do it all day sippin' Alizae uh!
Sittin' by the "Dock Of The Bay".
(Bound to get lucky!)
She got a cousin named Shanee who loves to play
Doin' it "My Way" like Usher Ray
All day
Sittin' by the "Dock Of The Bay".
(Bound to get lucky!)
I love a girl like Tish, that works the twist
Does the twist
Make a brotha yell "Baby girl don't stop that twist!"
Watch her ass clap as she shake it from the back
I hate when the tush looks like it's been mushed
I give the girl a push
If not, she have ya spot smellin' like the "Dock Of The Bay"
Front the girl off, an send the girl on her way
No B.S. doubt
But Dorthoy used to work a playa like straight on out
You swore you had a date with hope
But I couldn't cope
'cause the broad needin' major Scope
And a halitocious and majortroticious a playa couldn't focus
Pour some brew an cut like hocus pocus
"Who beeped me?"
Can it be who stay in apartment "see" remindin' me of Tooty wit the bodacious
Booty
Know me as "Pooky"
Wants to swoop me an bob her head on my Suzuki
Now why's that?
'Cause Mr. Taylor knows where it's at!
I know a girl named Renee from around the way
She like to do it all day sippin' Alizae uh!
Sittin' by the "Dock Of The Bay".
(Bound to get lucky!)
She got a cousin named Shanee who loves to play
Doin' it "My Way" like Usher Ray
All day
Sittin' by the "Dock Of The Bay".
(Bound to get lucky!)
Everybody know how we do it in the Bay
Big flossin' an grindin', everythang all day
The playas on the turf
The girls in skirts
Gold diggas in the club puttin' in work
Store clerks actin' like jerks while we flirt
Shootin' the lip
Wit this tight lil' chick
Will mommy help this little Filipino trick
That I met on Reno-Novado
Playin' Keno drinkin' Vodka out cans
Stop ???
When I feel that I got ya
An I'm still watchin'
We both jockin'
She was not too spoiled ridin', forget, forgot 'em
I hollerd at that ass an I kept mobbin'
"Baby keep it poppin", is what I hollered on my way out the doe'
I take a shower
Hit the airport in a Supersport
Ballin' on the court
Hit a triple double
An I quickly go for broke no joke
Ask my playa folk how burn rubber leave 'em smoked
Man I'm from the "O"
From the "O".
I know a girl named Renee from around the way
She like to do it all day sippin' Alizae uh!
Sittin' by the "Dock Of The Bay".
(Bound to get lucky!)
She got a cousin named Shanee who loves to play
Doin' it "My Way" like Usher Ray
All day
Sittin' by the "Dock Of The Bay".
(Bound to get lucky!)
Sittin' by the "Dock Of The Bay".
(Bound to get lucky!)
Sittin' by the "Dock Of The Bay".
(Bound to get lucky!)
She like to do it all day sippin' Alizae
Brought her back, from Atlanta, GA
Posted up in the Bay she say she do whatever I say
Got a cousin named Shanee who loves to play
Doin' it "My Way" like Usher Raymond
A bad chick
From the Camen Islands
Profilin', stylin'
Bout to have 'em both wowin'
Smilin' at the ass
In high heels
I sit back
An watch 'em peel off they clothes
They want to serve me like Vogues
In a sideshow
The main shows are high an dope
Remote controlled like Tyco
"Bad" like Michael Jackson
Stone cold mackin'
Lights, camera, action
They got me laughin', 'cause I'm high
And I'm filmin' low budget
And I'm rubbin' on a stomach
Renee lovin' it
Shanee suckin' her lips
Rubbin' her hips
Talkin' bout call up some mo friends
Aight, I'll hit Mr. Taylor in the Benz
Tell him "Once again it's on, I got to turkeys in the ozone gettin it on,
Come on homes?"
I know a girl named Renee from around the way
She like to do it all day sippin' Alizae uh!
Sittin' by the "Dock Of The Bay".
(Bound to get lucky!)
She got a cousin named Shanee who loves to play
Doin' it "My Way" like Usher Ray
All day
Sittin' by the "Dock Of The Bay".
(Bound to get lucky!)
I love a girl like Tish, that works the twist
Does the twist
Make a brotha yell "Baby girl don't stop that twist!"
Watch her ass clap as she shake it from the back
I hate when the tush looks like it's been mushed
I give the girl a push
If not, she have ya spot smellin' like the "Dock Of The Bay"
Front the girl off, an send the girl on her way
No B.S. doubt
But Dorthoy used to work a playa like straight on out
You swore you had a date with hope
But I couldn't cope
'cause the broad needin' major Scope
And a halitocious and majortroticious a playa couldn't focus
Pour some brew an cut like hocus pocus
"Who beeped me?"
Can it be who stay in apartment "see" remindin' me of Tooty wit the bodacious
Booty
Know me as "Pooky"
Wants to swoop me an bob her head on my Suzuki
Now why's that?
'Cause Mr. Taylor knows where it's at!
I know a girl named Renee from around the way
She like to do it all day sippin' Alizae uh!
Sittin' by the "Dock Of The Bay".
(Bound to get lucky!)
She got a cousin named Shanee who loves to play
Doin' it "My Way" like Usher Ray
All day
Sittin' by the "Dock Of The Bay".
(Bound to get lucky!)
Everybody know how we do it in the Bay
Big flossin' an grindin', everythang all day
The playas on the turf
The girls in skirts
Gold diggas in the club puttin' in work
Store clerks actin' like jerks while we flirt
Shootin' the lip
Wit this tight lil' chick
Will mommy help this little Filipino trick
That I met on Reno-Novado
Playin' Keno drinkin' Vodka out cans
Stop ???
When I feel that I got ya
An I'm still watchin'
We both jockin'
She was not too spoiled ridin', forget, forgot 'em
I hollerd at that ass an I kept mobbin'
"Baby keep it poppin", is what I hollered on my way out the doe'
I take a shower
Hit the airport in a Supersport
Ballin' on the court
Hit a triple double
An I quickly go for broke no joke
Ask my playa folk how burn rubber leave 'em smoked
Man I'm from the "O"
From the "O".
I know a girl named Renee from around the way
She like to do it all day sippin' Alizae uh!
Sittin' by the "Dock Of The Bay".
(Bound to get lucky!)
She got a cousin named Shanee who loves to play
Doin' it "My Way" like Usher Ray
All day
Sittin' by the "Dock Of The Bay".
(Bound to get lucky!)
Sittin' by the "Dock Of The Bay".
(Bound to get lucky!)
Sittin' by the "Dock Of The Bay".
(Bound to get lucky!)
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Dock of the Bay Lyrics as written by Otis Redding Steve Cropper
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