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"
[Missy]
Ay yo, see I'm your next girl
Not your ex-girl boo, uh
Don't get it twisted
Don't never disrespect me
[Tamar](Missy)
Oh, oh, yeah, yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh yeah (Uh, uh, uh)
Don't, don't you ever compare me
To none of those hoes you used to mess with
(Say what?)
Cause those are some low down dirty tricks
And now you be working with some new shit
I'll be the mother of your baby
If you bring me down I can handle it (Uh-huh)
Cause I'm not like those other ladies (Uh)
None of them hoes you be fucking with
[Chorus]
[Tamar]
I'm not your hoe
I'm not your freak
I'm not your trick
But I'm naturally beautiful
High quality
I'm tired of you disrespecting me
[Chorus]
[Tamar](Missy)
(One-two)
Don't, don't you ever dare treat me
Like them chickens you be playing with (Uh-huh)
Cause I am more than a lady
And those the type of chicks who be dirty shit
They look at you lying and persuading
You play innocent believe it (Uh-huh)
Cause I'm not like those other ladies (Say, say what?)
None of the chicks you be fucking with (Uh)
[Chorus](2x)
[Missy]
There will be no disrespecting me, me
There will be no disrespecting me, me
[Chorus] (4x)
[Missy]
I'm not your hoe
I'm not your freak
I'm not your trick
But I'm naturally beautiful
High quality
I'm tired of you disrespecting me
Repeat [Missy]
[Missy]
Uh, one-two-three
Triple zero, alright, uh
Uh I'm not your
Ay yo, see I'm your next girl
Not your ex-girl boo, uh
Don't get it twisted
Don't never disrespect me
[Tamar](Missy)
Oh, oh, yeah, yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh yeah (Uh, uh, uh)
Don't, don't you ever compare me
To none of those hoes you used to mess with
(Say what?)
Cause those are some low down dirty tricks
And now you be working with some new shit
I'll be the mother of your baby
If you bring me down I can handle it (Uh-huh)
Cause I'm not like those other ladies (Uh)
None of them hoes you be fucking with
[Chorus]
[Tamar]
I'm not your hoe
I'm not your freak
I'm not your trick
But I'm naturally beautiful
High quality
I'm tired of you disrespecting me
[Chorus]
[Tamar](Missy)
(One-two)
Don't, don't you ever dare treat me
Like them chickens you be playing with (Uh-huh)
Cause I am more than a lady
And those the type of chicks who be dirty shit
They look at you lying and persuading
You play innocent believe it (Uh-huh)
Cause I'm not like those other ladies (Say, say what?)
None of the chicks you be fucking with (Uh)
[Chorus](2x)
[Missy]
There will be no disrespecting me, me
There will be no disrespecting me, me
[Chorus] (4x)
[Missy]
I'm not your hoe
I'm not your freak
I'm not your trick
But I'm naturally beautiful
High quality
I'm tired of you disrespecting me
Repeat [Missy]
[Missy]
Uh, one-two-three
Triple zero, alright, uh
Uh I'm not your
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