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"
Pardon, darling, if I alarmed ya
I don't mean to bother you, I just wanna
Get you to pause and slow ya walk so
Maybe we can talk and I can try to charm ya
Just tryin' to find out who you are
I don't mean to come off like a telemarketer
I ain't no hood, no crook, no robber
I just want a part of your heart I can borrow
(Sometimes) and maybe I could call you up (sometimes)
And maybe I can take you out (sometimes)
So let's exchange digits and later arrange visits
Either your place or mine (yeah)
This a different type of commitment (yeah)
I'm talking 'bout a true friendship (yeah)
Someone I can depend on
To be down no matter what
Let me know if you wit' it 'cause, girl
It would be fly if you were my B-U-D-D-Y
Don't be shy, give it a try
I could be yours, and you could be mine
I can't lie, it would be fly if you were my B-U-D-D-Y
Don't be shy, give it a try
I could be yours if you could be mine
Sorry if I come off disrespectful
But my convo is a little bit to sexual
But, damn, it's incredible
Be more flexible
Cause the context of this text is a lil' special
But, but, wait, wait, let me explain
A buddy is a equal beneficial arrangement
A buddy is a buddy that don't be complaining
Wit' his or her buddy and da buddy they came wit'
(Sometimes) and maybe I could call you up (sometimes)
And maybe I can take you out (sometimes)
So let's exchange digits and later arrange visits
Even though it's all night (yeah)
This a different type of commitment (yeah)
I'm talking 'bout a true friendship (yeah)
Someone I can depend on
To be down no matter what
Let me know if you wit' it 'cause, girl
It would be fly if you were my B-U-D-D-Y
Don't be shy, give it a try
I could be yours, and you could be mine
I can't lie, it would be fly if you were my B-U-D-D-Y
Don't be shy, give it a try
I could be yours if you could be mine
Oh, oh, oh, baby
What I'm really tryin' to say is (that)
The definition of a real buddy is (that)
She's that one that you can have fun
And ride shotgun through the city with me
Together there's no limit to what we can do
And once we in it, girl, it's just about me and you
So, baby, what you say?
Don't pass this by
Cause if you decide
It would be fly if you were my B-U-D-D-Y
Don't be shy, give it a try
I could be yours, and you could be mine
I can't lie, it would be fly if you were my B-U-D-D-Y
Don't be shy, give it a try
I could be yours if you could be mine
It would be fly if you were my B-U-D-D-Y
Don't be shy, give it a try
I could be yours, and you could be mine
I can't lie, it would be fly if you were my B-U-D-D-Y
Don't be shy, give it a try
I could be yours if you could be mine
I don't mean to bother you, I just wanna
Get you to pause and slow ya walk so
Maybe we can talk and I can try to charm ya
Just tryin' to find out who you are
I don't mean to come off like a telemarketer
I ain't no hood, no crook, no robber
I just want a part of your heart I can borrow
(Sometimes) and maybe I could call you up (sometimes)
And maybe I can take you out (sometimes)
So let's exchange digits and later arrange visits
Either your place or mine (yeah)
This a different type of commitment (yeah)
I'm talking 'bout a true friendship (yeah)
Someone I can depend on
To be down no matter what
Let me know if you wit' it 'cause, girl
It would be fly if you were my B-U-D-D-Y
Don't be shy, give it a try
I could be yours, and you could be mine
I can't lie, it would be fly if you were my B-U-D-D-Y
Don't be shy, give it a try
I could be yours if you could be mine
Sorry if I come off disrespectful
But my convo is a little bit to sexual
But, damn, it's incredible
Be more flexible
Cause the context of this text is a lil' special
But, but, wait, wait, let me explain
A buddy is a equal beneficial arrangement
A buddy is a buddy that don't be complaining
Wit' his or her buddy and da buddy they came wit'
(Sometimes) and maybe I could call you up (sometimes)
And maybe I can take you out (sometimes)
So let's exchange digits and later arrange visits
Even though it's all night (yeah)
This a different type of commitment (yeah)
I'm talking 'bout a true friendship (yeah)
Someone I can depend on
To be down no matter what
Let me know if you wit' it 'cause, girl
It would be fly if you were my B-U-D-D-Y
Don't be shy, give it a try
I could be yours, and you could be mine
I can't lie, it would be fly if you were my B-U-D-D-Y
Don't be shy, give it a try
I could be yours if you could be mine
Oh, oh, oh, baby
What I'm really tryin' to say is (that)
The definition of a real buddy is (that)
She's that one that you can have fun
And ride shotgun through the city with me
Together there's no limit to what we can do
And once we in it, girl, it's just about me and you
So, baby, what you say?
Don't pass this by
Cause if you decide
It would be fly if you were my B-U-D-D-Y
Don't be shy, give it a try
I could be yours, and you could be mine
I can't lie, it would be fly if you were my B-U-D-D-Y
Don't be shy, give it a try
I could be yours if you could be mine
It would be fly if you were my B-U-D-D-Y
Don't be shy, give it a try
I could be yours, and you could be mine
I can't lie, it would be fly if you were my B-U-D-D-Y
Don't be shy, give it a try
I could be yours if you could be mine
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B.U.D.D.Y. Lyrics as written by Earl Guinn Cornelius Church
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