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"
Tell me if you want some and you can just, come on, baby
Tell me if you want some and you can just, come on
Tell me if you want some and you can just, come on
Tell me if you want some and you can just, come on
Tell me if you just want to get closer
Ya got the numbers on ya poster
And if ya want ta, I'll make it so that
My sensual intensity captivates
Ya gotta know ya body extractuates Juice
Ecstasy is what I produce
Sweetie my virtues are never ever looser
I'm not the average Joe Schmo ya used to
This Jones and ma homes gonna hurt ya
Unless ya ready for the lecture
Tell me if you just want to get closer
I wrote the numbers on ya poster
And if ya want ta, I'll make it so that
Never ever bein, sweat
Y'all never climax
Climax [Repeat: x5]
Tell me if you want some and you can just, come on, baby
Tell me if you want some and you can just, come on, baby
Yeah, say what you feel, feel what you say
Don't hold back, just feel that way
Take the time and the time it takes
Baby you can justify ya aint got the time to waste
Speak up, Speak up its not the time to play
You know I, I want ya in a special way (special way)
special way (special way)
special way (special way)
special way (special way)
Ya know we need to make it happen like yesterday
Ya know, get it up and running like flow Joe
We can kick it like they do up in the dodjo
And oh, if you ain't ready this can go slow
But yo, if ya with it ya can let me know so
Tell me if you want some and you can just
(Oh)
See ya sexy girl and also quite confident
You could sell goods and probably market it
Yo whats up with seven inches can I pocket it?
I wanna get, ya your perogative
I bet ya need a lot to gets monotomous
Spittin' more games than an evangelist
Girl you know ya scandalous
I'm trying to get a one on one monogamous
Lets look into it like an analyst
I'm thinking bout, can you handle this
Take you back to the room with just a little touch
Touching the zone that's erogenous
But that's enough we're really trying to chill what up?
Whats up with you? Baby we can chill or what?
Whats up? We can chill or what. Whats up with you? Baby we can chill or what?
Tell me if you want some and you can just, come on, baby [Repeat: x4]
Come on baby [Repeats]
Tell me if you want some and you can just, come on
Tell me if you want some and you can just, come on
Tell me if you want some and you can just, come on
Tell me if you just want to get closer
Ya got the numbers on ya poster
And if ya want ta, I'll make it so that
My sensual intensity captivates
Ya gotta know ya body extractuates Juice
Ecstasy is what I produce
Sweetie my virtues are never ever looser
I'm not the average Joe Schmo ya used to
This Jones and ma homes gonna hurt ya
Unless ya ready for the lecture
Tell me if you just want to get closer
I wrote the numbers on ya poster
And if ya want ta, I'll make it so that
Never ever bein, sweat
Y'all never climax
Climax [Repeat: x5]
Tell me if you want some and you can just, come on, baby
Tell me if you want some and you can just, come on, baby
Yeah, say what you feel, feel what you say
Don't hold back, just feel that way
Take the time and the time it takes
Baby you can justify ya aint got the time to waste
Speak up, Speak up its not the time to play
You know I, I want ya in a special way (special way)
special way (special way)
special way (special way)
special way (special way)
Ya know we need to make it happen like yesterday
Ya know, get it up and running like flow Joe
We can kick it like they do up in the dodjo
And oh, if you ain't ready this can go slow
But yo, if ya with it ya can let me know so
Tell me if you want some and you can just
(Oh)
See ya sexy girl and also quite confident
You could sell goods and probably market it
Yo whats up with seven inches can I pocket it?
I wanna get, ya your perogative
I bet ya need a lot to gets monotomous
Spittin' more games than an evangelist
Girl you know ya scandalous
I'm trying to get a one on one monogamous
Lets look into it like an analyst
I'm thinking bout, can you handle this
Take you back to the room with just a little touch
Touching the zone that's erogenous
But that's enough we're really trying to chill what up?
Whats up with you? Baby we can chill or what?
Whats up? We can chill or what. Whats up with you? Baby we can chill or what?
Tell me if you want some and you can just, come on, baby [Repeat: x4]
Come on baby [Repeats]
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