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"
featuring Shima
[Verse 1:]
When I first glanced at ya I knew I had to have ya
Fly chassis with a sassy manner
She hold herself in a high standard
And hella suckers in the hood ain't never ran in her
Young tender thoroughbred born winner
I know you're busy but you need to holler at your nigga
I won't scare you away with fast talk and game
I want to know if I can have you but I start with your name
Who you with? you say that you ain't got no mayn?
I'm tryin to tell you, girl, I let you star on my team
A play-maker, make a player slow his pace up
The type of face a brother want to see when he wake up
She work hard nine to five, sometimes longer
Goes to school at night, you see, she got big goals
And I don't want to bring you down, I just want to come along
Make you moan, make a home, a place that we can both grow old
See, let this truth be told, I'm tryin to leave that fast life alone
To find a woman of my own, so we can get together and build
A foundation that's real and everyday I make you feel like a mill'
[Chorus:]
You got me wide open
But you ain't even knowin
{Shima}
You ain't knowin that I'm wide open
You got me goin and it's showin
That I want you
You ain't feelin me
I'm caught up indeed
You got me slippin and I'm trippin
Off the things you do
[Verse 2:]
You think I'm runnin drag, but I ain't even mad
I bet you all my cash I be the realest that you had
I want to treat you lav', but you can't see that half
I'm tryin to keep you smilin if you just give me a chance
At times you make me laugh, you got me wide open
You think it's all a front, swear you ain't even knowin
If I was runnin drama on ya
I woulda bend in the wind, baby, hittin corners
Instead I'm standin right beside you like you know I'm 'posed to
Keepin composure, while most fools be in your face just tryin to get over
I see you know my style, me and my mob is wild
I hear your friends say I'm not trustworthy
But if you wait a while I shut that madness down
Proove to you once and for all that I'm deservin
Of your heart, your mind, your soul, your body, your time
If it's cool, boo, then give me a sign
Now I ain't tryin to rush you, but a/s, a/p
Keep a Mac on your mind and holler at me
I say ain't tryin to rush you, but a/s, a/p
Keep a Mac on your mind and holler at me
{Shima}
See I been waitin all my life
To find someone like you
And now that it's finally you and me
There's no time to lose
You're on my mind seven days a week
No matter what they say
Cause even though your style is wild
I like the way you do your thing
Baby, I'm wide open, too
I'm lovin me somethin new
[Verse 1:]
When I first glanced at ya I knew I had to have ya
Fly chassis with a sassy manner
She hold herself in a high standard
And hella suckers in the hood ain't never ran in her
Young tender thoroughbred born winner
I know you're busy but you need to holler at your nigga
I won't scare you away with fast talk and game
I want to know if I can have you but I start with your name
Who you with? you say that you ain't got no mayn?
I'm tryin to tell you, girl, I let you star on my team
A play-maker, make a player slow his pace up
The type of face a brother want to see when he wake up
She work hard nine to five, sometimes longer
Goes to school at night, you see, she got big goals
And I don't want to bring you down, I just want to come along
Make you moan, make a home, a place that we can both grow old
See, let this truth be told, I'm tryin to leave that fast life alone
To find a woman of my own, so we can get together and build
A foundation that's real and everyday I make you feel like a mill'
[Chorus:]
You got me wide open
But you ain't even knowin
{Shima}
You ain't knowin that I'm wide open
You got me goin and it's showin
That I want you
You ain't feelin me
I'm caught up indeed
You got me slippin and I'm trippin
Off the things you do
[Verse 2:]
You think I'm runnin drag, but I ain't even mad
I bet you all my cash I be the realest that you had
I want to treat you lav', but you can't see that half
I'm tryin to keep you smilin if you just give me a chance
At times you make me laugh, you got me wide open
You think it's all a front, swear you ain't even knowin
If I was runnin drama on ya
I woulda bend in the wind, baby, hittin corners
Instead I'm standin right beside you like you know I'm 'posed to
Keepin composure, while most fools be in your face just tryin to get over
I see you know my style, me and my mob is wild
I hear your friends say I'm not trustworthy
But if you wait a while I shut that madness down
Proove to you once and for all that I'm deservin
Of your heart, your mind, your soul, your body, your time
If it's cool, boo, then give me a sign
Now I ain't tryin to rush you, but a/s, a/p
Keep a Mac on your mind and holler at me
I say ain't tryin to rush you, but a/s, a/p
Keep a Mac on your mind and holler at me
{Shima}
See I been waitin all my life
To find someone like you
And now that it's finally you and me
There's no time to lose
You're on my mind seven days a week
No matter what they say
Cause even though your style is wild
I like the way you do your thing
Baby, I'm wide open, too
I'm lovin me somethin new
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