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"
On some spooky dooky shit, spooky, spooky dooky
Spooky dooky, spooky dooky
B O O G I E M A N
You know the one who make y'all suckas wanna run
The one that make you wanna spend with your son
Nobody that I know no longer do this shit for fun I am the
B O O G I E M A N
You know the one who make a suga drop her drawers
I dig her 'cause she's unashamed, she do me just because
She wanna and I wanna, that's on the Niagara Falls I am the
You can catch me in a white D-T-S with the top popped
Little buddy under my seat it shoot hot rocks
Make the sucka Po' get loose
Jiggy purr with me shorty jiggy perm ya curl?
Candle lights the world swiftly
Big Gipp AKA descendant miracle mutant motherfuck from birth
I stay down for the ready, ready caught some media, spaghetti
Off in Japan they call me Yeti, I'm the Boogie Man
be O O G I E M A N
You know the one who make y'all suckas wanna run
The one that make you wanna spend with your son
Nobody that I know no longer do this shit for fun I am the
be O O G I E M A N
You know the one who make a suga drop her drawers
I dig her 'cause she's unashamed, she do me just because
She wanna and I wanna, that's on the Niagara Falls I am the
I'm Mr. Boogie Boogie from the goodie, goodie Gipp
Put my oogie, oogie between your camel foot, so stay put
A straight dog when I'm chasing the platypus
My intellectual qualities superior to most
I love a girl with a fat back
Knee cut, rack, toes showin', Po', holdin' my eyes swollen
'Cause I stare so hard, with no regard
Girl make that change, shake that thang mama
B O O G I E M A N
You know the one who make y'all suckas wanna run
The one that make you wanna spend with your son
Nobody that I know no longer do this shit for fun I am the
B O O G I E M A N
You know the one who make a suga drop her drawers
I dig her 'cause she's unashamed, she do me just because
She wanna and I wanna, that's on the Niagara Falls I am the
Touched what I never touched before
Seen what I never seen before
Woke up and seen the sun Sky high, sky high
Baby girl didn't even tell me bye, bye
She was gone without droppin' the digits
She was gone without using my kitchen
She left without kissin' my lips
One more time I wanna hold them hips
I hope we meet up again on a lunar eclipse
B O O G I E M A N
You know the one who make y'all suckas wanna run
The one that make you wanna spend with your son
Nobody that I know no longer do this shit for fun I am the
B O O G I E M A N
You know the one who make a suga drop her drawers
I dig her 'cause she's unashamed, she do me just because
She wanna and I wanna, that's on the Niagara Falls I am the
B O O G I E M A N
You know the one who make y'all suckers wanna run
The one that make you wanna spend with your son
Nobody that I know no longer do this shit for fun I am the
B O O G I E M A N
You know the one who make a suga drop her drawers
I dig her 'cause she's unashamed, she do me just because
She wanna and I wanna, that's on the Niagara Falls I am the
Spooky dooky, spooky dooky
B O O G I E M A N
You know the one who make y'all suckas wanna run
The one that make you wanna spend with your son
Nobody that I know no longer do this shit for fun I am the
B O O G I E M A N
You know the one who make a suga drop her drawers
I dig her 'cause she's unashamed, she do me just because
She wanna and I wanna, that's on the Niagara Falls I am the
You can catch me in a white D-T-S with the top popped
Little buddy under my seat it shoot hot rocks
Make the sucka Po' get loose
Jiggy purr with me shorty jiggy perm ya curl?
Candle lights the world swiftly
Big Gipp AKA descendant miracle mutant motherfuck from birth
I stay down for the ready, ready caught some media, spaghetti
Off in Japan they call me Yeti, I'm the Boogie Man
be O O G I E M A N
You know the one who make y'all suckas wanna run
The one that make you wanna spend with your son
Nobody that I know no longer do this shit for fun I am the
be O O G I E M A N
You know the one who make a suga drop her drawers
I dig her 'cause she's unashamed, she do me just because
She wanna and I wanna, that's on the Niagara Falls I am the
I'm Mr. Boogie Boogie from the goodie, goodie Gipp
Put my oogie, oogie between your camel foot, so stay put
A straight dog when I'm chasing the platypus
My intellectual qualities superior to most
I love a girl with a fat back
Knee cut, rack, toes showin', Po', holdin' my eyes swollen
'Cause I stare so hard, with no regard
Girl make that change, shake that thang mama
B O O G I E M A N
You know the one who make y'all suckas wanna run
The one that make you wanna spend with your son
Nobody that I know no longer do this shit for fun I am the
B O O G I E M A N
You know the one who make a suga drop her drawers
I dig her 'cause she's unashamed, she do me just because
She wanna and I wanna, that's on the Niagara Falls I am the
Touched what I never touched before
Seen what I never seen before
Woke up and seen the sun Sky high, sky high
Baby girl didn't even tell me bye, bye
She was gone without droppin' the digits
She was gone without using my kitchen
She left without kissin' my lips
One more time I wanna hold them hips
I hope we meet up again on a lunar eclipse
B O O G I E M A N
You know the one who make y'all suckas wanna run
The one that make you wanna spend with your son
Nobody that I know no longer do this shit for fun I am the
B O O G I E M A N
You know the one who make a suga drop her drawers
I dig her 'cause she's unashamed, she do me just because
She wanna and I wanna, that's on the Niagara Falls I am the
B O O G I E M A N
You know the one who make y'all suckers wanna run
The one that make you wanna spend with your son
Nobody that I know no longer do this shit for fun I am the
B O O G I E M A N
You know the one who make a suga drop her drawers
I dig her 'cause she's unashamed, she do me just because
She wanna and I wanna, that's on the Niagara Falls I am the
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