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"
Yeah, party music
Let's dance
Move your feet see man
Check it uh
Don't you want to dance
I'm tryin' to give you a chance
So why you actin' all shy
Can't catch me like that
I'm much too fly
HOT!
There's a rumor that's out
That ya checkin' for me
If ya want to be down
Are ya scared of me?
Tried giving ya hints
Tried flirting with you
Even working my hips from side to side
Boy you made no sense
Is it gonna take in
I don't understand why
You keep visiting
Don't wait anymore
Be a man about it
'Cause you moving to slow
Oh why? Oh why?
Stop acting silly (uh)
You know you want me
Don't front it's easy (c'mon)
I'm off the heazy
[Chorus]
Boys feel to play, it's shockin' me but
You're the only one I'm thinkin' 'bout
Why you want to keep procrastinating
Better step to me 'fore time runs out
The jam is about to end
You'll never get this chance again
See man with the heat, give me a shot
No you better not sleep
Better get it while it's hot
Countdown 4-3-2-1
HOT!
Boy when I come around
Why you get so nervous
Do you think I'm the clown
Have you all embarrassed
Baby just make a move
A little conversation
But you gotta be smooth
Alright, alright
Don't be breakin' my friends
Tryna run my steelo
Boy I'm cool as a friend
Won't you let me show ya
You ain't gotta be shy
I'm here waitin' for ya
We can kick it tonight
Alright alright
Stop acting silly (stop acting silly)
You know you want me (you know you want me)
Don't front it's easy (easy to see that)
I'm off the heazy
[Chorus: x2]
Countdown
What
I'm 'bout to break
What you waitin' on?
Don't you want to get down?
What you lookin' at?
You like?
(yeah)
See man
First you get close,
Break it down slow,
Don't be scared, take it there,
Give it what you know,
Hope you're ready, uh,
To keep it steady,
When you slide,
When we vibe,
When you ride with me, ooh,
With such a vibrant thing, uh,
A vibrant thing,
A vibrant thing, ooh,
So baby tell me can you hang, uh
With the vibrant thing, see man
[Chorus: x2]
Countdown 4-3-2-1
Better get it while it's HOT!
Let's dance
Move your feet see man
Check it uh
Don't you want to dance
I'm tryin' to give you a chance
So why you actin' all shy
Can't catch me like that
I'm much too fly
HOT!
There's a rumor that's out
That ya checkin' for me
If ya want to be down
Are ya scared of me?
Tried giving ya hints
Tried flirting with you
Even working my hips from side to side
Boy you made no sense
Is it gonna take in
I don't understand why
You keep visiting
Don't wait anymore
Be a man about it
'Cause you moving to slow
Oh why? Oh why?
Stop acting silly (uh)
You know you want me
Don't front it's easy (c'mon)
I'm off the heazy
[Chorus]
Boys feel to play, it's shockin' me but
You're the only one I'm thinkin' 'bout
Why you want to keep procrastinating
Better step to me 'fore time runs out
The jam is about to end
You'll never get this chance again
See man with the heat, give me a shot
No you better not sleep
Better get it while it's hot
Countdown 4-3-2-1
HOT!
Boy when I come around
Why you get so nervous
Do you think I'm the clown
Have you all embarrassed
Baby just make a move
A little conversation
But you gotta be smooth
Alright, alright
Don't be breakin' my friends
Tryna run my steelo
Boy I'm cool as a friend
Won't you let me show ya
You ain't gotta be shy
I'm here waitin' for ya
We can kick it tonight
Alright alright
Stop acting silly (stop acting silly)
You know you want me (you know you want me)
Don't front it's easy (easy to see that)
I'm off the heazy
[Chorus: x2]
Countdown
What
I'm 'bout to break
What you waitin' on?
Don't you want to get down?
What you lookin' at?
You like?
(yeah)
See man
First you get close,
Break it down slow,
Don't be scared, take it there,
Give it what you know,
Hope you're ready, uh,
To keep it steady,
When you slide,
When we vibe,
When you ride with me, ooh,
With such a vibrant thing, uh,
A vibrant thing,
A vibrant thing, ooh,
So baby tell me can you hang, uh
With the vibrant thing, see man
[Chorus: x2]
Countdown 4-3-2-1
Better get it while it's HOT!
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