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"
Are you gonna be? Say that you're gonna be
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
She said she want some Marvin Gaye, some Luther Vandross
A little Anita will definitely set this party off right
(Are you gonna be, are you gonna be, are you gonna be
Are you gonna be, are you gonna be, well, well, well, well)
She said she want some Ready for the World, some New Edition
Some Minnie Ripperton will definitely set this party off right
(Are you gonna be, are you gonna be, are you gonna be
Are you gonna be, are you gonna be, well, well, well, well)
I told her to drive over in yo' new whip
Bring some friends you cool with
I'ma bring the cool whip, then I want you to strip
See you is my new chick, so we get our grind on
She be grabbin', calling me Biggie like Shyne home
Man I swear she fine homes (back in the day)
Why she always lying though?
Tellin' me them diamonds (back in the day)
When she know they rhinestones
She got a light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson
Got a dark-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson
I played Ready for the World, she was ready for some action
My dog said you ain't no freak
So you 'bout to prove my man wrong
I'ma play this Vandross, you gon' take yo pants off
I'ma play this Gladys Knight, me and you gon' get right
She said she want some Marvin Gaye, some Luther Vandross
A little Anita will definitely set this party off right
Now, now Kanye, I know I told you to slow it down, baby
And it's good, it's all good, it's beautiful, it's beautiful
But now, I need you to do it faster, baby
Can you please? Do it faster baby, do it faster
Damn, baby, I can't do it that fast
But I know somebody who can, Twista
Got you looking at the glist on my hands and wrist
While I'm laying back smoking on my cannabis
When it come to rocking the rhythm like Marvin and Luther
I can tell you ain't no messin' with Kan man and Twist
In the Chi and I be sipping Hennessy, play some R&B
While I smoke a b, you can preferably find that I'm a G
And all this (well, well, well, well)
Come with me and sip on some Evelyn Champagne
You ain't know Twista could work it like The Whispers?
Hit the stop light, move it to some Isleys
These rims still moving so I bump a lil' Spinners
While I'm smoking on a b dipping through the streets
Bumpin' R&B and I got the heat on the 23's
And I do it (well, well, well, well)
With my Earth in the Wind smoking Fire
Let me get ya sheets wet listenin' to Keith Sweat
Put you in a daze wit Maze
Fulfilling our every temptation, slow jammin' havin' deep sex
You ready for the world, girl, come on go wit me
I touch you all over your body, baby, don't say no to me
And every moment controlling me
I'm lovin' the way you be holdin' me when I be listening to Jodeci
And when I come over and bend ya ass
You be bumping Teddy Pendergrass
I done hit it from the back to the melody and rode it slow
Now I got to go up in it fast, but I'ma finish last
No matter how much of a thug you see
I still spit it like it's R&B, come to the club with me
And when some Luther come on I hope you feelin' me
And still will be in love wit me, Chi ride
She said she want some Marvin Gaye, some Luther Vandross
A little Anita will definitely set this party off right
(Are you gonna be, are you gonna be, are you gonna be
Are you gonna be, are you gonna be, well, well, well, well)
She said she want some Ready for the World, some New Edition
Some Minnie Ripperton will definitely set this party off right
Yes it will
Oh, yes it will
Baby, drop another slow jam
And all the lovers need to hold hands
And if you ain't got no man, hop up in my Brougham
I keep it pimpin' like a old man, you gots to roll with the plan
'Cause if nothin' then I take it to the dome
When I get to bone, stay up in the zone
Gotta get you home, gotta run up on
And I do it (well, well, well, well)
Baby, drop another slow jam
And all the lovers, need to hold hands
And if you ain't got no man, hop up in my Brougham
I keep it pimpin' like a old man, you gots to roll with the plan
'Cause if nothin' I'll take you to my home
We can get it on, disconnect the phone
Trying to get you gone, I'ma make you moan
And I do it (well, well, well, well)
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
She said she want some Marvin Gaye, some Luther Vandross
A little Anita will definitely set this party off right
(Are you gonna be, are you gonna be, are you gonna be
Are you gonna be, are you gonna be, well, well, well, well)
She said she want some Ready for the World, some New Edition
Some Minnie Ripperton will definitely set this party off right
(Are you gonna be, are you gonna be, are you gonna be
Are you gonna be, are you gonna be, well, well, well, well)
I told her to drive over in yo' new whip
Bring some friends you cool with
I'ma bring the cool whip, then I want you to strip
See you is my new chick, so we get our grind on
She be grabbin', calling me Biggie like Shyne home
Man I swear she fine homes (back in the day)
Why she always lying though?
Tellin' me them diamonds (back in the day)
When she know they rhinestones
She got a light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson
Got a dark-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson
I played Ready for the World, she was ready for some action
My dog said you ain't no freak
So you 'bout to prove my man wrong
I'ma play this Vandross, you gon' take yo pants off
I'ma play this Gladys Knight, me and you gon' get right
She said she want some Marvin Gaye, some Luther Vandross
A little Anita will definitely set this party off right
Now, now Kanye, I know I told you to slow it down, baby
And it's good, it's all good, it's beautiful, it's beautiful
But now, I need you to do it faster, baby
Can you please? Do it faster baby, do it faster
Damn, baby, I can't do it that fast
But I know somebody who can, Twista
Got you looking at the glist on my hands and wrist
While I'm laying back smoking on my cannabis
When it come to rocking the rhythm like Marvin and Luther
I can tell you ain't no messin' with Kan man and Twist
In the Chi and I be sipping Hennessy, play some R&B
While I smoke a b, you can preferably find that I'm a G
And all this (well, well, well, well)
Come with me and sip on some Evelyn Champagne
You ain't know Twista could work it like The Whispers?
Hit the stop light, move it to some Isleys
These rims still moving so I bump a lil' Spinners
While I'm smoking on a b dipping through the streets
Bumpin' R&B and I got the heat on the 23's
And I do it (well, well, well, well)
With my Earth in the Wind smoking Fire
Let me get ya sheets wet listenin' to Keith Sweat
Put you in a daze wit Maze
Fulfilling our every temptation, slow jammin' havin' deep sex
You ready for the world, girl, come on go wit me
I touch you all over your body, baby, don't say no to me
And every moment controlling me
I'm lovin' the way you be holdin' me when I be listening to Jodeci
And when I come over and bend ya ass
You be bumping Teddy Pendergrass
I done hit it from the back to the melody and rode it slow
Now I got to go up in it fast, but I'ma finish last
No matter how much of a thug you see
I still spit it like it's R&B, come to the club with me
And when some Luther come on I hope you feelin' me
And still will be in love wit me, Chi ride
She said she want some Marvin Gaye, some Luther Vandross
A little Anita will definitely set this party off right
(Are you gonna be, are you gonna be, are you gonna be
Are you gonna be, are you gonna be, well, well, well, well)
She said she want some Ready for the World, some New Edition
Some Minnie Ripperton will definitely set this party off right
Yes it will
Oh, yes it will
Baby, drop another slow jam
And all the lovers need to hold hands
And if you ain't got no man, hop up in my Brougham
I keep it pimpin' like a old man, you gots to roll with the plan
'Cause if nothin' then I take it to the dome
When I get to bone, stay up in the zone
Gotta get you home, gotta run up on
And I do it (well, well, well, well)
Baby, drop another slow jam
And all the lovers, need to hold hands
And if you ain't got no man, hop up in my Brougham
I keep it pimpin' like a old man, you gots to roll with the plan
'Cause if nothin' I'll take you to my home
We can get it on, disconnect the phone
Trying to get you gone, I'ma make you moan
And I do it (well, well, well, well)
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Slow Jamz [Kamikaze] Lyrics as written by Hal David Burt Bacharach
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Capitol CMG Publishing
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