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"
Hot in, so hot in here! So hot in, hot, oh!
With a little bit of, uh uh, and a little bit of, uh uh
Just a little bit of, just a little bit of
Just a little bit of, just a little bit of
I was like, good gracious, ass is bodacious
Flirtacious, tryin' to show patience
I'm waitin' for the right time to shoot my steez (you know)
Waitin' for the right time to flash them keys, then uh
I'm leavin', please believe in, ohh
Me and the rest of my heathens
Check it, got it locked at the top of the Fo' Seasons
Penthouse, roof top, birds I'm feedin'
No deceivin', nuttin' up my sleeve and
No teasin', I need you to
Get up up on the dance floor
Give that man what he askin' for
'Cause I feel like bustin' loose
And I feel like touchin' you, uh uh
And can't nobody stop the juice
So baby tell me what's the use? I said
It's gettin' hot in herre (so hot), so take off all your clothes
I am, gettin' so hot, I wanna take my clothes off
It's gettin' hot in herre (so hot), so take off all your clothes
I am, gettin' so hot, I wanna take my clothes off
Uh, uh, uh, let it hang all out
Why you at the bar if you ain't poppin' the bottles? (c'mon)
What good is all the fame if you ain't fuckin' the models
I see you drivin', sports cars, ain't hittin' the throttle
And I'll be down to do a hundred, top down and goggles
Got off the freeway, exit 106 and parked it
Ash tray, flip gate, time to spark it
Gucci collar for dollar, got out and walked it
I spit game 'cause baby I can't talk it
Warm, sweatin', it's hot up in this joint
Vokal tanktop, on at this point
You with a winner so baby you can't lose
I got secrets can't leave Cancun
So take it off like you're home alone
You know dance in front your mirror while you're on the phone
Checkin' your reflection and tellin' your best friend
Like "Girl I think my butt gettin big!"
It's gettin' hot in herre (so hot), so take off all your clothes
I am, gettin' so hot, I wanna take my clothes off
It's gettin' hot in herre (so hot), so take off all your clothes
I am, gettin' so hot, I wanna take my clothes off
Uh, uh, uh, let it hang all out
Mix a little bit of ah, ah
With a little bit of ah, ah
(Let it just fall out)
Give a little bit of ah, ah
With a little bit of ah, ah
(Let it hang all out)
With a little bit of ah, ah
And a sprinkle of that ah, ah
(Let it just fall out)
I like it when ya ah, ah
Girl, baby make it ah, ah
Stop pacin', time wastin'
I gotta a friend with a pole in the basement (what?)
I'm just kidding like Jason (oh)
Unless you gon' do it
Extra, extra, eh, spread the news (check it)
Nelly took a trip from the Lou' to the Neptunes
Came back with somethin' thicker than fittin' in Sasoons
Say she got a thing about cuttin' in restrooms, ohh
It's gettin' hot in here (so hot), so take off all your clothes
I am, gettin' so hot, I wanna take my clothes off
It's gettin' hot in here (so hot), so take off all your clothes
I am , gettin' so hot, I wanna take my clothes off
Uh, uh, uh, let it hang all out
It's gettin hot in herre (so hot), so take off all your clothes
I am, gettin' so hot, I wanna take my clothes off
It's gettin' hot in herre (so hot), so take off all your clothes
I am, gettin' so hot, I wanna take my clothes off
Let it hang all out
Mix a little bit of ah, ah
With a little bit of ah, ah
(Let it just fall out)
Give a little bit of ah, ah
With a little bit of ah, ah
(Let it hang all out)
With a little bit of ah, ah
And a sprinkle of that ah, ah
(Let it just fall out)
I like it when ya ah, ah
Girl, baby make it ah, ah, ohh
With a little bit of, uh uh, and a little bit of, uh uh
Just a little bit of, just a little bit of
Just a little bit of, just a little bit of
I was like, good gracious, ass is bodacious
Flirtacious, tryin' to show patience
I'm waitin' for the right time to shoot my steez (you know)
Waitin' for the right time to flash them keys, then uh
I'm leavin', please believe in, ohh
Me and the rest of my heathens
Check it, got it locked at the top of the Fo' Seasons
Penthouse, roof top, birds I'm feedin'
No deceivin', nuttin' up my sleeve and
No teasin', I need you to
Get up up on the dance floor
Give that man what he askin' for
'Cause I feel like bustin' loose
And I feel like touchin' you, uh uh
And can't nobody stop the juice
So baby tell me what's the use? I said
It's gettin' hot in herre (so hot), so take off all your clothes
I am, gettin' so hot, I wanna take my clothes off
It's gettin' hot in herre (so hot), so take off all your clothes
I am, gettin' so hot, I wanna take my clothes off
Uh, uh, uh, let it hang all out
Why you at the bar if you ain't poppin' the bottles? (c'mon)
What good is all the fame if you ain't fuckin' the models
I see you drivin', sports cars, ain't hittin' the throttle
And I'll be down to do a hundred, top down and goggles
Got off the freeway, exit 106 and parked it
Ash tray, flip gate, time to spark it
Gucci collar for dollar, got out and walked it
I spit game 'cause baby I can't talk it
Warm, sweatin', it's hot up in this joint
Vokal tanktop, on at this point
You with a winner so baby you can't lose
I got secrets can't leave Cancun
So take it off like you're home alone
You know dance in front your mirror while you're on the phone
Checkin' your reflection and tellin' your best friend
Like "Girl I think my butt gettin big!"
It's gettin' hot in herre (so hot), so take off all your clothes
I am, gettin' so hot, I wanna take my clothes off
It's gettin' hot in herre (so hot), so take off all your clothes
I am, gettin' so hot, I wanna take my clothes off
Uh, uh, uh, let it hang all out
Mix a little bit of ah, ah
With a little bit of ah, ah
(Let it just fall out)
Give a little bit of ah, ah
With a little bit of ah, ah
(Let it hang all out)
With a little bit of ah, ah
And a sprinkle of that ah, ah
(Let it just fall out)
I like it when ya ah, ah
Girl, baby make it ah, ah
Stop pacin', time wastin'
I gotta a friend with a pole in the basement (what?)
I'm just kidding like Jason (oh)
Unless you gon' do it
Extra, extra, eh, spread the news (check it)
Nelly took a trip from the Lou' to the Neptunes
Came back with somethin' thicker than fittin' in Sasoons
Say she got a thing about cuttin' in restrooms, ohh
It's gettin' hot in here (so hot), so take off all your clothes
I am, gettin' so hot, I wanna take my clothes off
It's gettin' hot in here (so hot), so take off all your clothes
I am , gettin' so hot, I wanna take my clothes off
Uh, uh, uh, let it hang all out
It's gettin hot in herre (so hot), so take off all your clothes
I am, gettin' so hot, I wanna take my clothes off
It's gettin' hot in herre (so hot), so take off all your clothes
I am, gettin' so hot, I wanna take my clothes off
Let it hang all out
Mix a little bit of ah, ah
With a little bit of ah, ah
(Let it just fall out)
Give a little bit of ah, ah
With a little bit of ah, ah
(Let it hang all out)
With a little bit of ah, ah
And a sprinkle of that ah, ah
(Let it just fall out)
I like it when ya ah, ah
Girl, baby make it ah, ah, ohh
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Hot in Herre Lyrics as written by Pharrell L Williams Charles L. Brown
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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