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"
Ladies and gentlemen
We got some new stars in the house tonight
They comin' straight off the bad boy tour
Their name is B5
They came to dance for you
Talk to 'em
Can I talk to you
Baby I'm feelin your style your smile your everything
I wanna rock with you
Your just the type I like shorty come and tell me whats your name
When I first saw you
I was caught in a trance
Girl you make me wanna dance
Can we take it to the floor
You have no idea what I have in store
I wanna take you where you've never been before
(Give you what you been missin')
A feelin' that I know that u need
(I know you need that feelin')
And when I dance for you ain't nothing gonna stop me
(No, no, no)
Cause I know what you want
I know what you wanna see
This is what you want
This is what you been waitin' on
Let me take you to the floor
Come on
[Chorus]
Oh
Baby girl let me dance for you
Oh
Let me show you how I can move
Oh
I can do some things for you
Oh
You never thought that I could do
Oh
Baby girl let me dance for you
Oh
Let me show how I can move
Oh
Your style is crazy so amazing
Baby come here let me dance for you
Lil mama
Come on watch me dance
Watch me do a flip with no hands
Watch me almost jump out my pants
See the look on the face of the fans
When I finish watch them clap there hands[Clap Hands 3 Times]
All I'm askin' is
Baby can I have the chance to show you where my skills are at
What I wanna give
Whatcha gonna see in the past
It's somethin' that you never had
Ain't no need for stress
Baby you can just relax no ties we can just be friends
Can we take it to the floor
You have no idea what I have in store
I wanna take you where you've never been before
(Give you what you been missin')
A feelin' that I know that u need
(I know you need that feelin')
And when I dance for you ain't nothing gonna stop me
(No, no, no)
Cause I know what you want
I know what you wanna see
[Chorus]
Lil mama
Come on watch me dance
Watch me do a flip with no hands
Watch me almost jump out my pants see the
Look on the face of my fans
When I finish watch them clap their hands
All it takes is a glance
Have 'em thinkin' that they
Found romance
Have 'em screamin' runnin' out of the stands
They chasin' me
All imaginin' that I'm they man
But its for you that I wanna dance (Talk to me)
[Chorus: x2]
We got some new stars in the house tonight
They comin' straight off the bad boy tour
Their name is B5
They came to dance for you
Talk to 'em
Can I talk to you
Baby I'm feelin your style your smile your everything
I wanna rock with you
Your just the type I like shorty come and tell me whats your name
When I first saw you
I was caught in a trance
Girl you make me wanna dance
Can we take it to the floor
You have no idea what I have in store
I wanna take you where you've never been before
(Give you what you been missin')
A feelin' that I know that u need
(I know you need that feelin')
And when I dance for you ain't nothing gonna stop me
(No, no, no)
Cause I know what you want
I know what you wanna see
This is what you want
This is what you been waitin' on
Let me take you to the floor
Come on
[Chorus]
Oh
Baby girl let me dance for you
Oh
Let me show you how I can move
Oh
I can do some things for you
Oh
You never thought that I could do
Oh
Baby girl let me dance for you
Oh
Let me show how I can move
Oh
Your style is crazy so amazing
Baby come here let me dance for you
Lil mama
Come on watch me dance
Watch me do a flip with no hands
Watch me almost jump out my pants
See the look on the face of the fans
When I finish watch them clap there hands[Clap Hands 3 Times]
All I'm askin' is
Baby can I have the chance to show you where my skills are at
What I wanna give
Whatcha gonna see in the past
It's somethin' that you never had
Ain't no need for stress
Baby you can just relax no ties we can just be friends
Can we take it to the floor
You have no idea what I have in store
I wanna take you where you've never been before
(Give you what you been missin')
A feelin' that I know that u need
(I know you need that feelin')
And when I dance for you ain't nothing gonna stop me
(No, no, no)
Cause I know what you want
I know what you wanna see
[Chorus]
Lil mama
Come on watch me dance
Watch me do a flip with no hands
Watch me almost jump out my pants see the
Look on the face of my fans
When I finish watch them clap their hands
All it takes is a glance
Have 'em thinkin' that they
Found romance
Have 'em screamin' runnin' out of the stands
They chasin' me
All imaginin' that I'm they man
But its for you that I wanna dance (Talk to me)
[Chorus: x2]
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