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"
[JD]
Yo, you ever be out
And see somebody that you want right den n there,
You don't even feel like talking,
You just wanna walk right up to em and be like
[Chorus: Bow Wow (Da Brat)]
Hey shorty, what I gotta do?
(Say what?)
To get one night with you
(One night)
I ain't trying to play no game
(Is that right?)
I'm just trying do to the damn thing
(Hey boy first lemme say)
What up
(If I ever let you play)
(Never would leave you on this thing)
Why
(Cause I know for doing my damn thing)
No gas liquid in this young fly Mr.
I could turn a Honda to 7-45 whippa
Shorty if I ride wit ya that would be a nice picture
If somebody say cheese they takin' bout me
Like hey
Na holla back though I gotta lot of that
I could have you in some true religions Louis dis Gucci that
Shake what she gave ya
Your momma would be proud of that
Once I get you back some
Ye ain't goin' know how to act
You on fire
Oh I think I
Oh I think I like ya
Boy I think I
Boy I think I might just
Let you hold the Lambo let you ride the Coup
Spend rubber band banks girl tell, me tell me
[Chorus]
I see you running round wit these regular cats
I was just thinking to myself you can do better than that
I'm so ahead of the pack
Be no mo peddles relax
An Mybaq' that how you say it but you spend the baq'
Like hey shawty what I gotta say
Where I gotta take ya, what I gotta pay
Even if its for a night or if its only for a day
I promise I Bow wont bite, Bow will behave
Even though you on fire
Oh I think I, oh I think I like you
Boy I think I, boy I think I might just
Let ya hold the Lambo, let ya ride the Coup
Spend rubber-band banks
Girl tell me, tell me
[Chorus]
Yo, you ever be out
And see somebody that you want right den n there,
You don't even feel like talking,
You just wanna walk right up to em and be like
[Chorus: Bow Wow (Da Brat)]
Hey shorty, what I gotta do?
(Say what?)
To get one night with you
(One night)
I ain't trying to play no game
(Is that right?)
I'm just trying do to the damn thing
(Hey boy first lemme say)
What up
(If I ever let you play)
(Never would leave you on this thing)
Why
(Cause I know for doing my damn thing)
No gas liquid in this young fly Mr.
I could turn a Honda to 7-45 whippa
Shorty if I ride wit ya that would be a nice picture
If somebody say cheese they takin' bout me
Like hey
Na holla back though I gotta lot of that
I could have you in some true religions Louis dis Gucci that
Shake what she gave ya
Your momma would be proud of that
Once I get you back some
Ye ain't goin' know how to act
You on fire
Oh I think I
Oh I think I like ya
Boy I think I
Boy I think I might just
Let you hold the Lambo let you ride the Coup
Spend rubber band banks girl tell, me tell me
[Chorus]
I see you running round wit these regular cats
I was just thinking to myself you can do better than that
I'm so ahead of the pack
Be no mo peddles relax
An Mybaq' that how you say it but you spend the baq'
Like hey shawty what I gotta say
Where I gotta take ya, what I gotta pay
Even if its for a night or if its only for a day
I promise I Bow wont bite, Bow will behave
Even though you on fire
Oh I think I, oh I think I like you
Boy I think I, boy I think I might just
Let ya hold the Lambo, let ya ride the Coup
Spend rubber-band banks
Girl tell me, tell me
[Chorus]
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Damn Thing Lyrics as written by James Phillips Anthony Waters
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