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"
You already know, ha-ha, Slot-a-lot, SoSoDef
And if you're a bad chick get on the floor and
How the, hell did you get all of that in dem jeans?
(Bounce, bounce, bounce)
How the how the hell did you get all of that in dem jeans?
(If you're a bad chick get on the floor and bounce)
'Cause your waist so little and your ass is like whoa
(Yeah I know what this is, SoSoDef!)
'Cause your waist so little and your ass is like whoa
Prada, Gucci, tell me what you like?
Coach bag with the shoes to match, forget the price
Marc Jacob shades, 50 karats all ice
Model in dem jeans for me, luxury, now that's your life
That's the type of shit I'm on
Let me see you get 'em on
Back it up a bit, yeah that's it, 'cause I can see your thong
Caramel skin tone
Damn, you look like Nia Long
Don't be acting like that lil' mama, 'cause I can leave you 'lone
Mix the lime with that Patron
That's what we drinking on
She wanna go out to eat, but me, JD, I'm thinkin' home
Just so I could see you moan
But what the hell we both grown
Wearin' dem jean like that will make me take trips with you to Rome
Hey now (hey, hey), hey now (hey)
You know they thick from the STL to the A now
Hey now (Hey, hey), hey now (hey)
Let me help you with dem jeans, baby, lay down
Damn girl
How'd you get all that in
Dem jeans, dem jeans?
How'd you get all that in dem?
Damn girl
How'd you get all that?
(Is you talking to me?)
Yeah, you
I bet you had to jump up and down just to put 'em on
Bet you had to wiggle it around just to put 'em on
Bet you had to lay back on the bed just to zip 'em up
Am I right?
(You right)
Baby that's what's up
Now, now, now
When walkin' girl
And you make it swirl
It's hard for me not to look and I want you up in my world
Bubbled up (Oh)
Poking out (Hey)
Lickin' my lip saying, shawty swing it my way
Damn, ma, damn, ma
How the hell you get all that in dem pants ma
Hope you ain't up in here with your man ma
I love it when you wiggle it, shake it
Drop it, and do your little dance
True Religion, 7's or dem rocking Republics
Or the ones that fit the best and show it just how we love it
Know just how to hug it
Know just how to cuff it
When you walk away it make me wanna rub and say
Hey now (hey, hey), hey now (hey)
You know they thick from the ATL to the H-Town
I'm saying, hey now (hey, hey), hey now (hey)
Let me help you with dem jeans, baby, lay down
Come on
Damn girl
How'd you get all that in
Dem jeans, dem jeans?
How'd you get all that in dem?
Damn girl
How'd you get all that?
(Is you talking to me?)
Yeah, you
I bet you had to jump up and down just to put 'em on
Bet you had to wiggle it around just to put 'em on
Bet you had to lay back on the bed just to zip 'em up
Am I right?
(You right)
Baby that's what's up
I don't mean to be rude
But I like the way you move
Got your boy in the mood
Let's go back to my Jacuzz'
I ain't like them other fools
Got to play by my rules
Face down, ass up, pants off, look (ooh)
There it go, don't be scared
Let it show it, I like them curves
Make that thing talk, when you walk, I'm slurring my words
Drop it to the floor, ya heard
Ain't no hating girl, ya hot
I seen a lot of stallions, but man you working with a lot
Damn girl
How'd you get all that in
Dem jeans, dem jeans?
How'd you get all that in dem?
Damn girl
How'd you get all that?
(Is you talking to me?)
Yeah, you
I bet you had to jump up and down just to put 'em on
Bet you had to wiggle it around just to put 'em on
Bet you had to lay back on the bed just to zip 'em up
Am I right?
(You right)
Baby that's what's up
Damn girl
How'd you get all that in
Dem jeans, dem jeans?
How'd you get all that in dem?
Damn girl
How'd you get all that?
(Is you talking to me?)
Yeah, you
I bet you had to jump up and down just to put 'em on
Bet you had to wiggle it around just to put 'em on
Bet you had to lay back on the bed just to zip 'em up
Am I right?
(You right)
Baby that's what's up
And if you're a bad chick get on the floor and
How the, hell did you get all of that in dem jeans?
(Bounce, bounce, bounce)
How the how the hell did you get all of that in dem jeans?
(If you're a bad chick get on the floor and bounce)
'Cause your waist so little and your ass is like whoa
(Yeah I know what this is, SoSoDef!)
'Cause your waist so little and your ass is like whoa
Prada, Gucci, tell me what you like?
Coach bag with the shoes to match, forget the price
Marc Jacob shades, 50 karats all ice
Model in dem jeans for me, luxury, now that's your life
That's the type of shit I'm on
Let me see you get 'em on
Back it up a bit, yeah that's it, 'cause I can see your thong
Caramel skin tone
Damn, you look like Nia Long
Don't be acting like that lil' mama, 'cause I can leave you 'lone
Mix the lime with that Patron
That's what we drinking on
She wanna go out to eat, but me, JD, I'm thinkin' home
Just so I could see you moan
But what the hell we both grown
Wearin' dem jean like that will make me take trips with you to Rome
Hey now (hey, hey), hey now (hey)
You know they thick from the STL to the A now
Hey now (Hey, hey), hey now (hey)
Let me help you with dem jeans, baby, lay down
Damn girl
How'd you get all that in
Dem jeans, dem jeans?
How'd you get all that in dem?
Damn girl
How'd you get all that?
(Is you talking to me?)
Yeah, you
I bet you had to jump up and down just to put 'em on
Bet you had to wiggle it around just to put 'em on
Bet you had to lay back on the bed just to zip 'em up
Am I right?
(You right)
Baby that's what's up
Now, now, now
When walkin' girl
And you make it swirl
It's hard for me not to look and I want you up in my world
Bubbled up (Oh)
Poking out (Hey)
Lickin' my lip saying, shawty swing it my way
Damn, ma, damn, ma
How the hell you get all that in dem pants ma
Hope you ain't up in here with your man ma
I love it when you wiggle it, shake it
Drop it, and do your little dance
True Religion, 7's or dem rocking Republics
Or the ones that fit the best and show it just how we love it
Know just how to hug it
Know just how to cuff it
When you walk away it make me wanna rub and say
Hey now (hey, hey), hey now (hey)
You know they thick from the ATL to the H-Town
I'm saying, hey now (hey, hey), hey now (hey)
Let me help you with dem jeans, baby, lay down
Come on
Damn girl
How'd you get all that in
Dem jeans, dem jeans?
How'd you get all that in dem?
Damn girl
How'd you get all that?
(Is you talking to me?)
Yeah, you
I bet you had to jump up and down just to put 'em on
Bet you had to wiggle it around just to put 'em on
Bet you had to lay back on the bed just to zip 'em up
Am I right?
(You right)
Baby that's what's up
I don't mean to be rude
But I like the way you move
Got your boy in the mood
Let's go back to my Jacuzz'
I ain't like them other fools
Got to play by my rules
Face down, ass up, pants off, look (ooh)
There it go, don't be scared
Let it show it, I like them curves
Make that thing talk, when you walk, I'm slurring my words
Drop it to the floor, ya heard
Ain't no hating girl, ya hot
I seen a lot of stallions, but man you working with a lot
Damn girl
How'd you get all that in
Dem jeans, dem jeans?
How'd you get all that in dem?
Damn girl
How'd you get all that?
(Is you talking to me?)
Yeah, you
I bet you had to jump up and down just to put 'em on
Bet you had to wiggle it around just to put 'em on
Bet you had to lay back on the bed just to zip 'em up
Am I right?
(You right)
Baby that's what's up
Damn girl
How'd you get all that in
Dem jeans, dem jeans?
How'd you get all that in dem?
Damn girl
How'd you get all that?
(Is you talking to me?)
Yeah, you
I bet you had to jump up and down just to put 'em on
Bet you had to wiggle it around just to put 'em on
Bet you had to lay back on the bed just to zip 'em up
Am I right?
(You right)
Baby that's what's up
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Dem Jeans Lyrics as written by Jermaine Dupri Howard Bailey
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