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 say you can't get up
'Cause you're too far down
You know you can't get up
When you can't get down
You know you can't get up
'Cause you're too far down
Song on
Okay, this what I'm on
Kick it to the club with the sound in the song
Freein' my mind from all that's goin' on
Tryin' to be right but it feels so wrong
Goddamn it, I'm drunk
Don't turn the lights on
I don't need y'all to tell me when to go home
2, 3, 4 in the morn'
It's a free world, I can do what I want
DJ, raise it back up
Who got that weed, we can blaze it back up
Look at that girl, she can't make it back up
We was just crankin' up, hey, y'all leavin' for what?
Man, I thought it was a party y'all
We can all get it crackin' like Mardi Gras
You can take your beads off, pull off your bra
But if you try to stand me up, I'ma probably fall
So I might have to be the one
To turn the world around
Put love where they had hate
And make the world get down
And you might have to be the one
To change it with me too
And if they try to stop us
We'll say funk you too
Haha, yeah
Yeah
And all the girls say
Ah ah ah
Ah ah
Love, y'all
Goddamn it, I mean it man
I bought the band, don't lean and stand
It's the last chance, throw up your hands
Whatcha standin' 'round for? Move around and dance
Now hit the flo' hit the flo'
When you see a girl get the ho, get the ho
Get her to the bar get the mo, get the mo
And when you get her drunk gotta go, gotta go
Gone, batta bing a bong
See my tires smoke like Cheech and Chong
We ain't on the roof but I see her thong
Got me beatin' on my chest like King or Kong
Pullin' on your hair 'til the weave is gone
Early in the mornin' when you're breathin' wrong
Even when I hear you breathin' on the phone
Just pull out the tape and rewind the song
So I might have to be the one
To turn the world around
Put love where they had hate
And make the world get down
And you might have to be the one
To change it with me too
And if they try to stop us
We'll say funk you too
Haha, yeah
Yeah
And all the girls say
Ah ah ah
Ah ah
Love, y'all
'Cause you're too far down
You know you can't get up
When you can't get down
You know you can't get up
'Cause you're too far down
Song on
Okay, this what I'm on
Kick it to the club with the sound in the song
Freein' my mind from all that's goin' on
Tryin' to be right but it feels so wrong
Goddamn it, I'm drunk
Don't turn the lights on
I don't need y'all to tell me when to go home
2, 3, 4 in the morn'
It's a free world, I can do what I want
DJ, raise it back up
Who got that weed, we can blaze it back up
Look at that girl, she can't make it back up
We was just crankin' up, hey, y'all leavin' for what?
Man, I thought it was a party y'all
We can all get it crackin' like Mardi Gras
You can take your beads off, pull off your bra
But if you try to stand me up, I'ma probably fall
So I might have to be the one
To turn the world around
Put love where they had hate
And make the world get down
And you might have to be the one
To change it with me too
And if they try to stop us
We'll say funk you too
Haha, yeah
Yeah
And all the girls say
Ah ah ah
Ah ah
Love, y'all
Goddamn it, I mean it man
I bought the band, don't lean and stand
It's the last chance, throw up your hands
Whatcha standin' 'round for? Move around and dance
Now hit the flo' hit the flo'
When you see a girl get the ho, get the ho
Get her to the bar get the mo, get the mo
And when you get her drunk gotta go, gotta go
Gone, batta bing a bong
See my tires smoke like Cheech and Chong
We ain't on the roof but I see her thong
Got me beatin' on my chest like King or Kong
Pullin' on your hair 'til the weave is gone
Early in the mornin' when you're breathin' wrong
Even when I hear you breathin' on the phone
Just pull out the tape and rewind the song
So I might have to be the one
To turn the world around
Put love where they had hate
And make the world get down
And you might have to be the one
To change it with me too
And if they try to stop us
We'll say funk you too
Haha, yeah
Yeah
And all the girls say
Ah ah ah
Ah ah
Love, y'all
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