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"
I'm young, I'm right, I'm flashy, I'm fly
So fly, I'm about to take off
Now O is the R&B, the Hip-Hop, that's me
Tonight we about to Face Off
Now watch as I drop that top on the Aston Mar', few shots then we left the bar
Anything she's asking for, I'll make it appear like a magic wand
I got the antidote, I got the stroke right and a pole
Gotta do it right on camera though
Bring another friend so my man can go
O
Hey baby, you say you wanna be my girl
Hey baby, send you on a flight 'round the world
Hey baby, you say you wanna be with a star
Hey baby, don't be afraid to show who you are
You scared? (Come on)
You scared? (Come on)
You scared? (She's a)
Jump off, jump off, jump off, jump off
You scared? (Come on)
You scared? (Come on)
You scared?
Jump off, jump off, jump off, jump off
I got one named Brenda, put her on my agenda
Shoulda seen the way I bend her, she drunk the juice from my pimp cup
Opened up and I entered, closed her up then I sent her
Home packin', I jumped out, then O jumped back in, go
You been checkin' us all night a bit confused
About who you gonna leave with, well let me help you
If you come through, you gotta do two, ooh
You been checkin' us all night a bit confused
About who you gonna leave with, well let me help you
If you come through, you gotta do two-ooh, yeah (ooh)
Hey baby, you say you wanna be my girl
Hey baby, send you on a flight 'round the world
Hey baby, you say you wanna be with a star
Hey baby, don't be afraid to show who you are
You scared? (Come on)
You scared? (Come on)
You scared?
Jump off, jump off, jump off, jump off
Check me out
I got one named Ashley, swear she can outlast me
Every time we go she's fast asleep, now you tell me who's daddy
She like oww, I gave her that oww
Now she's walkin' like oww
Now jump off, jump off, get off, I'm hot
Hey baby, you say you wanna be my girl
Hey baby, send you on a flight 'round the world
Hey baby, you say you wanna be with a star
Hey baby, don't be afraid to show who you are
You scared? (Come on)
You scared? (Come on)
You scared?
Jump off, jump off, jump off, jump off
You scared? (Come on)
You scared? (Come on)
You scared?
Jump off, jump off, jump off, jump off
I'm sayin', baby
It look like you having a hard time tryna pick who you tryna leave with
I'm sayin', you can take us both
You know they say two better than one anyway
I'm sayin'
Ayy, Rick Rubin, I'ma need a clearance on this pimp
So fly, I'm about to take off
Now O is the R&B, the Hip-Hop, that's me
Tonight we about to Face Off
Now watch as I drop that top on the Aston Mar', few shots then we left the bar
Anything she's asking for, I'll make it appear like a magic wand
I got the antidote, I got the stroke right and a pole
Gotta do it right on camera though
Bring another friend so my man can go
O
Hey baby, you say you wanna be my girl
Hey baby, send you on a flight 'round the world
Hey baby, you say you wanna be with a star
Hey baby, don't be afraid to show who you are
You scared? (Come on)
You scared? (Come on)
You scared? (She's a)
Jump off, jump off, jump off, jump off
You scared? (Come on)
You scared? (Come on)
You scared?
Jump off, jump off, jump off, jump off
I got one named Brenda, put her on my agenda
Shoulda seen the way I bend her, she drunk the juice from my pimp cup
Opened up and I entered, closed her up then I sent her
Home packin', I jumped out, then O jumped back in, go
You been checkin' us all night a bit confused
About who you gonna leave with, well let me help you
If you come through, you gotta do two, ooh
You been checkin' us all night a bit confused
About who you gonna leave with, well let me help you
If you come through, you gotta do two-ooh, yeah (ooh)
Hey baby, you say you wanna be my girl
Hey baby, send you on a flight 'round the world
Hey baby, you say you wanna be with a star
Hey baby, don't be afraid to show who you are
You scared? (Come on)
You scared? (Come on)
You scared?
Jump off, jump off, jump off, jump off
Check me out
I got one named Ashley, swear she can outlast me
Every time we go she's fast asleep, now you tell me who's daddy
She like oww, I gave her that oww
Now she's walkin' like oww
Now jump off, jump off, get off, I'm hot
Hey baby, you say you wanna be my girl
Hey baby, send you on a flight 'round the world
Hey baby, you say you wanna be with a star
Hey baby, don't be afraid to show who you are
You scared? (Come on)
You scared? (Come on)
You scared?
Jump off, jump off, jump off, jump off
You scared? (Come on)
You scared? (Come on)
You scared?
Jump off, jump off, jump off, jump off
I'm sayin', baby
It look like you having a hard time tryna pick who you tryna leave with
I'm sayin', you can take us both
You know they say two better than one anyway
I'm sayin'
Ayy, Rick Rubin, I'ma need a clearance on this pimp
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Hey Baby (Jump Off) Lyrics as written by Matko Sasek Lashaun Owens
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