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 know you tired of these lames
Running same ole' game
About what they gon do for you
But girl I aint the same
You need a real Nigga like
Bowezzie in yo life
Type of Nigga that a splurg
Or give you anything you like
Get yo hair done, nails fixed
Boo, you got that
Bills late don't stress get 'em paid like that
Girlfriends hate cause they aint got nothing else to do
While we din'in at the hottest spots reservations for 2
She enjoy a Nigga company
She can't stop lovin me
Whispering in my ear freaky things she wanna do to me
I keep shawty secure make sure she ridin' right
Lil' mama got hella swag and her body super tight
She be telling me places like where she wanna go in life
Things she wanna persue, baby got her mind right
And that's exactly why she rollin' with B
And I'ma hold you down can you do the same for me
But in the mean time
If she want it, she got it
My keys and my wallet
So she can't get tired of me
She's the only one thing
I'ma give everything
Because she can't get tired of me
Because you can't get tired of me
No you can't get tired of me, me
She can't get tired of me me
She wanted a G so I bought her three
How can you get tired of a dude who is so fly
You made ya next move ya best move that's why you chose I
Baby daddy trippin I come over late in the night
Tongue kiss you in ya mouth while I'm caressin ya thigh
I don't care she gotta a kid that's life so hey
And plus I like lil' man I wanted kids anyway
G5 take off baby let's get away
Private yatch island hoppin baby what do ya say
Paparazzi flashin camera's TMZ action
On every blog site we got all the press askin'
I'm in the porche GT baby in the aston
My down ass chick and I love her wit a passion
Misery loves company a wise man told me
Ignoring all them haterz can't nobody do you greater
And that's why you rollin' with B
And I'ma hold you down can you do the same for me
But in the meantime
If she want it, she got it
My keys and my wallet
So she can't get tired of me
She the only one thing
I'ma give everything
Because she can't get tired of me
Because you can't get tired of me
No you can't get tired of me me
She wanted a G so I bought her three
Girl who melted you and poured you in that dress tonight
Can't get away cause yo body smellin' right right
Hey girl, (bow wow)Touch it why don't you girl
That's what you wanna do
You can't get tired of me cause I'm O
Even if you try to you couldn't let me go
There's no possibility
She aint got the energy, of even entertainin' the thought of leavin' me
She can't
Bow wow- You know you can't get tired of me
It's impossible, impossible, impossible, impossible, impossible
Because, I'm the flyest
And um, you can't deny it, impossible, impossible.
If she want it, she got it
My keys and my wallet
So she can't get tired of me
She's the only one thing
I'ma give everything
Because she can't get tired of me
Because you can't get tired of me
No you can't get tired of me me
She can't get tired of me me
She wanted a G so I bought her three
So you ready, um can you get use to this?
I mean, I know you fresh outta college but baby
I put you right up in a spot
Do you wanna get use to this?
Don't let yo future walk away
You might not ever see this again
Running same ole' game
About what they gon do for you
But girl I aint the same
You need a real Nigga like
Bowezzie in yo life
Type of Nigga that a splurg
Or give you anything you like
Get yo hair done, nails fixed
Boo, you got that
Bills late don't stress get 'em paid like that
Girlfriends hate cause they aint got nothing else to do
While we din'in at the hottest spots reservations for 2
She enjoy a Nigga company
She can't stop lovin me
Whispering in my ear freaky things she wanna do to me
I keep shawty secure make sure she ridin' right
Lil' mama got hella swag and her body super tight
She be telling me places like where she wanna go in life
Things she wanna persue, baby got her mind right
And that's exactly why she rollin' with B
And I'ma hold you down can you do the same for me
But in the mean time
If she want it, she got it
My keys and my wallet
So she can't get tired of me
She's the only one thing
I'ma give everything
Because she can't get tired of me
Because you can't get tired of me
No you can't get tired of me, me
She can't get tired of me me
She wanted a G so I bought her three
How can you get tired of a dude who is so fly
You made ya next move ya best move that's why you chose I
Baby daddy trippin I come over late in the night
Tongue kiss you in ya mouth while I'm caressin ya thigh
I don't care she gotta a kid that's life so hey
And plus I like lil' man I wanted kids anyway
G5 take off baby let's get away
Private yatch island hoppin baby what do ya say
Paparazzi flashin camera's TMZ action
On every blog site we got all the press askin'
I'm in the porche GT baby in the aston
My down ass chick and I love her wit a passion
Misery loves company a wise man told me
Ignoring all them haterz can't nobody do you greater
And that's why you rollin' with B
And I'ma hold you down can you do the same for me
But in the meantime
If she want it, she got it
My keys and my wallet
So she can't get tired of me
She the only one thing
I'ma give everything
Because she can't get tired of me
Because you can't get tired of me
No you can't get tired of me me
She wanted a G so I bought her three
Girl who melted you and poured you in that dress tonight
Can't get away cause yo body smellin' right right
Hey girl, (bow wow)Touch it why don't you girl
That's what you wanna do
You can't get tired of me cause I'm O
Even if you try to you couldn't let me go
There's no possibility
She aint got the energy, of even entertainin' the thought of leavin' me
She can't
Bow wow- You know you can't get tired of me
It's impossible, impossible, impossible, impossible, impossible
Because, I'm the flyest
And um, you can't deny it, impossible, impossible.
If she want it, she got it
My keys and my wallet
So she can't get tired of me
She's the only one thing
I'ma give everything
Because she can't get tired of me
Because you can't get tired of me
No you can't get tired of me me
She can't get tired of me me
She wanted a G so I bought her three
So you ready, um can you get use to this?
I mean, I know you fresh outta college but baby
I put you right up in a spot
Do you wanna get use to this?
Don't let yo future walk away
You might not ever see this again
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Can't Get Tired of Me Lyrics as written by Jhene Aiko Chilombo Brandon Howard
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