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"
Shawty you the one I give my air to.
Think they can turn the music up if they care to.
All I might hear, is shawty right here.
Her ass make room even in a tight pair.
And the truth is, I'm on top like a roof is.
Shawty try n to get where my bloothooth is.
But I get cocky on them though, and when they halla I get foxy on a hoe.
Yeah that mean I go deaf, my game so official it don't need no reff.
If you stop winnin', I stop winnin', like I'm in the club, and the DJ stop spinnin'.
Baby I can turn you on, while them other nigga's try n to learn the song
Its Loso, in case you didn't know so, can't hear haters 'cause they talk low so.
Unlike anything that I've ever seen
Like a face that been cut out a magazine,
And a body like a goddess
Got these dudes truing there hardest,
But it ain't workin', oh oh,
I just sit back and observe the way you move,
Something 'bout you make me wanna get to you, and then the lights go dim (yeah)
And then I get this feeling, oh
[Chorus]
I can't hear the music (cause I'm focused on you)
I can't hear the music (wen I'm dance with you)
I can't hear the music (feels like it just me and you, in here, nobody can hear)
I can't hear the music (cause I'm focused on you)
I can't hear the music (wen I'm dance with you)
I can't hear the music (feels like it just me and you, in here, nobody can hear)
Unlike anything that I've ever felt before,
When we laid eyes, I could see that there was something more,
She was sexy and so innocent, guilty and magnificent,
I knew that I had to have that girl,
There was a silence that felt upon the club,
On comes the spotlight and all I could see was her,
We started moving to a heart beat,
You became a part of me (a part of me)
'cause
[Chorus]
Your so beautiful, like an angel on the dance floor
All eyes are on you girl,
Impossible to make one,
Since I laid eyes on you,
I hope that I'm gon leave with you,
Your what I'm wishin' for,
'cause
I can't hear the music (cause I'm focused on you)
I can't hear the music (wen I'm dance with you)
I can't hear the music (feels like it just me and you, in here, nobody can hear)
No, I can't (cause I'm focused on you)
Focused on you (wen I'm dance with you)
Dancing with you (feels like it just me and you, in here, nobody can hear)
I can't hear the music,
I can't hear the music,
I can't hear the music,
I can't hear the music
Whoa whoa whoa
Whoa whoa whoa
Whoa whoa
Whoa whoa whoa
Whoa whoa whoa
Whoa whoa
Think they can turn the music up if they care to.
All I might hear, is shawty right here.
Her ass make room even in a tight pair.
And the truth is, I'm on top like a roof is.
Shawty try n to get where my bloothooth is.
But I get cocky on them though, and when they halla I get foxy on a hoe.
Yeah that mean I go deaf, my game so official it don't need no reff.
If you stop winnin', I stop winnin', like I'm in the club, and the DJ stop spinnin'.
Baby I can turn you on, while them other nigga's try n to learn the song
Its Loso, in case you didn't know so, can't hear haters 'cause they talk low so.
Unlike anything that I've ever seen
Like a face that been cut out a magazine,
And a body like a goddess
Got these dudes truing there hardest,
But it ain't workin', oh oh,
I just sit back and observe the way you move,
Something 'bout you make me wanna get to you, and then the lights go dim (yeah)
And then I get this feeling, oh
[Chorus]
I can't hear the music (cause I'm focused on you)
I can't hear the music (wen I'm dance with you)
I can't hear the music (feels like it just me and you, in here, nobody can hear)
I can't hear the music (cause I'm focused on you)
I can't hear the music (wen I'm dance with you)
I can't hear the music (feels like it just me and you, in here, nobody can hear)
Unlike anything that I've ever felt before,
When we laid eyes, I could see that there was something more,
She was sexy and so innocent, guilty and magnificent,
I knew that I had to have that girl,
There was a silence that felt upon the club,
On comes the spotlight and all I could see was her,
We started moving to a heart beat,
You became a part of me (a part of me)
'cause
[Chorus]
Your so beautiful, like an angel on the dance floor
All eyes are on you girl,
Impossible to make one,
Since I laid eyes on you,
I hope that I'm gon leave with you,
Your what I'm wishin' for,
'cause
I can't hear the music (cause I'm focused on you)
I can't hear the music (wen I'm dance with you)
I can't hear the music (feels like it just me and you, in here, nobody can hear)
No, I can't (cause I'm focused on you)
Focused on you (wen I'm dance with you)
Dancing with you (feels like it just me and you, in here, nobody can hear)
I can't hear the music,
I can't hear the music,
I can't hear the music,
I can't hear the music
Whoa whoa whoa
Whoa whoa whoa
Whoa whoa
Whoa whoa whoa
Whoa whoa whoa
Whoa whoa
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I Can't Hear The Music Lyrics as written by John Jackson Elvis Williams
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