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"
Yo - yuh say sheall request it - Ya man let she have it (oh-oh-oh-oh boy)
(She can't get a way - no) Could never - Could never - eh-eh (no no)
Give it to her hard (more with me-e-e)
Ya know - Tanto Metron Devonte - uh-huh (oh) Listen up
If she said she wanted - if she said shed need
If she said you love her - give it to her please (give it to her, give it to her)
If she said she wanted - if she said shed ne-e-e-ed
don't you keep her waiting - Give it to her please
Mana reella cor - yella out some more
Tackleem bon bed - Tackleem bon floor
Dema knowa da score - ya-la-quia ignore
hhNobody to know fi ever born
Mana conga-lee - Yella out to me
Pan shif me walk - from tree to tree
Engine run down - me service it free
Now-I-be-like - someboy boya bodella boys a singa ree - singa sing
Want us out fi - cop come see me
Traffic it a little - now is it te gimme
Ah went bya - railroad manlimi
Cal just collectinem - ba compan-immy
Imma love dem - short skirt and mini
I'm in love when, dem fat or slimmy
I now gro-gno-letto - from Phillie
Voux-las carminel like - some more rum-billits (I sing - I sing)
Mana reella cor - yella out some more
Tackleem bon bed - Tackleem bon floor
Dema knowa da score - ya-la-quia ignore
hhNobody to know fi ever born
Mana conga-lee - Yella out to me
Pan shif me walk - from tree to tree
Engine run down - me service it free
Cowmbe-like someboy boya bodella boys a singa ree - singa sing
Want us out fi - yi cop come see me
Traffic it a little - now is it te gimme
Ah went bya - railroad manlimy
Cal just collectinem - ba compan-immy
Imma love dem - short skirt
(She can't get a way - no) Could never - Could never - eh-eh (no no)
Give it to her hard (more with me-e-e)
Ya know - Tanto Metron Devonte - uh-huh (oh) Listen up
If she said she wanted - if she said shed need
If she said you love her - give it to her please (give it to her, give it to her)
If she said she wanted - if she said shed ne-e-e-ed
don't you keep her waiting - Give it to her please
Mana reella cor - yella out some more
Tackleem bon bed - Tackleem bon floor
Dema knowa da score - ya-la-quia ignore
hhNobody to know fi ever born
Mana conga-lee - Yella out to me
Pan shif me walk - from tree to tree
Engine run down - me service it free
Now-I-be-like - someboy boya bodella boys a singa ree - singa sing
Want us out fi - cop come see me
Traffic it a little - now is it te gimme
Ah went bya - railroad manlimi
Cal just collectinem - ba compan-immy
Imma love dem - short skirt and mini
I'm in love when, dem fat or slimmy
I now gro-gno-letto - from Phillie
Voux-las carminel like - some more rum-billits (I sing - I sing)
Mana reella cor - yella out some more
Tackleem bon bed - Tackleem bon floor
Dema knowa da score - ya-la-quia ignore
hhNobody to know fi ever born
Mana conga-lee - Yella out to me
Pan shif me walk - from tree to tree
Engine run down - me service it free
Cowmbe-like someboy boya bodella boys a singa ree - singa sing
Want us out fi - yi cop come see me
Traffic it a little - now is it te gimme
Ah went bya - railroad manlimy
Cal just collectinem - ba compan-immy
Imma love dem - short skirt
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Give It to Her Lyrics as written by Mark Wolfe Wayne Burton Passley
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