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"
Nothing make a man feel better than his lady
Cause girl I got you
I know I'm always gone and I'm hardly never home
Don't worry bout nothing (baby girl I got you)
When I touch back down I'm a buy you everything
You ain't gotta work for nothing (cause girl I got you)
Don't worry what your friends say
Cause they be hatin' anyway
They mad when I tell ya (baby girl I got you) ha
It's just me and you against the world
Baby girl I know you got my back (cause girl I got you)
As I was walking by
I seen you standing there with a smile
Lookin' shy caught my eye
Thought you wanna hang a while
I-15 on the beat and I ain't cruisin' highways
So baby let's get away
Save the troubles for another day ha
Jammin' Escapade in the lot
Wit' Escalade on the back
Ya homies wack I promise that
It ain't trickin' if you got it
Might as well spend a stack
I hit the mall and ball down
Call me young Steven Jackson
And I'm the one
And I won with no games played
Never have to work in our life day we got it made
Every day's a vacae M-I-ami like Dade
And we ain't ever clean up baby
Cause I got maids ha
Young money we so paid
And if you ever get hurt baby I'm ya band-aid ha
While I'm lookin' at you
Never worry bout nothing cause girl I got you
I know I'm always gone and I'm hardly never home
Don't worry bout nothing (baby girl I got you)
When I touch back down I'm a buy you everything
You ain't gotta work for nothing (cause girl I got you)
Don't worry what your friends say
Cause they be hatin' anyway
They mad when I tell ya (baby girl I got you) ha
It's just me and you against the world
Baby girl I know you got my back (cause girl I got you)
Shawty I'm here any time that you need me
Fa sheezy I'm here to make ya life, easy
They say to every good dude there's a good lady
And I have mine already
Ain't no need to keep lookin' ha
And when I'm on the road you go to my house
And walk my bulldog and help my moms out
And play with my sister you know I love that
That's why whatever you want I'm a cop that
I'm your Rashad, you my Nu-Nu
I'm ya Will Smith, baby you my Jada Poo
And when I'm in the studio you come chill wit' me
Play around with my hair
You keep me motivated
If we had a team
I'd be Reggie Bush you'd be Kim Kardashian
Your body so amazing
And when I'm not witcha
I'm on my iPod Bumpin' "Forever My Lady" I love ya
I know I'm always gone and I'm hardly never home
Don't worry bout nothing (baby girl I got you)
When I touch back down I'm a buy you everything
You ain't gotta work for nothing (cause girl I got you)
Don't worry what your friends say
Cause they be hatin' anyway
They mad when I tell ya (baby girl I got you) ha
It's just me and you against the world
Baby girl I know you got my back (cause girl I got you)
I know I'm always gone and I'm hardly never home
Don't worry bout nothing (baby girl I got you)
When I touch back down I'm a buy you everything
You ain't gotta work for nothing (cause girl I got you)
Don't worry what your friends say
Cause they be hatin' anyway
They mad when I tell ya (baby girl I got you) ha
It's just me and you against the world
Baby girl I know you got my back (cause girl I got you)
Cause girl I got you
I know I'm always gone and I'm hardly never home
Don't worry bout nothing (baby girl I got you)
When I touch back down I'm a buy you everything
You ain't gotta work for nothing (cause girl I got you)
Don't worry what your friends say
Cause they be hatin' anyway
They mad when I tell ya (baby girl I got you) ha
It's just me and you against the world
Baby girl I know you got my back (cause girl I got you)
As I was walking by
I seen you standing there with a smile
Lookin' shy caught my eye
Thought you wanna hang a while
I-15 on the beat and I ain't cruisin' highways
So baby let's get away
Save the troubles for another day ha
Jammin' Escapade in the lot
Wit' Escalade on the back
Ya homies wack I promise that
It ain't trickin' if you got it
Might as well spend a stack
I hit the mall and ball down
Call me young Steven Jackson
And I'm the one
And I won with no games played
Never have to work in our life day we got it made
Every day's a vacae M-I-ami like Dade
And we ain't ever clean up baby
Cause I got maids ha
Young money we so paid
And if you ever get hurt baby I'm ya band-aid ha
While I'm lookin' at you
Never worry bout nothing cause girl I got you
I know I'm always gone and I'm hardly never home
Don't worry bout nothing (baby girl I got you)
When I touch back down I'm a buy you everything
You ain't gotta work for nothing (cause girl I got you)
Don't worry what your friends say
Cause they be hatin' anyway
They mad when I tell ya (baby girl I got you) ha
It's just me and you against the world
Baby girl I know you got my back (cause girl I got you)
Shawty I'm here any time that you need me
Fa sheezy I'm here to make ya life, easy
They say to every good dude there's a good lady
And I have mine already
Ain't no need to keep lookin' ha
And when I'm on the road you go to my house
And walk my bulldog and help my moms out
And play with my sister you know I love that
That's why whatever you want I'm a cop that
I'm your Rashad, you my Nu-Nu
I'm ya Will Smith, baby you my Jada Poo
And when I'm in the studio you come chill wit' me
Play around with my hair
You keep me motivated
If we had a team
I'd be Reggie Bush you'd be Kim Kardashian
Your body so amazing
And when I'm not witcha
I'm on my iPod Bumpin' "Forever My Lady" I love ya
I know I'm always gone and I'm hardly never home
Don't worry bout nothing (baby girl I got you)
When I touch back down I'm a buy you everything
You ain't gotta work for nothing (cause girl I got you)
Don't worry what your friends say
Cause they be hatin' anyway
They mad when I tell ya (baby girl I got you) ha
It's just me and you against the world
Baby girl I know you got my back (cause girl I got you)
I know I'm always gone and I'm hardly never home
Don't worry bout nothing (baby girl I got you)
When I touch back down I'm a buy you everything
You ain't gotta work for nothing (cause girl I got you)
Don't worry what your friends say
Cause they be hatin' anyway
They mad when I tell ya (baby girl I got you) ha
It's just me and you against the world
Baby girl I know you got my back (cause girl I got you)
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