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"
This right here go out to all the ladies
Who cannot predict when the sun will shine
Just make sure when it do, you bask in it
You embrace it, you let it hit you in the face
Huh, you know what I'm talking bout
Yo, yo, hey, hey
The sun was in the sky
I was bumping "Sly Love," hard to find in the summertime
You can spend a lifetime tryna predict when the sun will shine
Or simply bask in it like the flowers that come alive
Summer days always start extraordinary
Summer nights there's water in the air; wish it would storm already
I hit the corner store; I had a taste for strawberry quick
Seen the broad, very tall, very thick, licking her lips
Hips barely fit through the door
Imagine that--she bought a dutch and a lemonade out the Escalade
Bumping "Renegade" by Em and Jay
Symmetrical braids, incredible edible legs
Just to track her down I went on a ghetto crusade
Serenade this angel like Cyrano de Bergerac
The lightness of her being was unbearable
So here I am at her apartment building, apart from feeling
"Heartless" like Kanye with a talk-box
I walked four blocks out my way 'cause her walk had me focused
Her scent had me open, and since we had a moment
What I'm-a say? "Hey, I seen you in the store"?
She went into a building and I had to guess the floor
Knocking on every door; that took 'bout a half an hour
Till she answered "whoa"; was still soaked from the shower
I seen some sour diesel broken up on my CD
She introduced me to her roommates
This Vanilla Dutch and this is Swisha Sweety
I got you open yet?
It ain't over yet; I love you when you're soaking wet
Been looking for you like the bounty hunter Boba Fett
I'm the one, but you don't know it yet
The wettest skin--what a better beginning; she let me in
Let us begin; perfect weather for sinning, my Seraphim
We on the floor, barely made it through the door
New high score--she never came like that before, wow
It was hot in the summer time
You and me alone in the same room
Who cannot predict when the sun will shine
Just make sure when it do, you bask in it
You embrace it, you let it hit you in the face
Huh, you know what I'm talking bout
Yo, yo, hey, hey
The sun was in the sky
I was bumping "Sly Love," hard to find in the summertime
You can spend a lifetime tryna predict when the sun will shine
Or simply bask in it like the flowers that come alive
Summer days always start extraordinary
Summer nights there's water in the air; wish it would storm already
I hit the corner store; I had a taste for strawberry quick
Seen the broad, very tall, very thick, licking her lips
Hips barely fit through the door
Imagine that--she bought a dutch and a lemonade out the Escalade
Bumping "Renegade" by Em and Jay
Symmetrical braids, incredible edible legs
Just to track her down I went on a ghetto crusade
Serenade this angel like Cyrano de Bergerac
The lightness of her being was unbearable
So here I am at her apartment building, apart from feeling
"Heartless" like Kanye with a talk-box
I walked four blocks out my way 'cause her walk had me focused
Her scent had me open, and since we had a moment
What I'm-a say? "Hey, I seen you in the store"?
She went into a building and I had to guess the floor
Knocking on every door; that took 'bout a half an hour
Till she answered "whoa"; was still soaked from the shower
I seen some sour diesel broken up on my CD
She introduced me to her roommates
This Vanilla Dutch and this is Swisha Sweety
I got you open yet?
It ain't over yet; I love you when you're soaking wet
Been looking for you like the bounty hunter Boba Fett
I'm the one, but you don't know it yet
The wettest skin--what a better beginning; she let me in
Let us begin; perfect weather for sinning, my Seraphim
We on the floor, barely made it through the door
New high score--she never came like that before, wow
It was hot in the summer time
You and me alone in the same room
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