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"
Whoo
I'm a boss so I hit her with the little head game
I can tell she like to taste sweet things
First thing I met her for sense a switch go
Damn I been gone too long
She know what the business was
I told her to get at it
Took the lead promo static
Puerto Rican mix sweet tone
Only promise she was with this cat standing six foot four
She said I ride my own (check)
Go away (check)
Don't worry bout it your just another pay (check)
She said I ain't gotta ask anything I want (yet)
I said what that's called when you move it like (that)
She kept reiterating she had a thing for (sex)
A man and another man she tried (yet)
So I pulled back put it up another drink
She like tell me what you think
Gotta just take another puff
[Chorus:Repeat x2]
She wanna smoke Cohiba
You gotta work for that
Gotta work for that
Can I smoke your Cohiba
You gotta work for that
Gotta work for that
She wanna smoke my Cohiba
You gotta work for that
Gotta work for that
Can I smoke your Cohiba
You gotta work for that
Gotta work for that
She told me not to think how could I hesitate
Who would love the chance
Just to give it to me
I knew it the things I would do to her
But I keep thinking me him and her
But the obvious told me believe her
Heard that she giving me the fever
Slow up ma and kick back
While I think about what I'm gon do with that
She said I ride my own (check)
Go away (check)
Don't worry about it
Your just another pay (check)
She said I ain't gotta ask anything I want (yet)
I said well
What's that called when you move it like (that)
She kept reiterating
She had a thing for (thing for)
A man and another man she tried (she tried)
So I pulled back put it up another drink
She like tell me what you think
Got to just take another puff
[Chorus:Repeat x2]
You wanna smoke my smoke my
Who else but good crack now
Want a made back
With a hat down
Got money
And we don't know how to act now
All talk puff this 'til we pass out
Man he so crazy and he my baby
And he gon pay me now
He sound crazy 'cause he ain't got paying
And you ain't staying now cash talk
With a project
Fat in a palm and it got knocked
'cause she palm from the Bronx
With the hardest lift
Yea definitely for the sonic kick
[Chorus:Repeat x2]
I'm a boss so I hit her with the little head game
I can tell she like to taste sweet things
First thing I met her for sense a switch go
Damn I been gone too long
She know what the business was
I told her to get at it
Took the lead promo static
Puerto Rican mix sweet tone
Only promise she was with this cat standing six foot four
She said I ride my own (check)
Go away (check)
Don't worry bout it your just another pay (check)
She said I ain't gotta ask anything I want (yet)
I said what that's called when you move it like (that)
She kept reiterating she had a thing for (sex)
A man and another man she tried (yet)
So I pulled back put it up another drink
She like tell me what you think
Gotta just take another puff
[Chorus:Repeat x2]
She wanna smoke Cohiba
You gotta work for that
Gotta work for that
Can I smoke your Cohiba
You gotta work for that
Gotta work for that
She wanna smoke my Cohiba
You gotta work for that
Gotta work for that
Can I smoke your Cohiba
You gotta work for that
Gotta work for that
She told me not to think how could I hesitate
Who would love the chance
Just to give it to me
I knew it the things I would do to her
But I keep thinking me him and her
But the obvious told me believe her
Heard that she giving me the fever
Slow up ma and kick back
While I think about what I'm gon do with that
She said I ride my own (check)
Go away (check)
Don't worry about it
Your just another pay (check)
She said I ain't gotta ask anything I want (yet)
I said well
What's that called when you move it like (that)
She kept reiterating
She had a thing for (thing for)
A man and another man she tried (she tried)
So I pulled back put it up another drink
She like tell me what you think
Got to just take another puff
[Chorus:Repeat x2]
You wanna smoke my smoke my
Who else but good crack now
Want a made back
With a hat down
Got money
And we don't know how to act now
All talk puff this 'til we pass out
Man he so crazy and he my baby
And he gon pay me now
He sound crazy 'cause he ain't got paying
And you ain't staying now cash talk
With a project
Fat in a palm and it got knocked
'cause she palm from the Bronx
With the hardest lift
Yea definitely for the sonic kick
[Chorus:Repeat x2]
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Cohiba Lyrics as written by Scott Storch
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