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"
Said it ain't what you do cuz, woo hey
(Everybody knows what's up 'cause everybody wanna get next to me)
So if you knew what I do, she'll be yours tonight, yeah (ooh oh oh)
Imagine she came here to get away (get away)
Well she don't want nobody crowding her space
Wouldn't that be weird? Aw yeah (woo)
Ooh, she was up tonight to get down
But she don't wanna be a part of the crowd (uh-uh)
Wouldn't that be weird? Aw yeah
I'm so confused, if you only knew, she came to give it to you
It ain't what you do, it's what you do tonight (woo)
And there ain't no shortcut to doing something right
If you knew what I knew, she'll be yours tonight (woo)
Just look around the club cuz, you're here to have a good time (ooh oh oh)
So many benefits to being quiet, just be cool, enjoy the ride
'Cause all she really wanna do is, wouldn't that be weird? Yeah (ooh oh oh)
Don't be stingy with it, pass the J, let her hit it if it's heading her way
Ooh, my nigga that's weird (you don't let her hit it, you don't let her get it)
I'm so confused, if you only knew she came to give it to you
It ain't what you do, it's what you do tonight (woo)
And there ain't no shortcut to doing something right
If you knew what I knew, she'll be yours tonight
Just look around the club cuz, you're here to have a good time
I'm so confused, if you only knew she came to give it to you
Yo, he want the flirty girl, I'm the girly girl
You know who, get the worm is the early bird
Flow, slicker than MJ, early curl
I got to clip these niggas like Sterly Sterl
I seen him in the club he could get the cub
I ain't talking 'bout baseball but go get the glove
Don't be like OJ and forget your glove
I'm tryna get faded, nigga go and get the drugs (the drugs)
Five plus five what they call that? Ten
Out in Japan we be counting that Yen
Ladies who you trying popping with? Men
No little boys in the circle of Usher
Got'em under pressure
When your girl come through, Nicki gone crush her
And tell your man play the back like a spine
He only last six seconds like a Vine
I'm so confused, if you only knew she came to give it to you
It ain't what you do, it's what you do tonight (woo)
And there ain't no shortcut to doing something right
If you knew what I knew, she'll be yours tonight
Just look around the club cuz, you're here to have a good time
Come on, just start something, you gone get it (she's trying to give it you)
Just start something, gone get it, gone get it (she's trying to give it you)
Just start something, gone get it, gone get it (come on, she's trying to give it you)
Just start something, you gone get it, gone get it (come on, she's trying to give it you)
Yeah, come on, come on (you gone get it, all she really wanna do is get it)
Come on, uh huh, yo, yo (woo) (you gone get it, all she really wanna do is get it)
I'm Nicki M and he is Usher
All these niggas be tryna cuff her (you gone get it, all she really wanna do is get it)
What you know about that Swiffer duster? (you gone get it, all she really wanna do is get it)
Until next time you motherfucker hahaha (you gone get it, all she really wanna do is get it)
(Everybody knows what's up 'cause everybody wanna get next to me)
So if you knew what I do, she'll be yours tonight, yeah (ooh oh oh)
Imagine she came here to get away (get away)
Well she don't want nobody crowding her space
Wouldn't that be weird? Aw yeah (woo)
Ooh, she was up tonight to get down
But she don't wanna be a part of the crowd (uh-uh)
Wouldn't that be weird? Aw yeah
I'm so confused, if you only knew, she came to give it to you
It ain't what you do, it's what you do tonight (woo)
And there ain't no shortcut to doing something right
If you knew what I knew, she'll be yours tonight (woo)
Just look around the club cuz, you're here to have a good time (ooh oh oh)
So many benefits to being quiet, just be cool, enjoy the ride
'Cause all she really wanna do is, wouldn't that be weird? Yeah (ooh oh oh)
Don't be stingy with it, pass the J, let her hit it if it's heading her way
Ooh, my nigga that's weird (you don't let her hit it, you don't let her get it)
I'm so confused, if you only knew she came to give it to you
It ain't what you do, it's what you do tonight (woo)
And there ain't no shortcut to doing something right
If you knew what I knew, she'll be yours tonight
Just look around the club cuz, you're here to have a good time
I'm so confused, if you only knew she came to give it to you
Yo, he want the flirty girl, I'm the girly girl
You know who, get the worm is the early bird
Flow, slicker than MJ, early curl
I got to clip these niggas like Sterly Sterl
I seen him in the club he could get the cub
I ain't talking 'bout baseball but go get the glove
Don't be like OJ and forget your glove
I'm tryna get faded, nigga go and get the drugs (the drugs)
Five plus five what they call that? Ten
Out in Japan we be counting that Yen
Ladies who you trying popping with? Men
No little boys in the circle of Usher
Got'em under pressure
When your girl come through, Nicki gone crush her
And tell your man play the back like a spine
He only last six seconds like a Vine
I'm so confused, if you only knew she came to give it to you
It ain't what you do, it's what you do tonight (woo)
And there ain't no shortcut to doing something right
If you knew what I knew, she'll be yours tonight
Just look around the club cuz, you're here to have a good time
Come on, just start something, you gone get it (she's trying to give it you)
Just start something, gone get it, gone get it (she's trying to give it you)
Just start something, gone get it, gone get it (come on, she's trying to give it you)
Just start something, you gone get it, gone get it (come on, she's trying to give it you)
Yeah, come on, come on (you gone get it, all she really wanna do is get it)
Come on, uh huh, yo, yo (woo) (you gone get it, all she really wanna do is get it)
I'm Nicki M and he is Usher
All these niggas be tryna cuff her (you gone get it, all she really wanna do is get it)
What you know about that Swiffer duster? (you gone get it, all she really wanna do is get it)
Until next time you motherfucker hahaha (you gone get it, all she really wanna do is get it)
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