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"
That's why I never let a man pick out my clothes
Roll up in the town early afternoon (hey hey hey)
Looking for the pimp dress that'll make you swoon (hey hey hey)
Found a little number and a fancy brassiere (hey hey hey)
Lookin' like a mack all up in here (lookin' like a mack all up in here)
Whole block lookin' and the girls are hot
Pick one come and show me what you got
Everything or nothing if you want a lot of what's cookin'
She's lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin' like a mack, like a mack
Whatcha lookin' at me, oh
Step in lookin' like who, whoa
Drop it down then I pick it up slow
We run the town, city, states and the globe
Tryin' holla, I'm like, what, no
Plus he lookin' like eww, gross
I'm on the wave can you keep up with my flow
My music bang, you can feel it in your soul
And I rolled up in the town early afternoon
On the block lookin' hot like it's early June
At the top shinin' bright something like the moon
Can you picture with my lyrics bumpin' my cartoons
With my ace cause we're queens so we never get carded
Kill the scene then we leave call it dearly departed
Tryin' to dip but we can't cause we getting bombarded
You already know we coming the hardest
Cam light flashing and my click is hot
Pick one and come and show me what you got
Everything or nothing if you wanna a lot of what's cookin
'Cause she's lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin', aw
Look at little Willy walking down this way
Only bring a blonde on a good day
Not another autograph, cue the DJ
Everybody dance when I say
Whole block crushing and the girls are hot
Dancin' with each other cause the boys are not
Tryin' to trade numbers for the drinks they bought
But, whatcha supposed to think in a club full of thots
Pro black fashion and the girls are hot
Pick one, come and show me what you got
Everything or nothing if you wanna a lot of what's cookin'
'Cause she's lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin', like a mack
Here's my crew dressed in all black like we mobbin'
Pockets got the mumps so you know we never starvin'
Noddin' and bobbin' our heads to the beat
You see how we rockin' shows, go and get up out your seats
Life is like a movie when we step upon the stage
I got fifty different styles that I got up on display
We gon' make the party jump so you know we're here to stay
Stackin' paper up while y'all on the same page, come on
Cam light flashin' 'and my click is hot (hey)
Pick one and come and show me what you got (come on)
Everything or nothing if you wanna a lot of what's cookin'
'Cause she's lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin', aw
Tryin' to trade numbers for the drinks they bought (hey hey hey)
Drinks they bought, dri-drinks they bought (hey hey hey)
Club on a, club on a, club on a
Hey hey hey, hey hey hey
Club on a, club on a, club on a
She's lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin', like a mack
Lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin'
Roll up in the town early afternoon (hey hey hey)
Looking for the pimp dress that'll make you swoon (hey hey hey)
Found a little number and a fancy brassiere (hey hey hey)
Lookin' like a mack all up in here (lookin' like a mack all up in here)
Whole block lookin' and the girls are hot
Pick one come and show me what you got
Everything or nothing if you want a lot of what's cookin'
She's lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin' like a mack, like a mack
Whatcha lookin' at me, oh
Step in lookin' like who, whoa
Drop it down then I pick it up slow
We run the town, city, states and the globe
Tryin' holla, I'm like, what, no
Plus he lookin' like eww, gross
I'm on the wave can you keep up with my flow
My music bang, you can feel it in your soul
And I rolled up in the town early afternoon
On the block lookin' hot like it's early June
At the top shinin' bright something like the moon
Can you picture with my lyrics bumpin' my cartoons
With my ace cause we're queens so we never get carded
Kill the scene then we leave call it dearly departed
Tryin' to dip but we can't cause we getting bombarded
You already know we coming the hardest
Cam light flashing and my click is hot
Pick one and come and show me what you got
Everything or nothing if you wanna a lot of what's cookin
'Cause she's lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin', aw
Look at little Willy walking down this way
Only bring a blonde on a good day
Not another autograph, cue the DJ
Everybody dance when I say
Whole block crushing and the girls are hot
Dancin' with each other cause the boys are not
Tryin' to trade numbers for the drinks they bought
But, whatcha supposed to think in a club full of thots
Pro black fashion and the girls are hot
Pick one, come and show me what you got
Everything or nothing if you wanna a lot of what's cookin'
'Cause she's lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin', like a mack
Here's my crew dressed in all black like we mobbin'
Pockets got the mumps so you know we never starvin'
Noddin' and bobbin' our heads to the beat
You see how we rockin' shows, go and get up out your seats
Life is like a movie when we step upon the stage
I got fifty different styles that I got up on display
We gon' make the party jump so you know we're here to stay
Stackin' paper up while y'all on the same page, come on
Cam light flashin' 'and my click is hot (hey)
Pick one and come and show me what you got (come on)
Everything or nothing if you wanna a lot of what's cookin'
'Cause she's lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin', aw
Tryin' to trade numbers for the drinks they bought (hey hey hey)
Drinks they bought, dri-drinks they bought (hey hey hey)
Club on a, club on a, club on a
Hey hey hey, hey hey hey
Club on a, club on a, club on a
She's lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin', like a mack
Lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin'
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Like a Mack Lyrics as written by Prince Rogers Nelson
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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