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"
Please understand that I don't want you to stand back (come here baby)
Every time I walked away from this, nigga you ran back (ran back ran back)
And I swear to God, that's what I love about you
Question myself every time I doubt you
Cause I know that you care, breath of fresh air
I get bubbly inside every time that you stare
You love me even when I'm ugly
Make love to me, don't fuck me
Gotta make me feel so lovely
With a long grandma hug or don't touch me
Ignore them hoes when the phone run
So yeah, you in it for the long run
You mine now through thick or thin
So if she gave you brain, tell her think again
Won me like a prize (a prize)
Never tell me lies (no lies)
When you on me side (me side)
I feel civilized
Won me like a prize
Never tell me lies (no no)
When you on me side
I feel civilized (yeah yeah)
Lit like a candle
[Lyrics from: https:/lyrics.az/cupcakke/queen-elizabitch/civilized.html]
Love how you handle every little thing that I throw your way
Give you a sample of some of my flaws
But through it all, man I know you gon' stay
We poppin' like a two liter
I think I found myself a keeper
Telling you secrets knowin' you'll keep it
Never put me on blast like a speaker
Cause we so tight, it feels so right
Booty rubs through the night
Just take the stress away from a heavy day
Let's live a stress free life
Don't make me walk to the corner store by myself
Cause you gone have these niggas thinking I'm by myself
Want you around me all day like a Hermes belt
To avoid the past boys and the hurt I felt
Won me like a prize (a prize)
Never tell me lies (no lies)
When you on me side (me side)
I feel civilized (yeah yeah)
Won me like a prize
Never tell me lies (no no)
When you on me side
I feel civilized (yeah yeah)
Won me like a prize (a prize)
Never tell me lies (no lies)
When you on me side (me side)
I feel civilized (yeah yeah)
Won me like a prize
Never tell me lies (no no)
When you on me side
I feel civilized (yeah yeah)
Won me like a prize (a prize)
Never tell me lies (no lies)
When you on me side (me side)
I feel civilized (yeah yeah)
Won me like a prize
Never tell me lies (no no)
When you on me side
I feel civilized (yeah yeah)
Won me won me won me won me won me like a prize
Never never never never never tell me lies
Won me won me won me won me won me like a prize
Never never never never never tell me lies
Won me won me won me won me won me like a prize
Never never never never never tell me lies
Won me won me won me won me won me like a prize
Never never never never never tell me lies
Won me won me won me won me won me like a prize
Never never never never never tell me lies
Won me won me won me won me won me like a prize
Never never never never never tell me lies
Every time I walked away from this, nigga you ran back (ran back ran back)
And I swear to God, that's what I love about you
Question myself every time I doubt you
Cause I know that you care, breath of fresh air
I get bubbly inside every time that you stare
You love me even when I'm ugly
Make love to me, don't fuck me
Gotta make me feel so lovely
With a long grandma hug or don't touch me
Ignore them hoes when the phone run
So yeah, you in it for the long run
You mine now through thick or thin
So if she gave you brain, tell her think again
Won me like a prize (a prize)
Never tell me lies (no lies)
When you on me side (me side)
I feel civilized
Won me like a prize
Never tell me lies (no no)
When you on me side
I feel civilized (yeah yeah)
Lit like a candle
[Lyrics from: https:/lyrics.az/cupcakke/queen-elizabitch/civilized.html]
Love how you handle every little thing that I throw your way
Give you a sample of some of my flaws
But through it all, man I know you gon' stay
We poppin' like a two liter
I think I found myself a keeper
Telling you secrets knowin' you'll keep it
Never put me on blast like a speaker
Cause we so tight, it feels so right
Booty rubs through the night
Just take the stress away from a heavy day
Let's live a stress free life
Don't make me walk to the corner store by myself
Cause you gone have these niggas thinking I'm by myself
Want you around me all day like a Hermes belt
To avoid the past boys and the hurt I felt
Won me like a prize (a prize)
Never tell me lies (no lies)
When you on me side (me side)
I feel civilized (yeah yeah)
Won me like a prize
Never tell me lies (no no)
When you on me side
I feel civilized (yeah yeah)
Won me like a prize (a prize)
Never tell me lies (no lies)
When you on me side (me side)
I feel civilized (yeah yeah)
Won me like a prize
Never tell me lies (no no)
When you on me side
I feel civilized (yeah yeah)
Won me like a prize (a prize)
Never tell me lies (no lies)
When you on me side (me side)
I feel civilized (yeah yeah)
Won me like a prize
Never tell me lies (no no)
When you on me side
I feel civilized (yeah yeah)
Won me won me won me won me won me like a prize
Never never never never never tell me lies
Won me won me won me won me won me like a prize
Never never never never never tell me lies
Won me won me won me won me won me like a prize
Never never never never never tell me lies
Won me won me won me won me won me like a prize
Never never never never never tell me lies
Won me won me won me won me won me like a prize
Never never never never never tell me lies
Won me won me won me won me won me like a prize
Never never never never never tell me lies
Lyrics submitted by TheWhisper
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