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"
Got blue diamonds in my chain
But I ain't motherfuckin' crippin'
Naw nigga, I ain't lowkey
Y'all just motherfuckin' slippin'
If you caught some blue dream
Nigga that ain't even pimpin'
Thousand pounds of OG in and
I wrap 'em like crystal
If you niggas wanna get it, cost you 35 50
You can park your Honda Civic baby
Come jump in my Bentley
I rather that we go together than
You try to go against me
I got a bad bitch, super bad bitch
Gotta kiss that
Ass fat, pussy real good, my little nat nat
Slow your roll
Gotta hold on when she throw it back
Know your roll
Gotta go strong when we in the sack
And I treat that like a queen
Clean when I meet that
And I freak that, trick her outta jeans
Beat her from the back
Then I tease me, better please me
Like you need me
And if need be, ya better bring me them 60 PT
She a bad bitch, super bad bitch
Super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
She a bad bitch, super bad bitch
Super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
Fuckin' with little shawty cause
Her head strong
Gave her 10k told her buy a purse
She only wanna nigga cause the bread long
But she fuck me like a vet
So we can make it work
Louie V, Dior, she be wantin' more
Take her on the road and make
Me fuck her on the tour
Fuck her on the tour
I said fuck her on the tour
Shawty bust for everybody like she
Bout to go to war
We don't do no cuffin', I let bro hit her
If he don't get no love, I bet Bo get her
But she a bad bitch makin' more figures
Than half you niggas out there
And you know nigga
She a bad bitch, super bad bitch
Super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
She a bad bitch, super bad bitch
Super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
Super bad bitch, super bad wrist
I got a queen in the Audi, she ain't average
I got a Clark, Atlanta, brown skin, nasty
I got a spare me, bad bitch, classy
I got a gangsta bitch, do whatever I say
So roll my Backwoods and keep a throw-away
I know that pussy good and
That ass goin' crazy
And she gone flip for me if a nigga play it
I look back on my life
I swear to God I feel amazing
I put the pimpin' to make
A bitch refrain this
White girl, white girls
You know I'm not a stranger
And all my spanish girls, hasta luego
She a bad bitch, super bad bitch
Super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
She a bad bitch, super bad bitch
Super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
But I ain't motherfuckin' crippin'
Naw nigga, I ain't lowkey
Y'all just motherfuckin' slippin'
If you caught some blue dream
Nigga that ain't even pimpin'
Thousand pounds of OG in and
I wrap 'em like crystal
If you niggas wanna get it, cost you 35 50
You can park your Honda Civic baby
Come jump in my Bentley
I rather that we go together than
You try to go against me
I got a bad bitch, super bad bitch
Gotta kiss that
Ass fat, pussy real good, my little nat nat
Slow your roll
Gotta hold on when she throw it back
Know your roll
Gotta go strong when we in the sack
And I treat that like a queen
Clean when I meet that
And I freak that, trick her outta jeans
Beat her from the back
Then I tease me, better please me
Like you need me
And if need be, ya better bring me them 60 PT
She a bad bitch, super bad bitch
Super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
She a bad bitch, super bad bitch
Super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
Fuckin' with little shawty cause
Her head strong
Gave her 10k told her buy a purse
She only wanna nigga cause the bread long
But she fuck me like a vet
So we can make it work
Louie V, Dior, she be wantin' more
Take her on the road and make
Me fuck her on the tour
Fuck her on the tour
I said fuck her on the tour
Shawty bust for everybody like she
Bout to go to war
We don't do no cuffin', I let bro hit her
If he don't get no love, I bet Bo get her
But she a bad bitch makin' more figures
Than half you niggas out there
And you know nigga
She a bad bitch, super bad bitch
Super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
She a bad bitch, super bad bitch
Super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
Super bad bitch, super bad wrist
I got a queen in the Audi, she ain't average
I got a Clark, Atlanta, brown skin, nasty
I got a spare me, bad bitch, classy
I got a gangsta bitch, do whatever I say
So roll my Backwoods and keep a throw-away
I know that pussy good and
That ass goin' crazy
And she gone flip for me if a nigga play it
I look back on my life
I swear to God I feel amazing
I put the pimpin' to make
A bitch refrain this
White girl, white girls
You know I'm not a stranger
And all my spanish girls, hasta luego
She a bad bitch, super bad bitch
Super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
She a bad bitch, super bad bitch
Super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
Bad bitch, super bad bitch, super bad bitch
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Super Bad Lyrics as written by James Brown
Lyrics © CALDERWOOD, INC., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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