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"
Woo, uh, uh
Yeah, yeah come on
What's good? (Come on)
Young Decatur, comin' straight out the hood (yhat's right)
I'm just tryna put the spirit in your Yeezy Boosts (Yeezy Boosts)
Get your cup, it runneth over once I got the juice
Every day is Sunday mornin', woo, you hella late (you hella late)
See the colors of my father when I meditate
I'ma give it to you, mama, I can't even lie
Amber-colored lotus flowers when I touch the sky
I ain't even high, uh
There is love in every moment
Under the sun, boy
I did what I wanted to
There is love in every moment
Under the sun, boy
You do what you wanna do
Ooh, my beard long, damn, I look like Jesus (ahh)
And my shirt is off, ooh, I feel like Fela (ohh)
On my mama, boy, you silly, tryna please a hater
Do you feel me? (Nah, nah) Ya'll don't hear me (nah, nah)
Said I feel good, (feel good) look good (look good)
East Atlanta, (Gresham Park) Hollywood (Hollywood)
Never said it even though I prolly should (whoa)
I said I love me, l said I love me, ah, yeah
There is love in every moment
Under the sun, girl
I did what I wanted to
There is love in every moment
Under the sun, girl
You do what you wanna do
Uh-huh
When you looking at the devil
But you lookin' in the mirror
What you gon' say? (Wait a minute)
Uh, uh, when your money getting long
But you know you're doin' wrong
What you gon' say? (Wait a minute)
Uh, uh, when you know your mama dyin'
And you runnin' out of time
What you gonna say? (Wait a minute)
Uh, when you feel alone
Know you are not alone (Wait a minute)
Ahh, yeah
There is love in every moment
Under the sun, boy
I did what I wanted to, yeah, yeah
Now I just power forward
Under the sun, in every moment
I did what I wanted to
Everything that you're feeling right now (ooh)
Let it out, let it out (ooh, ayy)
Alright, you ready?
Okay, now, one, two, one, two, three
Now do your dance, mama
Ayy, ayy, ayy
Ayy, ayy, ayy, uh
Ayy, uh, yeah, uh
What? Feel it
What? Dance, lil' mama
Ayy, ayy, uh
Get loose
Uh, uh, uh, ayy, ayy
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh
Do what you wanna do
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah
No, no, no, no, no, baby
Do what you wanna do
Yeah, yeah come on
What's good? (Come on)
Young Decatur, comin' straight out the hood (yhat's right)
I'm just tryna put the spirit in your Yeezy Boosts (Yeezy Boosts)
Get your cup, it runneth over once I got the juice
Every day is Sunday mornin', woo, you hella late (you hella late)
See the colors of my father when I meditate
I'ma give it to you, mama, I can't even lie
Amber-colored lotus flowers when I touch the sky
I ain't even high, uh
There is love in every moment
Under the sun, boy
I did what I wanted to
There is love in every moment
Under the sun, boy
You do what you wanna do
Ooh, my beard long, damn, I look like Jesus (ahh)
And my shirt is off, ooh, I feel like Fela (ohh)
On my mama, boy, you silly, tryna please a hater
Do you feel me? (Nah, nah) Ya'll don't hear me (nah, nah)
Said I feel good, (feel good) look good (look good)
East Atlanta, (Gresham Park) Hollywood (Hollywood)
Never said it even though I prolly should (whoa)
I said I love me, l said I love me, ah, yeah
There is love in every moment
Under the sun, girl
I did what I wanted to
There is love in every moment
Under the sun, girl
You do what you wanna do
Uh-huh
When you looking at the devil
But you lookin' in the mirror
What you gon' say? (Wait a minute)
Uh, uh, when your money getting long
But you know you're doin' wrong
What you gon' say? (Wait a minute)
Uh, uh, when you know your mama dyin'
And you runnin' out of time
What you gonna say? (Wait a minute)
Uh, when you feel alone
Know you are not alone (Wait a minute)
Ahh, yeah
There is love in every moment
Under the sun, boy
I did what I wanted to, yeah, yeah
Now I just power forward
Under the sun, in every moment
I did what I wanted to
Everything that you're feeling right now (ooh)
Let it out, let it out (ooh, ayy)
Alright, you ready?
Okay, now, one, two, one, two, three
Now do your dance, mama
Ayy, ayy, ayy
Ayy, ayy, ayy, uh
Ayy, uh, yeah, uh
What? Feel it
What? Dance, lil' mama
Ayy, ayy, uh
Get loose
Uh, uh, uh, ayy, ayy
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh
Do what you wanna do
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah
No, no, no, no, no, baby
Do what you wanna do
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
53.49 Lyrics as written by James Francies Jr. Donald Glover
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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