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"
Shawty snap (yeah), T-pain
Damn, shawty snap, Yung Joc (shawty)
Yeah, yeah, yeah (shawty snap)
Hey, hey, she's snappin'
Da-ooh, ooh, ooh
Yeah
Snap ya fingers, do ya step
You can do it all by yourself (woo)
Baby girl, what's your name?
Let me talk to you, let me buy you a drink
I'm T-pain, you know me
Konvict Muzik, Nappy Boy
I know the club, close at three
What's the chances that you are rollin' wit' me?
Back to the crib, show you how I live
Let's get drunk, forget what we did
I'ma buy you a drank, ooh (then I'm a take you home with me)
I got money in the bank
(Shawty, what you think about that? I'll be in the gray Cadillac)
We in the bed like
(Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh) whoa, whoa
We in the bed like
(Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh) whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Talk to me, I talk back
Let's talk money, I'll talk that
Krunk juice bombs, Oakley shades
Shawty got class, oh behave
Let's get gone, walk it out (now walk it out)
Just like that, that's what I'm talkin' 'bout
We gon' have fun, you gon' see
On that Patrón, you should get like me
I'ma buy you a drank, whoa, whoa, ooh (then I'm a take you home with me)
I got money in the bank
(Shawty, what you think about that? I'll be in the gray Cadillac)
We in the bed like
(Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh) whoa, whoa
We in the bed like
(Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh) whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Won't you meet me at the bar? Respect big pimpin'
Tell me how you feel, mama, tell me what you sippin'
A certified dime piece deserves Louis One-Three
One-fifty a shot, three for you and three for me
I'm checkin' yo' body language, I love the conversation
And when you lick your lips, I get a tinglin' sensation
Now we're both 'bout tipsy, you say you in the mood
All I need is 'bout a hour, better yet, maybe two
Let me take you where I live, Ferrari switch gears
When I whisper in ya ear, ya legs hit the chandelier
Passion fruit and sex all in the atmosphere
I'ma let T-pain sing it so he can make it clear
I'ma buy you a drank, whoa, whoa, ooh (then I'm a take you home with me)
I got money in the bank
(Shawty, what you think about that? I'll be in the gray Cadillac)
We in the bed like
(Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh) whoa, whoa
We in the bed like
(Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh) whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Let's get gone, walk it out (now walk it out, think about it, ah, snap)
Now rock, rock, rock, rock
You can do it all by yo' self
Let's get gone, walk it out (now walk it out, think about it, ah, snap)
Now rock, rock, rock, rock
You can do it all by yo' self
I'ma buy you a drank, ooh (then I'm a take you home with me)
I got money in the bank
(Shawty, what you think about that? I'll be in the gray Cadillac)
We in the bed like
(Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh) whoa, whoa
We in the bed like
(Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh) whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Damn, shawty snap, Yung Joc (shawty)
Yeah, yeah, yeah (shawty snap)
Hey, hey, she's snappin'
Da-ooh, ooh, ooh
Yeah
Snap ya fingers, do ya step
You can do it all by yourself (woo)
Baby girl, what's your name?
Let me talk to you, let me buy you a drink
I'm T-pain, you know me
Konvict Muzik, Nappy Boy
I know the club, close at three
What's the chances that you are rollin' wit' me?
Back to the crib, show you how I live
Let's get drunk, forget what we did
I'ma buy you a drank, ooh (then I'm a take you home with me)
I got money in the bank
(Shawty, what you think about that? I'll be in the gray Cadillac)
We in the bed like
(Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh) whoa, whoa
We in the bed like
(Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh) whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Talk to me, I talk back
Let's talk money, I'll talk that
Krunk juice bombs, Oakley shades
Shawty got class, oh behave
Let's get gone, walk it out (now walk it out)
Just like that, that's what I'm talkin' 'bout
We gon' have fun, you gon' see
On that Patrón, you should get like me
I'ma buy you a drank, whoa, whoa, ooh (then I'm a take you home with me)
I got money in the bank
(Shawty, what you think about that? I'll be in the gray Cadillac)
We in the bed like
(Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh) whoa, whoa
We in the bed like
(Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh) whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Won't you meet me at the bar? Respect big pimpin'
Tell me how you feel, mama, tell me what you sippin'
A certified dime piece deserves Louis One-Three
One-fifty a shot, three for you and three for me
I'm checkin' yo' body language, I love the conversation
And when you lick your lips, I get a tinglin' sensation
Now we're both 'bout tipsy, you say you in the mood
All I need is 'bout a hour, better yet, maybe two
Let me take you where I live, Ferrari switch gears
When I whisper in ya ear, ya legs hit the chandelier
Passion fruit and sex all in the atmosphere
I'ma let T-pain sing it so he can make it clear
I'ma buy you a drank, whoa, whoa, ooh (then I'm a take you home with me)
I got money in the bank
(Shawty, what you think about that? I'll be in the gray Cadillac)
We in the bed like
(Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh) whoa, whoa
We in the bed like
(Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh) whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Let's get gone, walk it out (now walk it out, think about it, ah, snap)
Now rock, rock, rock, rock
You can do it all by yo' self
Let's get gone, walk it out (now walk it out, think about it, ah, snap)
Now rock, rock, rock, rock
You can do it all by yo' self
I'ma buy you a drank, ooh (then I'm a take you home with me)
I got money in the bank
(Shawty, what you think about that? I'll be in the gray Cadillac)
We in the bed like
(Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh) whoa, whoa
We in the bed like
(Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh) whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Lyrics submitted by AubergineDrea7s
Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin') Lyrics as written by Darryl R. Richardson Alphonso J. Bailey
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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i'm not trying to be mean,, just correcting a few lyrics. --back needs to be bed like you have the [ ] --never booey needs to be snappy boy --i'm in the club needs to be i know the club --One juice bombs, all cliches needs to be Crunk juice bombs, Oakley shades
and by the way. this song came out WAY before fergie's song. so suck it. it's original bitch. :]
i love this song ! I lov his voice its so soothing it is basically about him talking to a girl in a club buting her a drink and wants her to come back to the house. I think young joc's verse on this track is really weak but overall i love it =]
i love this song ! I lov his voice its so soothing it is basically about him talking to a girl in a club buting her a drink and wants her to come back to the house. I think young joc's verse on this track is really weak but overall i love it =]
I Love This Song To The 1st time i heard it i did not think it was such a good song but now i do
it's not I'm T-Pain, you know me. Konvict music, never booey?
it's I'm T-Pain, you know me. Konvict music, nappy boy... nappy boy is a division of Konvict music, which T-Pain is signed with.
but i loveeeeeee this song*
AWESOME SONG!!!!!!! it always reminds me of my girl friend.
i luv this song!
he ripped off a lo of other rapper
s lines in this song but damnnnnn its good i like it anyways!! my favorite part is "i`m a take you home with me" the way he sings it is just amazing! i love it!!!I love this song.....and I so agree wit "star1988"
dude you missed the best part..oh wells...what you got is good enough for that I GUESS