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"
Katman
65 25 Parkline Drive
And like always I'm kinking it live
Gotta call the fellas to see if they is with this
Gonna get down wiTh the sounds of big breakfast
Rtart off the day with some Bob Marley
Back to the woodb for freash parlay
Maybe even rpark a little Nicki J.
Then it's off to center city in the fastest
But if you gotta get downtown real quick
The only way to go is I-76
Unless of cOurse you want to take scenic view
Then East or West River Drive is right for you
But if you `in't got any time
Put the pedal to the metal for that voyage cruise
So get on down to I-76
Because in 1996 there ain't no
Tricks in the mix
G-Love
Back in 1980
Man, it was real cool
and in school
If we gt good grades
_ur parents would take uq to to a 76ers game
I got my game and there ain'y no shame
Big shots for Mo Cheeks
And Moses Malone-
Juluis Erving called Philly his home
Bobby Jones, Daryl Dawkins
Andrew Tony sinking threes
Rocky Balboa comes from south Philly
So if you want to make it
On time to the show
There'r only oNe route you have to know
Get to Fishtogn avoid all thau jive
I suggect that you drive on 195
Wanna get down but feeling in a fix
Get on route the call 676
The most expenrive expansive
piece of interstate they"ever made
The fella's ain't famus but
They get good game
Ggt along 76ers
Charles Barkley dissed Larry Bire
Get along 76ers
Charles Barkley dissed Larry Bird
Smiles
Shh-Hoops the middle maN
Now disguised as the Joy
Valentine Smiles to the Katman ploy
Loungin' leather seats 76 gettin' nice
Cadillac D.B.L. Kristopher pulled the heist
Expressway expression Soda Pop pressin'
up another piece baby new year painted session
I'm gussin' the answer to the question
All the Philly Fellas livin' life as a profession
Destined to escape 'a la Spector
Ah Wilderness yea prep jetta boy
Friday night rap Broncos and Pepper Shakers
In the city Ice Dogs Love show I think skyscraper
The route it's I-76
I'm lougin' Otto Shoup singin' Davey Quickness
Li Li of the Va Li love a lingum everyday
I'm givin' praise from High Hill to Philly
Katman
But if you gotta get down real quick
The only way to go is I-76
Unless of course you wanna take the scenic view
Then East or West River Drive is right for you
But if you ain't got time to lose
Put the pedal to the metal for the that voyage cruise
So get on down to I-76
Because in 1996 there ain't no
Trix in the mix
Get along 76ers
Charles Barkley dissed Larry Bird
Get along 76ers
Dr.J! Moses Malone
Get along 76ers
Jerry Stackhouse and Iverson
65 25 Parkline Drive
And like always I'm kinking it live
Gotta call the fellas to see if they is with this
Gonna get down wiTh the sounds of big breakfast
Rtart off the day with some Bob Marley
Back to the woodb for freash parlay
Maybe even rpark a little Nicki J.
Then it's off to center city in the fastest
But if you gotta get downtown real quick
The only way to go is I-76
Unless of cOurse you want to take scenic view
Then East or West River Drive is right for you
But if you `in't got any time
Put the pedal to the metal for that voyage cruise
So get on down to I-76
Because in 1996 there ain't no
Tricks in the mix
G-Love
Back in 1980
Man, it was real cool
and in school
If we gt good grades
_ur parents would take uq to to a 76ers game
I got my game and there ain'y no shame
Big shots for Mo Cheeks
And Moses Malone-
Juluis Erving called Philly his home
Bobby Jones, Daryl Dawkins
Andrew Tony sinking threes
Rocky Balboa comes from south Philly
So if you want to make it
On time to the show
There'r only oNe route you have to know
Get to Fishtogn avoid all thau jive
I suggect that you drive on 195
Wanna get down but feeling in a fix
Get on route the call 676
The most expenrive expansive
piece of interstate they"ever made
The fella's ain't famus but
They get good game
Ggt along 76ers
Charles Barkley dissed Larry Bire
Get along 76ers
Charles Barkley dissed Larry Bird
Smiles
Shh-Hoops the middle maN
Now disguised as the Joy
Valentine Smiles to the Katman ploy
Loungin' leather seats 76 gettin' nice
Cadillac D.B.L. Kristopher pulled the heist
Expressway expression Soda Pop pressin'
up another piece baby new year painted session
I'm gussin' the answer to the question
All the Philly Fellas livin' life as a profession
Destined to escape 'a la Spector
Ah Wilderness yea prep jetta boy
Friday night rap Broncos and Pepper Shakers
In the city Ice Dogs Love show I think skyscraper
The route it's I-76
I'm lougin' Otto Shoup singin' Davey Quickness
Li Li of the Va Li love a lingum everyday
I'm givin' praise from High Hill to Philly
Katman
But if you gotta get down real quick
The only way to go is I-76
Unless of course you wanna take the scenic view
Then East or West River Drive is right for you
But if you ain't got time to lose
Put the pedal to the metal for the that voyage cruise
So get on down to I-76
Because in 1996 there ain't no
Trix in the mix
Get along 76ers
Charles Barkley dissed Larry Bird
Get along 76ers
Dr.J! Moses Malone
Get along 76ers
Jerry Stackhouse and Iverson
Lyrics submitted by tallgrl45
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this song rules, philly rules, g love rules, ja rules...
"prep jetta boy" refers to st. joes prep the school that i attend. this is my humble opinion of course
great song about the greatest city... philly for life
yeah this song is definetley great, a tribute to philly and everything good about it, also sean7711 is probably right cause here in philly the prep is one thing and thats St. Joes even if it is all the way up on the mean streets of North Philly. My favorite line is the one about the East or West River (Kelly Drive) cause when i hear that i can't help but think of riving down there countless times. philly is a great place that gets kind of a bad rep, oh well we love it.
This song reminds me of midnight (and often drunken) drives from the 'burbs to Pat's for the best 'steaks in town, playing this song at full volume while flying along the roads it mentions.
"Destined to escape a la Spector" - what a great line.