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"
I'd like to dedicate this to all the children
I have some food in my bag for you
Not the edible food, the food you eat, no
Perhaps some food for thought
Since knowledge is infinite
It has infinitely fell on me, so um...
It was a stormy night
You know the kind where the lightnin strike
And I was hangin out with some my yatzhee friends
Ooh wee ooh wee ooh wee
The night was long
The night went on
People coolin out until the break of dawn
Incense was burnin so I'm feelin right, aight
See I picks my friends like I pick my fruit
My Ganny told me that when I was only a youth
I don't walk around trying to be what I'm not
I don't waste my time trying to get what you got
I work at pleasin me
Cos I can't please you and that's why I do what I do
My soul flies free like a willow tree
Doo wee doo wee doo wee
And if you don't want to be down with me
Then you don't want to pick from my
Apple tree [x3]
And if you don't want to be down
You just don't want to be down
I have a hoe
And I take it everywhere I go
Cos I'm plantin seeds so I reaps what I sow
Ya know, ya know
On and on, and on and on
My body keep's movin like a rollin stone
I can't control the soul flowin in me
Ooh wee ooh wee
See I picks my friends like I pick my fruit
My Ganny told me that when I was only a youth
I don't walk around trying to be what I'm not
I don't waste my time trying to get what ya got
I work at pleasin me
Cos I can't please you and that's why I do what I do
My soul flies free like a willow tree
Doo wee doo wee doo wee
And if you don't want to be down with me
You don't want to pick from my apple tree [x3]
And if you don't want to be down with me
You just don't want to be down
Oh my my my my
Oh my my my my
Oh my my my my my my my
I picks my friends like I pick my fruit
My Ganny told me that when I was only a youth
I don't walk around trying to be what I'm not
I don't waste my time trying to get what you got
I work at pleasin me
Cos I can't please you, and thats why I do what I do
My soul flies free like a willow tree
Doo wee doo wee doo wee
And if you don't want to be down with me
You don't want to pick from my apple tree
And if you don't want to be down with me
Dum dum diddy
And if you don't want to be down with me
You don't want to pick from my apple tree
And if you don't want to be down with me
You just don't want to be down
You just don't want to be down
You just don't want to be down
I have some food in my bag for you
Not the edible food, the food you eat, no
Perhaps some food for thought
Since knowledge is infinite
It has infinitely fell on me, so um...
It was a stormy night
You know the kind where the lightnin strike
And I was hangin out with some my yatzhee friends
Ooh wee ooh wee ooh wee
The night was long
The night went on
People coolin out until the break of dawn
Incense was burnin so I'm feelin right, aight
See I picks my friends like I pick my fruit
My Ganny told me that when I was only a youth
I don't walk around trying to be what I'm not
I don't waste my time trying to get what you got
I work at pleasin me
Cos I can't please you and that's why I do what I do
My soul flies free like a willow tree
Doo wee doo wee doo wee
And if you don't want to be down with me
Then you don't want to pick from my
Apple tree [x3]
And if you don't want to be down
You just don't want to be down
I have a hoe
And I take it everywhere I go
Cos I'm plantin seeds so I reaps what I sow
Ya know, ya know
On and on, and on and on
My body keep's movin like a rollin stone
I can't control the soul flowin in me
Ooh wee ooh wee
See I picks my friends like I pick my fruit
My Ganny told me that when I was only a youth
I don't walk around trying to be what I'm not
I don't waste my time trying to get what ya got
I work at pleasin me
Cos I can't please you and that's why I do what I do
My soul flies free like a willow tree
Doo wee doo wee doo wee
And if you don't want to be down with me
You don't want to pick from my apple tree [x3]
And if you don't want to be down with me
You just don't want to be down
Oh my my my my
Oh my my my my
Oh my my my my my my my
I picks my friends like I pick my fruit
My Ganny told me that when I was only a youth
I don't walk around trying to be what I'm not
I don't waste my time trying to get what you got
I work at pleasin me
Cos I can't please you, and thats why I do what I do
My soul flies free like a willow tree
Doo wee doo wee doo wee
And if you don't want to be down with me
You don't want to pick from my apple tree
And if you don't want to be down with me
Dum dum diddy
And if you don't want to be down with me
You don't want to pick from my apple tree
And if you don't want to be down with me
You just don't want to be down
You just don't want to be down
You just don't want to be down
Lyrics submitted by Madame Me
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to me this song pretty much says just be true to yourself. "i work at pleasing me, cause i cant please you"
and i think that it has a connection with a fact that in her high school she was known as MC Apple