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"
(Whole squad get it down like this)
(Pharoahe fucking Monch, ain't a damn thang changed)
(Whole squad get it down like this)
(Sheek Louch, God)
(D-Block)
(Whole squad get it down like this)
(Crooked letter I)
(Whole squad)
(You can act stupid if you wanna)
(Whole squad get it down like this)
Sheek Louch, yo
Routine shit, wake up, fuck, hit a blunt
Go outside with my pack, see what these niggas want
D Eagle, whip is barely street legal
0 to 60, knocking my nigga Sigel
Hip hop fanatic, your shit pathetic
I'm De La, I'm Kane, I'm Ultramagnetic
Old school and new school, all of y'all can get it
Liquor hangovers, weed medication
New York City, L.O.X federation
Any jail cell, our music is meditation
You don't want my niggas to act up
Cause we ain't moving when I say them boys packing up
I talk shit, but everything I'm backing up
Big money, every day I'm racking up
You can blame us for the hard shit
D Block, box cutters in the yard shit
(Whole squad get it down like this)
(Sheek Louch, God)
(D-Block)
(Whole squad get it down like this)
(Crooked letter I)
(Whole squad get it down like this)
(Pharoahe fucking Monch, ain't a damn thang changed)
(You can act stupid if you wanna)
(Whole squad get it down like this)
Female talks plus ignorant individuals
Equal bitch niggas, their existence is criminal
I divide fuckboys in half, then live
Multiplied by the fucks that I don't give
You don't possess the grammar to step to Pharoahe's parameter
Trying to take a piece of the pie, or a slice of the ratio
Of a circle circumference to its diameter
Police scan a scrambler, damage your man with a blammer
Feeding Canada, land of the chicks, now get off my dick
Your whole squad's petty, sounds like shit
(Whole squad get it down like this), work with me though
The Queens strangler, the rap mangler, danger
The rapper who raps like he should have been born in Jerusalem inside of a manger
Four finger ring rock at the kango
With the headbanger thing hanging out of his pocket, he's not playing
Your topics are not bangun
(Whole squad get it down like this)
(Pharoahe fucking Monch, ain't a damn thang changed)
(Whole squad get it down like this)
(Sheek Louch, God)
(D-Block)
(Whole squad get it down like this)
(Crooked letter I)
(Whole squad)
(You can act stupid if you wanna)
(Whole squad get it down like this)
[Verse 3: Crooked I]
Nobody rhymes iller than Crooked, I'm Godzilla packing a big gun
This is capital punishment like a cop killer listening to Big Pun
I've got the plug on every drug like auxiliary for the street income
Truly, no lie, my crew be multi
Excuse me, but I'm usually the dude that the foolies don't try
Usually the shooter when the uzi roll by, with the goonies
I put more G's on your neck than a Gucci bow tie nigga
This is what happens when Statik Selektah
Get a rap from Hannibal Lecter, the cannibal predator
How to kill a rapper, I'm the manual's editor
Have to respect him, chew him, shit him out a mechanical rectum
Yeah, still getting cash till I pass
Trapped in this industry full of fags and high class
Hoes, that wanna sit on my lap for a band
Cause they heard I'm moving weight like a gastric bypass
I'mma be fresh as hell if the feds watching
I'mma be getting a best nugging
From a freshly dressed bitch at the edge of my bed with her head bobbing
Goblin, treating her cheaper than lunch in Red Robin
I'm out flowing you niggas with quotes, knowing you niggas is jokes, ha
If I really go in, you niggas are croked
Ocean crib, I'm just throwing you niggas in boat
Rocking dookie chain, showing you niggas the ropes crooked
I can keep going
(Crooked letter I), the streets know it
(Whole squad get it down like this)
(Sheek Louch, God)
(D-Block)
(Whole squad get it down like this)
(Pharoahe fucking Monch, ain't a damn thang changed)
(Whole squad get it down like this)
(You can act stupid if you wanna)
(Whole squad get it down like this)
(Down like this)
(Pharoahe fucking Monch, ain't a damn thang changed)
(Whole squad get it down like this)
(Sheek Louch, God)
(D-Block)
(Whole squad get it down like this)
(Crooked letter I)
(Whole squad)
(You can act stupid if you wanna)
(Whole squad get it down like this)
Sheek Louch, yo
Routine shit, wake up, fuck, hit a blunt
Go outside with my pack, see what these niggas want
D Eagle, whip is barely street legal
0 to 60, knocking my nigga Sigel
Hip hop fanatic, your shit pathetic
I'm De La, I'm Kane, I'm Ultramagnetic
Old school and new school, all of y'all can get it
Liquor hangovers, weed medication
New York City, L.O.X federation
Any jail cell, our music is meditation
You don't want my niggas to act up
Cause we ain't moving when I say them boys packing up
I talk shit, but everything I'm backing up
Big money, every day I'm racking up
You can blame us for the hard shit
D Block, box cutters in the yard shit
(Whole squad get it down like this)
(Sheek Louch, God)
(D-Block)
(Whole squad get it down like this)
(Crooked letter I)
(Whole squad get it down like this)
(Pharoahe fucking Monch, ain't a damn thang changed)
(You can act stupid if you wanna)
(Whole squad get it down like this)
Female talks plus ignorant individuals
Equal bitch niggas, their existence is criminal
I divide fuckboys in half, then live
Multiplied by the fucks that I don't give
You don't possess the grammar to step to Pharoahe's parameter
Trying to take a piece of the pie, or a slice of the ratio
Of a circle circumference to its diameter
Police scan a scrambler, damage your man with a blammer
Feeding Canada, land of the chicks, now get off my dick
Your whole squad's petty, sounds like shit
(Whole squad get it down like this), work with me though
The Queens strangler, the rap mangler, danger
The rapper who raps like he should have been born in Jerusalem inside of a manger
Four finger ring rock at the kango
With the headbanger thing hanging out of his pocket, he's not playing
Your topics are not bangun
(Whole squad get it down like this)
(Pharoahe fucking Monch, ain't a damn thang changed)
(Whole squad get it down like this)
(Sheek Louch, God)
(D-Block)
(Whole squad get it down like this)
(Crooked letter I)
(Whole squad)
(You can act stupid if you wanna)
(Whole squad get it down like this)
[Verse 3: Crooked I]
Nobody rhymes iller than Crooked, I'm Godzilla packing a big gun
This is capital punishment like a cop killer listening to Big Pun
I've got the plug on every drug like auxiliary for the street income
Truly, no lie, my crew be multi
Excuse me, but I'm usually the dude that the foolies don't try
Usually the shooter when the uzi roll by, with the goonies
I put more G's on your neck than a Gucci bow tie nigga
This is what happens when Statik Selektah
Get a rap from Hannibal Lecter, the cannibal predator
How to kill a rapper, I'm the manual's editor
Have to respect him, chew him, shit him out a mechanical rectum
Yeah, still getting cash till I pass
Trapped in this industry full of fags and high class
Hoes, that wanna sit on my lap for a band
Cause they heard I'm moving weight like a gastric bypass
I'mma be fresh as hell if the feds watching
I'mma be getting a best nugging
From a freshly dressed bitch at the edge of my bed with her head bobbing
Goblin, treating her cheaper than lunch in Red Robin
I'm out flowing you niggas with quotes, knowing you niggas is jokes, ha
If I really go in, you niggas are croked
Ocean crib, I'm just throwing you niggas in boat
Rocking dookie chain, showing you niggas the ropes crooked
I can keep going
(Crooked letter I), the streets know it
(Whole squad get it down like this)
(Sheek Louch, God)
(D-Block)
(Whole squad get it down like this)
(Pharoahe fucking Monch, ain't a damn thang changed)
(Whole squad get it down like this)
(You can act stupid if you wanna)
(Whole squad get it down like this)
(Down like this)
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