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"
Yo yo, yo, what's up, yo yo
Yo yo, we gonna, we gonna slow it down
So we can speed it up y'all
Right now I want everybody come to the front
That's right, move forward
I want all the poppers and the breakers, to form this circle
I want all the poppers and the breakers
The writers and the exciters, to get in this circle
And make it real live yo
'Cause I'm seeing too many stars up in here tonight yo
I'm seeing the Rock Steady Crew
I'm seeing Ken Swift, I'm seeing Mr. Wiggles
I'm seeing Modesho, I'm seeing Crazy Legs
Man I'm seeing the Zulu Nation up in here
I'm seeing the Rawkus family, Shabaam Shadeeq, Company Flow
Menelik, I'm seein G-ology, Shawn J. Period
Man this the Black Star movement
Mos Def, Talib Kweli we gon' keep it live
For the B boys and be girls universally
Rock Steady Japan, Rock Steady Europe
Rock Steady New York, yo we just gonna keep it live
All over the world, get live
Party people, in the place to be
My name is Talib Kweli
Yo, I got my man on the side of me
Mos Def-initely, and we, are
(Fresh) Black Star
(Fresh) G Young
(Fresh) Hi-Tek
(Fresh) Native Tongue
(Fresh) Shawn J.
(Fresh) Eighty-eight
(Fresh) Ninety-eight
We bout to motivate, come on y'all
Here's a little story that must be told
(About two young brothers who was put on hold)
They tried to stop the goal
(We on a spiritual plane)
Tried to kill the pride
(And destroy the name)
We just two bad brothers
(Who will never quit)
I'm Mos Def
(Kweli (We the ultimate))
Make sure that you tell
(Everybody you know)
To get on line
(Take a ride)
To the Black Star show!
(Black Star)
Shining
(Shining, we in the house)
Shining
(Shining, we in the house y'all)
(Black Star)
Shining
(Shining, we in the house)
Shining
(Shining, we in the house y'all)
(Black Star)
Shining
(Shining, we in the house)
Shining
(Shining, we in the house y'all)
(Black Star)
Shining
(Shining, we in the house)
Shining
(Shining, we in the house y'all)
Yo yo, we gonna, we gonna slow it down
So we can speed it up y'all
Right now I want everybody come to the front
That's right, move forward
I want all the poppers and the breakers, to form this circle
I want all the poppers and the breakers
The writers and the exciters, to get in this circle
And make it real live yo
'Cause I'm seeing too many stars up in here tonight yo
I'm seeing the Rock Steady Crew
I'm seeing Ken Swift, I'm seeing Mr. Wiggles
I'm seeing Modesho, I'm seeing Crazy Legs
Man I'm seeing the Zulu Nation up in here
I'm seeing the Rawkus family, Shabaam Shadeeq, Company Flow
Menelik, I'm seein G-ology, Shawn J. Period
Man this the Black Star movement
Mos Def, Talib Kweli we gon' keep it live
For the B boys and be girls universally
Rock Steady Japan, Rock Steady Europe
Rock Steady New York, yo we just gonna keep it live
All over the world, get live
Party people, in the place to be
My name is Talib Kweli
Yo, I got my man on the side of me
Mos Def-initely, and we, are
(Fresh) Black Star
(Fresh) G Young
(Fresh) Hi-Tek
(Fresh) Native Tongue
(Fresh) Shawn J.
(Fresh) Eighty-eight
(Fresh) Ninety-eight
We bout to motivate, come on y'all
Here's a little story that must be told
(About two young brothers who was put on hold)
They tried to stop the goal
(We on a spiritual plane)
Tried to kill the pride
(And destroy the name)
We just two bad brothers
(Who will never quit)
I'm Mos Def
(Kweli (We the ultimate))
Make sure that you tell
(Everybody you know)
To get on line
(Take a ride)
To the Black Star show!
(Black Star)
Shining
(Shining, we in the house)
Shining
(Shining, we in the house y'all)
(Black Star)
Shining
(Shining, we in the house)
Shining
(Shining, we in the house y'all)
(Black Star)
Shining
(Shining, we in the house)
Shining
(Shining, we in the house y'all)
(Black Star)
Shining
(Shining, we in the house)
Shining
(Shining, we in the house y'all)
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