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"
CHORUS:
concentration - concentration when you rhyme
dedication - dedication genuine
be patient and scrutinize your ev'ry line
there's no time to waste - life's a beach and then you dive
I just can't understand these clowns standing 'round
who don't know baggy pants come from hand-me-downs
you just can't be out there using sampled sounds
without the 101 - a bunch of pampered clowns
you getting trampled now - beating handed out
just get your knowledge straight before you demand and shout:
"this shit can't be stopped", but your eardrums popped
when Pale spoke through the speakers and the bomb beat dropped
you know what? no way - you don't stop
still that kid from back in the day - all grown up
so, turn the track a bit down and then the microphone up
'cos this here mic device is about to blow up
even in a bathrobe and flip-flops I radiate hip-hop
that spine-tingling kind - 1988 hip-hop
goosebump style and sweat starts to drip-drop
best believe that's concentrated hip-hop
Soul is expression, Blues is a session
Jazz is impression - now, class is in session
I'm your substitute preacher for the rest of the lesson
entitled: "history of hip-hop" - ain't no second guessin'
"don't let him teach - I know this man has been aggressive"
sometimes I underline too much when I'm blasting a session
I always join debates when grass is in question
argumentating profusely I leave a lasting impression
such verbal skills are always attached with a blessing
gift of gab - all gravy - with a fantastic dressing
e-e-equalize my voice with sufficient compression
bottom-heavy mix - 230 gram 12" pressing
make it loud - that's a keeper
I am a loud speaker
80's, 90's, 2G - wearing fat laced sneakers
the groove is infectious, who's on the mix? Lexus
banging "do not sleep on this" courtesy of Johnny Texas
La Jura finds contraband - I ain't saying names
it's personal use only - no wholesale in aim
it's MC Pales formerly of troll-slaying fame
I learnt wordplay playing roleplaying games
everything changes but still stays in place
our perception of life deceives us in amazing ways
from the days of old all the way to present day
how do you sleep at nights and get thru busy days?
concentration - concentration when you rhyme
dedication - dedication genuine
be patient and scrutinize your ev'ry line
there's no time to waste - life's a beach and then you dive
I just can't understand these clowns standing 'round
who don't know baggy pants come from hand-me-downs
you just can't be out there using sampled sounds
without the 101 - a bunch of pampered clowns
you getting trampled now - beating handed out
just get your knowledge straight before you demand and shout:
"this shit can't be stopped", but your eardrums popped
when Pale spoke through the speakers and the bomb beat dropped
you know what? no way - you don't stop
still that kid from back in the day - all grown up
so, turn the track a bit down and then the microphone up
'cos this here mic device is about to blow up
even in a bathrobe and flip-flops I radiate hip-hop
that spine-tingling kind - 1988 hip-hop
goosebump style and sweat starts to drip-drop
best believe that's concentrated hip-hop
Soul is expression, Blues is a session
Jazz is impression - now, class is in session
I'm your substitute preacher for the rest of the lesson
entitled: "history of hip-hop" - ain't no second guessin'
"don't let him teach - I know this man has been aggressive"
sometimes I underline too much when I'm blasting a session
I always join debates when grass is in question
argumentating profusely I leave a lasting impression
such verbal skills are always attached with a blessing
gift of gab - all gravy - with a fantastic dressing
e-e-equalize my voice with sufficient compression
bottom-heavy mix - 230 gram 12" pressing
make it loud - that's a keeper
I am a loud speaker
80's, 90's, 2G - wearing fat laced sneakers
the groove is infectious, who's on the mix? Lexus
banging "do not sleep on this" courtesy of Johnny Texas
La Jura finds contraband - I ain't saying names
it's personal use only - no wholesale in aim
it's MC Pales formerly of troll-slaying fame
I learnt wordplay playing roleplaying games
everything changes but still stays in place
our perception of life deceives us in amazing ways
from the days of old all the way to present day
how do you sleep at nights and get thru busy days?
Lyrics submitted by sakebox
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