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"
All my thugs and thugettes
Walk where I walk, see what I see
Now I welcome you all to Cashville, Tennekee
All my life, I hustle'd all night
Now I'm alright, my wrist is all ice
And I did it all, without ya'll advice
I done been to hell and back, twice
You can't do it like me!
Now as the world turns, I let my bud burn
Police writin' down my tags, like I'm concerned
I graduated from the nickels and dimes
You need the F.e.d.'s bitch, to come get mine
Get on the grind hoe, and stay the fuck up outta mine fo'
The kid's find daddy lay'd out with his eyes closed
I know, can't be humble in the jungle
Give a nigga an inch, he'll take a whole mile from ya'
So I bust first, fuck this earth nigga
What's worse? wakin' up in the pen, or sleepin' up under the dirt
Boo yow! Is the sound of the 40 cal
Ak's banana clips hold a 100 rounds
Test me, rude boy don't want none
Got Jamaican's and Hesian's buck, buck, buckin' they gun
Where the hood at? Nigga, that's where I come from
Where shoot dice, snort white, sell crack and heroine
[Chorus: ]
You can walk like I do, and talk like me too
But nobody gon' rock with you
'Cause you can't do it like me (nah, you can't do it like me)
Hold on a second homie, lets get this clear}
You can walk like I do, and talk like me too
But nobody gon' rock with you
'Cause you can't do it like me (cuz, you can't do it like me)
Hold on a second homie, lets get this clear}
G-unit!!!
Somebody tell me what this world comin' to
Why they go get they metal detector's when we come through
Yah, I know we got beef, and niggas say they want to kill us
But you can't get mad, 'cause the whole world feel us
Do the math, half of these niggas lying in they rhymes
They don't even read the paper work, just sign on the line
I got a 9, and a heart to go get mine
And I'll be god damn, if I take a loss this time
I'm fishline, in the water, nibble only to get caught
May I take ya' order? yah, I can get it in new york
See the streets know, this nigga here'll let the heat go
Be low, don't be no muthafuckin' hero
A kilo'll get a nigga whole click killed
You ain't gotta spend shit, niggas'll hustle up a mill
When you live with all the roaches, you kill all the rats
And the thugs, that ain't focused, get they head cracked
[Chorus: ]
I know I got a dirty mouth, bitch I'm from the south
I'm nuthin' like what you done seen or you done heard about
I'm in my best on the block, a vest and a glock, and the rest in my sock
Unless I was Pac, you won't see me with a cross on my back
Gotta do my own thang, can't copy that cat
Let me holla at ya' for a minute man'ne
If ya stand for nuthin' nigga, you'll fall for anythang
I'm bustin' any brain, they say that I'm insane
But I came in this game with cocaine in my veins
What I'm sayin', that I'm trained to go and turn a penny to a 20
You complain, I'd rather work with what he sent me, ain't it strange?
How I went from a Hoopty to a Bentley, I ain't changed
I'm in the hood, you want me? come and get me
Feel my pain, but don't feel sorry for me
'Cause they're some kids in Samalia with nuthin' to eat
[Chorus: ]
Walk where I walk, see what I see
Now I welcome you all to Cashville, Tennekee
All my life, I hustle'd all night
Now I'm alright, my wrist is all ice
And I did it all, without ya'll advice
I done been to hell and back, twice
You can't do it like me!
Now as the world turns, I let my bud burn
Police writin' down my tags, like I'm concerned
I graduated from the nickels and dimes
You need the F.e.d.'s bitch, to come get mine
Get on the grind hoe, and stay the fuck up outta mine fo'
The kid's find daddy lay'd out with his eyes closed
I know, can't be humble in the jungle
Give a nigga an inch, he'll take a whole mile from ya'
So I bust first, fuck this earth nigga
What's worse? wakin' up in the pen, or sleepin' up under the dirt
Boo yow! Is the sound of the 40 cal
Ak's banana clips hold a 100 rounds
Test me, rude boy don't want none
Got Jamaican's and Hesian's buck, buck, buckin' they gun
Where the hood at? Nigga, that's where I come from
Where shoot dice, snort white, sell crack and heroine
[Chorus: ]
You can walk like I do, and talk like me too
But nobody gon' rock with you
'Cause you can't do it like me (nah, you can't do it like me)
Hold on a second homie, lets get this clear}
You can walk like I do, and talk like me too
But nobody gon' rock with you
'Cause you can't do it like me (cuz, you can't do it like me)
Hold on a second homie, lets get this clear}
G-unit!!!
Somebody tell me what this world comin' to
Why they go get they metal detector's when we come through
Yah, I know we got beef, and niggas say they want to kill us
But you can't get mad, 'cause the whole world feel us
Do the math, half of these niggas lying in they rhymes
They don't even read the paper work, just sign on the line
I got a 9, and a heart to go get mine
And I'll be god damn, if I take a loss this time
I'm fishline, in the water, nibble only to get caught
May I take ya' order? yah, I can get it in new york
See the streets know, this nigga here'll let the heat go
Be low, don't be no muthafuckin' hero
A kilo'll get a nigga whole click killed
You ain't gotta spend shit, niggas'll hustle up a mill
When you live with all the roaches, you kill all the rats
And the thugs, that ain't focused, get they head cracked
[Chorus: ]
I know I got a dirty mouth, bitch I'm from the south
I'm nuthin' like what you done seen or you done heard about
I'm in my best on the block, a vest and a glock, and the rest in my sock
Unless I was Pac, you won't see me with a cross on my back
Gotta do my own thang, can't copy that cat
Let me holla at ya' for a minute man'ne
If ya stand for nuthin' nigga, you'll fall for anythang
I'm bustin' any brain, they say that I'm insane
But I came in this game with cocaine in my veins
What I'm sayin', that I'm trained to go and turn a penny to a 20
You complain, I'd rather work with what he sent me, ain't it strange?
How I went from a Hoopty to a Bentley, I ain't changed
I'm in the hood, you want me? come and get me
Feel my pain, but don't feel sorry for me
'Cause they're some kids in Samalia with nuthin' to eat
[Chorus: ]
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