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"
Sing the song, sing the song with me
Lady, tell me why, tell me so
I ask you to go high, you tell me to go low
So I go low, taste the shit
Taste it again, I like it
I'm the original G-O-D
Making young ladies scream's my specialty
When I go dun dun dun duh, girls get hype
From the funky fresh music that was stereotyped
When I kill, that ol' mad funky flow
Not sayin' Ason, duck duck disco
Or disco duck, strictly hip hop
Baby baby, I can't stop
Wu, gots like come on through
Soo, that's the call for the Wu
I came here to rectify
Brooklyn Zoo, terrify
Why, niggas want to get up and rap and rap and rap
Man, fuck that
Hits, that I make it's the shit
I want to see ya hands in the air, can ya dig it
Let's sing the song
Come on party people, all in together now, sing along
Have you ever ever ever
In your long legged life
Had a bald headed bitch
For your bald headed wife
Gimme dat
Who's the baddest motherfucka in the Brooklyn town
And also representer of the Wu-Tang sound
If you want to get up and get fucked up
Last nigga got up and got shot up
But you's a gangsta, on the boards I'll bang ya
Mess with the Wu-Tanger, I'll bang ya
You'll get shanked and spanked and alley-ooped
I admire true niggas like Dre and Snoop
Chamber number 9, verse 32
Only speaks about Brooklyn Zoo
That a true nigga shall come through
No one is available to be compatible
Yo, this is chamber number 9, verse 32
Is what we call The Stomp
The stomp is down, get down for your crown, stomp
Brothas always playin' with the microphone
When it blows up in your face, you leave it alone
You couldn't touch, this style is too much
It's the rhymer, I don't give a crippled crab crutch
Any nigga or niggarette
Get burned to the brimecell like a cigarette
Straight up and down, I don't play around
Rhymin' gets me paid mad bread by the pound
Shout out to my crew, tight as a belt y'all
Go by the name Big A, from the shelter
Lady, tell me why, tell me so
I ask you to go high, you tell me to go low
So I go low, taste the shit
Taste it again, I like it
I'm the original G-O-D
Making young ladies scream's my specialty
When I go dun dun dun duh, girls get hype
From the funky fresh music that was stereotyped
When I kill, that ol' mad funky flow
Not sayin' Ason, duck duck disco
Or disco duck, strictly hip hop
Baby baby, I can't stop
Wu, gots like come on through
Soo, that's the call for the Wu
I came here to rectify
Brooklyn Zoo, terrify
Why, niggas want to get up and rap and rap and rap
Man, fuck that
Hits, that I make it's the shit
I want to see ya hands in the air, can ya dig it
Let's sing the song
Come on party people, all in together now, sing along
Have you ever ever ever
In your long legged life
Had a bald headed bitch
For your bald headed wife
Gimme dat
Who's the baddest motherfucka in the Brooklyn town
And also representer of the Wu-Tang sound
If you want to get up and get fucked up
Last nigga got up and got shot up
But you's a gangsta, on the boards I'll bang ya
Mess with the Wu-Tanger, I'll bang ya
You'll get shanked and spanked and alley-ooped
I admire true niggas like Dre and Snoop
Chamber number 9, verse 32
Only speaks about Brooklyn Zoo
That a true nigga shall come through
No one is available to be compatible
Yo, this is chamber number 9, verse 32
Is what we call The Stomp
The stomp is down, get down for your crown, stomp
Brothas always playin' with the microphone
When it blows up in your face, you leave it alone
You couldn't touch, this style is too much
It's the rhymer, I don't give a crippled crab crutch
Any nigga or niggarette
Get burned to the brimecell like a cigarette
Straight up and down, I don't play around
Rhymin' gets me paid mad bread by the pound
Shout out to my crew, tight as a belt y'all
Go by the name Big A, from the shelter
Lyrics submitted by ButNeverOutgunned
The Stomp Lyrics as written by Russell Jones
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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