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, niggas be on the mic, they be all serious
It's good to be serious but, effortless shit
Effortless effa-efortless, mmm-hmm
Turn my music up, Duro, yo, yo, you my hero
Make the shit get louder
Even more in my headphones, louder
Uh, sweetheart, shake yo' ass cheeks
Bust it, mmm-hmmm, mmm-hmmm
We gon' knock it down and put this
Rock solid Amplified shit up
It hurts like a sit-up
So you betta send a letta to the betta
We cut the bank and takin' all the bankin' chedda
Girls get pretty-ed up
Then they comin' out the club
Rap cats, lock it up
Worldwide vision where
Everybody sees clear
I could get you ten here
Uh, makes no fuss
Keep my shit plush
Compliment, I get blushed
That's just how a brotha is
Big Willy kids and we really run our jibs
Ladies, breathe easy
Let your man please thee
Uh, takin' rhymes to another zone
Is your mother home? Cause we can get the moans
And stay strickly on a rhythmic notion, and
Keep the joint close for the commotion and
Keep movin' around, movie stars
Buy a little car, buy out the bar
("All in") for the people who move wit' me
("All in") for the nights of ecstasy
("All in") for the way we work and play, doin' it
Everyday, this is how I need to be
("All in") for the people who roll wit' me
("All in") for the nights of ecstasy
("All in") for the people who work and play, doin' it
Everyday, this is how I need to be
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, what?"
We do it alive, blowin' the spot of this
Showin' to prove what rap is ("What is it?")
Marauder, pass the blue moon
Hit 'chu wit' the ill tune
Ass cheeks move wit' the help of my jacket bloom
Insert the veteran
Who consecutively come wit' shit yet again
On the dance floor, chicks get horny
Hopin' that they all move on me
Word, for real for real
Do it hard for the love of the game
Pull your card and I'm askin' yo' name, bitch
Jay-Dee be champion
Tip be stylin' and definin' yo' chick, best compan-ion
I'd advise you to fix your self, for real
And do your shit wit' more zeal ("More zeal")
We in the mix and it's thickenin'
My rhyme and it's tickin' in
The hatin' and the shit is so sickenin'
Picasso, original ("'Riginal")
You forg-azy and the shit amaze me
Sharpen your contrast and put a little color in it
High Define your screen and put this brotha in it
("All in") for the people who move wit' me
("All in") for the nights of ecstasy
("All in") for the way we work and play, doin' it
Everyday, this is how I need to be
("All in") for the people who roll wit' me
("All in") for the nights of ecstasy
("All in") for the people who work and play, doin' it
Everyday, this is how I need to be
("All in") for the people who move wit' me
("All in") for the nights of ecstasy
("All in") for the way we work and play, doin' it
Everyday, this is how I need to be
("All in") for the people who roll wit' me
("All in") for the nights of ecstasy
("All in") for the people who work and play, doin' it
Everyday, this is how I need to be ("Need to be")
It's good to be serious but, effortless shit
Effortless effa-efortless, mmm-hmm
Turn my music up, Duro, yo, yo, you my hero
Make the shit get louder
Even more in my headphones, louder
Uh, sweetheart, shake yo' ass cheeks
Bust it, mmm-hmmm, mmm-hmmm
We gon' knock it down and put this
Rock solid Amplified shit up
It hurts like a sit-up
So you betta send a letta to the betta
We cut the bank and takin' all the bankin' chedda
Girls get pretty-ed up
Then they comin' out the club
Rap cats, lock it up
Worldwide vision where
Everybody sees clear
I could get you ten here
Uh, makes no fuss
Keep my shit plush
Compliment, I get blushed
That's just how a brotha is
Big Willy kids and we really run our jibs
Ladies, breathe easy
Let your man please thee
Uh, takin' rhymes to another zone
Is your mother home? Cause we can get the moans
And stay strickly on a rhythmic notion, and
Keep the joint close for the commotion and
Keep movin' around, movie stars
Buy a little car, buy out the bar
("All in") for the people who move wit' me
("All in") for the nights of ecstasy
("All in") for the way we work and play, doin' it
Everyday, this is how I need to be
("All in") for the people who roll wit' me
("All in") for the nights of ecstasy
("All in") for the people who work and play, doin' it
Everyday, this is how I need to be
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, what?"
We do it alive, blowin' the spot of this
Showin' to prove what rap is ("What is it?")
Marauder, pass the blue moon
Hit 'chu wit' the ill tune
Ass cheeks move wit' the help of my jacket bloom
Insert the veteran
Who consecutively come wit' shit yet again
On the dance floor, chicks get horny
Hopin' that they all move on me
Word, for real for real
Do it hard for the love of the game
Pull your card and I'm askin' yo' name, bitch
Jay-Dee be champion
Tip be stylin' and definin' yo' chick, best compan-ion
I'd advise you to fix your self, for real
And do your shit wit' more zeal ("More zeal")
We in the mix and it's thickenin'
My rhyme and it's tickin' in
The hatin' and the shit is so sickenin'
Picasso, original ("'Riginal")
You forg-azy and the shit amaze me
Sharpen your contrast and put a little color in it
High Define your screen and put this brotha in it
("All in") for the people who move wit' me
("All in") for the nights of ecstasy
("All in") for the way we work and play, doin' it
Everyday, this is how I need to be
("All in") for the people who roll wit' me
("All in") for the nights of ecstasy
("All in") for the people who work and play, doin' it
Everyday, this is how I need to be
("All in") for the people who move wit' me
("All in") for the nights of ecstasy
("All in") for the way we work and play, doin' it
Everyday, this is how I need to be
("All in") for the people who roll wit' me
("All in") for the nights of ecstasy
("All in") for the people who work and play, doin' it
Everyday, this is how I need to be ("Need to be")
Lyrics submitted by ButNeverOutgunned
All In Lyrics as written by Kamaal Ibn John Fareed James Dewitt Yancey
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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