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"
Next, next, next
Next y'all it's yes y'allest the tallest
Three the hardest from Hollis
If we didn't lock the blocks a lot of blocks'd be jobless, son
Run-DMC and Jam Master Jay say, hey!
Come come and see the way we play ? away day
In and out, sendin' shouts out the mouth
If in doubt, chin 'em out, grill his mouth and send his snout South
I'm out, of course the force from up North
Ain't up for grabs yup what up then it's up yours!
You see we ain't open up doors, that's business
We knocked those things off the motherfunkin' hinges
Whoever said we fell off, I have no taste for it
We couldn't fall off a skateboard, don't WAIT for it
Cruise the city hard, tell your city we're in charge
Watch it gitty-God or you'll be head and titty scarred
? alliance by my mind and rhymes are more than shiny
So in the 90's watch your tiny heiny get grimy
Hit 'em hard, catch him off his guard, what?
Hit 'em hard, catch him off his guard, what?
Hit 'em hard, hit 'em hit 'em hard, what?
Hit 'em hard, hit 'em hit 'em hard
(D!)
The hard hitter, I come to cross a critter splitter
Gold digger, better get a babysitter
I'm Daddy, cruisin' like a Caddy braggin'
Rag rag 'em, bruise 'em in a paddy wagon
Pull a magnum, point it and I spat it at him
Then I stab him, grab the mics and start to blab 'em
Like a dragon, the breath of death is goin' off
I'm comin' hard, I'm one with God I'm never soft
I'm a father, to all the kids I'm gettin' rid of
Livin' larger, I give it to the highest bidder
So ante up, and come on out your pockets punk
The punk rocker, is gonna lock ya in a trunk
I pull a pump, and bump you off into a dump
You hear a thump, because I had to stump a rump
From Hollis Ave, I'll have you on the boulevard
I pull your card, word to God you know I'm hittin' hard
Hit 'em hard, catch him off his guard, what?
Hit 'em hard, catch him off his guard, what?
Hit 'em hard, hit 'em hit 'em hard, what?
Hit 'em hard, hit 'em hit 'em hard
Well as the mode explode (Run) ? when I'm layin' one
Listen what I'm sayin' (Run) no playin' are you obeyin' Run
Bass is placed on the case (Run) and it'll soon crash
Sound beatdown agh! Another boom bash
See me and first thing they'll be like cursin' I'm rehearsin' it
You're weak and you're wack and you'll be the second and I'm first in it
Comin' at you hard with God we're never feelin' odd
Tell me how you figure pull the trigger nigga gettin' scarred
Troop without a care my dear, you never hear a fear
Standin'' in the corner my daughter, you want to, call me
You want to call me out, you want to call me out
You wan' you wan' you want to want to call me out a with the
Trendy wear and your nappy hair
Never give a glare too rare you just stare
Prepare for your prayer, remember the tear
'Cause Run'll beat ya, got to reach ya ? and I'ma
Hit 'em hard, catch him off his guard, what?
Hit 'em hard, catch him off his guard, what?
Hit 'em hard, hit 'em hit 'em hard, what?
Hit 'em hard, hit 'em hit 'em hard
Hit 'em hard, catch him off his guard, what?
Hit 'em hard, catch him off his guard, what?
Hit 'em hard, hit 'em hit 'em hard, what?
Hit 'em hard, hit 'em hit 'em hard
Next y'all it's yes y'allest the tallest
Three the hardest from Hollis
If we didn't lock the blocks a lot of blocks'd be jobless, son
Run-DMC and Jam Master Jay say, hey!
Come come and see the way we play ? away day
In and out, sendin' shouts out the mouth
If in doubt, chin 'em out, grill his mouth and send his snout South
I'm out, of course the force from up North
Ain't up for grabs yup what up then it's up yours!
You see we ain't open up doors, that's business
We knocked those things off the motherfunkin' hinges
Whoever said we fell off, I have no taste for it
We couldn't fall off a skateboard, don't WAIT for it
Cruise the city hard, tell your city we're in charge
Watch it gitty-God or you'll be head and titty scarred
? alliance by my mind and rhymes are more than shiny
So in the 90's watch your tiny heiny get grimy
Hit 'em hard, catch him off his guard, what?
Hit 'em hard, catch him off his guard, what?
Hit 'em hard, hit 'em hit 'em hard, what?
Hit 'em hard, hit 'em hit 'em hard
(D!)
The hard hitter, I come to cross a critter splitter
Gold digger, better get a babysitter
I'm Daddy, cruisin' like a Caddy braggin'
Rag rag 'em, bruise 'em in a paddy wagon
Pull a magnum, point it and I spat it at him
Then I stab him, grab the mics and start to blab 'em
Like a dragon, the breath of death is goin' off
I'm comin' hard, I'm one with God I'm never soft
I'm a father, to all the kids I'm gettin' rid of
Livin' larger, I give it to the highest bidder
So ante up, and come on out your pockets punk
The punk rocker, is gonna lock ya in a trunk
I pull a pump, and bump you off into a dump
You hear a thump, because I had to stump a rump
From Hollis Ave, I'll have you on the boulevard
I pull your card, word to God you know I'm hittin' hard
Hit 'em hard, catch him off his guard, what?
Hit 'em hard, catch him off his guard, what?
Hit 'em hard, hit 'em hit 'em hard, what?
Hit 'em hard, hit 'em hit 'em hard
Well as the mode explode (Run) ? when I'm layin' one
Listen what I'm sayin' (Run) no playin' are you obeyin' Run
Bass is placed on the case (Run) and it'll soon crash
Sound beatdown agh! Another boom bash
See me and first thing they'll be like cursin' I'm rehearsin' it
You're weak and you're wack and you'll be the second and I'm first in it
Comin' at you hard with God we're never feelin' odd
Tell me how you figure pull the trigger nigga gettin' scarred
Troop without a care my dear, you never hear a fear
Standin'' in the corner my daughter, you want to, call me
You want to call me out, you want to call me out
You wan' you wan' you want to want to call me out a with the
Trendy wear and your nappy hair
Never give a glare too rare you just stare
Prepare for your prayer, remember the tear
'Cause Run'll beat ya, got to reach ya ? and I'ma
Hit 'em hard, catch him off his guard, what?
Hit 'em hard, catch him off his guard, what?
Hit 'em hard, hit 'em hit 'em hard, what?
Hit 'em hard, hit 'em hit 'em hard
Hit 'em hard, catch him off his guard, what?
Hit 'em hard, catch him off his guard, what?
Hit 'em hard, hit 'em hit 'em hard, what?
Hit 'em hard, hit 'em hit 'em hard
Lyrics submitted by ButNeverOutgunned
Hit 'Em Hard Lyrics as written by Anthony Shawn Criss Keir Lamont Gist
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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