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"
Yeah, how many niggas that'll die for you?
How many get a ki' slice the pie with you?
I ain't talkin' 'bout those who get high with you
Niggas know infrareds on your head and they ride with you
How many niggas that'll die for you?
How many get a ki' slice the pie with you?
I ain't talkin' 'bout those who get high with you
Niggas know infrareds on your head and they ride with you (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Well I'ma ride for you
Would you ride for me?
Well I'ma die for you
Would you die for me?
Obviously, we all know you type of cats, let they man get struck
Never strike back, stay in the streets seven days a week
Shit get hot, you never blaze your heat
Stupid mothafucka, wanna play me sweet
So I keep 'em on his toes, that way he never sleep
Bigger than the king and the pope, sling no dope
Call me anythin' but broke
When it's on, I guarantee my team
Don't choke, wanna war?
You niggas better bring your folks
And when I say we won't quit, believe this shit
When I talk about a Benz, let you see the 6
And when I'm talkin' to a ho, let you meet my bitch
When Puff talk, you niggas take heave to this
Yeah, how many niggas that'll die for you?
How many get a ki' slice the pie with you?
I ain't talkin' 'bout those that get high with you
Niggas know infrareds on your head and they ride with you
How many niggas that'll die for you?
How many get a ki' slice the pie with you?
I ain't talkin' 'bout those that get high with you
Niggas know infrareds on your head and they ride with you
Yo, if you down to act, be down to scrap
We beef '89 still watch your back
A nigga smack me, I'ma smack him back
If it lead to guns, then that be that
And lately niggas that snake me, just make me
Wanna send 'em heat without A/C
Thinks I'm sweet, taste me
How much you really want it?
Enough to put a mill' on it or your deal on it
This year Cancun, guess who I'm goin' wit
My own niggas, see I pay my own trip
Make my own chips, I cop my own 6
I knock my own shit like I'm on my own dick
My days is short, need coke?
Raid the fort, don't knock by the cock
Come blaze the court
And though niggas ? goin to shove
Disrespect the spin like a man below your belt
Me, I always has, so I never go for self
Pack thousand dolla bills with Teddy Roosevelt
Better slow down, tellin' you know
Put the dough down, kick your door down
Surround the block, where you go now?
Fifty shots spit at you and that not a whole round
Way I leave your furniture think it was coke found
Here's the low down, messin' wit Mase, gotta go down
What more can I say but hey?
Guess you niggas know now
How many niggas that'll die for you?
How many get a ki' slice the pie with you?
I ain't talkin' 'bout those that get high with you
Niggas know infrareds on your head and they ride with you
How many niggas that'll die for you?
How many get a ki' slice the pie with you?
I ain't talkin' 'bout those that get high with you
Niggas know infrareds on your head and they ride with you
Motherfuckin' right I'ma roll with my motherfuckin' dogs
Bitches ain't around when it's time to go to war
This shit here, nothin' to fuck with
I'm the same bitch all y'all wanna try y'all luck with
Lil' Kim spread like syphilis
You think I'm pussy?
I dare you to stick your dick in this
Chrome 4-4, inconspicuous in the 6-0-0, shit's ridiculous
Speak when you're spoken to and only with permission
Like E.F. Hutton, when I talk, niggas listen
So don't y'all be mad at me, 'cause I'm the Q to the B
To the motherfuckin' E-E
Copped my CD, now all y'all wanna be me
See me on the TV, bezel dipped in in 3-D
Peep the CD, chromed out and phoned out
My shit is paid for, your shit is loaned out
I gets it on, money keep growin'
Ice fully glowin', plus I'm bad to the bone
In the danger zone, I hold my own when the pain is gone
Like a splinter I enter
So why should I throw my blows in those
Do a bid upstate and take the weight for your troubles
My nigga B.I.G, I'ma ride for
But it ain't too many niggas that I'd die for
How many niggas that'll die for you?
How many get a ki' slice the pie with you?
I ain't talkin' 'bout those that get high with you
Niggas know infrareds on your head and they ride with you
How many niggas that'll die for you?
How many get a ki' slice the pie with you?
I ain't talkin' 'bout those that get high with you
Niggas know infrareds on your head and they ride with you
How many niggas that'll die for you?
How many get a ki' slice the pie with you?
I ain't talkin' 'bout those that get high with you
Niggas know infrareds on your head and they ride with you
How many niggas that'll die for you?
How many get a ki' slice the pie with you?
I ain't talkin' 'bout those that get high with you
Niggas know infrareds on your head and they ride with you
How many get a ki' slice the pie with you?
I ain't talkin' 'bout those who get high with you
Niggas know infrareds on your head and they ride with you
How many niggas that'll die for you?
How many get a ki' slice the pie with you?
I ain't talkin' 'bout those who get high with you
Niggas know infrareds on your head and they ride with you (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Well I'ma ride for you
Would you ride for me?
Well I'ma die for you
Would you die for me?
Obviously, we all know you type of cats, let they man get struck
Never strike back, stay in the streets seven days a week
Shit get hot, you never blaze your heat
Stupid mothafucka, wanna play me sweet
So I keep 'em on his toes, that way he never sleep
Bigger than the king and the pope, sling no dope
Call me anythin' but broke
When it's on, I guarantee my team
Don't choke, wanna war?
You niggas better bring your folks
And when I say we won't quit, believe this shit
When I talk about a Benz, let you see the 6
And when I'm talkin' to a ho, let you meet my bitch
When Puff talk, you niggas take heave to this
Yeah, how many niggas that'll die for you?
How many get a ki' slice the pie with you?
I ain't talkin' 'bout those that get high with you
Niggas know infrareds on your head and they ride with you
How many niggas that'll die for you?
How many get a ki' slice the pie with you?
I ain't talkin' 'bout those that get high with you
Niggas know infrareds on your head and they ride with you
Yo, if you down to act, be down to scrap
We beef '89 still watch your back
A nigga smack me, I'ma smack him back
If it lead to guns, then that be that
And lately niggas that snake me, just make me
Wanna send 'em heat without A/C
Thinks I'm sweet, taste me
How much you really want it?
Enough to put a mill' on it or your deal on it
This year Cancun, guess who I'm goin' wit
My own niggas, see I pay my own trip
Make my own chips, I cop my own 6
I knock my own shit like I'm on my own dick
My days is short, need coke?
Raid the fort, don't knock by the cock
Come blaze the court
And though niggas ? goin to shove
Disrespect the spin like a man below your belt
Me, I always has, so I never go for self
Pack thousand dolla bills with Teddy Roosevelt
Better slow down, tellin' you know
Put the dough down, kick your door down
Surround the block, where you go now?
Fifty shots spit at you and that not a whole round
Way I leave your furniture think it was coke found
Here's the low down, messin' wit Mase, gotta go down
What more can I say but hey?
Guess you niggas know now
How many niggas that'll die for you?
How many get a ki' slice the pie with you?
I ain't talkin' 'bout those that get high with you
Niggas know infrareds on your head and they ride with you
How many niggas that'll die for you?
How many get a ki' slice the pie with you?
I ain't talkin' 'bout those that get high with you
Niggas know infrareds on your head and they ride with you
Motherfuckin' right I'ma roll with my motherfuckin' dogs
Bitches ain't around when it's time to go to war
This shit here, nothin' to fuck with
I'm the same bitch all y'all wanna try y'all luck with
Lil' Kim spread like syphilis
You think I'm pussy?
I dare you to stick your dick in this
Chrome 4-4, inconspicuous in the 6-0-0, shit's ridiculous
Speak when you're spoken to and only with permission
Like E.F. Hutton, when I talk, niggas listen
So don't y'all be mad at me, 'cause I'm the Q to the B
To the motherfuckin' E-E
Copped my CD, now all y'all wanna be me
See me on the TV, bezel dipped in in 3-D
Peep the CD, chromed out and phoned out
My shit is paid for, your shit is loaned out
I gets it on, money keep growin'
Ice fully glowin', plus I'm bad to the bone
In the danger zone, I hold my own when the pain is gone
Like a splinter I enter
So why should I throw my blows in those
Do a bid upstate and take the weight for your troubles
My nigga B.I.G, I'ma ride for
But it ain't too many niggas that I'd die for
How many niggas that'll die for you?
How many get a ki' slice the pie with you?
I ain't talkin' 'bout those that get high with you
Niggas know infrareds on your head and they ride with you
How many niggas that'll die for you?
How many get a ki' slice the pie with you?
I ain't talkin' 'bout those that get high with you
Niggas know infrareds on your head and they ride with you
How many niggas that'll die for you?
How many get a ki' slice the pie with you?
I ain't talkin' 'bout those that get high with you
Niggas know infrareds on your head and they ride with you
How many niggas that'll die for you?
How many get a ki' slice the pie with you?
I ain't talkin' 'bout those that get high with you
Niggas know infrareds on your head and they ride with you
Lyrics submitted by ButNeverOutgunned
Will They Die for You? Lyrics as written by Sean Combs Mason Betha
Lyrics © MUSIC & MEDIA INT'L, INC., Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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