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"
(O.D.B/Violent J/Female)
Ya'll know how I get down..Ya know what I'm saying?
(Dirty) Detroit (Dirty) What?..Brooklyn..Zoo (Dirty) Yeah..What? (Dirty)
Insane Clown Posse and O.D.B.
I got O.D.B and I got platinum baby what
I ain't goin nowhere until I'm Dirty and Stinkin'
(Ol' Dirty Bastard)
(Yeah) There's a quarter and it's Dirty and Stinkin'
Funkier than Pepe L'Pew so I was thinkin'
About (What) dropping this single on the charts (Yeah)
Letting you know hey the kid has heart
I never deny myself, it's when you dope
But in my last year, I had to slept on my notes
You thought that I was weak, huh, let me speak
My rhymes come funkier than your grandfather's weeps
(Dirty) So listen hear mister don't you ever forget
The rhym'n Dirty, you couldn't even clean if you commit
Or even boring, some try Ajax, only mess with the best, 48 tracks (Yo)
I get down with the a saw sound
Lyrics that be flowing from miles around
So let the music shut yo ass up
And throw the uppercut that will make you fall onto yo butt
(Chorus)
I wanna get Dirty, and I (Dirty) wanna get Stinky
And I (Stinky) ain't going nowhere till I get
(Till I) get Dirty and Stinkin'
(It's Dirty and It's Stinkin')
I got O.D.B. and I got I.C.P
And I ain't going nowhere until I'm Dirty and Stinkin'
(It's Dirty and It's Stinkin')
(Ol' Dirty Bastard)
(Dirty) Let me continue, verse number two
Style is wild dirty stinky like doo doo
(Get Dirty) If you hanging around
Hen change yo mind, It is a bad influence
but, yo it's my rhyme
I sit down and I say to myself
Self, Yo are you rated top joe?
I drop a single for ya to get a dose of
As I lay back like a pillow on the sofa
You get paid (Yeah right) Bully, Fly
Asking B.G. wha wha wha wha you know me
(Dirty) Sweet as a hunny bee, taste like a 40
Tick you like oohhwee
Want to drink Old English so I speak old english
Ya gotta be dirty and stinkin'
And if it's not, well I guess I'm not
The A.S.O.N is my friend
It's Dirty and It's Stinkin'
(Chorus)
I wanna get Dirty and I wanna get Stinky
And I ain't goin nowhere till I
(Nowhere, Nowhere) get Dirty and Stinkin'
(It's Dirty and It's Stinkin')
I got O.D.B. and I got I.C.P and I
(What) ain't goin' nowhere until I'm (Yeah Yeah)
Dirty and Stinkin'
(Shaggy 2 Dope)
O.Deezy. Beezy and I.C.Peezy
Together on this track forever
(Violent J)
Smell me, I know my funk be kicking
Turning heads like an 8 foot tropical mud chicken
They fear these Juggalo flows
I'm (Dirty) dirty like Osama Bin Laden's toes
(Shaggy 2 Dope)
I got hatchet love, it decayed in the barn
Chicken chainsaw hard
I'm making neighbors uncombortable
(I wanna get Dirty and) Take me home and it's late
Don't worry about the ring in ya tub
It's the clown paint
(Violent J)
I.C.P. and O.Dizzle whilin
Working like a fat chicks feet at King's Island
A whole Source 9 mics, I don't care
I'm a 10 year vet five plat rat millionaire (Yeah)
(Chorus)
I wanna get Dirty and I wanna get Stinky
And I ain't goin nowhere till I get
(Till I) get Dirty and Stinkin' (It's Dirty and It's Stinkin')
I got O.D.B. and I got I.C.P
And I ain't goin' nowhere until I'm Dirty and Stinkin'
Oh Oh...Oh..Dirty..Oh...and Stinky....
I, I Stinky, Stinky...(It's Dirty and It's Stinkin')
Oh
Damica (What I)
I.C.P.
O.D.B.
Dirty
Dirty
Dirty
Dirty
Ya'll know how I get down..Ya know what I'm saying?
(Dirty) Detroit (Dirty) What?..Brooklyn..Zoo (Dirty) Yeah..What? (Dirty)
Insane Clown Posse and O.D.B.
I got O.D.B and I got platinum baby what
I ain't goin nowhere until I'm Dirty and Stinkin'
(Ol' Dirty Bastard)
(Yeah) There's a quarter and it's Dirty and Stinkin'
Funkier than Pepe L'Pew so I was thinkin'
About (What) dropping this single on the charts (Yeah)
Letting you know hey the kid has heart
I never deny myself, it's when you dope
But in my last year, I had to slept on my notes
You thought that I was weak, huh, let me speak
My rhymes come funkier than your grandfather's weeps
(Dirty) So listen hear mister don't you ever forget
The rhym'n Dirty, you couldn't even clean if you commit
Or even boring, some try Ajax, only mess with the best, 48 tracks (Yo)
I get down with the a saw sound
Lyrics that be flowing from miles around
So let the music shut yo ass up
And throw the uppercut that will make you fall onto yo butt
(Chorus)
I wanna get Dirty, and I (Dirty) wanna get Stinky
And I (Stinky) ain't going nowhere till I get
(Till I) get Dirty and Stinkin'
(It's Dirty and It's Stinkin')
I got O.D.B. and I got I.C.P
And I ain't going nowhere until I'm Dirty and Stinkin'
(It's Dirty and It's Stinkin')
(Ol' Dirty Bastard)
(Dirty) Let me continue, verse number two
Style is wild dirty stinky like doo doo
(Get Dirty) If you hanging around
Hen change yo mind, It is a bad influence
but, yo it's my rhyme
I sit down and I say to myself
Self, Yo are you rated top joe?
I drop a single for ya to get a dose of
As I lay back like a pillow on the sofa
You get paid (Yeah right) Bully, Fly
Asking B.G. wha wha wha wha you know me
(Dirty) Sweet as a hunny bee, taste like a 40
Tick you like oohhwee
Want to drink Old English so I speak old english
Ya gotta be dirty and stinkin'
And if it's not, well I guess I'm not
The A.S.O.N is my friend
It's Dirty and It's Stinkin'
(Chorus)
I wanna get Dirty and I wanna get Stinky
And I ain't goin nowhere till I
(Nowhere, Nowhere) get Dirty and Stinkin'
(It's Dirty and It's Stinkin')
I got O.D.B. and I got I.C.P and I
(What) ain't goin' nowhere until I'm (Yeah Yeah)
Dirty and Stinkin'
(Shaggy 2 Dope)
O.Deezy. Beezy and I.C.Peezy
Together on this track forever
(Violent J)
Smell me, I know my funk be kicking
Turning heads like an 8 foot tropical mud chicken
They fear these Juggalo flows
I'm (Dirty) dirty like Osama Bin Laden's toes
(Shaggy 2 Dope)
I got hatchet love, it decayed in the barn
Chicken chainsaw hard
I'm making neighbors uncombortable
(I wanna get Dirty and) Take me home and it's late
Don't worry about the ring in ya tub
It's the clown paint
(Violent J)
I.C.P. and O.Dizzle whilin
Working like a fat chicks feet at King's Island
A whole Source 9 mics, I don't care
I'm a 10 year vet five plat rat millionaire (Yeah)
(Chorus)
I wanna get Dirty and I wanna get Stinky
And I ain't goin nowhere till I get
(Till I) get Dirty and Stinkin' (It's Dirty and It's Stinkin')
I got O.D.B. and I got I.C.P
And I ain't goin' nowhere until I'm Dirty and Stinkin'
Oh Oh...Oh..Dirty..Oh...and Stinky....
I, I Stinky, Stinky...(It's Dirty and It's Stinkin')
Oh
Damica (What I)
I.C.P.
O.D.B.
Dirty
Dirty
Dirty
Dirty
Lyrics submitted by th1rt3en
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