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"
[1st man]
Yo, wa**up, wa**up son?
[2nd man]
Y'all ready? Y'all ready?
[1st man]
Yeah, yeah, yeah we ready. Wa**up, son? Wa**up, wa**up? What's the deal?
What's the deal?
[3rd man]
Yeah, yeah.
[1st man]
Yeah, alright, so what all we gotta do is do the s*** we been working on and add
this new Canibus n****. You know what I'm saying?
[Group]
Yeah, yeah.
[1st man]
Yeah, n****s gonna feel that n****.
[3rd man]
Oh, that's the old to the new.
[2nd man]
That's gonna bring us back. Bring us back.
[1st man]
That's gonna bring us back, you know. So yo, let's go work on this s***.
Ahh, y'all ready?
(Goes into some session)
[Chorus]
Hype-nitis is in your eyes, that look, that smile in disguise.
[Canibus]
Ah-yo, can you feel it?
I know that everybody's heard of that (Vapors)
But this is the 98 version of that
Biz Mark, one of the founders of this art
Discovered evidence of this disease and documented it
Now the name of the virus is called "hypnytis"
A terminal condition that effects all biters and liars
Hypnoholics can't require my respect
'Cause they snakes and I can smell the venom on their breath
Hypnytis
[Chorus]
Alright now, I'm about to break the hypnytis down
It's characterized by a certain type of lifestyle
People that treated you foul just want to be nice now
Smile and raise their eyebrows when you come around
I remember when I first started to work
And tried to get this job as a label intern
Them n****s was killing me, cause wasn't nobody feeling me
A&Rs wouldn't even risk demo-dealing me
Can you believe that s***?
That's how it was back then
[Chorus]
Ah-yo, I know most the n****s I exchange pounds with or lounge with
Wouldn't be around if my career was spiraling downward
They'd crowd around me till I'm surrounded
Ask me who I'm down with
'Til I replied, "the Navy Seals outfit"
They told me my album was coconuts so they rewound it
I knew they was hypnoholics by how their voices sounded
I pull a silver can out of my trousers
Paid a public announcement about the Hype juice and then I bounced kid
[Chorus]
To me hypnytis is like the measles
'Cause it's a disease too
Studies show it affects 1 in every 5 people
It's so lethal the cure can't be achieved through
Hypodermic needles or the ingestion of medicine in teaspoons
If you feel the need to
Here's a toll-free number, they'll send you an 8-page pamphlet for you to read through
800-7-9-3-2
There will be available hypnoholics standing by for you to speak to (echo)
[Chorus]
Hype
Yo, wa**up, wa**up son?
[2nd man]
Y'all ready? Y'all ready?
[1st man]
Yeah, yeah, yeah we ready. Wa**up, son? Wa**up, wa**up? What's the deal?
What's the deal?
[3rd man]
Yeah, yeah.
[1st man]
Yeah, alright, so what all we gotta do is do the s*** we been working on and add
this new Canibus n****. You know what I'm saying?
[Group]
Yeah, yeah.
[1st man]
Yeah, n****s gonna feel that n****.
[3rd man]
Oh, that's the old to the new.
[2nd man]
That's gonna bring us back. Bring us back.
[1st man]
That's gonna bring us back, you know. So yo, let's go work on this s***.
Ahh, y'all ready?
(Goes into some session)
[Chorus]
Hype-nitis is in your eyes, that look, that smile in disguise.
[Canibus]
Ah-yo, can you feel it?
I know that everybody's heard of that (Vapors)
But this is the 98 version of that
Biz Mark, one of the founders of this art
Discovered evidence of this disease and documented it
Now the name of the virus is called "hypnytis"
A terminal condition that effects all biters and liars
Hypnoholics can't require my respect
'Cause they snakes and I can smell the venom on their breath
Hypnytis
[Chorus]
Alright now, I'm about to break the hypnytis down
It's characterized by a certain type of lifestyle
People that treated you foul just want to be nice now
Smile and raise their eyebrows when you come around
I remember when I first started to work
And tried to get this job as a label intern
Them n****s was killing me, cause wasn't nobody feeling me
A&Rs wouldn't even risk demo-dealing me
Can you believe that s***?
That's how it was back then
[Chorus]
Ah-yo, I know most the n****s I exchange pounds with or lounge with
Wouldn't be around if my career was spiraling downward
They'd crowd around me till I'm surrounded
Ask me who I'm down with
'Til I replied, "the Navy Seals outfit"
They told me my album was coconuts so they rewound it
I knew they was hypnoholics by how their voices sounded
I pull a silver can out of my trousers
Paid a public announcement about the Hype juice and then I bounced kid
[Chorus]
To me hypnytis is like the measles
'Cause it's a disease too
Studies show it affects 1 in every 5 people
It's so lethal the cure can't be achieved through
Hypodermic needles or the ingestion of medicine in teaspoons
If you feel the need to
Here's a toll-free number, they'll send you an 8-page pamphlet for you to read through
800-7-9-3-2
There will be available hypnoholics standing by for you to speak to (echo)
[Chorus]
Hype
Lyrics submitted by grindfatherclock
Hype-Nitis Lyrics as written by Germaine Williams Burt F Bacharach
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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