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"
Picture me flying down the highway
Rolling my way I can sit and marinate
But why should I stay just roll
Can never be still it seems I am always on the go
One day at a time I vision everything in slow mo
That's how I kept it always and I won't change
I can stand here like a statue but have no game to grow
Can never be still it seems I'm always on the go
One day at a time I vision everything in slow mo
Capitol eye dash to the man to the land is where I navigate you
Hit your city then we make moves
Every county every state too
We bake and take the cake too
The effects that suffocate you
Handle business on my way through
When I leave it don't mean I hate you
Nomadically, no matter where I be
It will be with me I mean musically
I stay on game because I'm choosing to be
Coming out the system when your cruising the streets
Slightly Stoopid and the band CE
World wide most definitely
Hang around here what you expecting from me
When I am gone later on you will be checking for me
People can take me the wrong way
Call it a night from a long day till it's gone hey
Pass me a bottle of that Bombay
But I hate it when it feels like a Monday
But I can't stay I got to stick and move
Be ready in this case they switch the rules
Get it off my chest with the SS crew
That could never be me but I guess that is you
Different strokes for different faces
Spacious skies stay high and gracious
Patience makes us feel tired and wasted
Came so close I can almost taste it
Switch it up once and change the game plan
Put in on you like a Nike name brand
Till you give it up and let respect change hands
It will never be the same man
Rolling my way I can sit and marinate
But why should I stay just roll
Can never be still it seems I am always on the go
One day at a time I vision everything in slow mo
That's how I kept it always and I won't change
I can stand here like a statue but have no game to grow
Can never be still it seems I'm always on the go
One day at a time I vision everything in slow mo
Capitol eye dash to the man to the land is where I navigate you
Hit your city then we make moves
Every county every state too
We bake and take the cake too
The effects that suffocate you
Handle business on my way through
When I leave it don't mean I hate you
Nomadically, no matter where I be
It will be with me I mean musically
I stay on game because I'm choosing to be
Coming out the system when your cruising the streets
Slightly Stoopid and the band CE
World wide most definitely
Hang around here what you expecting from me
When I am gone later on you will be checking for me
People can take me the wrong way
Call it a night from a long day till it's gone hey
Pass me a bottle of that Bombay
But I hate it when it feels like a Monday
But I can't stay I got to stick and move
Be ready in this case they switch the rules
Get it off my chest with the SS crew
That could never be me but I guess that is you
Different strokes for different faces
Spacious skies stay high and gracious
Patience makes us feel tired and wasted
Came so close I can almost taste it
Switch it up once and change the game plan
Put in on you like a Nike name brand
Till you give it up and let respect change hands
It will never be the same man
Lyrics submitted by whysogreenandlonely
World Goes Round Lyrics as written by Hope Harris Jerry Duplessis
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Downtown Music Publishing
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