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"
In linear terms //
my thirty third degree in a third //
Word //
Will give u thirty third degree burns //
First I write thirty three lines to a verse //
about how I created the earth out of 33 quotes //
33 of my peers never thought it would work //
for 33 days i started my relentless research //
and I figured if Jigga could do "22 Two's" //
as an emcee that I could do 33 Threes //
especially at three thirty on march 3rd //
It came to me like God's word //
I started to load my 33 caliber .... //
Went to the top of the Empire State on 33rd //
33 gunshots were heard //
33 pedestrains lay wounded and dead on the curb //
33 squad cars rushed to the scene //
as soon as they heard //
some madman had gone berzerk //
I demanded 33 million //
or I was going to kill 33 of the women and children in the building //
I gave them 33 minutes to respond //
then I proceeded to arm a backpack nuclear bomb //
I set the timer for 3 hours and 3 minutes long //
Told them not to try nothing funny or I kill them all //
They still never responded //
till I saw 33 of the SWAT team jump out of 3 helicopters //
I told them for the third and final time //
If they cross the line again I'll take 33 lives //
3 of the hostages started crying //
3 of them started wilin' //
and convinced 3 more to start a uprising //
3 of them stood to they feet and started freestylin //
I didn't know what to do so I started rhymin //
I tried to kick 300 bars //
but i got picked off by a sniper from 33yards //
The bullet hit me but it got lodged and ricocheted //
of 3 organs 3 inches away from my heart //
My name went down in history //
as the illest emcee to //
..... //
and counting 33 threes. //
my thirty third degree in a third //
Word //
Will give u thirty third degree burns //
First I write thirty three lines to a verse //
about how I created the earth out of 33 quotes //
33 of my peers never thought it would work //
for 33 days i started my relentless research //
and I figured if Jigga could do "22 Two's" //
as an emcee that I could do 33 Threes //
especially at three thirty on march 3rd //
It came to me like God's word //
I started to load my 33 caliber .... //
Went to the top of the Empire State on 33rd //
33 gunshots were heard //
33 pedestrains lay wounded and dead on the curb //
33 squad cars rushed to the scene //
as soon as they heard //
some madman had gone berzerk //
I demanded 33 million //
or I was going to kill 33 of the women and children in the building //
I gave them 33 minutes to respond //
then I proceeded to arm a backpack nuclear bomb //
I set the timer for 3 hours and 3 minutes long //
Told them not to try nothing funny or I kill them all //
They still never responded //
till I saw 33 of the SWAT team jump out of 3 helicopters //
I told them for the third and final time //
If they cross the line again I'll take 33 lives //
3 of the hostages started crying //
3 of them started wilin' //
and convinced 3 more to start a uprising //
3 of them stood to they feet and started freestylin //
I didn't know what to do so I started rhymin //
I tried to kick 300 bars //
but i got picked off by a sniper from 33yards //
The bullet hit me but it got lodged and ricocheted //
of 3 organs 3 inches away from my heart //
My name went down in history //
as the illest emcee to //
..... //
and counting 33 threes. //
Lyrics submitted by p609
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