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"
This situation gets ugly
When I have passed impossible
Your resume blank tanks I read
Just watch the prodigal combo
Stopping the Jon Doe
From dropping those bombs blow
No time for unmatched comp
We're basically better than ourselves
It's the most pro-imprecateous
Known to be rocking the mic
We're the illest emcees since mad cow
So you can laugh now
Attack now we came to rock here today
Like smoke bombs breaking in the middle east and terrain
Fuck the turmoil over oil to spoil the world
I saw Bush smirk before he stuck his Cheny in the stall (?)
Like fuck it press the button and watch them all boil
Let the rich bleed and
Kill the innocent boys and girls
Impeach the bastard and live happily ever after
Is what we all know needs to happen
But it takes more than one to get it cracking
So you can go to votetoimpeach.org
Feed the crimes against humanity
And why we really at war
Wondering what we fighting for
Realising its a plan divided by rich and the poor
Greed money power
People panic cause they know whats in store
I'm gonna get mine then I'm gonna take your's
yeah, I'm gonna get mine and I'm gonna gets mores
When there's a line drawn for you
And the mad man's got the move
It's a gamble on your mind
A million in one shot
You're walking on straight lines
Watching them confiscate rights
A gamble on your mind
A million in one shot
You gotta go to work five days a week
Stuck in traffic jams on the highways and streets
Smoking cigarettes and tar
While you're sitting in your car
And every dollar you achieve
It's live spending at the par
And bills, cellphones, cable, and furniture
I'm independent with a heart to cradle my bursted nerves
Taking the learning curve carving in a pod
For me to hide in once you sparked the Jihad
You see, they crashed into our building
So dying for the cause is exactly what's appealing
And cracking them and killing them is helter-skelter
No pile of corpses can give you back that sheltered
Sense of safety that you get so plainly
And this is to the ones that doubt demonstrating
Stop it and please become informed
It's much deeper than screaming, 'fuck the norm'
I want presidents to represent me (say what!)
But he took my right to vote indefinitely
So fuck him
What is it that you've accomplished?
Tounge-tied and love sick
Hating that words your worst weapon turned against you
Hurt never only for what you've learned
And all you've earned is a place in Hell
If separation is served,
Apathy always excels in times of mind
Proving what hype we bind ourselves with
In lines of grand designs written as we see fit
Killing for life and living as slaves for freedom
You walk the line drawn for you by these war monger maniacs
You roll the dice with two sides you prove your life
And you lie to yourself knowing just what it costed you
A gamble on your mind
A million in one shot
When I have passed impossible
Your resume blank tanks I read
Just watch the prodigal combo
Stopping the Jon Doe
From dropping those bombs blow
No time for unmatched comp
We're basically better than ourselves
It's the most pro-imprecateous
Known to be rocking the mic
We're the illest emcees since mad cow
So you can laugh now
Attack now we came to rock here today
Like smoke bombs breaking in the middle east and terrain
Fuck the turmoil over oil to spoil the world
I saw Bush smirk before he stuck his Cheny in the stall (?)
Like fuck it press the button and watch them all boil
Let the rich bleed and
Kill the innocent boys and girls
Impeach the bastard and live happily ever after
Is what we all know needs to happen
But it takes more than one to get it cracking
So you can go to votetoimpeach.org
Feed the crimes against humanity
And why we really at war
Wondering what we fighting for
Realising its a plan divided by rich and the poor
Greed money power
People panic cause they know whats in store
I'm gonna get mine then I'm gonna take your's
yeah, I'm gonna get mine and I'm gonna gets mores
When there's a line drawn for you
And the mad man's got the move
It's a gamble on your mind
A million in one shot
You're walking on straight lines
Watching them confiscate rights
A gamble on your mind
A million in one shot
You gotta go to work five days a week
Stuck in traffic jams on the highways and streets
Smoking cigarettes and tar
While you're sitting in your car
And every dollar you achieve
It's live spending at the par
And bills, cellphones, cable, and furniture
I'm independent with a heart to cradle my bursted nerves
Taking the learning curve carving in a pod
For me to hide in once you sparked the Jihad
You see, they crashed into our building
So dying for the cause is exactly what's appealing
And cracking them and killing them is helter-skelter
No pile of corpses can give you back that sheltered
Sense of safety that you get so plainly
And this is to the ones that doubt demonstrating
Stop it and please become informed
It's much deeper than screaming, 'fuck the norm'
I want presidents to represent me (say what!)
But he took my right to vote indefinitely
So fuck him
What is it that you've accomplished?
Tounge-tied and love sick
Hating that words your worst weapon turned against you
Hurt never only for what you've learned
And all you've earned is a place in Hell
If separation is served,
Apathy always excels in times of mind
Proving what hype we bind ourselves with
In lines of grand designs written as we see fit
Killing for life and living as slaves for freedom
You walk the line drawn for you by these war monger maniacs
You roll the dice with two sides you prove your life
And you lie to yourself knowing just what it costed you
A gamble on your mind
A million in one shot
Lyrics submitted by mctracyism
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