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"
Don't do…don't don't drop it.
Won't you pass that mic right here
you know i will not fuckin’ drop it
so you thought that I would stop it
but i got more shits in my pocket
I say don't (duh don’t don’t) drop it,
the funky beat (x3)
this is how we kick it
and this is how we do it
this original styles mine
so why would you ruin it
so you thought that G was all washed up
but the ring around the collar is so damn tough
you know I'm not the type of brutha like enough’s enough
and what you want to start something
when you start it all
see I flow like the breeze
right down the road
mind my own biz you I find my mother load
I’m getting paid in the shade
for the words that i say
with the rules that i play
for the moves that i make
its amazing just like the boy
peter( ) as white as a cloud my souls deep
and deep gets my stuff
the deep that you did
the best tasting water in the bottom of the well
raining like a thunderstorm
and you about to get wet cause the heat is on
coming up
coming on
coming on (x3)
I’m coming up
I’m coming on
I’m coming
I got the blues brother
like Dan Akroyd
I smoke a lotta weed
but it don’t get paranoid
don’t freak
I got the flavors like lemonade
my stock is steady rising like I'm on etrade
I don’t date a girl with the thunder thighs
I got the mai tai special with the light brown eyes
to make the bread you must have the rise
it pays it pays to advertise
but I won’t shove my shit right down your throat
and if you like my freestyle then check out what I wrote
I say don't (duh don’t don’t) drop it,
the funky beat (x3)
my styles on lockdown
so please don’t pick my brain
tongue twister try to stump me
so I broke the chain
breaka breaka one night
you know why cover is blown
so lets fire up this joint on the microphone
see i rock the party hard but the party wont break
said the neighbors were cool, d'oh! you made a mistake
damn the cops are coming im running out the back door
jump over the fence you never see me no more
I’m coming on coming on coming
I’m coming up
I’m coming on
I’m coming
Won't you pass that mic right here
you know i will not fuckin’ drop it
so you thought that I would stop it
but i got more shits in my pocket
I say don't (duh don’t don’t) drop it,
the funky beat (x3)
this is how we kick it
and this is how we do it
this original styles mine
so why would you ruin it
so you thought that G was all washed up
but the ring around the collar is so damn tough
you know I'm not the type of brutha like enough’s enough
and what you want to start something
when you start it all
see I flow like the breeze
right down the road
mind my own biz you I find my mother load
I’m getting paid in the shade
for the words that i say
with the rules that i play
for the moves that i make
its amazing just like the boy
peter( ) as white as a cloud my souls deep
and deep gets my stuff
the deep that you did
the best tasting water in the bottom of the well
raining like a thunderstorm
and you about to get wet cause the heat is on
coming up
coming on
coming on (x3)
I’m coming up
I’m coming on
I’m coming
I got the blues brother
like Dan Akroyd
I smoke a lotta weed
but it don’t get paranoid
don’t freak
I got the flavors like lemonade
my stock is steady rising like I'm on etrade
I don’t date a girl with the thunder thighs
I got the mai tai special with the light brown eyes
to make the bread you must have the rise
it pays it pays to advertise
but I won’t shove my shit right down your throat
and if you like my freestyle then check out what I wrote
I say don't (duh don’t don’t) drop it,
the funky beat (x3)
my styles on lockdown
so please don’t pick my brain
tongue twister try to stump me
so I broke the chain
breaka breaka one night
you know why cover is blown
so lets fire up this joint on the microphone
see i rock the party hard but the party wont break
said the neighbors were cool, d'oh! you made a mistake
damn the cops are coming im running out the back door
jump over the fence you never see me no more
I’m coming on coming on coming
I’m coming up
I’m coming on
I’m coming
Lyrics submitted by annaS
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