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"
Sweet
And still there's pain (pain, pain)
If I would have grew up to be a doctor
My nephews would have grew up to do the same (same, same)
But since I grew up through the game
And my influence is the same
And my therapy is music
They ask are you ashamed (ashamed)
And though I wish I could separate the two things
I cannot so my answer to you remains
I can walk down the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles
And be so satisfied when I look myself in the eyes
No shame, no sir
Just big boats and tearing the coast up
Tight coupes like I'm wearing the roadster
For any coupe, bear hugging the holster
Hov, alright, alright
And it may not be what you call perfect but
But it's my life (uh)
The life (uh-uh)
The life (uh-uh)
The life
Once again it's the life
So I make no apologies, crooked policies
So a G a nigga gotta be
We playing for property, no Monopoly
So I'll pass go and let my nephews follow me
They say the child shall lead
So I take it far as I can and then we shall see
Shall we dance with the devil for a beat
I pray to God I ain't got two left feet
Do the hustle, put keys in the street
Then I'm ballroom dancing, ke-ke'ing in the suite
Sweet, BB's on the feet
TV's in the seat, enemies on the creep
It's so corrupt
Soak it up, it's a lesson every fuck up
One day you're up
Next day you're down
Long as you stay the same, it'll come back around
Hov, alright, alright
And it may not be what you call perfect but
But it's my life
The life
The life
The life
Once again it's the life
I'm even better
I'm eating better
Best thing about it is
My niggas eating together
With each endeavor, we reaching levels
Niggas ain't seen in like forever
I'm Hyman Roth, so made all my partners rich
I can vouch for you if you ain't a part of this
So pardon me as I pave my wrist, uh
As I parlay my chips
Hov, alright, alright
American gangster, gangster
Businesses like I'm white
But I'm not, I'm just bright
So fly with no fear of the flight, uh
So if y'all hear my plight
And if you think you can make it this far without fight
Couple mistakes here and there
Not always right
But I'm always real
That's how I sleep at night
Hov, alright, alright
And it may not be what you call perfect but
But it's my life
The life
The life
The life
Once again it's the life
Sweet
And still there's pain (pain, pain)
If I would have grew up to be a doctor
My nephews would have grew up to do the same (same, same)
But since I grew up through the game
And my influence is the same
And my therapy is music
They ask are you ashamed (ashamed)
And though I wish I could separate the two things
I cannot so my answer to you remains
I can walk down the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles
And be so satisfied when I look myself in the eyes
No shame, no sir
Just big boats and tearing the coast up
Tight coupes like I'm wearing the roadster
For any coupe, bear hugging the holster
Hov, alright, alright
And it may not be what you call perfect but
But it's my life (uh)
The life (uh-uh)
The life (uh-uh)
The life
Once again it's the life
So I make no apologies, crooked policies
So a G a nigga gotta be
We playing for property, no Monopoly
So I'll pass go and let my nephews follow me
They say the child shall lead
So I take it far as I can and then we shall see
Shall we dance with the devil for a beat
I pray to God I ain't got two left feet
Do the hustle, put keys in the street
Then I'm ballroom dancing, ke-ke'ing in the suite
Sweet, BB's on the feet
TV's in the seat, enemies on the creep
It's so corrupt
Soak it up, it's a lesson every fuck up
One day you're up
Next day you're down
Long as you stay the same, it'll come back around
Hov, alright, alright
And it may not be what you call perfect but
But it's my life
The life
The life
The life
Once again it's the life
I'm even better
I'm eating better
Best thing about it is
My niggas eating together
With each endeavor, we reaching levels
Niggas ain't seen in like forever
I'm Hyman Roth, so made all my partners rich
I can vouch for you if you ain't a part of this
So pardon me as I pave my wrist, uh
As I parlay my chips
Hov, alright, alright
American gangster, gangster
Businesses like I'm white
But I'm not, I'm just bright
So fly with no fear of the flight, uh
So if y'all hear my plight
And if you think you can make it this far without fight
Couple mistakes here and there
Not always right
But I'm always real
That's how I sleep at night
Hov, alright, alright
And it may not be what you call perfect but
But it's my life
The life
The life
The life
Once again it's the life
Sweet
Lyrics submitted by strykerchick
Sweet Lyrics as written by Robert B. Curington Rudy Love
Lyrics © Raleigh Music Publishing LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Iricom US Ltd, Hipgnosis Songs Group
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