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"
I stroll down the Ave like big Johnny Rogers
I pull tricks for a fix and tonight
I got flows for hos with low self esteem and,
More for those swallow protein.
The kid from the 60s stars in skin flicks and,
Pays the rent inch after inch,
But now I get fly with lyrics
While you guys be on some queer shit.
Check out the way I take a mark for all that he's got and a whole lot more
Cause when your drawers hit your ankles
I untake the shank out my sock and take the bank roll.
Oh shit you just got lit by an illegitimate kid out the orphanage run and shit.
I'm cumin with styles you can't handle smoother
Than the velvet that was hanging from my mantle.
So light a candle and praise yo' Lord
Mickey Avalon's some shit you can afford.
All up on the scene
Dipped in Vaseline
In a mask and jeans
Girl I'll smash your dreams
All up on the scene
Dipped in Vaseline
In a mask and jeans girl
I'm a constraint hotty getting saucy at the swap meet
If you want to party
Get my number and call me
From dawn to dusk I bust nuts and shoot Charlie
When you got some money then come and get yo' jollies
A Quarantine in this California dream
All up on the scene dipped in Vaseline
My foster parents told me that I could be
Anything I wanted to so I became me
Mickey Avalon the kid who runs free
Serving sucker mcs and getting paid for my delivery
I freak beats that stain yo silk sheets
Filthy on the mike like Lenny Bruce used to be
They had brooster in the pantry,
Howlin' like a banshee and
Even when I'm wearin' panties I stay manly
All up on the scene
Dipped in Vaseline
In a mask and jeans
Girl I'll smash your dreams
All up on the scene
Dipped in Vaseline
In a mask and jeans girl
In the Hollywood hills,
Swallowing pills,
Tipsy off scotch whiskey,
Sniffin' blow through hundred dollar bills.
I toast mimosas from coast to coast,
In penthouse suits
With out any clothes.
I used to stroll to avid holes in my shoes
But now I fly first class and
Bask in sun tanning booths.
Hustling gay dude for Quaalude's,
Out by the pool,
In a baby blue bathing suit.
Waiting for Jesus to bring the juice.
I was paying dues while you was playing in school.
I took the whole scene over with the flow from my lips.
Here's an autographed picture for yo little sis.
My days of turning tricks are behind me,
Unless you got the time to wine and dine me.
All up on the scene
Dipped in Vaseline
In a mask and jeans
Girl I'll smash your dreams
All up on the scene
Dipped in Vaseline
In a mask and jeans girl
All up on the scene
Dipped in Vaseline
In a mask and jeans
Girl I'll smash your dreams
All up on the scene
Dipped in Vaseline
In a mask and jeans girl
I pull tricks for a fix and tonight
I got flows for hos with low self esteem and,
More for those swallow protein.
The kid from the 60s stars in skin flicks and,
Pays the rent inch after inch,
But now I get fly with lyrics
While you guys be on some queer shit.
Check out the way I take a mark for all that he's got and a whole lot more
Cause when your drawers hit your ankles
I untake the shank out my sock and take the bank roll.
Oh shit you just got lit by an illegitimate kid out the orphanage run and shit.
I'm cumin with styles you can't handle smoother
Than the velvet that was hanging from my mantle.
So light a candle and praise yo' Lord
Mickey Avalon's some shit you can afford.
All up on the scene
Dipped in Vaseline
In a mask and jeans
Girl I'll smash your dreams
All up on the scene
Dipped in Vaseline
In a mask and jeans girl
I'm a constraint hotty getting saucy at the swap meet
If you want to party
Get my number and call me
From dawn to dusk I bust nuts and shoot Charlie
When you got some money then come and get yo' jollies
A Quarantine in this California dream
All up on the scene dipped in Vaseline
My foster parents told me that I could be
Anything I wanted to so I became me
Mickey Avalon the kid who runs free
Serving sucker mcs and getting paid for my delivery
I freak beats that stain yo silk sheets
Filthy on the mike like Lenny Bruce used to be
They had brooster in the pantry,
Howlin' like a banshee and
Even when I'm wearin' panties I stay manly
All up on the scene
Dipped in Vaseline
In a mask and jeans
Girl I'll smash your dreams
All up on the scene
Dipped in Vaseline
In a mask and jeans girl
In the Hollywood hills,
Swallowing pills,
Tipsy off scotch whiskey,
Sniffin' blow through hundred dollar bills.
I toast mimosas from coast to coast,
In penthouse suits
With out any clothes.
I used to stroll to avid holes in my shoes
But now I fly first class and
Bask in sun tanning booths.
Hustling gay dude for Quaalude's,
Out by the pool,
In a baby blue bathing suit.
Waiting for Jesus to bring the juice.
I was paying dues while you was playing in school.
I took the whole scene over with the flow from my lips.
Here's an autographed picture for yo little sis.
My days of turning tricks are behind me,
Unless you got the time to wine and dine me.
All up on the scene
Dipped in Vaseline
In a mask and jeans
Girl I'll smash your dreams
All up on the scene
Dipped in Vaseline
In a mask and jeans girl
All up on the scene
Dipped in Vaseline
In a mask and jeans
Girl I'll smash your dreams
All up on the scene
Dipped in Vaseline
In a mask and jeans girl
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