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"
Come on, everybody throw your hands up in the air
Come on lets
And you know, we keep the party jumpin'
So lets keep them 40s comin'
Come on down to the city of L.A
Where we, we ride with gangsta's and the pimpins' easy
You know how we keep it bumpin' everyday, baby
We ride with gangsta's and the pimpins' easy
Well I ride with jay-dee-oh-gee
And it's like, K, basically
We get shit faced and crazy
We're screaming "fuck the police"
J-just like easy lets smoke these with Old'E and Charlie
We mix it over a heartbeat, and run with the Undead Army
And you don't need to see the best of me
The best MC, its just a beat, produce the feeds that makes me mean
That seems to be what makes me scream so what up?
Let's roll the town fucked up
Let's sing L.A and show love?
Yo Jdog, wait, just hold up, take my mic, my PO showed up
Come on down to the city of L.A
Where we, we ride with gangsta's and the pimpins' easy
You know how we keep it bumpin' everyday, baby
We ride with gangsta's and the pimpins' easy
We're six caucasians, hell raisin'
Blazin', making zero pay can't wait to drink to stop the pain
To call Funny to ride with me
My pants are so low, I'm sipping on this 4-0
Rollin' in the fo' do'
Producer, me, and four ho's
Oh no
The 5-0's rollin' cold, I didn't stop, but tried to smoke
Container's open, Funny's smokin'
I think I'm chokin' it's time to go (oh)
This midnight tale, let's keep it rollin'
Keep the fuckin' and Mad Dog flowin'
Los Angeles we keep it goin'
Undead is what we're throwin'
Come on down to the city of L.A
Where we, we ride with gangsta's and the pimpins' easy
You know how we keep it bumpin' everyday, baby
We ride with gangsta's and the pimpins' easy
I keep'em blowin' on my head keeps gettin' fatter everyday, baby
On TV ya better listen 'cause you know they'll play me
In the club, you in the corner while my shit go crazy
And I got my soldiers in the back so you don't wanna face me
And when your girl looked up at me, I'm lookin' right down
And all that yappin', you know you gonna' be a smack down
I stick around to keep it mad while the crowd's loud
In the city of L.A, that's my hometown
Come on down to the city of L.A
Where we, we ride with gangsta's and the pimpins' easy
You know how we keep it bumpin' everyday, baby
We ride with gangsta's and the pimpins' easy
Come on lets
And you know, we keep the party jumpin'
So lets keep them 40s comin'
Come on down to the city of L.A
Where we, we ride with gangsta's and the pimpins' easy
You know how we keep it bumpin' everyday, baby
We ride with gangsta's and the pimpins' easy
Well I ride with jay-dee-oh-gee
And it's like, K, basically
We get shit faced and crazy
We're screaming "fuck the police"
J-just like easy lets smoke these with Old'E and Charlie
We mix it over a heartbeat, and run with the Undead Army
And you don't need to see the best of me
The best MC, its just a beat, produce the feeds that makes me mean
That seems to be what makes me scream so what up?
Let's roll the town fucked up
Let's sing L.A and show love?
Yo Jdog, wait, just hold up, take my mic, my PO showed up
Come on down to the city of L.A
Where we, we ride with gangsta's and the pimpins' easy
You know how we keep it bumpin' everyday, baby
We ride with gangsta's and the pimpins' easy
We're six caucasians, hell raisin'
Blazin', making zero pay can't wait to drink to stop the pain
To call Funny to ride with me
My pants are so low, I'm sipping on this 4-0
Rollin' in the fo' do'
Producer, me, and four ho's
Oh no
The 5-0's rollin' cold, I didn't stop, but tried to smoke
Container's open, Funny's smokin'
I think I'm chokin' it's time to go (oh)
This midnight tale, let's keep it rollin'
Keep the fuckin' and Mad Dog flowin'
Los Angeles we keep it goin'
Undead is what we're throwin'
Come on down to the city of L.A
Where we, we ride with gangsta's and the pimpins' easy
You know how we keep it bumpin' everyday, baby
We ride with gangsta's and the pimpins' easy
I keep'em blowin' on my head keeps gettin' fatter everyday, baby
On TV ya better listen 'cause you know they'll play me
In the club, you in the corner while my shit go crazy
And I got my soldiers in the back so you don't wanna face me
And when your girl looked up at me, I'm lookin' right down
And all that yappin', you know you gonna' be a smack down
I stick around to keep it mad while the crowd's loud
In the city of L.A, that's my hometown
Come on down to the city of L.A
Where we, we ride with gangsta's and the pimpins' easy
You know how we keep it bumpin' everyday, baby
We ride with gangsta's and the pimpins' easy
Lyrics submitted by Threetearz
Pimpin' Lyrics as written by George Arthur Ragan Aron Erlichman
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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Hell yeah, I think I just found a new band to obsess over for awhile. Great song, it reminds me of rollin' through the city, getting ready to whore myself or commit some kind of crime. Those were the gold ol' days...
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this song is one of the better ones. its slower yet is still makes sure you know they're man ho's & hardcore. hahah "And when your girl looked up at me, I'm lookin' right down And all that yappin', you know you gonna be a smack down I stick around to keep it mad while the crowd's loud In the city of LA; that's my hometown" is SO catchy.