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"
Lyrics to Hustlaz Ambition :
I get so far from the bottom could'nteven see the top just as soon as a fill the trap I'm rippin up every block I'm a good god fearin man with a criminal mind state ain't nobody gave a shit and that's why we grind weight my grandma off in the church while I'm in the refrigerater in search of the baking soda right next to the mashed potatoes she prayin for better days I'm prayin they take this water realest and stun and ship put that day on my mothers daughter...
[Chorus:]
My ambitions as a hustla (I won't deny it I'm a straight hustla. I won't deny it) [x4]
It's Mr.Trap or die yeah you'll remember me first album was a classic them critics werent feelin me now as far as award shows we all know how that goes so what's all the doubt about because he ain't sellin out because he ain't givin up because he don't give a fuck because he ain't changin up I guess he ain't lean enough and just know I'm savin up let you play with my sanity gives a fuck what you think of me unless you feedin my family mother fuck all my enemies one time for my mini me's listen to these niggas I bet you hear plenty me I'm who they pretend to be the one they pretend to do see me I'm a hustla I do what my hustlaz do...
[Chorus:]
My ambitions as a hustla (I won't deny it I'm a straight hustla. I won't deny it) [x4]
Might not just be the best just know I plan to be I refuse to let suckers win but that's just the man in me look it could be the G in me these niggas ain't seein me unless they seein me in traffic... I say I grind like there's 10 of me I swear to god there's just one of me look I know I ain't there yet just know that I'm gonna be I could'ntwait to see the day I could change where my momma stay... I put the bullshit BEHIND ME... THERES TOO MUCH MONEY IN FRONT OF ME...
[Chorus:]
My ambitions as a hustla (I won't deny it I'm a straight hustla. I won't deny it) [x4]
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