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"
So when they cant stop, wont stop/
who keep the tank topped?/
who reaps the good sleep, keeps the receipts?/
I seem em sucking up the last drops/
drop the H2 stretch H3/
where the party at democrat?/
sittin on a muggy summer bench/ sippin muddy water/
peepin newsweek/ see whats up with sergeant slaughter/
hotter days on the way/ turn your A.C. Slater up/
Burn/ aloe vera green/ apple now and later/
yup/ pass that (sweet)/
Mike Mictlan/ where the mask at?/
hand over what?/
hand over yours run that/
man over bored with the same crap down/
dehumanize communities like Black Hawk Down/
they realize immunities and rape them towns/
so we speak our minds so fluently with raw/ rap sounds/
alright tykes/ a Klondike bars on the line/
we need a blind eye turned/ keep em simple/ refined/
oh the black gold/ Texas tea (hah)/ youre kiddin/
there aint been good oil in Texas for a minute/
thats why we knocked over our own thrones/
then watch it combust/ end up in free speech zones/ that shock and awe was on us/
watch me ex-pat Brazillian/ if 85% of Guantanimo is civilian/
blood pumps vermillion/ beats dump all over a chump populous/
keeping they focus on Paris Hilton (ick)/
Prada dead guilty as any internet thread/ big check/
probably got a lot of bad head/
all night vision/ all night missions/ all right/
Christ risen?/ tight/ nope/ call the prisons/
yikes/ the middle pickin the simple drivel/
the riddles a head ripper/ splitter/
suburbanites will get the kibble/ (listen)/ t
he double speech is legit/
they on some/ stand up for yourself you worthless piece of shit/
bet it all lose it all forget it/
and saying fuck Bush gave that douche a splash/ too much credit/
but smoking on Kush makes cats/ so apathetic/
cant beat em with a bat/ so we join em and spit the ethics/
(or)/ we beat em with a bat (yeah)/
POS steadily wreck it for anybody who raps/ or naps on facts/
fill the in line six to End Hits/
the oval office and the lobby/ prolly listen to Fugazi singin/
this ones ours lets take another/ x2
Then they dance away clean like/ Savion Glover
who keep the tank topped?/
who reaps the good sleep, keeps the receipts?/
I seem em sucking up the last drops/
drop the H2 stretch H3/
where the party at democrat?/
sittin on a muggy summer bench/ sippin muddy water/
peepin newsweek/ see whats up with sergeant slaughter/
hotter days on the way/ turn your A.C. Slater up/
Burn/ aloe vera green/ apple now and later/
yup/ pass that (sweet)/
Mike Mictlan/ where the mask at?/
hand over what?/
hand over yours run that/
man over bored with the same crap down/
dehumanize communities like Black Hawk Down/
they realize immunities and rape them towns/
so we speak our minds so fluently with raw/ rap sounds/
alright tykes/ a Klondike bars on the line/
we need a blind eye turned/ keep em simple/ refined/
oh the black gold/ Texas tea (hah)/ youre kiddin/
there aint been good oil in Texas for a minute/
thats why we knocked over our own thrones/
then watch it combust/ end up in free speech zones/ that shock and awe was on us/
watch me ex-pat Brazillian/ if 85% of Guantanimo is civilian/
blood pumps vermillion/ beats dump all over a chump populous/
keeping they focus on Paris Hilton (ick)/
Prada dead guilty as any internet thread/ big check/
probably got a lot of bad head/
all night vision/ all night missions/ all right/
Christ risen?/ tight/ nope/ call the prisons/
yikes/ the middle pickin the simple drivel/
the riddles a head ripper/ splitter/
suburbanites will get the kibble/ (listen)/ t
he double speech is legit/
they on some/ stand up for yourself you worthless piece of shit/
bet it all lose it all forget it/
and saying fuck Bush gave that douche a splash/ too much credit/
but smoking on Kush makes cats/ so apathetic/
cant beat em with a bat/ so we join em and spit the ethics/
(or)/ we beat em with a bat (yeah)/
POS steadily wreck it for anybody who raps/ or naps on facts/
fill the in line six to End Hits/
the oval office and the lobby/ prolly listen to Fugazi singin/
this ones ours lets take another/ x2
Then they dance away clean like/ Savion Glover
Lyrics submitted by liesnevermiss
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