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"
Sometimes I don't get a chance to really to tell you
But I promise you, my love I'll never fail you
Don't you get it? Right now we're writing history
A thousand years from now they'll talk about you and me
I know sometimes I go hard for no reason at all
Put your soul through the business and test the weight of your heart
'Cause when you're backs on the wall and there's a shortage of friends
You know that I'm with you until the end
We got hood love, I be cussin', I be screamin' like it's over
Then I'm longin', then I'm fienin' just to hold ya
'Cause that's how we do
You know that hood love is a good love, that's me and you
How feel, love? Well, I'm with you, never quit you
Now that's real love, when you ain't here, then I miss you
'Cause I still love the way that we do
You know that hood love is a good love, that's me and you
Sometimes I think about leaving you
But wen I think about what we've been through, yeah
I get a feeling like it could be worst
'Cause I've given you my best and I don't mind it, that's why
'Cause wen you love somebody hard, then you'll love that way for life
You got all of my heart and I'll never leave your side
I gave my word to love you all the way to the end
So no matter what, I'll be right here, I'll be right here 'cause
We got hood love, I be cussin', I be screamin' like it's over
Then I'm longin', then I'm fienin' just to hold ya
'Cause that's how we do
You know that hood love is a good love, that's me and you
How feel, love? Well, I'm with you, never quit you
Now that's real love, when you ain't here, then I miss you
'Cause I still love the way that we do
You know that hood love is a good love, that's me and you
Now I play tough but not for too long
You are someone I depend on
No matter how I act at times, I can never walk away
I thought about it plenty times, but no one could take your place
Well, if there ain't no you, then there ain't no me
And there ain't no us, then I'd rather be
By myself 'cause no one else
Can know just what I need and really understand me
We got hood love, I be cussin', I be screamin' like it's over
Then I'm longin', then I'm fienin' just to hold ya
'Cause that's how we do
You know that hood love is a good love, that's me and you
How feel, love? Well, I'm with you, never quit you
Now that's real love, when you ain't here, then I miss you
'Cause I still love the way that we do
You know that hood love is a good love, that's me and you
But I promise you, my love I'll never fail you
Don't you get it? Right now we're writing history
A thousand years from now they'll talk about you and me
I know sometimes I go hard for no reason at all
Put your soul through the business and test the weight of your heart
'Cause when you're backs on the wall and there's a shortage of friends
You know that I'm with you until the end
We got hood love, I be cussin', I be screamin' like it's over
Then I'm longin', then I'm fienin' just to hold ya
'Cause that's how we do
You know that hood love is a good love, that's me and you
How feel, love? Well, I'm with you, never quit you
Now that's real love, when you ain't here, then I miss you
'Cause I still love the way that we do
You know that hood love is a good love, that's me and you
Sometimes I think about leaving you
But wen I think about what we've been through, yeah
I get a feeling like it could be worst
'Cause I've given you my best and I don't mind it, that's why
'Cause wen you love somebody hard, then you'll love that way for life
You got all of my heart and I'll never leave your side
I gave my word to love you all the way to the end
So no matter what, I'll be right here, I'll be right here 'cause
We got hood love, I be cussin', I be screamin' like it's over
Then I'm longin', then I'm fienin' just to hold ya
'Cause that's how we do
You know that hood love is a good love, that's me and you
How feel, love? Well, I'm with you, never quit you
Now that's real love, when you ain't here, then I miss you
'Cause I still love the way that we do
You know that hood love is a good love, that's me and you
Now I play tough but not for too long
You are someone I depend on
No matter how I act at times, I can never walk away
I thought about it plenty times, but no one could take your place
Well, if there ain't no you, then there ain't no me
And there ain't no us, then I'd rather be
By myself 'cause no one else
Can know just what I need and really understand me
We got hood love, I be cussin', I be screamin' like it's over
Then I'm longin', then I'm fienin' just to hold ya
'Cause that's how we do
You know that hood love is a good love, that's me and you
How feel, love? Well, I'm with you, never quit you
Now that's real love, when you ain't here, then I miss you
'Cause I still love the way that we do
You know that hood love is a good love, that's me and you
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