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'm a survivor, Ive been around the block,
I'm a survivor. Ive been around the block.
I'm survivor yeah...
Well its not about the industry,
and its not about the things that i been through like Nas and Jay Z.
See I seen a lot of things on the road to destruction, addicted to this rap game standing up and busting,
this ain't a come back, this ain't a second coming
we took a real loss when Dimebag stopped strumming!
America's in trouble, the music is dying, they said some things about me now the rap game is lying!
I'm A survivor, Ive been around the block, I'm a survivor, I'm coming out of the block, I'm a survivor, and yet you know i wont stop! I'm a survivor, I can't escape the block! I'm a survivor! What you got? what you got? What you got? what you got? I'm a survivor, you don't want it, you don't want it, you don't want it!
From sold out stages to seconds from my life, to rolling with Madonna, to wrecking on my bike, there are some things I regret, and some I don't, some things I take back and some I won't
I went from styles of the 90's to Dickies and shell toes, no matter what I'm wearing, I'm still in a hell hole, escaped suicide from that gun on my dresser, I look into my daughter's eyes that relieves the pressure!
I'm A survivor, Ive been around the block, I'm a survivor, I'm coming out of the block, I'm a survivor, and yet you know i wont stop! I'm a survivor, I cant escape the block! I'm a survivor! What you got? what you got? What you got? what you got? I'm a survivor, you don't want it, you don't want it, you don't want it!
First the love you then they hate, sign you then they rape you, treat you like a sport, punk, fake you then they shake you! I don't want your pity, cause I'm far from the norm, I cant take what you give I'd have made it through the storm! I want the whole world to know me straight through my songs, baby when I die, let the songs live on!
Cause I'm surviving, now ya know I wont stop, I'm surviving, I'm coming out of the block!
I'm A survivor, Ive been around the block, I'm a survivor, I'm coming out of the block, I'm a survivor, and yet you know I wont stop! I'm a survivor, I cant escape the block! I'm a survivor! What you got? what you got? What you got? what you got? I'm a survivor, you don't want it, you don't want it, you don't want it!
I'm a survivor. Ive been around the block.
I'm survivor yeah...
Well its not about the industry,
and its not about the things that i been through like Nas and Jay Z.
See I seen a lot of things on the road to destruction, addicted to this rap game standing up and busting,
this ain't a come back, this ain't a second coming
we took a real loss when Dimebag stopped strumming!
America's in trouble, the music is dying, they said some things about me now the rap game is lying!
I'm A survivor, Ive been around the block, I'm a survivor, I'm coming out of the block, I'm a survivor, and yet you know i wont stop! I'm a survivor, I can't escape the block! I'm a survivor! What you got? what you got? What you got? what you got? I'm a survivor, you don't want it, you don't want it, you don't want it!
From sold out stages to seconds from my life, to rolling with Madonna, to wrecking on my bike, there are some things I regret, and some I don't, some things I take back and some I won't
I went from styles of the 90's to Dickies and shell toes, no matter what I'm wearing, I'm still in a hell hole, escaped suicide from that gun on my dresser, I look into my daughter's eyes that relieves the pressure!
I'm A survivor, Ive been around the block, I'm a survivor, I'm coming out of the block, I'm a survivor, and yet you know i wont stop! I'm a survivor, I cant escape the block! I'm a survivor! What you got? what you got? What you got? what you got? I'm a survivor, you don't want it, you don't want it, you don't want it!
First the love you then they hate, sign you then they rape you, treat you like a sport, punk, fake you then they shake you! I don't want your pity, cause I'm far from the norm, I cant take what you give I'd have made it through the storm! I want the whole world to know me straight through my songs, baby when I die, let the songs live on!
Cause I'm surviving, now ya know I wont stop, I'm surviving, I'm coming out of the block!
I'm A survivor, Ive been around the block, I'm a survivor, I'm coming out of the block, I'm a survivor, and yet you know I wont stop! I'm a survivor, I cant escape the block! I'm a survivor! What you got? what you got? What you got? what you got? I'm a survivor, you don't want it, you don't want it, you don't want it!
Lyrics submitted by phillyt23
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