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"
Yeah!
Yo, you know we had to come from overseas on this one!
It's Hoodie Allen
On this beat-beat down
Say what up to VV Brown
Y'all let's get loud
R.J. drop, man
Yeah, I gotta shorten up my words cuz I speak fast
Girls got me caught up like a re-cast
She's always high strung, nobody can beat that
But talk's cheap, so consider this my free rap
A free app, but nothing is free really
There's a shark in the water, I'm ready to free Willy
Why so serious? Better we be silly
'Less you turn a cold shoulder, I'm ready to be chilly
Damn, let's work it out girl, this is gym class
Let me tell you 'bout the game like gymnast
Cuz there's a whole lotta fishes that I swim past
But I can't wait to drive slim fast
Thin glass between us I did my best to break
I was so convinced that I let the rest to bake
I known a lot of girls, always said it best to wait
I never been a snoop, dog
Don't investigate
When I'm in doubt
I open my mouth
And words come out
Words come out like
Words come out like
We good, we get it
We love, we headed
Til we live, to regret it
We don't ever care, we
We don't ever care
We met in Vegas, so that explains it, I rolled the dice
Saw the writings on the wall like I'm notified
We sayin' no to fights, always acting so polite
But now you're cursin' me out, okay, that's poltergeist
Okay, it's no surprise, name change, pronto
Just cuz I'm a rapper that don't mean I'm in Toronto
'96 Honda with a drive like Rondo
If I'm racin' for your heart I'll never tie like kwon-do
Yeah, you get mad men, so that's advertised
But who's the illest, that's me like Amanda Bynes
So if you gold diggin', don't worry I handle mine's
I let you paint the picture vivid you've been vandalized
Cuz I'm a male, I'm a man, I be Carl Malone
I done some good deeds, I'm needing a karma loan
So if you would, please, don't leave this bar alone
We got far to go but we never far from home
I done some good deeds
When I'm in doubt
I open my mouth
And words come out
Words come out like
We good, we get it
We love, we headed
Til we live, to regret it
We don't ever care, we
We don't ever care
Yo, you know we had to come from overseas on this one!
It's Hoodie Allen
On this beat-beat down
Say what up to VV Brown
Y'all let's get loud
R.J. drop, man
Yeah, I gotta shorten up my words cuz I speak fast
Girls got me caught up like a re-cast
She's always high strung, nobody can beat that
But talk's cheap, so consider this my free rap
A free app, but nothing is free really
There's a shark in the water, I'm ready to free Willy
Why so serious? Better we be silly
'Less you turn a cold shoulder, I'm ready to be chilly
Damn, let's work it out girl, this is gym class
Let me tell you 'bout the game like gymnast
Cuz there's a whole lotta fishes that I swim past
But I can't wait to drive slim fast
Thin glass between us I did my best to break
I was so convinced that I let the rest to bake
I known a lot of girls, always said it best to wait
I never been a snoop, dog
Don't investigate
When I'm in doubt
I open my mouth
And words come out
Words come out like
Words come out like
We good, we get it
We love, we headed
Til we live, to regret it
We don't ever care, we
We don't ever care
We met in Vegas, so that explains it, I rolled the dice
Saw the writings on the wall like I'm notified
We sayin' no to fights, always acting so polite
But now you're cursin' me out, okay, that's poltergeist
Okay, it's no surprise, name change, pronto
Just cuz I'm a rapper that don't mean I'm in Toronto
'96 Honda with a drive like Rondo
If I'm racin' for your heart I'll never tie like kwon-do
Yeah, you get mad men, so that's advertised
But who's the illest, that's me like Amanda Bynes
So if you gold diggin', don't worry I handle mine's
I let you paint the picture vivid you've been vandalized
Cuz I'm a male, I'm a man, I be Carl Malone
I done some good deeds, I'm needing a karma loan
So if you would, please, don't leave this bar alone
We got far to go but we never far from home
I done some good deeds
When I'm in doubt
I open my mouth
And words come out
Words come out like
We good, we get it
We love, we headed
Til we live, to regret it
We don't ever care, we
We don't ever care
Lyrics submitted by MattyG
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