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"
It's not up to me, its not A13
It's not the Circle K at the top of street
I know it may seem debonnaire
But there's time on the line that we just can't spare
Hold up everybody, put it all on ice
Gotta feeling on the mic that's twice as nice
Gotta cope with the dope by cutting soap
So turned on livin' out my horoscope
No one can do it like we can
We take the stand with a master plan
We are the educated, motivated, skin tight, rawhide, hardworkin',
Blood sweatin', Hollerin', your world wreckin'
Ladies of eighty three
Ladies you want to be
We're not the first but that matters least
'Cause there's free rough justice for the masterpiece
I said
A panther is
What a cougar aint
What a royal wants to be
What a hustler cant
What the ladies like
What the fellas love
What U L C can't get enough of
I said now
Walk like a panther?
I said
Walk like a panther?
What the ladies like
What the fellas love
What U. L. C. can't get enough of
We got no second chance, we got a soldier's stance
We got the thrills in our skills that you can't advance
Never gonna get ninety nine percent
My get up and go just got up and went
So unrelenting, pay strict attention
My mind is heading In the right direction
More hits than bazooka smooth
Our guarantee is we can move
Our Q and A don't ricochet
We make the play with a double A
We are the educated, motivated, skin tight, rawhide, hardworkin',
Blood sweatin, hollerin, your world wreckin'
Ladies of eighty three
Ladies you want to be
We're not the first but that matters least
'Cause there's free rough justice for the masterpiece
I said
A panther is
What a cougar aint
What a royal wants to be
What a hustler cant
What the ladies like
What the fellas love
What U L C can't get enough of
I said now
Walk like a panther?
I said
Walk like a panther?
What the ladies like
What the fellas love
What U. L C. can't get enough of
I got
Rockets to the left of me
Bullets to the right of me
Flames to the back of me
Spark the TNT
Cobras to the left of me
Vipers to the right of me
We're the
G. O. T
E. A. M
Oh Oh double Oh P
Oh Oh double Oh P
We say
You say
You say
We fly
You're the ones we notify
I said
A panther is
What a cougar aint
What a royal wants to be
What a hustler cant
What the ladies like
What the fellas love
What U L C can't get enough of
I said now
Walk like a panther?
I said
Walk like a panther?
What the ladies like
What the fellas love
What U. L. C. can't get enough of
One nine one three
You know you wanna be like me
One nine one three
We gotta life to set free
One nine one three
We gonna shake the AKG
One nine one three
You wanna bring it back like me
Yeah!
Yeah!
It's not the Circle K at the top of street
I know it may seem debonnaire
But there's time on the line that we just can't spare
Hold up everybody, put it all on ice
Gotta feeling on the mic that's twice as nice
Gotta cope with the dope by cutting soap
So turned on livin' out my horoscope
No one can do it like we can
We take the stand with a master plan
We are the educated, motivated, skin tight, rawhide, hardworkin',
Blood sweatin', Hollerin', your world wreckin'
Ladies of eighty three
Ladies you want to be
We're not the first but that matters least
'Cause there's free rough justice for the masterpiece
I said
A panther is
What a cougar aint
What a royal wants to be
What a hustler cant
What the ladies like
What the fellas love
What U L C can't get enough of
I said now
Walk like a panther?
I said
Walk like a panther?
What the ladies like
What the fellas love
What U. L. C. can't get enough of
We got no second chance, we got a soldier's stance
We got the thrills in our skills that you can't advance
Never gonna get ninety nine percent
My get up and go just got up and went
So unrelenting, pay strict attention
My mind is heading In the right direction
More hits than bazooka smooth
Our guarantee is we can move
Our Q and A don't ricochet
We make the play with a double A
We are the educated, motivated, skin tight, rawhide, hardworkin',
Blood sweatin, hollerin, your world wreckin'
Ladies of eighty three
Ladies you want to be
We're not the first but that matters least
'Cause there's free rough justice for the masterpiece
I said
A panther is
What a cougar aint
What a royal wants to be
What a hustler cant
What the ladies like
What the fellas love
What U L C can't get enough of
I said now
Walk like a panther?
I said
Walk like a panther?
What the ladies like
What the fellas love
What U. L C. can't get enough of
I got
Rockets to the left of me
Bullets to the right of me
Flames to the back of me
Spark the TNT
Cobras to the left of me
Vipers to the right of me
We're the
G. O. T
E. A. M
Oh Oh double Oh P
Oh Oh double Oh P
We say
You say
You say
We fly
You're the ones we notify
I said
A panther is
What a cougar aint
What a royal wants to be
What a hustler cant
What the ladies like
What the fellas love
What U L C can't get enough of
I said now
Walk like a panther?
I said
Walk like a panther?
What the ladies like
What the fellas love
What U. L. C. can't get enough of
One nine one three
You know you wanna be like me
One nine one three
We gotta life to set free
One nine one three
We gonna shake the AKG
One nine one three
You wanna bring it back like me
Yeah!
Yeah!
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