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"
There's only two types of men
Pimps and John's
There's one type of bitch
That's a hoe
God damn hooker this is my world
God damn time to go
Where's my doe
It's startin to snow
All I want is the dollas
I've been a pimp so long ? gahndi had an afro
Pimp, hold my dick like a holster
Girls want a Kid Rock poster
And be able to both stay looked at
The number one pimp with the number one rap
What's up with that
Well I'm a cool cat
With the rap
That's harder than a pimp slap
And because I do so much pimpin
One day I'll probably walk with a limp
And drive a big Lincoln
Wearing an unbuttoned shirt
And be a fifty five year old pervert
But for now rap's the occupation
But watch one day I'll be Pimp Of The Nation
Hoes are rustlic
Daddy's in the house
We got hoes and hoes and hoes
Prices are low
We pratically given the coochie away
Shake the booty
Shake that booty
It's not a ? sell
It's a cake sell
God Damn It
Pimp of the Nation, I could be it
As a matter of a fact, I for see it
But only pimpin' hoes with the big tush
While you be left pimpin' Barbra Bush
What's up granny
First name Annie
Dried up cunt and a saggin fanny
The highlight of your sex adventures
You want to suck dicks take out your denchers
A show of life is all I'm givin
Old Pimp young hoes is how I'm livin
But for now rap's the occupation
But watch one day I'll be Pimp Of The Nation
I got all the hookers, God Damn It
I got Sensational Sherry, Juicy Lucy, Nasty Nancy, and Tammy Toe Jam
All of them ready, willing, and able to give the mack daddy the dollas
And all the coochie and kunts that's the sweet part
Hahahaha
I have hoes like horses in a stable
Rich, famous, willing, and able
First off Ja Ja Kubore
Different gore
Is my highest paying whore
And for some hot booty waxin
Fake Ass Latoya Jackson
Rosanne Barr is my newest trick
While on the beach I prune her with my dick
And the bitch who fucks with my cash
Robin Givens I'll rip your ass
Yeah Kid Rock, Kid Rock
Don't fuck with me
I'll be Pimp of the Nation, Bitch
One nation under a pimp
Gettin Paid 'cause suckers is pussy whipped
One nation under a pimp
Gettin Paid 'cause suckers is pussy whipped
One nation under a pimp
Gettin Paid 'cause suckers is pussy whipped
One nation under a pimp
Gettin Paid 'cause suckers is pussy whipped
Oh yeah who's pimpin out there
Ah huh
The Midwest is pimpin
Detroit is pimpin
Mt. Clemens is pimpin
Romeo is pimpin
The balck man he pimpin
Katie see he's pimpin
Bo your pimpin
I said Tom he's pimpin
Chuck and Murph their pimpin
D he's pimpin
Boner is pimpin
Ben he's pimpin
Ralph see is pimpin
The yound brothers are pimpin
Elie your pimpin
I said Tony your pimpin
Hey Chicago your pimpin
Mr. Lee your pimpin
My pops is pimpin
? D he's pimpin
Jay see he's pimpin
Diesy is pimpin
Dougie Doug is pimpin
D-Nice he's pimpin
Chuck Nice is pimpin
Barry White he's pimpin
New York is pimpin
I said Philly is pimpin
Oakland your pimpin
Too $hort your pimpin
Arseno Hall your pimpin
Eddie Murphy your pimpin
Jive your pimpin
RCA is pimpin
Top Dogg is pimpin
Michael Jackson, Ah you ain't pimpin shit Ah hah hah
Word em up
Word em up
Kid Rock
Kid, Kid Rock
Kid, Kid Rock
And I'm Pimp of the Nation
Hah hah Word
You stay on third base
I'm goin home with the bacon baby
Peace
Pimps and John's
There's one type of bitch
That's a hoe
God damn hooker this is my world
God damn time to go
Where's my doe
It's startin to snow
All I want is the dollas
I've been a pimp so long ? gahndi had an afro
Pimp, hold my dick like a holster
Girls want a Kid Rock poster
And be able to both stay looked at
The number one pimp with the number one rap
What's up with that
Well I'm a cool cat
With the rap
That's harder than a pimp slap
And because I do so much pimpin
One day I'll probably walk with a limp
And drive a big Lincoln
Wearing an unbuttoned shirt
And be a fifty five year old pervert
But for now rap's the occupation
But watch one day I'll be Pimp Of The Nation
Hoes are rustlic
Daddy's in the house
We got hoes and hoes and hoes
Prices are low
We pratically given the coochie away
Shake the booty
Shake that booty
It's not a ? sell
It's a cake sell
God Damn It
Pimp of the Nation, I could be it
As a matter of a fact, I for see it
But only pimpin' hoes with the big tush
While you be left pimpin' Barbra Bush
What's up granny
First name Annie
Dried up cunt and a saggin fanny
The highlight of your sex adventures
You want to suck dicks take out your denchers
A show of life is all I'm givin
Old Pimp young hoes is how I'm livin
But for now rap's the occupation
But watch one day I'll be Pimp Of The Nation
I got all the hookers, God Damn It
I got Sensational Sherry, Juicy Lucy, Nasty Nancy, and Tammy Toe Jam
All of them ready, willing, and able to give the mack daddy the dollas
And all the coochie and kunts that's the sweet part
Hahahaha
I have hoes like horses in a stable
Rich, famous, willing, and able
First off Ja Ja Kubore
Different gore
Is my highest paying whore
And for some hot booty waxin
Fake Ass Latoya Jackson
Rosanne Barr is my newest trick
While on the beach I prune her with my dick
And the bitch who fucks with my cash
Robin Givens I'll rip your ass
Yeah Kid Rock, Kid Rock
Don't fuck with me
I'll be Pimp of the Nation, Bitch
One nation under a pimp
Gettin Paid 'cause suckers is pussy whipped
One nation under a pimp
Gettin Paid 'cause suckers is pussy whipped
One nation under a pimp
Gettin Paid 'cause suckers is pussy whipped
One nation under a pimp
Gettin Paid 'cause suckers is pussy whipped
Oh yeah who's pimpin out there
Ah huh
The Midwest is pimpin
Detroit is pimpin
Mt. Clemens is pimpin
Romeo is pimpin
The balck man he pimpin
Katie see he's pimpin
Bo your pimpin
I said Tom he's pimpin
Chuck and Murph their pimpin
D he's pimpin
Boner is pimpin
Ben he's pimpin
Ralph see is pimpin
The yound brothers are pimpin
Elie your pimpin
I said Tony your pimpin
Hey Chicago your pimpin
Mr. Lee your pimpin
My pops is pimpin
? D he's pimpin
Jay see he's pimpin
Diesy is pimpin
Dougie Doug is pimpin
D-Nice he's pimpin
Chuck Nice is pimpin
Barry White he's pimpin
New York is pimpin
I said Philly is pimpin
Oakland your pimpin
Too $hort your pimpin
Arseno Hall your pimpin
Eddie Murphy your pimpin
Jive your pimpin
RCA is pimpin
Top Dogg is pimpin
Michael Jackson, Ah you ain't pimpin shit Ah hah hah
Word em up
Word em up
Kid Rock
Kid, Kid Rock
Kid, Kid Rock
And I'm Pimp of the Nation
Hah hah Word
You stay on third base
I'm goin home with the bacon baby
Peace
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Pimp of the Nation [Bonus Track] Lyrics as written by Douglas Bourne Damon B. Arenas
Lyrics © Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN), Universal Music Publishing Group
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