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"
[Cap.One]
Yo, now eva since I got a record deal
Niggaz and bitches been in my crib
Tryin to kick it wit a nigga jho
But I been peepin da game
And how to be scopin da reigns
Sittin on thangs
And whippin through the city slow
Even a ??? hoes
Be tryin to get a piece of da don
Tellin me she can get me sprung (whassup shortie)
And be peepin my song
She want to creep on da phone and
Freak on da ???
Tellin me to hit it when her people ain't home
I got game for hoes and major dough
'Cause got a chick got in a minute like what da fuck is you pagin fo'
Steady tellin me that you in love and shit
That you love da dick
If you want to it then you came for more
If you break it, you replace it ho
I tell da bitch how it is shit, like Mothafucka Dig Dis (Dig Dis)
Imma Pimp nigga from da windy city Chi
No lie, straight rollin a 5
Steady handlin my business
Now all you need is a thug
[Chorus]
You need a thug in your life
Who is makin and trippin he ain't holdin you tight (you need is a thug)
You need a thug in your life
Who take of business and get to lovin you right
Now all you need is a thug life
A thug in you life (All you need is a thugg)
You need a thug a life
Who is makin and trippin he ain't huggin you right
Who take of business and get to lovin you tight ( In yo life )
[Cap.One]
Yo, how come you want to fuck wit a nigga
You see me on da tip steady ballin
Got enough cash to get you and your girls allin
Hit you wit da dick and yo ass keep callin
Trick stop stalkin or you end up in a coffin
Da see A P to da Dot
Oh Shit, one fly nigga dats hot
Bring it to you niggaz if you like it or not
Wit da Mic or a Glock
Give me right to my spot
My niggaz sell a dime and a dubs
Line fulla drugs
Eva had to grind wit da ???
Never fuck wit Primco cause they lines is a bug
My Nine milli bust
Y'all niggaz need ta duck, Wha
Sickin da Don
Keepin a gun
When I'm flickin alone
Leave da bitch gettin boned
Now the gettin is on
Now picture me on
A whip and a home
Had to check my life cause I was livin it wrong
Well Lately, I been on da grind and its on
Niggaz on my dick, had to tell dem
Get a style of ya Own
Ryde slick in da Benz wit da chrome
??? on da phone
Had dem hoes like niggaz lets get it on
Show you how a pimp nigga ryde
And if you eva take a trip to da Chi
Show you where my Gs sip and ???
Gettin skully den a mothafucka
We livin to Die
Pourin liquor wit da 6 in da sky
Now nigga if you want to ryde
[Chorus]
You need a thug in your life
Who is makin and trippin he ain't holdin you tight (you need is a thug)
You need a thug in your life
Who take of business and get to lovin you right
Now all you need is a thug life
A thug in you life (All you need is a thugg)
You need a thug a life
Who is makin and trippin he ain't holdin you right
Who take of business and get to lovin you tight ( In yo life )
[Cap.One]
Everybody want to live dat thug nigga life
Talk plenty shit while dey holdin da dice
Chain off da hook, da Roll fulla ice
Nigga bought two when they sold me da price
And dis hoes, I got'em by da dozen, love 'em
The way they be fiendin for me to bugg 'em, touch 'em
Me and my nigga be in da mall ready to ball
Lyin to dis broads sayin we cousins, buggin
Still, rappin like a nigga need a deal
Can't stop till I get my hands on a mill
Won't stop till dem niggaz know who da real
Bust shots dead at dem niggaz wit da steel
And its on, spit it for my niggaz back at home
My niggaz who is wild wit da chrome
SouthSide till dem niggaz call me da throne
So baby let me take you through the eyes of a don
Now if you want to bone
[Chorus]
You need a thug in your life
Who is makin and trippin he ain't holdin you tight (you need is a thug)
You need a thug in your life
Who take of business and get to lovin you right
Now all you need is a thug life
A thug in you life (All you need is a thugg)
You need a thug a life
Who is makin and trippin he ain't holdin you right
Who take of business and get to lovin you tight ( In yo life )
[Jazzy Pha]
When yo man is trippin bout some thangs he won't do
Thug in ya life
Thug in ya life
When yo man is trippin and ain't holdin you right
Now all you need is a thug
When yo man is trippin bout some thangs he won't do
Thug in yo life
When yo man is trippin and ain't holdin you right
Yo, now eva since I got a record deal
Niggaz and bitches been in my crib
Tryin to kick it wit a nigga jho
But I been peepin da game
And how to be scopin da reigns
Sittin on thangs
And whippin through the city slow
Even a ??? hoes
Be tryin to get a piece of da don
Tellin me she can get me sprung (whassup shortie)
And be peepin my song
She want to creep on da phone and
Freak on da ???
Tellin me to hit it when her people ain't home
I got game for hoes and major dough
'Cause got a chick got in a minute like what da fuck is you pagin fo'
Steady tellin me that you in love and shit
That you love da dick
If you want to it then you came for more
If you break it, you replace it ho
I tell da bitch how it is shit, like Mothafucka Dig Dis (Dig Dis)
Imma Pimp nigga from da windy city Chi
No lie, straight rollin a 5
Steady handlin my business
Now all you need is a thug
[Chorus]
You need a thug in your life
Who is makin and trippin he ain't holdin you tight (you need is a thug)
You need a thug in your life
Who take of business and get to lovin you right
Now all you need is a thug life
A thug in you life (All you need is a thugg)
You need a thug a life
Who is makin and trippin he ain't huggin you right
Who take of business and get to lovin you tight ( In yo life )
[Cap.One]
Yo, how come you want to fuck wit a nigga
You see me on da tip steady ballin
Got enough cash to get you and your girls allin
Hit you wit da dick and yo ass keep callin
Trick stop stalkin or you end up in a coffin
Da see A P to da Dot
Oh Shit, one fly nigga dats hot
Bring it to you niggaz if you like it or not
Wit da Mic or a Glock
Give me right to my spot
My niggaz sell a dime and a dubs
Line fulla drugs
Eva had to grind wit da ???
Never fuck wit Primco cause they lines is a bug
My Nine milli bust
Y'all niggaz need ta duck, Wha
Sickin da Don
Keepin a gun
When I'm flickin alone
Leave da bitch gettin boned
Now the gettin is on
Now picture me on
A whip and a home
Had to check my life cause I was livin it wrong
Well Lately, I been on da grind and its on
Niggaz on my dick, had to tell dem
Get a style of ya Own
Ryde slick in da Benz wit da chrome
??? on da phone
Had dem hoes like niggaz lets get it on
Show you how a pimp nigga ryde
And if you eva take a trip to da Chi
Show you where my Gs sip and ???
Gettin skully den a mothafucka
We livin to Die
Pourin liquor wit da 6 in da sky
Now nigga if you want to ryde
[Chorus]
You need a thug in your life
Who is makin and trippin he ain't holdin you tight (you need is a thug)
You need a thug in your life
Who take of business and get to lovin you right
Now all you need is a thug life
A thug in you life (All you need is a thugg)
You need a thug a life
Who is makin and trippin he ain't holdin you right
Who take of business and get to lovin you tight ( In yo life )
[Cap.One]
Everybody want to live dat thug nigga life
Talk plenty shit while dey holdin da dice
Chain off da hook, da Roll fulla ice
Nigga bought two when they sold me da price
And dis hoes, I got'em by da dozen, love 'em
The way they be fiendin for me to bugg 'em, touch 'em
Me and my nigga be in da mall ready to ball
Lyin to dis broads sayin we cousins, buggin
Still, rappin like a nigga need a deal
Can't stop till I get my hands on a mill
Won't stop till dem niggaz know who da real
Bust shots dead at dem niggaz wit da steel
And its on, spit it for my niggaz back at home
My niggaz who is wild wit da chrome
SouthSide till dem niggaz call me da throne
So baby let me take you through the eyes of a don
Now if you want to bone
[Chorus]
You need a thug in your life
Who is makin and trippin he ain't holdin you tight (you need is a thug)
You need a thug in your life
Who take of business and get to lovin you right
Now all you need is a thug life
A thug in you life (All you need is a thugg)
You need a thug a life
Who is makin and trippin he ain't holdin you right
Who take of business and get to lovin you tight ( In yo life )
[Jazzy Pha]
When yo man is trippin bout some thangs he won't do
Thug in ya life
Thug in ya life
When yo man is trippin and ain't holdin you right
Now all you need is a thug
When yo man is trippin bout some thangs he won't do
Thug in yo life
When yo man is trippin and ain't holdin you right
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