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"
[Chorus]
We keep it tight, we keep it right
We're comin strong, we're movin on (yeah)
It's time to rise, and unify
Keep comin strong (uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh!)
Just keep movin on
Yo, where's my people at?
We be where the elite be at
We really never need the gat, we comin with a sneak attack
In fact, best believe we back
What we rap it heats the track
Kenny Parker sees to that, my job is to teach these cats
Present the clear speech they lack
And show 'em how to eat from rap
[Chorus]
You know why the devil can't get with me?
Cause he's a liar, I've got victory
You can stick with me, my click is free
Negativity, that doesn't live with me
These rappers on one, I've skipped to three
These rappers on A, I've skipped to C
My image, heads ain't quick to be
So I thank you for pickin me
I know why people got to know, these wack rappers got to go
Let a MC rock the show
I'll show 'em how it 'posed to go
We forgot simply what we supposed to know
We still must defeat the foe
So what you got the dough? Your words don't make us glow
In fact they make us slow
How long this gonna take to know you ain't gotta be a hoe?
[Chorus]
Look at the teacher, I stay attuned
People are blessed when I walk in the room
Snakes(?) don't stop me, and if they did
They'd be askin for a tag 'fore they kids
Medical students lose it when I enter any hospital
Doctors wanna talk music and whatever's topical
It's all logical, I perform the impossible
Through words I put hip-hop in you; listen
Here's what we got to do, unify
Defeat the flesh, defeat the beast in you and I
Win or lose I never shout, believe in yourself and never doubt
Discipline is simply a better route
We keep it tight, we keep it tight
We keep it right, we keep it right
We're comin' strong, comin' strong
We're movin' on, movin' on!
It's time to rise, it's time to rise
And unify, unifyyyy
Keep comin' strong, comin' strong
Just keep movin' on, keep on movin' on
We keep it tight, we keep it tight
We keep it right, we keep it right
We're comin' strong, we're comin' strong
We're movin' on, movin' on!
It's time to rise, it's time to rise
And unify, it's time to unify
Keep comin' strong
Just keep movin' on, keep on movin' on
Just keep movin' on, keep on movin' on
Just keep movin' on, we gotta keep on movin' on
Just keep movin' on, wake up and realize
Just keep movin' on, that you just keep movin' on
Just keep movin' on, it's time to realize
Just keep movin' on, that you gotta keep movin' on
Just keep movin' on, keep movin' on, keep movin' on
Just keep movin' on, you gotta keep movin' on, you gotta take that time
Just keep movin' on, you gotta realize, that it's time
Keep on movin' on, keep on movin' on
We keep it tight, we keep it right
We're comin strong, we're movin on (yeah)
It's time to rise, and unify
Keep comin strong (uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh!)
Just keep movin on
Yo, where's my people at?
We be where the elite be at
We really never need the gat, we comin with a sneak attack
In fact, best believe we back
What we rap it heats the track
Kenny Parker sees to that, my job is to teach these cats
Present the clear speech they lack
And show 'em how to eat from rap
[Chorus]
You know why the devil can't get with me?
Cause he's a liar, I've got victory
You can stick with me, my click is free
Negativity, that doesn't live with me
These rappers on one, I've skipped to three
These rappers on A, I've skipped to C
My image, heads ain't quick to be
So I thank you for pickin me
I know why people got to know, these wack rappers got to go
Let a MC rock the show
I'll show 'em how it 'posed to go
We forgot simply what we supposed to know
We still must defeat the foe
So what you got the dough? Your words don't make us glow
In fact they make us slow
How long this gonna take to know you ain't gotta be a hoe?
[Chorus]
Look at the teacher, I stay attuned
People are blessed when I walk in the room
Snakes(?) don't stop me, and if they did
They'd be askin for a tag 'fore they kids
Medical students lose it when I enter any hospital
Doctors wanna talk music and whatever's topical
It's all logical, I perform the impossible
Through words I put hip-hop in you; listen
Here's what we got to do, unify
Defeat the flesh, defeat the beast in you and I
Win or lose I never shout, believe in yourself and never doubt
Discipline is simply a better route
We keep it tight, we keep it tight
We keep it right, we keep it right
We're comin' strong, comin' strong
We're movin' on, movin' on!
It's time to rise, it's time to rise
And unify, unifyyyy
Keep comin' strong, comin' strong
Just keep movin' on, keep on movin' on
We keep it tight, we keep it tight
We keep it right, we keep it right
We're comin' strong, we're comin' strong
We're movin' on, movin' on!
It's time to rise, it's time to rise
And unify, it's time to unify
Keep comin' strong
Just keep movin' on, keep on movin' on
Just keep movin' on, keep on movin' on
Just keep movin' on, we gotta keep on movin' on
Just keep movin' on, wake up and realize
Just keep movin' on, that you just keep movin' on
Just keep movin' on, it's time to realize
Just keep movin' on, that you gotta keep movin' on
Just keep movin' on, keep movin' on, keep movin' on
Just keep movin' on, you gotta keep movin' on, you gotta take that time
Just keep movin' on, you gotta realize, that it's time
Keep on movin' on, keep on movin' on
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The Sneak Attack Lyrics as written by Kenny Parker April Williams
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