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"
Yo emergency
"...emergency" "...emergency"
"...emergency" "...emergency"
First up
Mighty Mi supplied the beat down
These raps are rent paid, four months before I leave town
Cat, we got the hottest shit that ain't been heard yet
To most I'm unknown, but to few; a war vet
I turn checks to cash, but no cash for checks
I never paid for sex, I pay girls to leave after sex
(Get the fuck out..) Play my castanet then jet
I'm out for blood this year, flows are fangs of death
Specialize in fresh, M.D. veteran vest
There's so much to prove, you lose scoreless
Take Lex, Benz, Beam, convertible 'Vette's
Cribs and credit cards, payment plans in debt (Gimme that)
We present emergency, feel the pressure
No way out, situation gettin' closer
Time is tickin', walls are closin'
Options narrow now, your the one that's chosen
Yo emergency, emergency, feel the pressure
No way out, situation gettin' closer (emergency)
Time is tickin', walls are closin'
Options narrow now, your the one that's chosen (emergency)
Yo dangerous connections, friends are kept separate
Enemies drive 'em off the road, rev the engine
Levels of suspense, more this year no doubt
The card that you pull, always leave yourself with outs..
Stick to ya guns, stick to ya plans
Stick and hit when ya land, witcha fist and hit a man (boink)
The name of my crew; Dilated Expand
Babu, Iriscience, and myself in Japan
We got international flows
Under the best sign, rockin' zodiac clothes
The strong survive in water where sharks are swimmin'
Emergency, call the paramedics, lights are dimmin'
[Chorus: ]
Yo emergency, emergency, feel the pressure
No way out, situation gettin' closer (emergency)
Time is tickin', walls are closin'
Options narrow now, your the one that's chosen (emergency)
Emergency, DJ Mighty Mi
Evidence by the mic "emer..emergency"
Watch out! "..mer..mer..emergency..emergency"
"This is an emergency"
So check it out
The calm before the storm came
After that, 40 nights and 40 days of rain
Your weakest link, it's your crew, it stink
Numb ya brain, unpredictable patterns, and unpredictable pain
Got attack on hard, raise the game
Right now there's Columbian cats that's raisin 'caine
Los Angeles Lakers dynasty, change the game
Say, Defari and Phil y'all, let's clear the land
That's right, shit's outta control
Do rap music you perform to rock-n-roll
Got lyrics cocked back on trigger ready to pull it
I hitchu like the JFK mystery bullet
[Chorus: Repeat 2X]
Yo emergency, emergency...
"...emergency" "...emergency"
"...emergency" "...emergency"
First up
Mighty Mi supplied the beat down
These raps are rent paid, four months before I leave town
Cat, we got the hottest shit that ain't been heard yet
To most I'm unknown, but to few; a war vet
I turn checks to cash, but no cash for checks
I never paid for sex, I pay girls to leave after sex
(Get the fuck out..) Play my castanet then jet
I'm out for blood this year, flows are fangs of death
Specialize in fresh, M.D. veteran vest
There's so much to prove, you lose scoreless
Take Lex, Benz, Beam, convertible 'Vette's
Cribs and credit cards, payment plans in debt (Gimme that)
We present emergency, feel the pressure
No way out, situation gettin' closer
Time is tickin', walls are closin'
Options narrow now, your the one that's chosen
Yo emergency, emergency, feel the pressure
No way out, situation gettin' closer (emergency)
Time is tickin', walls are closin'
Options narrow now, your the one that's chosen (emergency)
Yo dangerous connections, friends are kept separate
Enemies drive 'em off the road, rev the engine
Levels of suspense, more this year no doubt
The card that you pull, always leave yourself with outs..
Stick to ya guns, stick to ya plans
Stick and hit when ya land, witcha fist and hit a man (boink)
The name of my crew; Dilated Expand
Babu, Iriscience, and myself in Japan
We got international flows
Under the best sign, rockin' zodiac clothes
The strong survive in water where sharks are swimmin'
Emergency, call the paramedics, lights are dimmin'
[Chorus: ]
Yo emergency, emergency, feel the pressure
No way out, situation gettin' closer (emergency)
Time is tickin', walls are closin'
Options narrow now, your the one that's chosen (emergency)
Emergency, DJ Mighty Mi
Evidence by the mic "emer..emergency"
Watch out! "..mer..mer..emergency..emergency"
"This is an emergency"
So check it out
The calm before the storm came
After that, 40 nights and 40 days of rain
Your weakest link, it's your crew, it stink
Numb ya brain, unpredictable patterns, and unpredictable pain
Got attack on hard, raise the game
Right now there's Columbian cats that's raisin 'caine
Los Angeles Lakers dynasty, change the game
Say, Defari and Phil y'all, let's clear the land
That's right, shit's outta control
Do rap music you perform to rock-n-roll
Got lyrics cocked back on trigger ready to pull it
I hitchu like the JFK mystery bullet
[Chorus: Repeat 2X]
Yo emergency, emergency...
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