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 I'm happy to be in the south
To set off my tour in the countryside
But who better to set it off for me than this man right here
Yo this Kenny Rogers chillin on the country side
With men like Wyclef (uh huh) Jerry Wonder (uh huh)
Big jack (mm-hmm) big beast (mm-hmm)
And we gon' do something like this for you
You got to know when to hold 'em (yeah, yeah!)
Know when to fold 'em (DJ's, DJ's!)
Know when to walk away (hip-hop, hip-hop!)
Know when to run (Yeah, yeah!)
You got to count your dubplates (ghetto, ghetto)
Before you touch the turntables (all hoods!)
'Cause if you run out of big tunes
That means your sound is done (y'all ready?)
You got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em (soundbwoys)
Know when to walk away
Know when to run (hey, hey, hey, hey)
You got to count your dub-plates
Before you touch the turntables (DJs)
'Cause if you run out of big tunes
That means your sound is done
Get the hell up! 'Clef said, get the hell up!
Now throw your hands in the sky
Brooklyn in the back shootin' craps, y'all, wassup?
Ladies, lookin' hot and pretty
Doin' your thing in the club, house of Diddy
(Worldwide) the gritty committee pity the fool that
Act in the midst of the calm, the witty
(You got to know when to hold 'em) y'all know the name!
Same assassin from before, but the beat just changed a little
Riddle me this, though, who flip flows
That got women in they thongs gettin' it on but not Sisqo?
Select your squad team and ya ain't
They know my flow muy caliente, fuego
No disrespect to soundbwoys, but you better step away from me
Easily defeat measly MCs and tease you
Ease back, squeeze two in your wig and breeze through
You got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em (soundbwoys)
Know when to walk away
Know when to run (hey, hey, hey, hey)
You got to count your dub-plates
Before you touch the turntables (DJs)
'Cause if you run out of big tunes
That means your sound is done
Come on, come on (get the hell up!)
Soundbwoys ('clef said, get the hell up!)
(Now throw your hands in the sky)
Yo, this combination gon' bust from Brooklyn to shanghai
Feel the boogie-boogie, Henny got me tipsy-tipsy
Kenny rogers and Pharoahe Monch? No way, this can't be
48 tracks, country meets rap
Put this on full blast, I'm about to break all formats
My destiny is to lead while y'all follow
This is showtime and I'm live at the Apollo
You got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away
Know when to run
You got to count your dub-plates
Before you touch the turntables (DJs)
'Cause if you run out of big tunes
That means your sound is done
You got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em (soundbwoys)
Know when to walk away
Know when to run (hey, hey, hey, hey)
You got to count your dub-plates
Before you touch the turntables (DJs)
'Cause if you run out of big tunes
That means your sound is done
To set off my tour in the countryside
But who better to set it off for me than this man right here
Yo this Kenny Rogers chillin on the country side
With men like Wyclef (uh huh) Jerry Wonder (uh huh)
Big jack (mm-hmm) big beast (mm-hmm)
And we gon' do something like this for you
You got to know when to hold 'em (yeah, yeah!)
Know when to fold 'em (DJ's, DJ's!)
Know when to walk away (hip-hop, hip-hop!)
Know when to run (Yeah, yeah!)
You got to count your dubplates (ghetto, ghetto)
Before you touch the turntables (all hoods!)
'Cause if you run out of big tunes
That means your sound is done (y'all ready?)
You got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em (soundbwoys)
Know when to walk away
Know when to run (hey, hey, hey, hey)
You got to count your dub-plates
Before you touch the turntables (DJs)
'Cause if you run out of big tunes
That means your sound is done
Get the hell up! 'Clef said, get the hell up!
Now throw your hands in the sky
Brooklyn in the back shootin' craps, y'all, wassup?
Ladies, lookin' hot and pretty
Doin' your thing in the club, house of Diddy
(Worldwide) the gritty committee pity the fool that
Act in the midst of the calm, the witty
(You got to know when to hold 'em) y'all know the name!
Same assassin from before, but the beat just changed a little
Riddle me this, though, who flip flows
That got women in they thongs gettin' it on but not Sisqo?
Select your squad team and ya ain't
They know my flow muy caliente, fuego
No disrespect to soundbwoys, but you better step away from me
Easily defeat measly MCs and tease you
Ease back, squeeze two in your wig and breeze through
You got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em (soundbwoys)
Know when to walk away
Know when to run (hey, hey, hey, hey)
You got to count your dub-plates
Before you touch the turntables (DJs)
'Cause if you run out of big tunes
That means your sound is done
Come on, come on (get the hell up!)
Soundbwoys ('clef said, get the hell up!)
(Now throw your hands in the sky)
Yo, this combination gon' bust from Brooklyn to shanghai
Feel the boogie-boogie, Henny got me tipsy-tipsy
Kenny rogers and Pharoahe Monch? No way, this can't be
48 tracks, country meets rap
Put this on full blast, I'm about to break all formats
My destiny is to lead while y'all follow
This is showtime and I'm live at the Apollo
You got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away
Know when to run
You got to count your dub-plates
Before you touch the turntables (DJs)
'Cause if you run out of big tunes
That means your sound is done
You got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em (soundbwoys)
Know when to walk away
Know when to run (hey, hey, hey, hey)
You got to count your dub-plates
Before you touch the turntables (DJs)
'Cause if you run out of big tunes
That means your sound is done
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Kenny Rogers - Pharoahe Monch Dub Plate Lyrics as written by Troy Donald Jamerson Jerry Duplessis
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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