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 yo yo, let's go smoke
Yeah, down there by the train track
Got this half pound, knahmsayin'?
And on the way there let's set off car alarms
Y'knowhatI'msayin'? Ey, yo!
Known to get wild, Pacewon throw his chrome up
Let's see how you Jakes feel bloody with a doughnut
Dr. Bypass-the-Wack, fly-asser
Themes make you fiends work out like Thighmaster
On course, avoidin' every obstacle
Takin' life for granted, actin irresponsible
Reckless! Better watch your back boy
Yo! I once knew this fast chick, mad thick, flava
Heard some ghetto girls had words and it made her
Steamed like hot water, thinkin' shit's sweet
Runnin' lip 'til she crashed the whip her pop bought her
The night before Christmas, all through the house
All you could smell was the smoke from her, huffin' a ounce
Then she went drivin', still smokin' herb
Started to swerve, hit a hydrant
Banged in the front grill, one ill hoochie she is
Drove off pumpin' "Lo", "Luchini" remix
This female would smack kids, a little more than active
This bitch was way out of control like rap is
Reckless! Huh
Open your eyes and see it's unwise to be
Reckless! You know you need to calm down y'knahmsayin?
You can't do this
Yo - one of my boys got shot in the throat
He used to break day on the block, sellin' coke
5-for-20 seller, no girlie hassles
Dirty rascal, never showered, smell worse than 30 assholes
(You stink!) Flamboyant, but made bad decisions
Had a attitude (fuck y'all) went rags to riches
Did some time on the Island and then
He came back home and now he whylin' again
Reckless! Yo
Open your eyes and see it's unwise to be
Reckless! Y'knahmsayin'?
Open your eyes and see it's unwise to be
Yeah, down there by the train track
Got this half pound, knahmsayin'?
And on the way there let's set off car alarms
Y'knowhatI'msayin'? Ey, yo!
Known to get wild, Pacewon throw his chrome up
Let's see how you Jakes feel bloody with a doughnut
Dr. Bypass-the-Wack, fly-asser
Themes make you fiends work out like Thighmaster
On course, avoidin' every obstacle
Takin' life for granted, actin irresponsible
Reckless! Better watch your back boy
Yo! I once knew this fast chick, mad thick, flava
Heard some ghetto girls had words and it made her
Steamed like hot water, thinkin' shit's sweet
Runnin' lip 'til she crashed the whip her pop bought her
The night before Christmas, all through the house
All you could smell was the smoke from her, huffin' a ounce
Then she went drivin', still smokin' herb
Started to swerve, hit a hydrant
Banged in the front grill, one ill hoochie she is
Drove off pumpin' "Lo", "Luchini" remix
This female would smack kids, a little more than active
This bitch was way out of control like rap is
Reckless! Huh
Open your eyes and see it's unwise to be
Reckless! You know you need to calm down y'knahmsayin?
You can't do this
Yo - one of my boys got shot in the throat
He used to break day on the block, sellin' coke
5-for-20 seller, no girlie hassles
Dirty rascal, never showered, smell worse than 30 assholes
(You stink!) Flamboyant, but made bad decisions
Had a attitude (fuck y'all) went rags to riches
Did some time on the Island and then
He came back home and now he whylin' again
Reckless! Yo
Open your eyes and see it's unwise to be
Reckless! Y'knahmsayin'?
Open your eyes and see it's unwise to be
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Reckless Lyrics as written by Jerome Derek Jr. Hinds David Anthony Willis
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