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"
Onyx - Onyx is back
Yeah, aha, yah
[Chorus:]
Onyx is back, and they can never, ever, ever be wack (4x)
Yo America is under attack, yo Onyx is back
Took a team out the hood, the whole crew got phat
Allot of hate 'cause I took Hollywood on my back
Keep it cruelly, grimy, no positive rap
You can tell by the way I got out the projects
You still here, your thuggin' with the best
Don't worry if I got nines I blast text
You should worry if ya got shine I snatch next
War for real you don't want war for real
If its real make ya timps up step up and feel
'Cause real killas do real things, but not you
You American nigga who want to play nigga?
Take a stray nigga, get out ma way nigga
The ballheads back nobody wurse then them
I'm a madface nigga in a worstagrim
I'm a madface nigga I'm n a ?? ??
[Chorus:]
Who that, sonee, hell yeah!
Bangin Brooklyn to Brussels to bell air
Shortys poppin their brands
Hoppin out cars, got rappers nervous,
Scared of dropping their bars
Take ya though, break you, break ya ho
Nigga ain't a greater flow
I make ya new, Money better play it low
Take it slow, Make the foo
Keep ya face ain't a moo
I'm like mixin' liquor
I'm bound to come up on niggaz
And hijack the bank abduct ya ditches
Can't fly, got a nice plan tuck to fit ya
I'll be lost a fare kid paid bucks to bitch ya
So, no, we're stopping we're trempin' yo scene
I'm mixin', yellow with blue, I gotta get green
Either yo with us, or not, not in between
You will show us the money when I show you the bean
[Chorus:]
Well it's the S-T crocked I-see-K-why
Got ma ?? ?? doin' for sticks back in be (?), K and why
I'm livin' all in five barrels, so I'm rappin' wild
The thuggest thug in the club, who else plays high?
Been in the game for years, it made me a criminal
Your small time, my rims is just as big as you
Iv never had a nine to five, I had a nine that hit people that got off there five
From those shiny things, that cut trough glass
Don't even speak to me, this is about sex and cash
I like ma cars, girls and clothes only for ma models
I beat you between yo head with thousand dollar arms bottle
Can't even with ice, I carry to much heat
The combination always leaves somebody wetting the street
I'm start sellin' hope trough ma arms of weed
'Cause I'm broke, only got three hundred grand on the bank
We back, bringing you that filth from filth
Let me stop talking before I criminate myself
[Chorus:]
Yeah, aha, yah
[Chorus:]
Onyx is back, and they can never, ever, ever be wack (4x)
Yo America is under attack, yo Onyx is back
Took a team out the hood, the whole crew got phat
Allot of hate 'cause I took Hollywood on my back
Keep it cruelly, grimy, no positive rap
You can tell by the way I got out the projects
You still here, your thuggin' with the best
Don't worry if I got nines I blast text
You should worry if ya got shine I snatch next
War for real you don't want war for real
If its real make ya timps up step up and feel
'Cause real killas do real things, but not you
You American nigga who want to play nigga?
Take a stray nigga, get out ma way nigga
The ballheads back nobody wurse then them
I'm a madface nigga in a worstagrim
I'm a madface nigga I'm n a ?? ??
[Chorus:]
Who that, sonee, hell yeah!
Bangin Brooklyn to Brussels to bell air
Shortys poppin their brands
Hoppin out cars, got rappers nervous,
Scared of dropping their bars
Take ya though, break you, break ya ho
Nigga ain't a greater flow
I make ya new, Money better play it low
Take it slow, Make the foo
Keep ya face ain't a moo
I'm like mixin' liquor
I'm bound to come up on niggaz
And hijack the bank abduct ya ditches
Can't fly, got a nice plan tuck to fit ya
I'll be lost a fare kid paid bucks to bitch ya
So, no, we're stopping we're trempin' yo scene
I'm mixin', yellow with blue, I gotta get green
Either yo with us, or not, not in between
You will show us the money when I show you the bean
[Chorus:]
Well it's the S-T crocked I-see-K-why
Got ma ?? ?? doin' for sticks back in be (?), K and why
I'm livin' all in five barrels, so I'm rappin' wild
The thuggest thug in the club, who else plays high?
Been in the game for years, it made me a criminal
Your small time, my rims is just as big as you
Iv never had a nine to five, I had a nine that hit people that got off there five
From those shiny things, that cut trough glass
Don't even speak to me, this is about sex and cash
I like ma cars, girls and clothes only for ma models
I beat you between yo head with thousand dollar arms bottle
Can't even with ice, I carry to much heat
The combination always leaves somebody wetting the street
I'm start sellin' hope trough ma arms of weed
'Cause I'm broke, only got three hundred grand on the bank
We back, bringing you that filth from filth
Let me stop talking before I criminate myself
[Chorus:]
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