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"
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Yo this young noble outlaw I got the call from my brethren yukmouth
He said we bout to get this thug reunionu know United Ghettos of America I mean we got thugs in every state nigga atleast one motherfucka
You know we all outlaws
Aye yo Young Noble and yukmouth look homey you assed out when it come to da flow dog I'm tryin to cash out on everything owed to me and then some we live in the slums old heads used to stick us and run knowin damn well
We gon see his ass later when we probly thirty deep turn his body to a crater
Dent in the earth we young thugs sentenced since birth itchin to merc
The closest nigga liftin his shirt sent to da earth
N now you gotta sit in a church askin the lord for forgiveness 'causez you pulled yours first United Ghettos of America we dealin with this
Relentless statistics it's on some kill or be killed shit
Niggas we gotta change this this how the white man want us to be
They never settin us free until we all ride together how it's post2be
We outlaws die together so my soul is free
I been known for robbin hoods up 2 no good blunt smoke no joke
Old school like the Wood like Kane did Able I'm doin the rest
Willin and able shoot 4 ya kitchen table my guerilla tactics
Is at it's worst and if I blast wif da mic I'm killin wif one verse
This gang bang slang I never rehearse you're trainer better reverse
Or ya mama cry n curse ya whole hood trail a herst and wear black
My retaliation revenge and get back dub s see smack down get smacked clown
Yes I get paid in this crack town I never burn bitches or blow out switches
If enemies aproach I dumpin ditches societies most hated
Yo this young noble outlaw I got the call from my brethren yukmouth
He said we bout to get this thug reunionu know United Ghettos of America I mean we got thugs in every state nigga atleast one motherfucka
You know we all outlaws
Aye yo Young Noble and yukmouth look homey you assed out when it come to da flow dog I'm tryin to cash out on everything owed to me and then some we live in the slums old heads used to stick us and run knowin damn well
We gon see his ass later when we probly thirty deep turn his body to a crater
Dent in the earth we young thugs sentenced since birth itchin to merc
The closest nigga liftin his shirt sent to da earth
N now you gotta sit in a church askin the lord for forgiveness 'causez you pulled yours first United Ghettos of America we dealin with this
Relentless statistics it's on some kill or be killed shit
Niggas we gotta change this this how the white man want us to be
They never settin us free until we all ride together how it's post2be
We outlaws die together so my soul is free
I been known for robbin hoods up 2 no good blunt smoke no joke
Old school like the Wood like Kane did Able I'm doin the rest
Willin and able shoot 4 ya kitchen table my guerilla tactics
Is at it's worst and if I blast wif da mic I'm killin wif one verse
This gang bang slang I never rehearse you're trainer better reverse
Or ya mama cry n curse ya whole hood trail a herst and wear black
My retaliation revenge and get back dub s see smack down get smacked clown
Yes I get paid in this crack town I never burn bitches or blow out switches
If enemies aproach I dumpin ditches societies most hated
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