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"
Yeah
Scoot you can um
I got you
Fa shit sho
That shit almost killed me
Cool
Still on the east with the shooters
It's no peace so I keep me a piece to maneuver
My little baby just sent a text be home for the morning
I gotta get up off my ass and go get me some money
You ain't gotta wait up for the kid you know that I'm coming
I'm noticing something
Make me wanna cry like I'm holding a onion
You texting back with emojis I know it's 100
Yeah cool
If I said it then I mean it (yeah yeah)
Never playing around with the words that I'm speaking with
Ice on me so cold feel like an anemic (yeah yeah)
I just might have to rock the fur coat when it's freezing yeah
Work ethic naw
They can't match that (yeah)
Know how to set a trend fuck a hashtag
That type of energy you can't match that
But you know and I know you don't listen
You know I know for instance
That you know I know that you went missing
Sipping Moscato cause you went distant
Tomato Tomato it ain't no difference
But you know that I know everything you got
Secrets and I know that you won't tell me
I ain't gotta press for the answers
I think you're worth the risk so I'll take the chances
But don't tell me lies when I ask you what's real
You don't wanna see me when I smash off a pill
I got liquor
I got weed fuck it we could pop a seal
And I know how to get it all off yeah for real
Girl I'm trying to make a mill yeah
Big benji's coming through on the daily
All the bad bitches know the 6irds going crazy
East Atlanta, Zone 6 no Grady baby
But if your looking for me yeah I'm
Still on the east with the shooters (yeah)
It's no peace so I keep me a piece to maneuver
My little baby just sent a text be home for the morning
I gotta get up off my ass and go get me some money
You ain't gotta wait up for the kid you know that I'm coming (yeah you know it)
I'm noticing something (yeah)
Make me wanna cry like I'm holding a onion
You texting back with emojis I know it's 100
Scoot you can um
I got you
Fa shit sho
That shit almost killed me
Cool
Still on the east with the shooters
It's no peace so I keep me a piece to maneuver
My little baby just sent a text be home for the morning
I gotta get up off my ass and go get me some money
You ain't gotta wait up for the kid you know that I'm coming
I'm noticing something
Make me wanna cry like I'm holding a onion
You texting back with emojis I know it's 100
Yeah cool
If I said it then I mean it (yeah yeah)
Never playing around with the words that I'm speaking with
Ice on me so cold feel like an anemic (yeah yeah)
I just might have to rock the fur coat when it's freezing yeah
Work ethic naw
They can't match that (yeah)
Know how to set a trend fuck a hashtag
That type of energy you can't match that
But you know and I know you don't listen
You know I know for instance
That you know I know that you went missing
Sipping Moscato cause you went distant
Tomato Tomato it ain't no difference
But you know that I know everything you got
Secrets and I know that you won't tell me
I ain't gotta press for the answers
I think you're worth the risk so I'll take the chances
But don't tell me lies when I ask you what's real
You don't wanna see me when I smash off a pill
I got liquor
I got weed fuck it we could pop a seal
And I know how to get it all off yeah for real
Girl I'm trying to make a mill yeah
Big benji's coming through on the daily
All the bad bitches know the 6irds going crazy
East Atlanta, Zone 6 no Grady baby
But if your looking for me yeah I'm
Still on the east with the shooters (yeah)
It's no peace so I keep me a piece to maneuver
My little baby just sent a text be home for the morning
I gotta get up off my ass and go get me some money
You ain't gotta wait up for the kid you know that I'm coming (yeah you know it)
I'm noticing something (yeah)
Make me wanna cry like I'm holding a onion
You texting back with emojis I know it's 100
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STILL ON THE EAST Lyrics as written by Jeremy Gillam Christian Warren
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