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"
Y'all ride 18's we ride 26's
Big truck Big wheels rollin' ova ditches
Chrome rims loud pipes heated like a kitchen
Ice chain Ice watch gettin' at these bitches
Y'all ride 18's we ride 26's
Big truck Big wheels rollin' ova ditches
Chrome rims loud pipes heated like a kitchen
Ice chain Ice watch gettin' at these bitches
I'm the wrong balla to flex with
Diamond stud earings and neckless
And my truck on 26's driving reckless
Got a pound yep and on my way to Texas
Yep I'm on there trowing up my set shit
Spinnas with the color trim ho's breathless
Paint shinning bright like morning breakfast
Once I slide up in the party pull the best bitch
Yo chick still want me even though she pregnant
Run game on a trick like check this
She seen the Atm receipt and got wet with shit
She in a Lexus told her park her whip
270 I'm bout to exit
I can bet a grip she work her hands and lips
Like a porno star who cares if her man a trip
I can handle it its so scandalous
Y'all ride 18's we ride 26's
Big truck Big wheels rollin' ova ditches
Chrome rims loud pipes heated like a kitchen
Ice chain Ice watch gettin' at these bitches
Y'all ride 18's we ride 26's
Big truck Big wheels rollin' ova ditches
Chrome rims loud pipes heated like a kitchen
Ice chain Ice watch gettin' at these bitches
I got them thing conpocky on a rubberband skinny
I pull up laughing at another man 20's (ha)
Yep the yunger man I run the dam city
I gotta pocket fulla hundreds fifty's rubberband 20's
Peep the shoes these is huge
I'm probably on the service road nigga speeding in cruise
I bleed and bruise of reaching fools
So don't reach
You ain't talking bout money then don't speak
Don't preach church don wan taught me that
The bitches had me gone but the money brought me back
I'm seeing chrome and I do them runs flat
President tent front back
Man I wish them old be p's come back but I roll on em
Hundred spoke big d's tripple gold homie
No homie my rims ain't twizzles
But don't get it twisted them is 26's
Y'all ride 18's we ride 26's
Big truck Big wheels rollin' ova ditches
Chrome rims loud pipes heated like a kitchen
Ice chain Ice watch gettin' at these bitches
Y'all ride 18's we ride 26's
Big truck Big wheels rollin' ova ditches
Chrome rims loud pipes heated like a kitchen
Ice chain Ice watch gettin' at these bitches
Vroom vroom hear me start it up
Let the Louis Vuitton interior soak plus
With the red piping
Got two ho's diking
Dirty try to jack me yes I'll bust
Got cars and trucks
All type of stuff
And a h3t if that ain't enough
Bout to hit the park with a twelve pack getting drunk
Haters breaking they neck cause they know what's up
I'm posted up with four toasters bra
Test me fagot if you think I'm a joke to ya
All my cats ride big in the lou you know
Should be against the law the way I floss sew me ho
Be-a-l-l-a me
Giovanni keep these walls going crazy
Big baby I'm the same g
Add another tre to that twenty three 'cause
Y'all ride 18's we ride 26's
Big truck Big wheels rollin' ova ditches
Chrome rims loud pipes heated like a kitchen
Ice chain Ice watch gettin' at these bitches
Y'all ride 18's we ride 26's
Big truck Big wheels rollin' ova ditches
Chrome rims loud pipes heated like a kitchen
Ice chain Ice watch gettin' at these bitches
Y'all ride 18's we ride 26's
Big truck Big wheels rollin' ova ditches
Chrome rims loud pipes heated like a kitchen
Ice chain Ice watch gettin' at these bitches
Y'all ride 18's we ride 26's
Big truck Big wheels rollin' ova ditches
Chrome rims loud pipes heated like a kitchen
Ice chain Ice watch gettin' at these bitches
Y'all ride 18's we ride 26's
Big truck Big wheels rollin' ova ditches
Chrome rims loud pipes heated like a kitchen
Ice chain Ice watch gettin' at these bitches
I'm the wrong balla to flex with
Diamond stud earings and neckless
And my truck on 26's driving reckless
Got a pound yep and on my way to Texas
Yep I'm on there trowing up my set shit
Spinnas with the color trim ho's breathless
Paint shinning bright like morning breakfast
Once I slide up in the party pull the best bitch
Yo chick still want me even though she pregnant
Run game on a trick like check this
She seen the Atm receipt and got wet with shit
She in a Lexus told her park her whip
270 I'm bout to exit
I can bet a grip she work her hands and lips
Like a porno star who cares if her man a trip
I can handle it its so scandalous
Y'all ride 18's we ride 26's
Big truck Big wheels rollin' ova ditches
Chrome rims loud pipes heated like a kitchen
Ice chain Ice watch gettin' at these bitches
Y'all ride 18's we ride 26's
Big truck Big wheels rollin' ova ditches
Chrome rims loud pipes heated like a kitchen
Ice chain Ice watch gettin' at these bitches
I got them thing conpocky on a rubberband skinny
I pull up laughing at another man 20's (ha)
Yep the yunger man I run the dam city
I gotta pocket fulla hundreds fifty's rubberband 20's
Peep the shoes these is huge
I'm probably on the service road nigga speeding in cruise
I bleed and bruise of reaching fools
So don't reach
You ain't talking bout money then don't speak
Don't preach church don wan taught me that
The bitches had me gone but the money brought me back
I'm seeing chrome and I do them runs flat
President tent front back
Man I wish them old be p's come back but I roll on em
Hundred spoke big d's tripple gold homie
No homie my rims ain't twizzles
But don't get it twisted them is 26's
Y'all ride 18's we ride 26's
Big truck Big wheels rollin' ova ditches
Chrome rims loud pipes heated like a kitchen
Ice chain Ice watch gettin' at these bitches
Y'all ride 18's we ride 26's
Big truck Big wheels rollin' ova ditches
Chrome rims loud pipes heated like a kitchen
Ice chain Ice watch gettin' at these bitches
Vroom vroom hear me start it up
Let the Louis Vuitton interior soak plus
With the red piping
Got two ho's diking
Dirty try to jack me yes I'll bust
Got cars and trucks
All type of stuff
And a h3t if that ain't enough
Bout to hit the park with a twelve pack getting drunk
Haters breaking they neck cause they know what's up
I'm posted up with four toasters bra
Test me fagot if you think I'm a joke to ya
All my cats ride big in the lou you know
Should be against the law the way I floss sew me ho
Be-a-l-l-a me
Giovanni keep these walls going crazy
Big baby I'm the same g
Add another tre to that twenty three 'cause
Y'all ride 18's we ride 26's
Big truck Big wheels rollin' ova ditches
Chrome rims loud pipes heated like a kitchen
Ice chain Ice watch gettin' at these bitches
Y'all ride 18's we ride 26's
Big truck Big wheels rollin' ova ditches
Chrome rims loud pipes heated like a kitchen
Ice chain Ice watch gettin' at these bitches
Y'all ride 18's we ride 26's
Big truck Big wheels rollin' ova ditches
Chrome rims loud pipes heated like a kitchen
Ice chain Ice watch gettin' at these bitches
Y'all ride 18's we ride 26's
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26's Lyrics as written by Dwayne Carter Howard Bailey
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