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"
LB be'ness
Yeah, I go by the name of Khrysis
(My nigga Khrysis on the beat)
One half of the Away Team
And right now, you in tuned to the biggest colored show on earth
The Minstrel Show, nigga
I can't afford to not record
So, I call my nig' Khrysis, tell him, hit the boards
Then I call Tay put the pedal to the floor
'Fore we do the shop, gotta stop by the store
I'm on my knees, gotta go to the Lord
(Dear Father)
I pray to You, these niggas gon' pay for it
All them times that I went ignored
So, what it wasn't 20 but still I scored
My heart still scorned and my mind is focused
So, this serves as a warning to protest
Any verse disperse is sicker that the first and
'S no treatment for this disorder, Carolina's number one reporter
A nigga who's back with a vengeance better run for the border
(Run)
Or head for the hills or duck and seek cover
Who else gon' make it hot this summer? It's LB, nigga
They can't stop me, naw, they can't stop me
They keep playing', keep sayin', I'm cocky
They keep tryin' but too tired to top me
Their best bet is to fall back and watch me
They can't stop me, dawg, they can't stop me
They keep playing', keep sayin', I'm cocky
They keep tryin' but too tired to top me
Their best bet is to fall back and watch me
Uh, ain't no need in gettin' teary eyed
(Whoo)
Tay's the illest, point blank period
Plus, I got niggas , in DC
That'll hit you for 3G's and a box of Yum's carry out
Outlook lookin' scary now
They was frontin' before but now they seein' that we serious
This ain't a peace talk, so muhfucka, save your sweet talk
(Suite)
For reservations at the Marriott
They say birds of a feather often flock together
But me and Big Pooh rock together
And if not forever
I'ma reach to the sky and keep flyin' high like we got propellers
'Goddamn, y'all boys doin' it', they stop to tell us
And if God propel us to the top, I won't go pop
(Pop)
No need to act a fool in public
'Cause when you, ego trip you just lose your luggage and well
I ain't got no time top play with 'cha
I'm Phonte, international stage ripper done
Made friends and made figgas while you stuck on the front porch
Mad, like you fixin' ta shave Mister
(You fixin' to shave)
That's reality, so color me purple
My name in history, nigga, that's what I work for
Better keep it moving like the laws of inertia
Before these Carolina boys come hurt 'cha
Better tell 'em bout it
They can't stop me, naw, they can't stop me
They keep playing', keep sayin', I'm cocky
They keep tryin' but too tired to top me
Their best bet is to fall back and watch me
They can't stop me, dawg, they can't stop me
They keep playing', keep sayin', I'm cocky
They keep tryin' but too tired to top me
Their best bet is to fall back and watch me
And now The Minstrel Show is proud to present
Jazzy Jeff, Khrysis on the board with, with the heat
(Jeff, Jeff, Jeff)
Fuck that, I got your head still bobbin' and my verse to be rhymed
And to my man, Jazy Jeff
(Jeff, Jeff, Jeff)
Rap, rapper, pooh, Justus League, all my real life niggas
Yeah, I go by the name of Khrysis
(My nigga Khrysis on the beat)
One half of the Away Team
And right now, you in tuned to the biggest colored show on earth
The Minstrel Show, nigga
I can't afford to not record
So, I call my nig' Khrysis, tell him, hit the boards
Then I call Tay put the pedal to the floor
'Fore we do the shop, gotta stop by the store
I'm on my knees, gotta go to the Lord
(Dear Father)
I pray to You, these niggas gon' pay for it
All them times that I went ignored
So, what it wasn't 20 but still I scored
My heart still scorned and my mind is focused
So, this serves as a warning to protest
Any verse disperse is sicker that the first and
'S no treatment for this disorder, Carolina's number one reporter
A nigga who's back with a vengeance better run for the border
(Run)
Or head for the hills or duck and seek cover
Who else gon' make it hot this summer? It's LB, nigga
They can't stop me, naw, they can't stop me
They keep playing', keep sayin', I'm cocky
They keep tryin' but too tired to top me
Their best bet is to fall back and watch me
They can't stop me, dawg, they can't stop me
They keep playing', keep sayin', I'm cocky
They keep tryin' but too tired to top me
Their best bet is to fall back and watch me
Uh, ain't no need in gettin' teary eyed
(Whoo)
Tay's the illest, point blank period
Plus, I got niggas , in DC
That'll hit you for 3G's and a box of Yum's carry out
Outlook lookin' scary now
They was frontin' before but now they seein' that we serious
This ain't a peace talk, so muhfucka, save your sweet talk
(Suite)
For reservations at the Marriott
They say birds of a feather often flock together
But me and Big Pooh rock together
And if not forever
I'ma reach to the sky and keep flyin' high like we got propellers
'Goddamn, y'all boys doin' it', they stop to tell us
And if God propel us to the top, I won't go pop
(Pop)
No need to act a fool in public
'Cause when you, ego trip you just lose your luggage and well
I ain't got no time top play with 'cha
I'm Phonte, international stage ripper done
Made friends and made figgas while you stuck on the front porch
Mad, like you fixin' ta shave Mister
(You fixin' to shave)
That's reality, so color me purple
My name in history, nigga, that's what I work for
Better keep it moving like the laws of inertia
Before these Carolina boys come hurt 'cha
Better tell 'em bout it
They can't stop me, naw, they can't stop me
They keep playing', keep sayin', I'm cocky
They keep tryin' but too tired to top me
Their best bet is to fall back and watch me
They can't stop me, dawg, they can't stop me
They keep playing', keep sayin', I'm cocky
They keep tryin' but too tired to top me
Their best bet is to fall back and watch me
And now The Minstrel Show is proud to present
Jazzy Jeff, Khrysis on the board with, with the heat
(Jeff, Jeff, Jeff)
Fuck that, I got your head still bobbin' and my verse to be rhymed
And to my man, Jazy Jeff
(Jeff, Jeff, Jeff)
Rap, rapper, pooh, Justus League, all my real life niggas
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