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"
Nesian style is here
Ladies beware
Now tell me if you are down
all the sounds get down
Polynesians all around
Now this is how we move your crowd
[Verse:]
Territorial betrayal as 2 worlds combines
The combination of M.C's mentally intertwine
Intellectual capable in this industry
The collaboration of Tarius and Dee's Nesian M.C's
Being conspicuous wit' limited intelligence
Calling us delirious when we get serious
Bringing you the next chapter in this Hip-Hop legacy
The democracy of these youngsters technique of â??MoOLiâ??
Well as this saga continues we stand our ground as pioneers
Space cadets on a mission to a Nesian frontier not knowing our next destination
We be taking a lyrical leap into the next Millennium
Free styling on the low down
Battle rhyming like a show-down
Riding the flow like a ho-down
Till the show commences to a close down
So hold up now let me see yaw bounce with me if yaw down wit me
[Chorus:]
Nesian style is here
Ladies beware
Now tell me if you are down
all the sounds get down
Polynesians all around
Now this is how we move your crowd
[Verse:]
Instantaneously we rocking mic's to knew heights
Represent this Nesian style all day every night
Culturally strong from birth but weak upon our native tongues
The product of our ancestors seeds from which we sprung
The saga we maintain combine us wise in memories a noble lesson learnt from our Fa'atasi family
Elevate the positive this Nesian image must arise
Aotearoa Hip-Hop plain clothed not in disguise
With no demise we be on the rise with our dreaming eyes
Poly individuals carrying connections to ignite reign for real upon these mic's on a quest vocalist uplifting what we do
when we rhyme
Cause we (can't stop) we do this for the love of it
(won't stop) keeping' these roots rhymes intelligent
So all them ladies keep shaking them hips and all the fella's come on and bounce to this
[Bridge:]
If you want to party you got to do it right
Hip-Hop â??Mooliâ?? style
if you want to party you got to do it right
Hip-Hop Nesian style
All ya'll bounce we kick it
Nesian style wit natural mystic be
Boogie down victims come you want to test this
Brown sugar guys
Girls you getting restless
all ya'll bounce we kick it
Nesian style wit natural mystic be
Boogie down victims come you want to test this
Brown sugar guys
Girls you getting restless
M - double O - L - I
Tell me if you are down
M - double O - L - I
Tell me if you are down
We Nesian sons together we'll shine as 1
Ladies beware
Now tell me if you are down
all the sounds get down
Polynesians all around
Now this is how we move your crowd
[Verse:]
Territorial betrayal as 2 worlds combines
The combination of M.C's mentally intertwine
Intellectual capable in this industry
The collaboration of Tarius and Dee's Nesian M.C's
Being conspicuous wit' limited intelligence
Calling us delirious when we get serious
Bringing you the next chapter in this Hip-Hop legacy
The democracy of these youngsters technique of â??MoOLiâ??
Well as this saga continues we stand our ground as pioneers
Space cadets on a mission to a Nesian frontier not knowing our next destination
We be taking a lyrical leap into the next Millennium
Free styling on the low down
Battle rhyming like a show-down
Riding the flow like a ho-down
Till the show commences to a close down
So hold up now let me see yaw bounce with me if yaw down wit me
[Chorus:]
Nesian style is here
Ladies beware
Now tell me if you are down
all the sounds get down
Polynesians all around
Now this is how we move your crowd
[Verse:]
Instantaneously we rocking mic's to knew heights
Represent this Nesian style all day every night
Culturally strong from birth but weak upon our native tongues
The product of our ancestors seeds from which we sprung
The saga we maintain combine us wise in memories a noble lesson learnt from our Fa'atasi family
Elevate the positive this Nesian image must arise
Aotearoa Hip-Hop plain clothed not in disguise
With no demise we be on the rise with our dreaming eyes
Poly individuals carrying connections to ignite reign for real upon these mic's on a quest vocalist uplifting what we do
when we rhyme
Cause we (can't stop) we do this for the love of it
(won't stop) keeping' these roots rhymes intelligent
So all them ladies keep shaking them hips and all the fella's come on and bounce to this
[Bridge:]
If you want to party you got to do it right
Hip-Hop â??Mooliâ?? style
if you want to party you got to do it right
Hip-Hop Nesian style
All ya'll bounce we kick it
Nesian style wit natural mystic be
Boogie down victims come you want to test this
Brown sugar guys
Girls you getting restless
all ya'll bounce we kick it
Nesian style wit natural mystic be
Boogie down victims come you want to test this
Brown sugar guys
Girls you getting restless
M - double O - L - I
Tell me if you are down
M - double O - L - I
Tell me if you are down
We Nesian sons together we'll shine as 1
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Nesian Style Lyrics as written by David Atai Antony Simon Holloway
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