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"
Order, huh
Yeah, uh
Uh, uh, uh, uh
Jesus, Jesus, talk to me (this song right here)
Jesus, Jesus, walk with me (gon' change my life)
Jesus, Jesus (come on)
Jesus, Jesus (come on)
(Jesus walks)
God showed me the way, now the devil can't break me down
(Jesus walks with me) (Jesus, Jesus, talk to me)
Yeah, yeah, c'mon, c'mon (yeah, uh, uh)
Between the girls and the jewelry
The devil tryin' lure me in view of me
(Jesus walks with me)
My pastor's shakin' his head
He ain't sure of me, but surely
(Jesus walks with me)
Lady asked, "Do you say your prayers at least two a week?"
I ain't talking to God, I know what I've been doin' G
Do you know how I be embarrassed?
My prayers sound like Ben Stiller's on Meet the Parents
And I ain't good, what they give us this day
The slaves is trying to give us this free
I'm trying to give us this pay
Man, you know how 'dem strippers was
We was all ghetto fabulous
All at the rooms in the Sybaris
From this jacuzzi water, can you cleanse us?
Can you please unfog my Cartier lenses?
God sends signs sometimes only in glimpses
For me I almost died, falling asleep in them Benzes
It's something about this beat that get me tranquilized
And when I play it at my shows I feel sanctified
And He gives me direction when I can't decide, He is alive
How can you tell me that He ain't when I said
(Jesus walks)
God showed me the way, now the devil can't break me down
(Jesus walks with me)
The only thing that I pray
Is that my feet don't fail me now (I want Jesus)
(Jesus walks)
And now I think there's something I can say now (Jesus walks)
That'll right my wrongs
(Jesus walks with me)
I finally talked to God
I ain't afraid cause His love is so strong
Open your eyes, there's smoke in the skies
The Beast is totin' the lies
Everywhere we move, motions denied
Emotion derived from posters of pride of African
Cultures and tribes who live when we suppose they die
Who laugh when we suppose they cry
The pain we holding inside
'Cause all we really know is survive
Use that to remember we're kings
That's why we so addicted to diamonds and rings and Cutlass Supremes
Seen Diana Ross remember that my sisters is queens
The Lord is coming, for now He visit in dreams
For every mission it seems impossible
Spit the Gospel to remind me what God can do
When it's not logical
To those in hospitals and prisons, low-income living
For them I say a prayer keep giving
Learning to receive, my heart is burnin' to achieve
Even when it's hard to breathe, I still believe that
(Jesus walks)
God showed me the way, now the devil can't break me down
(Jesus walks with me)
The only thing that I pray
Is that my feet don't fail me now (I want Jesus)
(Jesus walks)
And now I think there's something I can say now (Jesus walks)
That'll right my wrongs
(Jesus walks with me)
I finally talked to God (yeah, yeah)
I ain't afraid cause His love is so strong (c'mon, c'mon)
Before you take my name, take my fame
While you at it take my shame, take my flaws, take my blame?
Feel my dirt, conceal my hurt
See my bruise, do this and you will walk in my shoes
You wasn't there when I was in deep thought
When I had two choices, kill him, or either leave New York
But I'm a truth teller, that's why I say what I'm saying (yeah, yeah, yeah)
And the only thing the radio playing is 'cause you be paying
It ain't about who really hot no more
Beats wit' knock no more
So who cares who flop no more?
I realize that most labels pay you for lies
And only blow up dudes get in disguise
Is that your favorite artist? (Shhh)
I know you hear that (huh?)
You wanna fear that? (What?)
Your worst dream is that you was gonna hear that (huh?)
Kan' to rap is like John the Baptist
Prepared the way for what I came to say today
They deceived us, having thinking Jesus
Really didn't need us, when He loved the old days (oh, oh)
He loved them boys in the hallway up in Broadway
Even those who re-up for dope, every four days
To the strippers in broad day up in Norway
To the Detroit player gators in Marbres
With me, it's not just bars of music
I walk with God, I got the scars to prove it, uh
(Jesus walks)
God showed me the way, now the devil can't break me down
(Jesus walks with me)
The only thing that I pray
Is that my feet don't fail me now (I want Jesus)
(Jesus walks)
Everybody out there (Jesus walks)
Just lift your hands right now
(Jesus walks with me) just say this with me
Father, I thank you (I want Jesus)
For forgiving me of everything I've ever done
For Jesus walking with me, for dying for me
Raising for me
And all my sins have been forgiven
I'm a changed man
I'm healed, I'm delivered, I'm rich
And it's all because of Him
Now walk with me
Walk with me, walk, walk, walk with me
Walk with me
(Jesus, Jesus, talk to me)
(Jesus walks with me)
Yeah, uh
Uh, uh, uh, uh
Jesus, Jesus, talk to me (this song right here)
Jesus, Jesus, walk with me (gon' change my life)
Jesus, Jesus (come on)
Jesus, Jesus (come on)
(Jesus walks)
God showed me the way, now the devil can't break me down
(Jesus walks with me) (Jesus, Jesus, talk to me)
Yeah, yeah, c'mon, c'mon (yeah, uh, uh)
Between the girls and the jewelry
The devil tryin' lure me in view of me
(Jesus walks with me)
My pastor's shakin' his head
He ain't sure of me, but surely
(Jesus walks with me)
Lady asked, "Do you say your prayers at least two a week?"
I ain't talking to God, I know what I've been doin' G
Do you know how I be embarrassed?
My prayers sound like Ben Stiller's on Meet the Parents
And I ain't good, what they give us this day
The slaves is trying to give us this free
I'm trying to give us this pay
Man, you know how 'dem strippers was
We was all ghetto fabulous
All at the rooms in the Sybaris
From this jacuzzi water, can you cleanse us?
Can you please unfog my Cartier lenses?
God sends signs sometimes only in glimpses
For me I almost died, falling asleep in them Benzes
It's something about this beat that get me tranquilized
And when I play it at my shows I feel sanctified
And He gives me direction when I can't decide, He is alive
How can you tell me that He ain't when I said
(Jesus walks)
God showed me the way, now the devil can't break me down
(Jesus walks with me)
The only thing that I pray
Is that my feet don't fail me now (I want Jesus)
(Jesus walks)
And now I think there's something I can say now (Jesus walks)
That'll right my wrongs
(Jesus walks with me)
I finally talked to God
I ain't afraid cause His love is so strong
Open your eyes, there's smoke in the skies
The Beast is totin' the lies
Everywhere we move, motions denied
Emotion derived from posters of pride of African
Cultures and tribes who live when we suppose they die
Who laugh when we suppose they cry
The pain we holding inside
'Cause all we really know is survive
Use that to remember we're kings
That's why we so addicted to diamonds and rings and Cutlass Supremes
Seen Diana Ross remember that my sisters is queens
The Lord is coming, for now He visit in dreams
For every mission it seems impossible
Spit the Gospel to remind me what God can do
When it's not logical
To those in hospitals and prisons, low-income living
For them I say a prayer keep giving
Learning to receive, my heart is burnin' to achieve
Even when it's hard to breathe, I still believe that
(Jesus walks)
God showed me the way, now the devil can't break me down
(Jesus walks with me)
The only thing that I pray
Is that my feet don't fail me now (I want Jesus)
(Jesus walks)
And now I think there's something I can say now (Jesus walks)
That'll right my wrongs
(Jesus walks with me)
I finally talked to God (yeah, yeah)
I ain't afraid cause His love is so strong (c'mon, c'mon)
Before you take my name, take my fame
While you at it take my shame, take my flaws, take my blame?
Feel my dirt, conceal my hurt
See my bruise, do this and you will walk in my shoes
You wasn't there when I was in deep thought
When I had two choices, kill him, or either leave New York
But I'm a truth teller, that's why I say what I'm saying (yeah, yeah, yeah)
And the only thing the radio playing is 'cause you be paying
It ain't about who really hot no more
Beats wit' knock no more
So who cares who flop no more?
I realize that most labels pay you for lies
And only blow up dudes get in disguise
Is that your favorite artist? (Shhh)
I know you hear that (huh?)
You wanna fear that? (What?)
Your worst dream is that you was gonna hear that (huh?)
Kan' to rap is like John the Baptist
Prepared the way for what I came to say today
They deceived us, having thinking Jesus
Really didn't need us, when He loved the old days (oh, oh)
He loved them boys in the hallway up in Broadway
Even those who re-up for dope, every four days
To the strippers in broad day up in Norway
To the Detroit player gators in Marbres
With me, it's not just bars of music
I walk with God, I got the scars to prove it, uh
(Jesus walks)
God showed me the way, now the devil can't break me down
(Jesus walks with me)
The only thing that I pray
Is that my feet don't fail me now (I want Jesus)
(Jesus walks)
Everybody out there (Jesus walks)
Just lift your hands right now
(Jesus walks with me) just say this with me
Father, I thank you (I want Jesus)
For forgiving me of everything I've ever done
For Jesus walking with me, for dying for me
Raising for me
And all my sins have been forgiven
I'm a changed man
I'm healed, I'm delivered, I'm rich
And it's all because of Him
Now walk with me
Walk with me, walk, walk, walk with me
Walk with me
(Jesus, Jesus, talk to me)
(Jesus walks with me)
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