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"
I gangsta
Let it go
I'm a gangsta
I'm a gangsta for life
I'm a gangsta
Real gangsta, let it go
I'm a gangsta
(Yeah)
I'm a gangsta for life
(Yeah)
I'm a gangsta
(Come on)
Real gangsta, let it go
(G, G, G, G you know)
Uh, the game took a turn crazy, it's all gravy
Thanks to 50 Cent and Shady, they gon' play me
These lil' niggaz can't fade me, they just babies
Play me and I'm crazy, I'm Tom Brady
Emeralds and baguettes when I'm hoppin? up off the jet
A nigga reach for that and I'm choppin? him in his neck
One big remix and she'll be on my penis
If my flow had a phoenix and my paws are the cleanest
9-millimeters in the bars and arenas
If you hood then you seen us with wood in the Beamers
I'm that new nigga, they all over Adidas
When they see us they don't charge that shit, they wanna be us
(Let it go)
When we pressed to go, body restin? up
They wan' mop up all that blood but he's testin? us
The moon eclipse, is a mess and ah
We'll compose the new and then test it oh
(Let it go)
I'm a gangsta
I'm a gangsta for life
I'm a gangsta
Don't fuck around and start some fight
(Yeah, yeah, let it go)
I'm Marvin Bernard, hip-hop goin? hard
Feds ran in the crib, squad all in my yard
I'm the high school dropout, crack game genius
The mac'll turn your back into Kill Bill arenas
I'm criminal minded, you've been blinded
Feds lookin? for my bricks but can't find it
Maneuver with the Ruger, the grip is rubber
My Frank Mueller, is dipped in them rainbow colors
Bein? broke is a disease, I need that guap and that cheddar
I learned that, in the Maybach with Fif' and Mayweather
Mix the milk with Amaretta, my beretta's in my leather
My tiger striped eagle make your people need weather
(Let it go)
When we pressed to go, body restin? up
They wan' mop up all that blood but he's testin? us
The moon eclipse, is a mess and ah
We'll compose the new and then test it oh
(Let it go)
When we pressed to go, body restin? up
They wan' mop up all that blood but he's testin? us
The moon eclipse, is a mess and ah
We'll compose the new and then test it oh
(Let it go)
I'm a gangsta
I'm a gangsta for life
I'm a gangsta
Don't fuck around and start some fight
I want to dance
I'm reachin? up and huh
Let it go
I'm a gangsta
I'm a gangsta for life
I'm a gangsta
Real gangsta, let it go
I'm a gangsta
(Yeah)
I'm a gangsta for life
(Yeah)
I'm a gangsta
(Come on)
Real gangsta, let it go
(G, G, G, G you know)
Uh, the game took a turn crazy, it's all gravy
Thanks to 50 Cent and Shady, they gon' play me
These lil' niggaz can't fade me, they just babies
Play me and I'm crazy, I'm Tom Brady
Emeralds and baguettes when I'm hoppin? up off the jet
A nigga reach for that and I'm choppin? him in his neck
One big remix and she'll be on my penis
If my flow had a phoenix and my paws are the cleanest
9-millimeters in the bars and arenas
If you hood then you seen us with wood in the Beamers
I'm that new nigga, they all over Adidas
When they see us they don't charge that shit, they wanna be us
(Let it go)
When we pressed to go, body restin? up
They wan' mop up all that blood but he's testin? us
The moon eclipse, is a mess and ah
We'll compose the new and then test it oh
(Let it go)
I'm a gangsta
I'm a gangsta for life
I'm a gangsta
Don't fuck around and start some fight
(Yeah, yeah, let it go)
I'm Marvin Bernard, hip-hop goin? hard
Feds ran in the crib, squad all in my yard
I'm the high school dropout, crack game genius
The mac'll turn your back into Kill Bill arenas
I'm criminal minded, you've been blinded
Feds lookin? for my bricks but can't find it
Maneuver with the Ruger, the grip is rubber
My Frank Mueller, is dipped in them rainbow colors
Bein? broke is a disease, I need that guap and that cheddar
I learned that, in the Maybach with Fif' and Mayweather
Mix the milk with Amaretta, my beretta's in my leather
My tiger striped eagle make your people need weather
(Let it go)
When we pressed to go, body restin? up
They wan' mop up all that blood but he's testin? us
The moon eclipse, is a mess and ah
We'll compose the new and then test it oh
(Let it go)
When we pressed to go, body restin? up
They wan' mop up all that blood but he's testin? us
The moon eclipse, is a mess and ah
We'll compose the new and then test it oh
(Let it go)
I'm a gangsta
I'm a gangsta for life
I'm a gangsta
Don't fuck around and start some fight
I want to dance
I'm reachin? up and huh
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Let It Go Lyrics as written by Jeff Adams Renee Jackson
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