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 know you've been actin' weak since you came in the do'
But homie you ain't got to be a hater no mo'
How can you live you life when you know you are a hoe?
I'm Dr. Real Phil, I'm here to help you let go
It ain't hard to keep it real!
It ain't hard to keep it real!
It ain't hard to keep it real!
Matter fact, it's for free
And if it's anything less than real, that ain't for me
What's so hard about saying I did good if I did good?
Why you got to find something wrong?
Always complaining, just like a baby momma, just hit the drink
Hit the smoke, playa, loosen up yo thong
Stop acting like a bitch, even if you are a bitch 'cause that ain't cool
That's why the real people never kick it wit you
When you come around that dank smoke I smoke don't even be tasting great
So you've been a hater since day one
It still ain't too late to erase the hate
On Instagram, straight flexing
Hating on everybody else's bitch
Can't even remember yo password
That's how much you're on everybody else's shit
Ain't ever took a pee sitting down
Ain't nothing feminine about my manhood
Hit a high note but ain't nothing soft about me, I wish yo ass would
I know you've been actin' weak since you came in the do'
But homie you ain't got to be a hater no mo'
How can you live you life when you know you are a hoe?
I'm Dr. Real Phil, I'm here to help you let go
It ain't hard to keep it real!
It ain't hard to keep it real!
It ain't hard to keep it real!
Matter fact, it's for free
And if it's anything less than real, that ain't for me
All I chase is money, you can keep them bitches
Vvs glisten, all these Backwoods I be twisting
Jealous of our status, you mo' pussy than a pageant
Gold in the marble Polo boxes in the palace
I be sipping till I slur, dipping through the third
Codeine in my Wheaties, smell the syrup in the air
Belaire, I prefer we fuck the strippers by the pair
If her pussy classic then she might just get a pair
No time for the hating, against all my religions
Swangers when I'm skating, up in Gatsby with two pistols
All these bitches at me, they know it's official
If I fuck 'er, never call 'er, then I might bag, Ricky Rizzle
I know you've been actin' weak since you came in the do'
But homie you ain't got to be a hater no mo'
How can you live you life when you know you are a hoe?
I'm Dr. Real Phil, I'm here to help you let go
It ain't hard to keep it real!
It ain't hard to keep it real!
It ain't hard to keep it real!
Matter fact, it's for free
And if it's anything less than real, that ain't for me
We the best like DJ Khaled but it ain't no we mane, it's just me mane
Since 1997 been repping original S.U.C., mane
While y'all swallowing hate I be swallowing drank
So I always got to go pee, man
Fuck Mike Mack, but me and J cool
Got to feed my people and feed me, man
I've been frowning all my life
Soon as I start smiling y'all ain't like that
When I kick a freestyle, my haters like
'Yo, the most hit it, don't have to write that'
Memphis ice jacked, they gonna say they're fake
'Cause my diamonds look like they're panicking
Wanna know how I feel, these rappers ain't real
Just me and a whole lot of mannequins
I remember back in the day I had beef wit DJ Michael Watts
Nowadays it's Swishah House, S.U.C., I eat wit DJ Michael Watts
I don't wanna be in a rap group, I'd rather do me alone
Everybody so surely, I'm so glad that boy Lil Boosie is home
I know you've been actin' weak since you came in the do'
But homie you ain't got to be a hater no mo'
How can you live you life when you know you are a hoe?
I'm Dr. Real Phil, I'm here to help you let go
It ain't hard to keep it real!
It ain't hard to keep it real!
It ain't hard to keep it real!
Matter fact, it's for free
And if it's anything less than real, that ain't for me, yeah
But homie you ain't got to be a hater no mo'
How can you live you life when you know you are a hoe?
I'm Dr. Real Phil, I'm here to help you let go
It ain't hard to keep it real!
It ain't hard to keep it real!
It ain't hard to keep it real!
Matter fact, it's for free
And if it's anything less than real, that ain't for me
What's so hard about saying I did good if I did good?
Why you got to find something wrong?
Always complaining, just like a baby momma, just hit the drink
Hit the smoke, playa, loosen up yo thong
Stop acting like a bitch, even if you are a bitch 'cause that ain't cool
That's why the real people never kick it wit you
When you come around that dank smoke I smoke don't even be tasting great
So you've been a hater since day one
It still ain't too late to erase the hate
On Instagram, straight flexing
Hating on everybody else's bitch
Can't even remember yo password
That's how much you're on everybody else's shit
Ain't ever took a pee sitting down
Ain't nothing feminine about my manhood
Hit a high note but ain't nothing soft about me, I wish yo ass would
I know you've been actin' weak since you came in the do'
But homie you ain't got to be a hater no mo'
How can you live you life when you know you are a hoe?
I'm Dr. Real Phil, I'm here to help you let go
It ain't hard to keep it real!
It ain't hard to keep it real!
It ain't hard to keep it real!
Matter fact, it's for free
And if it's anything less than real, that ain't for me
All I chase is money, you can keep them bitches
Vvs glisten, all these Backwoods I be twisting
Jealous of our status, you mo' pussy than a pageant
Gold in the marble Polo boxes in the palace
I be sipping till I slur, dipping through the third
Codeine in my Wheaties, smell the syrup in the air
Belaire, I prefer we fuck the strippers by the pair
If her pussy classic then she might just get a pair
No time for the hating, against all my religions
Swangers when I'm skating, up in Gatsby with two pistols
All these bitches at me, they know it's official
If I fuck 'er, never call 'er, then I might bag, Ricky Rizzle
I know you've been actin' weak since you came in the do'
But homie you ain't got to be a hater no mo'
How can you live you life when you know you are a hoe?
I'm Dr. Real Phil, I'm here to help you let go
It ain't hard to keep it real!
It ain't hard to keep it real!
It ain't hard to keep it real!
Matter fact, it's for free
And if it's anything less than real, that ain't for me
We the best like DJ Khaled but it ain't no we mane, it's just me mane
Since 1997 been repping original S.U.C., mane
While y'all swallowing hate I be swallowing drank
So I always got to go pee, man
Fuck Mike Mack, but me and J cool
Got to feed my people and feed me, man
I've been frowning all my life
Soon as I start smiling y'all ain't like that
When I kick a freestyle, my haters like
'Yo, the most hit it, don't have to write that'
Memphis ice jacked, they gonna say they're fake
'Cause my diamonds look like they're panicking
Wanna know how I feel, these rappers ain't real
Just me and a whole lot of mannequins
I remember back in the day I had beef wit DJ Michael Watts
Nowadays it's Swishah House, S.U.C., I eat wit DJ Michael Watts
I don't wanna be in a rap group, I'd rather do me alone
Everybody so surely, I'm so glad that boy Lil Boosie is home
I know you've been actin' weak since you came in the do'
But homie you ain't got to be a hater no mo'
How can you live you life when you know you are a hoe?
I'm Dr. Real Phil, I'm here to help you let go
It ain't hard to keep it real!
It ain't hard to keep it real!
It ain't hard to keep it real!
Matter fact, it's for free
And if it's anything less than real, that ain't for me, yeah
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