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 need you to hear this loud and clear
The line in the sand is drawn and I have no fear
When I see red all I need is a reason to set me off
To drop this bomb and pick yourself off the ground
'Cause I'm a badass
And you don't want to clash
'Cause your mouth's writing checks that your face can't cash
'Cause I'm a badass
And this warning's your last
You just crossed my path and I'll drop you fast
'Cause I'm a badass
A badass
'Cause I'm a badass
A badass
A badass
Don't take this past the point of no return
You don't want this kind of lesson learned
When I see red all I need is a reason to throw it down
To take you out and you will have no doubt
'Cause I'm a badass
And you don't want to clash
'Cause your mouth's writing checks that your face can't cash
'Cause I'm a badass
And this warning's your last
You just crossed my path and I'll drop you fast
'Cause I'm a badass
A badass
'Cause I'm a badass
A badass
A badass
I'm going to walk away from this
And let it die than let it last
Your pushing me telling me to change my soul
And I'm gonna leave your body black and blue now
'Cause I'm a badass
And you don't want to clash
'Cause your mouth's writing checks that your face can't cash
'Cause I'm a badass
And this warning's your last
You just crossed my path and I'll drop you fast
'Cause I'm a badass
A gun ready to blast
It's the wild, wild west and I'm fast as fast
'Cause I'm a badass
I'll put your face in the grass
Don't test me boy 'cause I'll drop you fast
'Cause I'm a badass
A badass
'Cause I'm a badass
Take your best shot
All you got
Good luck 'cause I'm a badass
'Cause I'm a badass
A badass
The line in the sand is drawn and I have no fear
When I see red all I need is a reason to set me off
To drop this bomb and pick yourself off the ground
'Cause I'm a badass
And you don't want to clash
'Cause your mouth's writing checks that your face can't cash
'Cause I'm a badass
And this warning's your last
You just crossed my path and I'll drop you fast
'Cause I'm a badass
A badass
'Cause I'm a badass
A badass
A badass
Don't take this past the point of no return
You don't want this kind of lesson learned
When I see red all I need is a reason to throw it down
To take you out and you will have no doubt
'Cause I'm a badass
And you don't want to clash
'Cause your mouth's writing checks that your face can't cash
'Cause I'm a badass
And this warning's your last
You just crossed my path and I'll drop you fast
'Cause I'm a badass
A badass
'Cause I'm a badass
A badass
A badass
I'm going to walk away from this
And let it die than let it last
Your pushing me telling me to change my soul
And I'm gonna leave your body black and blue now
'Cause I'm a badass
And you don't want to clash
'Cause your mouth's writing checks that your face can't cash
'Cause I'm a badass
And this warning's your last
You just crossed my path and I'll drop you fast
'Cause I'm a badass
A gun ready to blast
It's the wild, wild west and I'm fast as fast
'Cause I'm a badass
I'll put your face in the grass
Don't test me boy 'cause I'll drop you fast
'Cause I'm a badass
A badass
'Cause I'm a badass
Take your best shot
All you got
Good luck 'cause I'm a badass
'Cause I'm a badass
A badass
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Badass [Previously Unreleased Track] Lyrics as written by Paul Crosby Howard Benson
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