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"
Yeah, hey, what's up girl?
Angel eyes, long hair, I see you cryin', what's wrong there
"He did what? He fucked who?", we know the story, what's new?
See I could probably rush you, tell you that he shoulda loved you
Take advantage, fuck you, tell you I'll do all the shit he wouldn't do
But the truth is, we all the same, on different teams, but it's all a game
The objective, tryna score, you got a wife, you find a whore
You fuck her fast, she find her drawers, pull up her pants, you find the door
You drive her home, she mop you off, you bust again, and drop her off
Then repeat like a episode, why we cheat, I'll never know
Is it 'cause we rap? Heavens know, lotta niggas rap though, never blow
Like heterosexuals, girl you fine, from head to toe
Could it be 'cause my father let me know that he cheated and somehow
I never told, I never told
Hey you wanna be a man?
Yeah I wanna be a man
A man don't run and tell his mama everything he see
I ain't gon' tell
Alright, alright then man, be a man then
Alright
Ok, that's what it is, I see the game, the hoes come, the seasons change
The hoes go, we rearrange, fuck up her life, she'll never be the same
The OG's that beat the game, forever young, Peter Pan
35? Still playing, child support? Still paying
Juggling, bill paying, been running 'round, field daying
Wine and dine, meal paying, with hopes that she'll lay in
The bed and, get wet then, give head then, you bet man
The same girl who said we just met man, game colder than the fucking dead man
One night stands, no best man, no bridesmaids or reverends
'Cause Wolverine's depressed and don't wanna be your ex-man
'Cause Cupid aims and throw the darts, there go the sparks and broken hearts
Who wanna build Noah's Ark just to have that shit torn apart?
You know what? I need to talk to you
About what?
I don't think this is, working out for us
Why?
I mean, I need some space. I mean no, I just wanna find myself, that's all
What the fuck?
You know?
Angel eyes, long hair, I see you cryin', what's wrong there
"He did what? He fucked who?", we know the story, what's new?
See I could probably rush you, tell you that he shoulda loved you
Take advantage, fuck you, tell you I'll do all the shit he wouldn't do
But the truth is, we all the same, on different teams, but it's all a game
The objective, tryna score, you got a wife, you find a whore
You fuck her fast, she find her drawers, pull up her pants, you find the door
You drive her home, she mop you off, you bust again, and drop her off
Then repeat like a episode, why we cheat, I'll never know
Is it 'cause we rap? Heavens know, lotta niggas rap though, never blow
Like heterosexuals, girl you fine, from head to toe
Could it be 'cause my father let me know that he cheated and somehow
I never told, I never told
Hey you wanna be a man?
Yeah I wanna be a man
A man don't run and tell his mama everything he see
I ain't gon' tell
Alright, alright then man, be a man then
Alright
Ok, that's what it is, I see the game, the hoes come, the seasons change
The hoes go, we rearrange, fuck up her life, she'll never be the same
The OG's that beat the game, forever young, Peter Pan
35? Still playing, child support? Still paying
Juggling, bill paying, been running 'round, field daying
Wine and dine, meal paying, with hopes that she'll lay in
The bed and, get wet then, give head then, you bet man
The same girl who said we just met man, game colder than the fucking dead man
One night stands, no best man, no bridesmaids or reverends
'Cause Wolverine's depressed and don't wanna be your ex-man
'Cause Cupid aims and throw the darts, there go the sparks and broken hearts
Who wanna build Noah's Ark just to have that shit torn apart?
You know what? I need to talk to you
About what?
I don't think this is, working out for us
Why?
I mean, I need some space. I mean no, I just wanna find myself, that's all
What the fuck?
You know?
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