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"
(Hey, be careful with that, no
Stop)
The monster in my closet fought the one under my bed
And in the middle of the battle I said
"Don't tell my dad or he'll probably get mad
And he'll stop payin' for all the Adderall!"
I don't want that, I don't wanna get fat at all
In a room with the admiral, the bruiser brigade
It's been a really, really messed up week, month, day
And I just rack up the hate, it comes as fast as a play count
And I'm just gonna chill on the playground
While you spend your whole day down in the depths of the net
Wanna bet? It upsets you
You want me to fade out and I am the rap game pest, get your Raid out
And I got your ass obsessed, no shame
I'm not really interested in hittin' the tip top
And I got you, mine, but you're watchin'
You say, "This little white girl is ruinin' hip hop!"
I say, "Damn right!" And take a lick of the Ring Pop
And smile
No way near the tip top
And I got you mad, but you're watchin'
You say, "This white girl is ruinin' hip hop!"
I say, "Damn right!" And take a lick of the Ring Pop
And smile
I'm the kit and kaboodle and now I'm all over Google
And I am very Youtubeable
With the Beautiful Lou beats and hideous cuticles
You hide out in the cubicle and ponder whose daughter I am
A diabolical plot of the industry and
We didn't think anybody would be into me, and um
I don't give a crap, I get happy
Enough to have your favorite rapper Twitterin' at me
And A&R sayin' I could be a star
And I'm way stressed, I just wanted a Betsey J dress
And some time off from Claire's so I could chill for a while
So I take a lick of the Ring Pop and smile
I'm not really interested in hittin' the tip top
And I got you, mine, but you're watchin'
You say, "This little white girl is ruinin' hip hop!"
I say, "Damn right!" And take a lick of the Ring Pop
And smile
No way near the tip top
And I got you mad, but you're watchin'
You say, "This white girl is ruinin' hip hop!"
I say, "Damn right!" And take a lick of the Ring Pop
And smile
Stop)
The monster in my closet fought the one under my bed
And in the middle of the battle I said
"Don't tell my dad or he'll probably get mad
And he'll stop payin' for all the Adderall!"
I don't want that, I don't wanna get fat at all
In a room with the admiral, the bruiser brigade
It's been a really, really messed up week, month, day
And I just rack up the hate, it comes as fast as a play count
And I'm just gonna chill on the playground
While you spend your whole day down in the depths of the net
Wanna bet? It upsets you
You want me to fade out and I am the rap game pest, get your Raid out
And I got your ass obsessed, no shame
I'm not really interested in hittin' the tip top
And I got you, mine, but you're watchin'
You say, "This little white girl is ruinin' hip hop!"
I say, "Damn right!" And take a lick of the Ring Pop
And smile
No way near the tip top
And I got you mad, but you're watchin'
You say, "This white girl is ruinin' hip hop!"
I say, "Damn right!" And take a lick of the Ring Pop
And smile
I'm the kit and kaboodle and now I'm all over Google
And I am very Youtubeable
With the Beautiful Lou beats and hideous cuticles
You hide out in the cubicle and ponder whose daughter I am
A diabolical plot of the industry and
We didn't think anybody would be into me, and um
I don't give a crap, I get happy
Enough to have your favorite rapper Twitterin' at me
And A&R sayin' I could be a star
And I'm way stressed, I just wanted a Betsey J dress
And some time off from Claire's so I could chill for a while
So I take a lick of the Ring Pop and smile
I'm not really interested in hittin' the tip top
And I got you, mine, but you're watchin'
You say, "This little white girl is ruinin' hip hop!"
I say, "Damn right!" And take a lick of the Ring Pop
And smile
No way near the tip top
And I got you mad, but you're watchin'
You say, "This white girl is ruinin' hip hop!"
I say, "Damn right!" And take a lick of the Ring Pop
And smile
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