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"
ticketless travel mimicking gravel with minutes to babble
finish and i grab hold of limericks in my saddle
i wish i had a rattle to tattle like security does
a song to sound off impurity buzz
metal detectors unsettling sensory receptors
i wish they gave me a nectar instead of that lecture
because i'm hungry for fruit and i already knew about the no change in
pockets
(earlier i took a shit in the cockpit)
dressed at best for me hoodie and pants fitting loosely
but how i'd love to be wearing buggle boy or stussy
sometimes i miss the decade of the nineties
barely half the eighties in my memory but i'm happy with my timing
but i'm rapping about you not minding me on the floor
map in on your palm pilot i was at gate C4
but the next gate down there will be someone else around
that'd piss you off the same cause you're looking for your pants browned
this place is full of impatience on the brain
everyone pulling for placement on the plane
fast pacing and racing just the same
first i came and went then i went and came
aisle seat look at me, i'm not frowning
i was able to stay away from the "don't wants" of my surrounding
i get a snack later now i capitalize on my practice
annoyed the people on board with my voice, now it's pens for passion
i guess people in public can't handle words in action
but lately it's been gaining me further satisfaction
i guess that's just what happens when you're doing what you love
you're not even worried about the faces looking at you from above
waiting for the sign for the bathroom to shine my eye
i can't have another passenger pass me by
i drank a lot of water this morning and other than the plane
tokeless brownies got me soaring
can't even hear the sleeping people snoring
i'm harmonizing with the hum of the plane ignoring boring
enjoying conversation with the man next to me
a new piece of knowledge every direction i speak
this place is full of impatience on the brain
everyone pulling for placement on the plane
fast pacing and racing just the same
first i came and went then i went and came
this place is full of impatience on the brain
everyone pulling for placement on the plane
fast pacing and racing just the same
first i came and went then i went and came
finish and i grab hold of limericks in my saddle
i wish i had a rattle to tattle like security does
a song to sound off impurity buzz
metal detectors unsettling sensory receptors
i wish they gave me a nectar instead of that lecture
because i'm hungry for fruit and i already knew about the no change in
pockets
(earlier i took a shit in the cockpit)
dressed at best for me hoodie and pants fitting loosely
but how i'd love to be wearing buggle boy or stussy
sometimes i miss the decade of the nineties
barely half the eighties in my memory but i'm happy with my timing
but i'm rapping about you not minding me on the floor
map in on your palm pilot i was at gate C4
but the next gate down there will be someone else around
that'd piss you off the same cause you're looking for your pants browned
this place is full of impatience on the brain
everyone pulling for placement on the plane
fast pacing and racing just the same
first i came and went then i went and came
aisle seat look at me, i'm not frowning
i was able to stay away from the "don't wants" of my surrounding
i get a snack later now i capitalize on my practice
annoyed the people on board with my voice, now it's pens for passion
i guess people in public can't handle words in action
but lately it's been gaining me further satisfaction
i guess that's just what happens when you're doing what you love
you're not even worried about the faces looking at you from above
waiting for the sign for the bathroom to shine my eye
i can't have another passenger pass me by
i drank a lot of water this morning and other than the plane
tokeless brownies got me soaring
can't even hear the sleeping people snoring
i'm harmonizing with the hum of the plane ignoring boring
enjoying conversation with the man next to me
a new piece of knowledge every direction i speak
this place is full of impatience on the brain
everyone pulling for placement on the plane
fast pacing and racing just the same
first i came and went then i went and came
this place is full of impatience on the brain
everyone pulling for placement on the plane
fast pacing and racing just the same
first i came and went then i went and came
Lyrics submitted by CrisMusic
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