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"
(ha ha yeah)
(You actually...rap)
(Uh)
(You're a really good rapper)
(You already know)
(huh)
Burn a blue flame, the bomb Lussein
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Ralph Nader, Ronald Reager on a ventilator
Walter Mondale was smoking Al Green
Harry Chronic Jr., Joel Osteen,
Mean Joe Green, my flow's so clean
Michael Night, fly a kite, blow a smoke screen
(yeah) Vinnie "The Microwave" Johnson,
'89 bad boy Dennis Rodman,
(yup) Joseph Dumas,
go through blue balls
I took it way too far with Punky Brew-star
Chester Copperpot, I'm setting booty traps
Pet her dog a lot, and give her Scooby snacks
she was scrappy, too
I called her Scrappy Doo
Told me call her by her Wu name, I'd be happy to.
Made her honorary Wu
She told me, "Who cares?"
I'm John McEnflow serve, rockin' Wu wear
Headband and some Wallabees--two pair
Rudy Huxtable, Heathcliff, I love you Clair
You there--you're a real standout witcha blue hair
Homie, I'm Jan Crouch (ha)
Benny Hinn Hinn on your chinny chin chin
round here that's a twinny twin twin
type it in
[Refrain:]
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[Heath McNease]:
(Yo) it's the Greasy Choirboy,
Dionne Warwick, Michael Clarke Duncan make your team on forfeit
but he don't force it
who he on tour with?
Chuck Barry ding-a-ling-a-ling on Porsches
Tom Brokaw, Nikolai Volkoff
Nikita Koloff, you need to take your coat off
Dudley Do Wrong
The Black Bruce Wayne
(pssht) step up your tracksuit game
It's Dick Grayson, sicker than just blazin'
Chicks in the pictures, look at the temptation
Skeeter Valentine, Marty McFly
wisdom of an oracle, and heart of a guy
I'm kinda Kip Dynamite, make a quesadilla,
The white Lionel, what, you made him take vanilla
Mandy Patinkin, Inigo Montoya
You killed my father now prepare to meet with my lawyer
Calaveras County pimpin' out on the bench,
and Harper Lee's out with Scout and Atticus Finch,
Shot a mockingbird and brought it down in a flinch,
and NASA pro'lly wonder where my abacus is
it's Tim the Tool Man
New tan pool man
50 hard boiled egg
Cool Hand Luke, man
The flip-up spec Dwayne Wayne
Tom Palmer, dealer don
try to maintain
[Repeat refrain]
[Heath McNease]:
(Yeah, yeah)
Rudy Ruettiger, Judy Blume compute-de-ter
Off in a Suzuki through the tulip and the junipers
cool it with the Cupid-cursed
dude don't wanna swoop a nurse
only homes call me Zeus, Romans call me Jupiter
[Playdough]:
Twinkle, twinkle Henry Winkle
Wishin' on a asteroid
Fonzerelli, Jim Belushi, call me "Dan Smackroyd"
Two mother, Blues Brother
Dance all day
Pootie tang gettin' pootie tang,
Sa Da Tay
(sound bite from Donald Glover interview with Jay Leno)
(You actually...rap)
(Uh)
(You're a really good rapper)
(You already know)
(huh)
Burn a blue flame, the bomb Lussein
Google Docs, newest Crocs and a Wu name
Use it wisely-- Wu name generator
Ralph Nader, Ronald Reager on a ventilator
Walter Mondale was smoking Al Green
Harry Chronic Jr., Joel Osteen,
Mean Joe Green, my flow's so clean
Michael Night, fly a kite, blow a smoke screen
(yeah) Vinnie "The Microwave" Johnson,
'89 bad boy Dennis Rodman,
(yup) Joseph Dumas,
go through blue balls
I took it way too far with Punky Brew-star
Chester Copperpot, I'm setting booty traps
Pet her dog a lot, and give her Scooby snacks
she was scrappy, too
I called her Scrappy Doo
Told me call her by her Wu name, I'd be happy to.
Made her honorary Wu
She told me, "Who cares?"
I'm John McEnflow serve, rockin' Wu wear
Headband and some Wallabees--two pair
Rudy Huxtable, Heathcliff, I love you Clair
You there--you're a real standout witcha blue hair
Homie, I'm Jan Crouch (ha)
Benny Hinn Hinn on your chinny chin chin
round here that's a twinny twin twin
type it in
[Refrain:]
Wu name generator
Wu name generator
Wu name generator
Wu name generator
[Heath McNease]:
(Yo) it's the Greasy Choirboy,
Dionne Warwick, Michael Clarke Duncan make your team on forfeit
but he don't force it
who he on tour with?
Chuck Barry ding-a-ling-a-ling on Porsches
Tom Brokaw, Nikolai Volkoff
Nikita Koloff, you need to take your coat off
Dudley Do Wrong
The Black Bruce Wayne
(pssht) step up your tracksuit game
It's Dick Grayson, sicker than just blazin'
Chicks in the pictures, look at the temptation
Skeeter Valentine, Marty McFly
wisdom of an oracle, and heart of a guy
I'm kinda Kip Dynamite, make a quesadilla,
The white Lionel, what, you made him take vanilla
Mandy Patinkin, Inigo Montoya
You killed my father now prepare to meet with my lawyer
Calaveras County pimpin' out on the bench,
and Harper Lee's out with Scout and Atticus Finch,
Shot a mockingbird and brought it down in a flinch,
and NASA pro'lly wonder where my abacus is
it's Tim the Tool Man
New tan pool man
50 hard boiled egg
Cool Hand Luke, man
The flip-up spec Dwayne Wayne
Tom Palmer, dealer don
try to maintain
[Repeat refrain]
[Heath McNease]:
(Yeah, yeah)
Rudy Ruettiger, Judy Blume compute-de-ter
Off in a Suzuki through the tulip and the junipers
cool it with the Cupid-cursed
dude don't wanna swoop a nurse
only homes call me Zeus, Romans call me Jupiter
[Playdough]:
Twinkle, twinkle Henry Winkle
Wishin' on a asteroid
Fonzerelli, Jim Belushi, call me "Dan Smackroyd"
Two mother, Blues Brother
Dance all day
Pootie tang gettin' pootie tang,
Sa Da Tay
(sound bite from Donald Glover interview with Jay Leno)
Lyrics submitted by fineanddandan
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