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"
Let's take it to Yonkers, Blok Party
Yeah, what? New DMX
Niggaz is scared to fuck with the Dog 'cause I'm shady
You remember that kid from runnin'
Up an' down from Buildin' 80?
Highs are extreme, lows are suicidal
Got me reachin' for the Bible 'cause I think I'm genocidal
Fakers think I'm bluffin' but I'm not
Say that I be buggin' 'cause I be makin' it hot
Knowin' all I got is my, nuts an' my word
Though I'm never seen, the Dark is always heard
I speak for those who speak with glocks
From frequent blocks, where the objective
Is to put in twelve, stay alive an' leave in knots
From little rocks bein' sold, then motherfucker
If you live to see 40, then you old
An' me bein' the way I am, if the Devil close to me
That's the reason why I'm never I'm supposed to be
I chose to be on some Dark shit
Rip apart shit an' start shit, until whenever I depart, bitch
The hard shit will leave yo' ass stretched laid the fuck out
I'm on the edge, life is played out, I made out
Kinda good with the last couple of runs
Up the coast with it, couple of keys, couple of guns
The funds wasn't the issue, it was other shit
That had me flippin' on my brother's shit
Stealin' from my mother's shit
Cry by myself, I couldn't hide form myself
An' if I push my wig back, then I die by myself
'Cause it gets
Deeper an' deeper
With every move I make I'm fallin'
Deeper an' deeper
These souls from underground keep callin'
Deeper an' deeper
With every move I make I'm fallin'
Deeper an' deeper
These souls from underground keep callin'
Why is it that I do what I do?
Why is it that, only to these streets can I be true?
I ain't never been shit, my peoples been told me so
Hold me, yo, niggaz don't, know me, yo
'Cause they ain't out that mob that's out to get niggaz
Rip niggaz, split niggaz when you hit niggaz
Long as there's bodies to be caught
There's shotties to be bought
Hired that transport, fake Gotti's to extort
I cry for help but niggaz don't hear me
Niggaz don't understand me, that's why niggaz fear me
Hit the old neighborhood 'cause I'm 'bout to end it
Stressin' shit that I went through an' what I been did
Niggaz, I offended, will have to take it as a loss
'Cause in a minute, what I'm thinkin'
Is about to look like sauce, gots to pay the cost
An' this time it's gon' cost you my life
My love to my children an' my wife
Step to the last, would I, could I, should I?
Really understand with, seein with my good eye
The hood, I, came up in showed no mercy
Unforgiven of the many plagues that cursed me
The worst we went through would make a, grown man fumble
Learnin' to walk an' it hurts when you stumble
Figure out the jumble an' you live, if not you die
On my knees, hands up to the sky, why?
Deeper an' deeper
With every move I make I'm fallin'
Deeper an' deeper
These souls from underground keep callin'
Deeper an' deeper
With every move I make I'm fallin'
Deeper an' deeper
These souls from underground keep callin'
Yeah, what you know about two 24 verses?
DMX, hehe, fat shout whole Bloodline
Jazz, DMX, Uncle Ray
Yeah, what? New DMX
Niggaz is scared to fuck with the Dog 'cause I'm shady
You remember that kid from runnin'
Up an' down from Buildin' 80?
Highs are extreme, lows are suicidal
Got me reachin' for the Bible 'cause I think I'm genocidal
Fakers think I'm bluffin' but I'm not
Say that I be buggin' 'cause I be makin' it hot
Knowin' all I got is my, nuts an' my word
Though I'm never seen, the Dark is always heard
I speak for those who speak with glocks
From frequent blocks, where the objective
Is to put in twelve, stay alive an' leave in knots
From little rocks bein' sold, then motherfucker
If you live to see 40, then you old
An' me bein' the way I am, if the Devil close to me
That's the reason why I'm never I'm supposed to be
I chose to be on some Dark shit
Rip apart shit an' start shit, until whenever I depart, bitch
The hard shit will leave yo' ass stretched laid the fuck out
I'm on the edge, life is played out, I made out
Kinda good with the last couple of runs
Up the coast with it, couple of keys, couple of guns
The funds wasn't the issue, it was other shit
That had me flippin' on my brother's shit
Stealin' from my mother's shit
Cry by myself, I couldn't hide form myself
An' if I push my wig back, then I die by myself
'Cause it gets
Deeper an' deeper
With every move I make I'm fallin'
Deeper an' deeper
These souls from underground keep callin'
Deeper an' deeper
With every move I make I'm fallin'
Deeper an' deeper
These souls from underground keep callin'
Why is it that I do what I do?
Why is it that, only to these streets can I be true?
I ain't never been shit, my peoples been told me so
Hold me, yo, niggaz don't, know me, yo
'Cause they ain't out that mob that's out to get niggaz
Rip niggaz, split niggaz when you hit niggaz
Long as there's bodies to be caught
There's shotties to be bought
Hired that transport, fake Gotti's to extort
I cry for help but niggaz don't hear me
Niggaz don't understand me, that's why niggaz fear me
Hit the old neighborhood 'cause I'm 'bout to end it
Stressin' shit that I went through an' what I been did
Niggaz, I offended, will have to take it as a loss
'Cause in a minute, what I'm thinkin'
Is about to look like sauce, gots to pay the cost
An' this time it's gon' cost you my life
My love to my children an' my wife
Step to the last, would I, could I, should I?
Really understand with, seein with my good eye
The hood, I, came up in showed no mercy
Unforgiven of the many plagues that cursed me
The worst we went through would make a, grown man fumble
Learnin' to walk an' it hurts when you stumble
Figure out the jumble an' you live, if not you die
On my knees, hands up to the sky, why?
Deeper an' deeper
With every move I make I'm fallin'
Deeper an' deeper
These souls from underground keep callin'
Deeper an' deeper
With every move I make I'm fallin'
Deeper an' deeper
These souls from underground keep callin'
Yeah, what you know about two 24 verses?
DMX, hehe, fat shout whole Bloodline
Jazz, DMX, Uncle Ray
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Deeper Lyrics as written by Chris Squire Alan White
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Musicnotes, Inc.
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