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"
And the kids sing
Oh
Yeah, I like that, I like that
Yeah, kids sing
We will understand if they don't (louder)
We don't want they bullshit no more (yeah, louder)
We will understand if they don't (yeah, yeah)
We don't want they bullshit no more (yeah)
Alright, alright
You take too many martinis
she slip straight out bikini (straight up)
She let me grand slam outside the Denny's (straight up)
How we gone get Oscar proud if they pay us pennies? (La Flame)
I'ma need my dollars now, stack it 'til they envy
You feel me? (Skrr!)
The kids they need that
I get that feedback, sit back, relax (that dope)
I'm on that relapse
Yo' ass gone die if you blow my high
I been over Coastin' just was beatin' in my Lotus (straight up)
All that loud talk like your dope we never notice (La Flame)
You ain't feelin' it, nigga, 'cause you sober (straight up)
I'm ballin' in the game with players, you behind the coaches
Come take a trip on my lair by the Third Coast
Come floatin'
La di, da, di, da, di, all the kids shout at the party (and the kids sing)
We will understand if they don't (yeah, yeah)
We don't want they bullshit no more (yeah I like that, I like that, yeah, kids sing)
We will understand if they don't (yeah, louder. yeah)
We don't want they bullshit no more (yeah, louder, yeah)
You know, when I was fourteen
I wanted to do a lot of kick ass shit
Yeah, uh
Pornographic, so dramatic, cinematic
Diamond flashes, so Jurassic, dress so classic
Roll that cabbage, get put in casket, you dope fanatic
You the baddest, I'm sarcastic, we both laughin'
I'm the baddest, I'm out in traffic, four engine backin'
Stuffed in Suburban, twelve bitches straight out the beauty pageant
You know Reebok keep La feet hot, they be shipping package
Gl 600 or the Palace, that collab with Classics
Tell me what you need, I got everything green
Money, money, money trees, I buy everything
That bitch need no wedding ring, she need a bean
Uh, that boy walked in mall, that boy he need a beam
I done fucked her twice you bought her Fendi things
I done sipped the Act' now I'ma leany fiend
I can do this by myself, don't need no team
No, I got all these kids and all these kids gon' sing
We will understand if they don't (yeah, yeah)
We don't want they bullshit no more (yeah, uh)
We will understand if they don't (yeah, yeah)
We don't want they bullshit no more (yeah)
Oh
Yeah, I like that, I like that
Yeah, kids sing
We will understand if they don't (louder)
We don't want they bullshit no more (yeah, louder)
We will understand if they don't (yeah, yeah)
We don't want they bullshit no more (yeah)
Alright, alright
You take too many martinis
she slip straight out bikini (straight up)
She let me grand slam outside the Denny's (straight up)
How we gone get Oscar proud if they pay us pennies? (La Flame)
I'ma need my dollars now, stack it 'til they envy
You feel me? (Skrr!)
The kids they need that
I get that feedback, sit back, relax (that dope)
I'm on that relapse
Yo' ass gone die if you blow my high
I been over Coastin' just was beatin' in my Lotus (straight up)
All that loud talk like your dope we never notice (La Flame)
You ain't feelin' it, nigga, 'cause you sober (straight up)
I'm ballin' in the game with players, you behind the coaches
Come take a trip on my lair by the Third Coast
Come floatin'
La di, da, di, da, di, all the kids shout at the party (and the kids sing)
We will understand if they don't (yeah, yeah)
We don't want they bullshit no more (yeah I like that, I like that, yeah, kids sing)
We will understand if they don't (yeah, louder. yeah)
We don't want they bullshit no more (yeah, louder, yeah)
You know, when I was fourteen
I wanted to do a lot of kick ass shit
Yeah, uh
Pornographic, so dramatic, cinematic
Diamond flashes, so Jurassic, dress so classic
Roll that cabbage, get put in casket, you dope fanatic
You the baddest, I'm sarcastic, we both laughin'
I'm the baddest, I'm out in traffic, four engine backin'
Stuffed in Suburban, twelve bitches straight out the beauty pageant
You know Reebok keep La feet hot, they be shipping package
Gl 600 or the Palace, that collab with Classics
Tell me what you need, I got everything green
Money, money, money trees, I buy everything
That bitch need no wedding ring, she need a bean
Uh, that boy walked in mall, that boy he need a beam
I done fucked her twice you bought her Fendi things
I done sipped the Act' now I'ma leany fiend
I can do this by myself, don't need no team
No, I got all these kids and all these kids gon' sing
We will understand if they don't (yeah, yeah)
We don't want they bullshit no more (yeah, uh)
We will understand if they don't (yeah, yeah)
We don't want they bullshit no more (yeah)
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Zombies Lyrics as written by Lexus Arnel Lewis Jacques Webster
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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