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"
Call it how it is
Hendrix
I promise, I swear, I swear
You heard, spit it, yo
Percocets (ya), molly, Percocets (Percocets)
Percocets (ya), molly, Percocets (Percocets)
Rep the set (yee), gotta rep the set (gang, gang)
Chase a check (chase it), never chase a bitch (I don't chase no bitches)
Mask on, fuck it, mask off (mask off)
Mask on (off), fuck it, mask off (mask off)
Percocets ('cets), molly, Percocets (Percocets)
Chase a check (chase it), never chase a bitch (I don't chase no bitches)
Two cups (cup), toast up with the gang (gang, gang)
From food stamps to a whole 'nother domain, ya
Out the bottom (ye), I'm the livin' proof (super)
Ain't compromisin' (woah), half a million on the coupe (gang, gang)
Drug houses (where), lookin' like Peru (woah, woah, woah)
Graduated (crazy), I was overdue (I'm on due)
Pink molly (molly), I can barely move (barely move)
Ask about me ('bout me), I'm gon' bust a move
Rick James (James), thirty-three chains (thirty-three)
Ocean air (air), cruisin' Biscayne
Top off (ya), that's a liability (big foreigns)
Hit the gas (gas), boostin' my adrenaline (big foreigns)
Percocets (ye), molly, Percocets (big foreigns)
Percocets (ye), molly, Percocets (big foreigns)
Rep the set (ye), gotta rep the set (gang, gang)
Chase a check (chase it) (ye), never chase a bitch (I don't chase no bitches) (big foreigns)
Mask on (off) (ye), fuck it, mask off (mask) (big foreigns)
Mask on (off) (ye), fuck it, mask off (mask) (big foreigns)
Percocets (ye), molly, Percocets (big foreigns)
Chase a check (chase it) (ye, ye), never chase a bitch (I don't chase no bitches)
Four-door Maybach (four-door), I drive anything (ye)
Buy my range (ye), make 'em go insane (ye)
(Oh my Lord, praise him be)
My guillotine, drank Promethazine (drank Prometh')
TEC and beams (ya), go to those extremes (let's go, let's go)
Parliament (parliament), calamari Wednesday (ya)
Parlay in Vegas, we was in attendance (let's go, let's go)
Before the business (yeah), Theodore lenses
Theo-dur prescriptions (ya), focus on the missions (fo' my)
Intermission (hol' up), never take a break (we can pull up)
Switch states, touch down, foreign plates (speech)
Ain't no way, ain't no fuckin' way (no)
We call the play, we didn't come to play (no)
Rob the bank, we gon' rob the game (gang)
They gang, we gang (gang)
But they are not the same (Freebandz)
Percocets (ye), molly, Percocets (big foreigns)
Percocets (ye), molly, Percocets (big foreigns)
Rep the set (ye), gotta rep the set (gang, gang)
Chase a check (chase it) (ye), never chase a bitch (I don't chase no bitches) (big foreigns)
Mask on (off) (ye), fuck it, mask off (mask) (big foreigns)
Mask on (off) (ye), fuck it, mask off (mask) (big foreigns)
Percocets (ye), molly, Percocets (big foreigns)
Chase a check (chase it) (ye, ye), never chase a bitch (I don't chase no bitches)
Mask on, fuck it, mask off
Mask on, fuck it, mask off
Mask on, fuck it, mask off
Gas gone, never nod off
(Cold chills, prison cells)
(Oh my Lord, praise him be)
Hendrix
I promise, I swear, I swear
You heard, spit it, yo
Percocets (ya), molly, Percocets (Percocets)
Percocets (ya), molly, Percocets (Percocets)
Rep the set (yee), gotta rep the set (gang, gang)
Chase a check (chase it), never chase a bitch (I don't chase no bitches)
Mask on, fuck it, mask off (mask off)
Mask on (off), fuck it, mask off (mask off)
Percocets ('cets), molly, Percocets (Percocets)
Chase a check (chase it), never chase a bitch (I don't chase no bitches)
Two cups (cup), toast up with the gang (gang, gang)
From food stamps to a whole 'nother domain, ya
Out the bottom (ye), I'm the livin' proof (super)
Ain't compromisin' (woah), half a million on the coupe (gang, gang)
Drug houses (where), lookin' like Peru (woah, woah, woah)
Graduated (crazy), I was overdue (I'm on due)
Pink molly (molly), I can barely move (barely move)
Ask about me ('bout me), I'm gon' bust a move
Rick James (James), thirty-three chains (thirty-three)
Ocean air (air), cruisin' Biscayne
Top off (ya), that's a liability (big foreigns)
Hit the gas (gas), boostin' my adrenaline (big foreigns)
Percocets (ye), molly, Percocets (big foreigns)
Percocets (ye), molly, Percocets (big foreigns)
Rep the set (ye), gotta rep the set (gang, gang)
Chase a check (chase it) (ye), never chase a bitch (I don't chase no bitches) (big foreigns)
Mask on (off) (ye), fuck it, mask off (mask) (big foreigns)
Mask on (off) (ye), fuck it, mask off (mask) (big foreigns)
Percocets (ye), molly, Percocets (big foreigns)
Chase a check (chase it) (ye, ye), never chase a bitch (I don't chase no bitches)
Four-door Maybach (four-door), I drive anything (ye)
Buy my range (ye), make 'em go insane (ye)
(Oh my Lord, praise him be)
My guillotine, drank Promethazine (drank Prometh')
TEC and beams (ya), go to those extremes (let's go, let's go)
Parliament (parliament), calamari Wednesday (ya)
Parlay in Vegas, we was in attendance (let's go, let's go)
Before the business (yeah), Theodore lenses
Theo-dur prescriptions (ya), focus on the missions (fo' my)
Intermission (hol' up), never take a break (we can pull up)
Switch states, touch down, foreign plates (speech)
Ain't no way, ain't no fuckin' way (no)
We call the play, we didn't come to play (no)
Rob the bank, we gon' rob the game (gang)
They gang, we gang (gang)
But they are not the same (Freebandz)
Percocets (ye), molly, Percocets (big foreigns)
Percocets (ye), molly, Percocets (big foreigns)
Rep the set (ye), gotta rep the set (gang, gang)
Chase a check (chase it) (ye), never chase a bitch (I don't chase no bitches) (big foreigns)
Mask on (off) (ye), fuck it, mask off (mask) (big foreigns)
Mask on (off) (ye), fuck it, mask off (mask) (big foreigns)
Percocets (ye), molly, Percocets (big foreigns)
Chase a check (chase it) (ye, ye), never chase a bitch (I don't chase no bitches)
Mask on, fuck it, mask off
Mask on, fuck it, mask off
Mask on, fuck it, mask off
Gas gone, never nod off
(Cold chills, prison cells)
(Oh my Lord, praise him be)
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Mask Off Lyrics as written by Nayvadius Wilburn Leland Tyler Wayne
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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