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"
May I ask in what way your
Life is contributing to society as
You sit here day after day after
Day in this dark room, stringing along on
That stupid guitar? Have you
Ever thought about
That? What are you doing for
The world or for other people? Day
After day, hour after hour
Night after night logic
Me and my homies just
Chillin' feelin' the vibes
This the time of our lives
But many don't realize
Havin' visions of livin' on another level
Never signed to the Devil
The rebel that be fuckin'
'round with the treble
Bumping Tribe in the system like penicillin
Motherfucker i'm killing
Spittin' venomous never remember this
It's like a system
Say it then I do it, I never missed 'em
Fuck 'em after I kissed 'em
Sit back and listen my chain, it glisten
It's like I'm from another dimension
Did I mention my circle's
Smaller than an intervention
Then some beautiful women tell
Me I'm handsome then I snatch they heart and
Make the pussy the ransom
I fuck 'em until inside they belly burst
Stop it
Drop the beat and then we cue the verse
Spitting lyrics like how a
Mac-11 really disperse
Slaughter MCs and resurrect them when
They in the hearse
They say I got too many styles
Bitch I've been diverse
They scared to jump in the cipher
I be all up in it first
My apologies but if you're after
Me then it gets worse
When I come through I spit
Voodoo and leave 'em cursed common logic
Sinatra seven times out of ten we listen
To our music at night
Thus spawned the title of
This program Midnight Marauder
Sounds like some, some '90s shit
Midnight Marauder, It's a good farewell
Midnight Marauder, Uh, I suppose, yeah, music
This is the realest
Only unto the real shall I reveal this
I even made this beat myself just
So y'all could feel this
From Nasty Nas, Big L to Tribe Called Quest
We the RattPack, in other words
The tribe that's next
It's been a long time and I
Ain't even in my prime
I remember many moons ago
Spitting the realest lines on the come up
Matter fact it was long before that
Before I bought my first mic
Before I could afford that
This is a letter to the underground
The place where I'm from
This is a letter to the fans
That understand what I've done
And even though I gotta leave, man
Don't none of y'all grieve
'Cause even in the mainstream
That lyricism I breathe
Some of y'all love my raw records
Some of y'all don't
Some of y'all will love my radio shit
Some of y'all won't just like my race
My music has always been yin and yang
Something for everybody, no not just one lane
And on the real
I'll never forget the day I got my deal
Full creative control and the
Money was unreal
Started from the bottom and got
Here 'cause of my skill
And I never set a goal that
I didn't plan to fulfil
This is the realest
Only unto the real shall I reveal this
I even made this beat myself just
So y'all could feel this
From Nasty Nas, Big L to Tribe Called Quest
We the RattPack
In other words the tribe that's next
This is the realest
Only unto the real shall I reveal this
I even made this beat myself just
So y'all could feel this
From Nasty Nas, Big L to Tribe Called Quest
We the RattPack
In other words the tribe that's next
This is the realest
Yeah, yeah, this the realest
The realest, say what? Say what?
This is the realest
Only unto the real shall I reveal this
I even made this beat myself just
So y'all could feel this
From Nasty Nas, Big L to Tribe Called Quest
We the RattPack
In other words the tribe that's next
This is the realest
Only unto the real shall I reveal this
I even made this beat myself just
So y'all could feel this
From Nasty Nas, Big L to Tribe Called Quest
We the RattPack
In other words the tribe that's next
This is the realest
Only unto the real shall I reveal this
I even made this beat myself just
So y'all could feel this
From Nasty Nas, Big L to Tribe Called Quest
We the RattPack
In other words the tribe that's next
This is the realest this is the realest
You're not any less of a man if you don't
Pull the trigger you're not
Necessarily a man if
You do this concludes the
Midnight Marauder program press
Any key to return to the main menu
I hope y'all understand y'all get
It just have fun
You know what I mean? Enjoy the
Music, that's what it is at the end of
The day it's just good fucking music
Man yeah boy
Life is contributing to society as
You sit here day after day after
Day in this dark room, stringing along on
That stupid guitar? Have you
Ever thought about
That? What are you doing for
The world or for other people? Day
After day, hour after hour
Night after night logic
Me and my homies just
Chillin' feelin' the vibes
This the time of our lives
But many don't realize
Havin' visions of livin' on another level
Never signed to the Devil
The rebel that be fuckin'
'round with the treble
Bumping Tribe in the system like penicillin
Motherfucker i'm killing
Spittin' venomous never remember this
It's like a system
Say it then I do it, I never missed 'em
Fuck 'em after I kissed 'em
Sit back and listen my chain, it glisten
It's like I'm from another dimension
Did I mention my circle's
Smaller than an intervention
Then some beautiful women tell
Me I'm handsome then I snatch they heart and
Make the pussy the ransom
I fuck 'em until inside they belly burst
Stop it
Drop the beat and then we cue the verse
Spitting lyrics like how a
Mac-11 really disperse
Slaughter MCs and resurrect them when
They in the hearse
They say I got too many styles
Bitch I've been diverse
They scared to jump in the cipher
I be all up in it first
My apologies but if you're after
Me then it gets worse
When I come through I spit
Voodoo and leave 'em cursed common logic
Sinatra seven times out of ten we listen
To our music at night
Thus spawned the title of
This program Midnight Marauder
Sounds like some, some '90s shit
Midnight Marauder, It's a good farewell
Midnight Marauder, Uh, I suppose, yeah, music
This is the realest
Only unto the real shall I reveal this
I even made this beat myself just
So y'all could feel this
From Nasty Nas, Big L to Tribe Called Quest
We the RattPack, in other words
The tribe that's next
It's been a long time and I
Ain't even in my prime
I remember many moons ago
Spitting the realest lines on the come up
Matter fact it was long before that
Before I bought my first mic
Before I could afford that
This is a letter to the underground
The place where I'm from
This is a letter to the fans
That understand what I've done
And even though I gotta leave, man
Don't none of y'all grieve
'Cause even in the mainstream
That lyricism I breathe
Some of y'all love my raw records
Some of y'all don't
Some of y'all will love my radio shit
Some of y'all won't just like my race
My music has always been yin and yang
Something for everybody, no not just one lane
And on the real
I'll never forget the day I got my deal
Full creative control and the
Money was unreal
Started from the bottom and got
Here 'cause of my skill
And I never set a goal that
I didn't plan to fulfil
This is the realest
Only unto the real shall I reveal this
I even made this beat myself just
So y'all could feel this
From Nasty Nas, Big L to Tribe Called Quest
We the RattPack
In other words the tribe that's next
This is the realest
Only unto the real shall I reveal this
I even made this beat myself just
So y'all could feel this
From Nasty Nas, Big L to Tribe Called Quest
We the RattPack
In other words the tribe that's next
This is the realest
Yeah, yeah, this the realest
The realest, say what? Say what?
This is the realest
Only unto the real shall I reveal this
I even made this beat myself just
So y'all could feel this
From Nasty Nas, Big L to Tribe Called Quest
We the RattPack
In other words the tribe that's next
This is the realest
Only unto the real shall I reveal this
I even made this beat myself just
So y'all could feel this
From Nasty Nas, Big L to Tribe Called Quest
We the RattPack
In other words the tribe that's next
This is the realest
Only unto the real shall I reveal this
I even made this beat myself just
So y'all could feel this
From Nasty Nas, Big L to Tribe Called Quest
We the RattPack
In other words the tribe that's next
This is the realest this is the realest
You're not any less of a man if you don't
Pull the trigger you're not
Necessarily a man if
You do this concludes the
Midnight Marauder program press
Any key to return to the main menu
I hope y'all understand y'all get
It just have fun
You know what I mean? Enjoy the
Music, that's what it is at the end of
The day it's just good fucking music
Man yeah boy
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Common Logic / Midnight Marauder Lyrics as written by
Lyrics © JOHN T. KLEMMER D/B/A REMOHJ MUSIC COMPANY, BONEFISH MUSIC
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