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"
Funk, hit me up with some of that thug shit
Yeah, just like that, hit 'em in the chest with it
One time, one time again in the head
For Buddy Roe y'all, check it out
I don't know
What this world's gonna bring
But I know one thing
That this is the life for me
Baby, 'cause I'm a thug
All day, every day
Baby, 'cause I'm a thug
Wouldn't change for the world
Uh-uh, 'cause I'm a thug
That's right you heard
Baby, 'cause I'm a thug
Uh-huh, oh yeah, check it out
Could it be my baggy jeans or my gold teeth
That make me different from ya'll
Ain't trippin', dog, but listen, dog
I was raised a little different, dog
Just doin' my thang, usin' my ghetto slang
And I represent thug shit
Niggas who I roll with, watch them niggas they gon' love this (they gon' love this)
Niggas who out on bond, on the run and got ten years on parole
Since you can't say it dog, I'ma say it for y'all
Motherfuck the po-pos (uh-huh)
Fuck the judge and CEOs, fuck the DA and POs
Fuck the family of the victim, witness
And snitchin' ass hoes, nigga
I don't know
What this world's gonna bring
But I know one thing
That this is the life for me
Baby, 'cause I'm a thug
All day, every day
Baby, 'cause I'm a thug
Wouldn't change for the world
Uh-uh, 'cause I'm a thug
That's right you heard
Baby, 'cause I'm a thug
Uh-huh, oh yeah, check it out
See I'm so tight, niggas be like
That nigga got so many hoes (uh-huh)
And I know he got clout, look at his mouth
That nigga got so many golds
Niggas be tellin' they hoes
To set 'em up with that nigga
Bitch, I've been watchin' you watchin' him
You must want to fuck this nigga (that's right)
My name alone been known to break up happy homes (uh-huh)
No disrespect, dog
But you ain't had no business even answerin' her phone (hello? Who is this?)
If your ass was home then me and her could've been gettin' it on (hold on)
And you couldn't have been hittin' her right
'Cause ever since the night she been hittin' the phone
She want a thug
I don't know
What this world's gonna bring
But I know one thing
That this is the life for me
Baby, 'cause I'm a thug
All day, every day
Baby, 'cause I'm a thug
Wouldn't change for the world
Uh-uh, 'cause I'm a thug
That's right you heard
Baby, 'cause I'm a thug
Uh-huh, oh yeah, check it out
Since y'all niggas want to smoke the blunts, tote guns
I'ma show you how to thug it, dog
Just give me half a pill and some Zinfandel
And I'm like, "Fuck it, dog"
As long as my ecstasy got the best of me (ecstasy)
And none of you niggas ain't stressin' me
I got one request in this bitch
And you can have the rest of this shit
If a nigga drop some shit, it's whack as hell
And don't make no damn sense
Take it back, talk about it and tell your dog don't even buy that shit
And I don't care who he is or where he from
I represent thug shit
And you ain't gotta give me my props or nominate me
'Cause, damn it, I love this
I don't know
What this world's gonna bring
But I know one thing
That this is the life for me
Baby, 'cause I'm a thug
All day, every day
Baby, 'cause I'm a thug
Wouldn't change for the world
Uh-uh, 'cause I'm a thug
That's right you heard
Baby, 'cause I'm a thug
Uh-huh, oh yeah, check it out
I don't know
What this world's gonna bring
But I know one thing
That this is the life for me
Baby, 'cause I'm a thug
All day, every day
Baby, 'cause I'm a thug
Wouldn't change for the world
Uh-uh, 'cause I'm a thug
That's right you heard
Baby, 'cause I'm a thug
Uh-huh, oh yeah, check it out
Yeah, just like that, hit 'em in the chest with it
One time, one time again in the head
For Buddy Roe y'all, check it out
I don't know
What this world's gonna bring
But I know one thing
That this is the life for me
Baby, 'cause I'm a thug
All day, every day
Baby, 'cause I'm a thug
Wouldn't change for the world
Uh-uh, 'cause I'm a thug
That's right you heard
Baby, 'cause I'm a thug
Uh-huh, oh yeah, check it out
Could it be my baggy jeans or my gold teeth
That make me different from ya'll
Ain't trippin', dog, but listen, dog
I was raised a little different, dog
Just doin' my thang, usin' my ghetto slang
And I represent thug shit
Niggas who I roll with, watch them niggas they gon' love this (they gon' love this)
Niggas who out on bond, on the run and got ten years on parole
Since you can't say it dog, I'ma say it for y'all
Motherfuck the po-pos (uh-huh)
Fuck the judge and CEOs, fuck the DA and POs
Fuck the family of the victim, witness
And snitchin' ass hoes, nigga
I don't know
What this world's gonna bring
But I know one thing
That this is the life for me
Baby, 'cause I'm a thug
All day, every day
Baby, 'cause I'm a thug
Wouldn't change for the world
Uh-uh, 'cause I'm a thug
That's right you heard
Baby, 'cause I'm a thug
Uh-huh, oh yeah, check it out
See I'm so tight, niggas be like
That nigga got so many hoes (uh-huh)
And I know he got clout, look at his mouth
That nigga got so many golds
Niggas be tellin' they hoes
To set 'em up with that nigga
Bitch, I've been watchin' you watchin' him
You must want to fuck this nigga (that's right)
My name alone been known to break up happy homes (uh-huh)
No disrespect, dog
But you ain't had no business even answerin' her phone (hello? Who is this?)
If your ass was home then me and her could've been gettin' it on (hold on)
And you couldn't have been hittin' her right
'Cause ever since the night she been hittin' the phone
She want a thug
I don't know
What this world's gonna bring
But I know one thing
That this is the life for me
Baby, 'cause I'm a thug
All day, every day
Baby, 'cause I'm a thug
Wouldn't change for the world
Uh-uh, 'cause I'm a thug
That's right you heard
Baby, 'cause I'm a thug
Uh-huh, oh yeah, check it out
Since y'all niggas want to smoke the blunts, tote guns
I'ma show you how to thug it, dog
Just give me half a pill and some Zinfandel
And I'm like, "Fuck it, dog"
As long as my ecstasy got the best of me (ecstasy)
And none of you niggas ain't stressin' me
I got one request in this bitch
And you can have the rest of this shit
If a nigga drop some shit, it's whack as hell
And don't make no damn sense
Take it back, talk about it and tell your dog don't even buy that shit
And I don't care who he is or where he from
I represent thug shit
And you ain't gotta give me my props or nominate me
'Cause, damn it, I love this
I don't know
What this world's gonna bring
But I know one thing
That this is the life for me
Baby, 'cause I'm a thug
All day, every day
Baby, 'cause I'm a thug
Wouldn't change for the world
Uh-uh, 'cause I'm a thug
That's right you heard
Baby, 'cause I'm a thug
Uh-huh, oh yeah, check it out
I don't know
What this world's gonna bring
But I know one thing
That this is the life for me
Baby, 'cause I'm a thug
All day, every day
Baby, 'cause I'm a thug
Wouldn't change for the world
Uh-uh, 'cause I'm a thug
That's right you heard
Baby, 'cause I'm a thug
Uh-huh, oh yeah, check it out
Lyrics submitted by spliphstar
I'm a Thug Lyrics as written by Maurice Young Rafe Van Hoy
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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