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"
SEGNOR ALONZO :
J’rentre avec des mots typiquement familiers
" nique sa mère "
pour la B.A.C. Nord et tous ces condés
" nique sa mère "
alonzo style amer
phrase fout la merde
fou veille sur la mère
mères sur les nerfs
Block party
l’gong retentit
claque ton billet d’cinq
choisi ton paquet répartit
PLAN D’AOU CITY
pour mes co-locataires
mes collègues à terre
et tout ceux partis
SOPRANO :
Ascenseur bloquée,
riz long parfumé à la noix de coco
nous filons allumé le son de la Taco
nous dealons calumet
venu de Bogota augmenté le cota d’kilo de rago
sur ces filles en pyjama avec nos roco
pour voir si ça crache plus qu’un lama
sur les murs le logo " fuck les flics " est trop gros
plus gros qu’les blocks que j’vois en panorama.
DON VINCENZO :
Bloque les issues car ça vient d’là
où y’a pas d’tabous
là où pas besoin de pub comme Obao
où les p’tits Ruff Ryders
font les cortèges en moto
là où les vieux te font bouger
comme ce premier ???
au cas où ???
y’a foot puis basket
couscous maëlé
figus gonfle les enceintes
que les voisins portent plainte
et guinte les saintes qui feintent
en portant plainte...
REFRAIN :
« block party » lieu en colère; lieu de valeur
mes gadji, mes gadjo, mes receleurs
« block party » là où on vit, là où on meurt,
Là où on rit, là où on pleure...
DON VINCENZO :
Hé Zaza, passe moi un morceau
que je fume certains
car le réseau n’est pas net
avant que les condés en serrent un
ogu sors le matos pour la fiesta
comme R-Kelly " fiesta, Fiesta "
pas d’quartier qui font l’18 comme Wyclef
car les blocks c’est mon loft
et les party c’est ma life
plan d’Aou
C.I.T.Y
un son gloc pour les blocks
P.A.R.T.Y
SEGNOR ALONZO :
Quand l’orchestre de mon cœur s’arrêtera d’jouer
mon souhait est d’rester gravé dans votre tête
comme mec voué au changement
au chargement d’rimes illicites calmant
fils de lieutenant, procureur également
sors la drink et la jet, les string et le reste
Block party
on prouve si tu testes
teste je m’adresse a tous mes killers
aux mecs habiles de toutes les villes
en détresse
SOPRANO:
Ok le train d’l’école est manqué donc ça fume plus qu’une loco
d’autres prennent les railles de la coco planquée
la mère à mo a de gros paquets
raboule tout t’as perdu au petit paquet
braqué du regard cette gonze au sac soco
draguée puis larguée à cause de notre Seiko
c’est con ce sont fait choper par la B.A.C. et
saiguons-nous Abdou a eu le Bac et...
REFRAIN
Psy4 de la rime > Block Party
J’rentre avec des mots typiquement familiers
" nique sa mère "
pour la B.A.C. Nord et tous ces condés
" nique sa mère "
alonzo style amer
phrase fout la merde
fou veille sur la mère
mères sur les nerfs
Block party
l’gong retentit
claque ton billet d’cinq
choisi ton paquet répartit
PLAN D’AOU CITY
pour mes co-locataires
mes collègues à terre
et tout ceux partis
SOPRANO :
Ascenseur bloquée,
riz long parfumé à la noix de coco
nous filons allumé le son de la Taco
nous dealons calumet
venu de Bogota augmenté le cota d’kilo de rago
sur ces filles en pyjama avec nos roco
pour voir si ça crache plus qu’un lama
sur les murs le logo " fuck les flics " est trop gros
plus gros qu’les blocks que j’vois en panorama.
DON VINCENZO :
Bloque les issues car ça vient d’là
où y’a pas d’tabous
là où pas besoin de pub comme Obao
où les p’tits Ruff Ryders
font les cortèges en moto
là où les vieux te font bouger
comme ce premier ???
au cas où ???
y’a foot puis basket
couscous maëlé
figus gonfle les enceintes
que les voisins portent plainte
et guinte les saintes qui feintent
en portant plainte...
REFRAIN :
« block party » lieu en colère; lieu de valeur
mes gadji, mes gadjo, mes receleurs
« block party » là où on vit, là où on meurt,
Là où on rit, là où on pleure...
DON VINCENZO :
Hé Zaza, passe moi un morceau
que je fume certains
car le réseau n’est pas net
avant que les condés en serrent un
ogu sors le matos pour la fiesta
comme R-Kelly " fiesta, Fiesta "
pas d’quartier qui font l’18 comme Wyclef
car les blocks c’est mon loft
et les party c’est ma life
plan d’Aou
C.I.T.Y
un son gloc pour les blocks
P.A.R.T.Y
SEGNOR ALONZO :
Quand l’orchestre de mon cœur s’arrêtera d’jouer
mon souhait est d’rester gravé dans votre tête
comme mec voué au changement
au chargement d’rimes illicites calmant
fils de lieutenant, procureur également
sors la drink et la jet, les string et le reste
Block party
on prouve si tu testes
teste je m’adresse a tous mes killers
aux mecs habiles de toutes les villes
en détresse
SOPRANO:
Ok le train d’l’école est manqué donc ça fume plus qu’une loco
d’autres prennent les railles de la coco planquée
la mère à mo a de gros paquets
raboule tout t’as perdu au petit paquet
braqué du regard cette gonze au sac soco
draguée puis larguée à cause de notre Seiko
c’est con ce sont fait choper par la B.A.C. et
saiguons-nous Abdou a eu le Bac et...
REFRAIN
Psy4 de la rime > Block Party
Lyrics submitted by TheButcher
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