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"
Too $hort why you say those nasty words?
Too $hort why you say those nasty rhymes?
How come you be dissin' all us girls?
Too $hort why you say those nasty words?
It's like this bitch
See I hit the studio ten years ago,
Screamin' out cuss words like "fuck you ho"
Comin' from East Oakland went nationwide,
I'm on my tenth album bitch and I still ain't died
Wouldn't change for nothin', gettin' paid to kick it,
You could rap your whole life and wouldn't make a meal ticket
Nigga don't stop rappin' let the hoes keep hoin',
As long as I'm alive I'ma keep on rollin'
Can't do nothin' for a bitch while she bleed,
You can put that on a fat bag of weed
And get high, nigga fuck these hoes,
I'll be singin' nasty rhymes even when I'm old
'Cause I don't stop rappin', bank keep stackin',
Wherever there's hoes best believe I'm mackin'
All you emcees tryin' to take my place,
Yellin' "Beyotch!" just to hear the people say
Too $hort why you say those nasty words?
Too $hort why you say those nasty rhymes?
How come you be dissin' all us girls?
Too $hort why you say those nasty words?
I talk bad about a bitch, it ain't that hard,
Never got the big head still the same old Todd
In every household niggas know my name,
Hoes love the way I kick that game
From nineteen-eighty to ninety-six,
I'm still makin' hits, hoes ridin' the dick
My crew is thick, and we dangerous,
You lick dick bitch, you want to hang with us?
You better never talk down on a player,
I'm $horty the pimp, I got hoes everywhere
I get my cash quick you lil' fast bitch,
I take you to my house and get my ass licked
You say hey Too $hort why you rap so nasty,
I look you in the face and say bitch don't ask me
Nothin', they'll never take my place,
I'm yellin' "Beyotch!" just to hear the people say
Don't get me wrong bitch
See I got a gang of homies that I put on deck,
I make the shit that you bump when you in the projects
You can check my file and won't find a flaw,
You can ask these bitches am I really raw
Like Captain Fowl, I cuss you out while I spit in your mouth,
So bitch don't ask me how
Too $hort fucked it up came back again ho,
Smokin' them big fat sacks of indo'
I make a new album every year,
My speakers so loud I can barely hear
I got a bad bitch, with some big ol' breasts,
I like to play with them titties, lay my dick on her chest
And start strokin', that's how it should be,
I'm bustin' nuts everywhere but in her pussy
And if sometimes things don't go my way,
I say "Beyotch!" just to hear the people say
Too $hort why you say those nasty words?
Too $hort why you say those nasty rhymes?
How come you be dissin' all us girls?
Too $hort why you say those nasty words?
Too $hort why you say those nasty rhymes?
How come you be dissin' all us girls?
Too $hort why you say those nasty words?
It's like this bitch
See I hit the studio ten years ago,
Screamin' out cuss words like "fuck you ho"
Comin' from East Oakland went nationwide,
I'm on my tenth album bitch and I still ain't died
Wouldn't change for nothin', gettin' paid to kick it,
You could rap your whole life and wouldn't make a meal ticket
Nigga don't stop rappin' let the hoes keep hoin',
As long as I'm alive I'ma keep on rollin'
Can't do nothin' for a bitch while she bleed,
You can put that on a fat bag of weed
And get high, nigga fuck these hoes,
I'll be singin' nasty rhymes even when I'm old
'Cause I don't stop rappin', bank keep stackin',
Wherever there's hoes best believe I'm mackin'
All you emcees tryin' to take my place,
Yellin' "Beyotch!" just to hear the people say
Too $hort why you say those nasty words?
Too $hort why you say those nasty rhymes?
How come you be dissin' all us girls?
Too $hort why you say those nasty words?
I talk bad about a bitch, it ain't that hard,
Never got the big head still the same old Todd
In every household niggas know my name,
Hoes love the way I kick that game
From nineteen-eighty to ninety-six,
I'm still makin' hits, hoes ridin' the dick
My crew is thick, and we dangerous,
You lick dick bitch, you want to hang with us?
You better never talk down on a player,
I'm $horty the pimp, I got hoes everywhere
I get my cash quick you lil' fast bitch,
I take you to my house and get my ass licked
You say hey Too $hort why you rap so nasty,
I look you in the face and say bitch don't ask me
Nothin', they'll never take my place,
I'm yellin' "Beyotch!" just to hear the people say
Don't get me wrong bitch
See I got a gang of homies that I put on deck,
I make the shit that you bump when you in the projects
You can check my file and won't find a flaw,
You can ask these bitches am I really raw
Like Captain Fowl, I cuss you out while I spit in your mouth,
So bitch don't ask me how
Too $hort fucked it up came back again ho,
Smokin' them big fat sacks of indo'
I make a new album every year,
My speakers so loud I can barely hear
I got a bad bitch, with some big ol' breasts,
I like to play with them titties, lay my dick on her chest
And start strokin', that's how it should be,
I'm bustin' nuts everywhere but in her pussy
And if sometimes things don't go my way,
I say "Beyotch!" just to hear the people say
Too $hort why you say those nasty words?
Too $hort why you say those nasty rhymes?
How come you be dissin' all us girls?
Too $hort why you say those nasty words?
Lyrics submitted by spliphstar
Nasty Rhymes Lyrics as written by Joey Coleman Colin Fitzroy Wolfe
Lyrics © BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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