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"
The Ambassador & Truth
Written by William Branch and Emmanuel Lambert
Produced by Lee Jerkins
Recorded by Gordon (The Studio, Phila., Pa)
Mixed by Storm (The Studio, Phila., Pa)
Cross Movement Music & Publishing (SESAC)
Hook: The Light of Christ is a blazin’ one There’s a fight to live right and it’s major son But the grace has come so we praise the Son And celebrate Him ‘cause we know what He saved us from Verse 1: I get the chills every time I get to spill Cause it’s a thrill to put Christ on a pedestal Cause men are in sin and death you can bet it’s real But He can take you out and won’t make you get the bill So were tellin’ all men we’re exhaltin' that Hero That paid the fee, making you free like Net Zero What an offer yall should bum-rush the alter Call to the Lord in any season, He’ll salt ya I ask you, “Don’t you know wrath is coming at you?” But where the Spirit is their liberty with out the statue Peace – Sword…Please Lord There’s a debt but we don’t have the “cheese” for it Man’s tough but he can’t seem to break sin’s handcuffs Proving to be the flake he is like dandruff And plus at his core man’s dust, man shucks Surrender, come to God with your hands up Repeat Hook Verse 2: True Christian people get the mad “Big Ups!” Cause life can jerk you like some bad hick-ups But your God fights you only spar Facing drama and trauma like you’re on E.R. But you’re victorious in fact already glorious God said it, I’m just repeating what the story is But let me set it…straight all the credit Goes to the Lord don’t forget it If you never get a Grammy get the Name and let it ring All praise Jesus aka Elohim Who rules everything, you’re every kings King Lord you outshine every "Bling-Bling" Doing your “thing” so well you should get a prize your so Nobel Peace you’re the prince of it…angels scream, “Noel!” Cause you’re the Most High but oh my you play the low well A manger? They should have made room in the hotel The human race as a whole fell So now life short like a mobile phone with a low cell Can’t believe you died when we were screamin’ “Go hell” A people sure to perish like a turtle with no shell You know well Satan tricks man, pulling him down like quicksand And got them thinking their a Christian. We better recognize who you are Heaven and earth’s true Superstar Bridge: House hold of faith now raise’m up If you’re living by grace now raise’m up If you’re seeking God’s face now raise’m up All my people in the place now raise’m up Verse 3: Jesus, Jesus---yall know the Name But yall ain’t feelin’ Him like Novocain I know yall think we’re so insane But it don’t matter because we’re not going for fame Or flowin’ for gain, you know we gotta go in His Name The same God who’s sovereign Came in a human frame from heaven to earth like falling rain So that we could call His Name and be born again We know the God who’s controlling things The Living Water like Poland Springs Who went away but He’s coming back like boomerangs Until then all of creation groans in pain Cause sin’s got the world locked like a ball and chain. I get the hunch like Notre Dame. That many Christians won’t expose sin or exalt the Name But that’s the thing that get our names in heaven’s hall of fame. Repeat Hook
Written by William Branch and Emmanuel Lambert
Produced by Lee Jerkins
Recorded by Gordon (The Studio, Phila., Pa)
Mixed by Storm (The Studio, Phila., Pa)
Cross Movement Music & Publishing (SESAC)
Hook: The Light of Christ is a blazin’ one There’s a fight to live right and it’s major son But the grace has come so we praise the Son And celebrate Him ‘cause we know what He saved us from Verse 1: I get the chills every time I get to spill Cause it’s a thrill to put Christ on a pedestal Cause men are in sin and death you can bet it’s real But He can take you out and won’t make you get the bill So were tellin’ all men we’re exhaltin' that Hero That paid the fee, making you free like Net Zero What an offer yall should bum-rush the alter Call to the Lord in any season, He’ll salt ya I ask you, “Don’t you know wrath is coming at you?” But where the Spirit is their liberty with out the statue Peace – Sword…Please Lord There’s a debt but we don’t have the “cheese” for it Man’s tough but he can’t seem to break sin’s handcuffs Proving to be the flake he is like dandruff And plus at his core man’s dust, man shucks Surrender, come to God with your hands up Repeat Hook Verse 2: True Christian people get the mad “Big Ups!” Cause life can jerk you like some bad hick-ups But your God fights you only spar Facing drama and trauma like you’re on E.R. But you’re victorious in fact already glorious God said it, I’m just repeating what the story is But let me set it…straight all the credit Goes to the Lord don’t forget it If you never get a Grammy get the Name and let it ring All praise Jesus aka Elohim Who rules everything, you’re every kings King Lord you outshine every "Bling-Bling" Doing your “thing” so well you should get a prize your so Nobel Peace you’re the prince of it…angels scream, “Noel!” Cause you’re the Most High but oh my you play the low well A manger? They should have made room in the hotel The human race as a whole fell So now life short like a mobile phone with a low cell Can’t believe you died when we were screamin’ “Go hell” A people sure to perish like a turtle with no shell You know well Satan tricks man, pulling him down like quicksand And got them thinking their a Christian. We better recognize who you are Heaven and earth’s true Superstar Bridge: House hold of faith now raise’m up If you’re living by grace now raise’m up If you’re seeking God’s face now raise’m up All my people in the place now raise’m up Verse 3: Jesus, Jesus---yall know the Name But yall ain’t feelin’ Him like Novocain I know yall think we’re so insane But it don’t matter because we’re not going for fame Or flowin’ for gain, you know we gotta go in His Name The same God who’s sovereign Came in a human frame from heaven to earth like falling rain So that we could call His Name and be born again We know the God who’s controlling things The Living Water like Poland Springs Who went away but He’s coming back like boomerangs Until then all of creation groans in pain Cause sin’s got the world locked like a ball and chain. I get the hunch like Notre Dame. That many Christians won’t expose sin or exalt the Name But that’s the thing that get our names in heaven’s hall of fame. Repeat Hook
Lyrics submitted by lilreader
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