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"
Raising hustlers, thieves and prostitutes
Young homie think before you shoot, murderer
Where will our children go
When there's no place safe (nowhere) anywhere they can go
And trouble may come in sometime you get pulled
Over by one time and when its 1999 the one didn't even make any stride
Murder all around the whole world is nausiatin'
Everybody's hatin', everybody overrated
Why everybody's actin' agitated
I thought we graduated back in the sat away
Up on the battle station (oh yeah)
Patience is a birth defect and you know ain't nobody perfect
And when the curtains blow
O's open up the door no more, no more.
See we losing this world we love
And it looks like the sin that won't end
So I'm reaching high up above
Lord let your blessings begin
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And got me ready to set off the riot,
Ridin' with my Trues Humbly United Gathering Souls
Here we go, roll up some more Phillies
My nigga let me hit it
Niggas we thuggin' immortalized, let's get high,
It's them niggas you most desire
I can remember from way back in the day,
Coming up out the ghetto was a hell of a struggle
From selling the fiends llello
But it was my dream to kick flows
And put my people on another level
Now could it be for the lust (Lust)
Could it be for the rush (Rush)
My niggas love when they bust (Bust)
They steady buck and they duck (Duck)
They put your dick in the dust (Dust)
My niggas creeping on a come up
Come up nigga, killer, thuggish ruggish nigga
Nigga, finna' descent into the dawn of a new millennium
Anticipating life without Satan hating,
And all enemies to hell, I'm sendin them
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
Everyday the devil at me,
And I wish the Lord throw a Hummer at me, I ain't happy
Me and Eazy E in a B-E-N-Z, with my niggas right next to me
It's my legacy, we can't let it stop, uh uh, not now
The whole world ending up in buck-buck-pow
Corruption, destruction, disaster
Everybody tryna rap faster than the master
Oh Lord, could you save my soul?
Nigga tryna go platinum 'round 40 years old
The Lord know we can do this shit,
It ain't no stoppin us now 'cause we can prove this shit
Nigga me, Stew D, PD, Freaky G,
The whole world wanna be riding with me
I'm in the flesh, let's talk about sex,
Babies having babies, Generation X
With the AIDS epidemic, we ain't pure no more,
And I know they gotta cure for this shit, we ain't rich
First we lost Eazy, then we lost Pac
Biggie got killed, when this shit gonna stop?
Everybody wanna know what's goin' on
With the thuggish, ruggish, Bone, Bone, Bone, Bone
Tryna' get prepared for the Y2K
And if I don't die today, I'm gonna try an change the world
And let's change the world (Change the world)
And let's change the world (Change the world)
And let's change the world (Change the world)
And let's change the world
You need a lesson you can learn from rapping
But they try an ban it, realize that it ain't gonna happen
We done changed the world,
Ghetto voices being heard and failed
You know it's funny, I got my guns, better arm yourself
Most don't have a clue, if it goes down what to do?
Don't you know this government ain't built for me and you
I have a dream, no, I have a wish
If we can't save ourselves, then let's save the kids
Let the world go, let these babies have somethin'
Let the world go, just don't blow this motherfucker up
You kill him, he'll kill you
Some say it stupid but violence really lives where I come from
Hungry little kids where I come from
Judge not me where I come from
See we losing this world we love
And it looks like the sin that won't end
So I'm reaching high up above
Lord let your blessings begin
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
Young homie think before you shoot, murderer
Where will our children go
When there's no place safe (nowhere) anywhere they can go
And trouble may come in sometime you get pulled
Over by one time and when its 1999 the one didn't even make any stride
Murder all around the whole world is nausiatin'
Everybody's hatin', everybody overrated
Why everybody's actin' agitated
I thought we graduated back in the sat away
Up on the battle station (oh yeah)
Patience is a birth defect and you know ain't nobody perfect
And when the curtains blow
O's open up the door no more, no more.
See we losing this world we love
And it looks like the sin that won't end
So I'm reaching high up above
Lord let your blessings begin
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And got me ready to set off the riot,
Ridin' with my Trues Humbly United Gathering Souls
Here we go, roll up some more Phillies
My nigga let me hit it
Niggas we thuggin' immortalized, let's get high,
It's them niggas you most desire
I can remember from way back in the day,
Coming up out the ghetto was a hell of a struggle
From selling the fiends llello
But it was my dream to kick flows
And put my people on another level
Now could it be for the lust (Lust)
Could it be for the rush (Rush)
My niggas love when they bust (Bust)
They steady buck and they duck (Duck)
They put your dick in the dust (Dust)
My niggas creeping on a come up
Come up nigga, killer, thuggish ruggish nigga
Nigga, finna' descent into the dawn of a new millennium
Anticipating life without Satan hating,
And all enemies to hell, I'm sendin them
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
Everyday the devil at me,
And I wish the Lord throw a Hummer at me, I ain't happy
Me and Eazy E in a B-E-N-Z, with my niggas right next to me
It's my legacy, we can't let it stop, uh uh, not now
The whole world ending up in buck-buck-pow
Corruption, destruction, disaster
Everybody tryna rap faster than the master
Oh Lord, could you save my soul?
Nigga tryna go platinum 'round 40 years old
The Lord know we can do this shit,
It ain't no stoppin us now 'cause we can prove this shit
Nigga me, Stew D, PD, Freaky G,
The whole world wanna be riding with me
I'm in the flesh, let's talk about sex,
Babies having babies, Generation X
With the AIDS epidemic, we ain't pure no more,
And I know they gotta cure for this shit, we ain't rich
First we lost Eazy, then we lost Pac
Biggie got killed, when this shit gonna stop?
Everybody wanna know what's goin' on
With the thuggish, ruggish, Bone, Bone, Bone, Bone
Tryna' get prepared for the Y2K
And if I don't die today, I'm gonna try an change the world
And let's change the world (Change the world)
And let's change the world (Change the world)
And let's change the world (Change the world)
And let's change the world
You need a lesson you can learn from rapping
But they try an ban it, realize that it ain't gonna happen
We done changed the world,
Ghetto voices being heard and failed
You know it's funny, I got my guns, better arm yourself
Most don't have a clue, if it goes down what to do?
Don't you know this government ain't built for me and you
I have a dream, no, I have a wish
If we can't save ourselves, then let's save the kids
Let the world go, let these babies have somethin'
Let the world go, just don't blow this motherfucker up
You kill him, he'll kill you
Some say it stupid but violence really lives where I come from
Hungry little kids where I come from
Judge not me where I come from
See we losing this world we love
And it looks like the sin that won't end
So I'm reaching high up above
Lord let your blessings begin
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
And let's change the world
Lyrics submitted by KrayzieBone
Change the World Lyrics as written by Charles Scruggs Stanley Howse
Lyrics © TuneCore Inc., BMG Rights Management, Royalty Network, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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