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"
I believe in God
I believe in Destiny
Not Destiny in the sense of all of our Exerts being pre-determined
But Destiny in the Sense of our ability to choose
Our ability to choose who we are and who we are supposed to be
Yo, yo, yo, yo
I was Born to reign
Point Blank
My name to be etched in stone
My destiny preordained
Trying to live righteous
Fighting for life, this my life
That's why I liked on my vices
Tightening the vices of truth on the roofless
This is rhyme and the crime and their minds is just useless
The path of the poison, the genesis of the genisi
You and your boys trying to decide, what to write
But your hand is a sword and the blade has been forged
Young minds getting gorged Stakes have been altered
By lick or by weed and then hate gets exalted
As art falls to greed, Choices is Made that's the voices is laid
On the track, contract, the soldier wage, did you see his new benz,
But your like a syringe now proud of your binge.
Got a lot of new friends, got a lot of new ends
Bought a house up in the hills fronting shouts to the pen
Giving false accounts of your account's amounts
Amounts the fans treason stands to reason since your inception
Laced with deception and bred with false affection it must perish
From the Terrace I see the fire burning the streets but I won't shield my eyes to the heat
Born to reign
I was Born to reign
I was Born to Reign
I believe in Destiny
Not Destiny in the sense of all of our Exerts being pre-determined
But Destiny in the Sense of our ability to choose
Our ability to choose who we are and who we are supposed to be
Yo, yo, yo, yo
I was Born to reign
Point Blank
My name to be etched in stone
My destiny preordained
Trying to live righteous
Fighting for life, this my life
That's why I liked on my vices
Tightening the vices of truth on the roofless
This is rhyme and the crime and their minds is just useless
The path of the poison, the genesis of the genisi
You and your boys trying to decide, what to write
But your hand is a sword and the blade has been forged
Young minds getting gorged Stakes have been altered
By lick or by weed and then hate gets exalted
As art falls to greed, Choices is Made that's the voices is laid
On the track, contract, the soldier wage, did you see his new benz,
But your like a syringe now proud of your binge.
Got a lot of new friends, got a lot of new ends
Bought a house up in the hills fronting shouts to the pen
Giving false accounts of your account's amounts
Amounts the fans treason stands to reason since your inception
Laced with deception and bred with false affection it must perish
From the Terrace I see the fire burning the streets but I won't shield my eyes to the heat
Born to reign
I was Born to reign
I was Born to Reign
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