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"
[Nas]
QB
Chitown
Money make the world go round
Money make the world go round
(What? Go money)
Money makes the world go round
TM
Yo, for those who live the way that I live
We came a long way
From wiping coal outta eyelids, to rap's hottest
Fake Gazelles to black Pradas
Selling nicks to trey bags, to making hits like Kidada Jones' father
OG's would send me to the store with a dollar
Hit me with some wise advice for me to follow
Ain't nothing free in the world in life
No matter who you are, everybody got they price
And some cost more than other's
When you poor, it's like life ain't even worth living
But when you rich, it's every fat ass worth hittin'
With no chips, your drawers just stay on your hips
I play with the six cuz money make the whole world spin
But without the Franklin faces, you see who's your real friends
It's V-12's, honeys on the cell, bobbin' out the JBL
It's Nas and R. Kell
[R. Kelly]
Never thought that I'd ever live this life
Money stacked in rolls, honeys on each side
Anything I want, I can say it's mine
No more worries 'bout how can I provide
Money makes the world go round
(Nothin' move but the money)
You believe it if you want to
Money makes the world go round
(Said nothin' move but the money)
[R. Kelly]
Oh, many say it's wrong cause I love to spend
Ice in everything countin' Benjamins
All I wanna do try, and let you know
If you don't believe, ask someone who's broke
Money makes the world go round
(Money makes the world go round)
You believe it if you want to
Money makes the world go round
Yes it does
(Still nuttin' move but the money)
Said money makes the world go round
(Money make the world go round, what?
Still nuttin' move but the money)
Nothing but the money
Money makes the world go round
Yes it does
Feels so good, yeah, yeah
So good, this life I finally live
And feels so real
So real this freedom I finally feel
Show me the money
Money makes the world go round
(Go money, go money)
You believe it if you want to
Money makes the world go round
(Go money, go money, yo)
Said that almighty dollar
Money makes the world go round
Yes it does
(Still don't nuttin' move but the money)
This brother's got to have it
Money makes the world go round
From sun up till the sun goes down
(Yeah, what?)
So much money
Money makes the world go round
Hey, makes the world go round
Money makes the world go round
Money makes the world go round
Show me a man that don't need money
Money makes the world go around
And I'll show you a world
(Show me a world)
Standing still, oh
Money makes the world go round
Yes it does, talking 'bout the loot
Money makes the world go round
QB
Chitown
Money make the world go round
Money make the world go round
(What? Go money)
Money makes the world go round
TM
Yo, for those who live the way that I live
We came a long way
From wiping coal outta eyelids, to rap's hottest
Fake Gazelles to black Pradas
Selling nicks to trey bags, to making hits like Kidada Jones' father
OG's would send me to the store with a dollar
Hit me with some wise advice for me to follow
Ain't nothing free in the world in life
No matter who you are, everybody got they price
And some cost more than other's
When you poor, it's like life ain't even worth living
But when you rich, it's every fat ass worth hittin'
With no chips, your drawers just stay on your hips
I play with the six cuz money make the whole world spin
But without the Franklin faces, you see who's your real friends
It's V-12's, honeys on the cell, bobbin' out the JBL
It's Nas and R. Kell
[R. Kelly]
Never thought that I'd ever live this life
Money stacked in rolls, honeys on each side
Anything I want, I can say it's mine
No more worries 'bout how can I provide
Money makes the world go round
(Nothin' move but the money)
You believe it if you want to
Money makes the world go round
(Said nothin' move but the money)
[R. Kelly]
Oh, many say it's wrong cause I love to spend
Ice in everything countin' Benjamins
All I wanna do try, and let you know
If you don't believe, ask someone who's broke
Money makes the world go round
(Money makes the world go round)
You believe it if you want to
Money makes the world go round
Yes it does
(Still nuttin' move but the money)
Said money makes the world go round
(Money make the world go round, what?
Still nuttin' move but the money)
Nothing but the money
Money makes the world go round
Yes it does
Feels so good, yeah, yeah
So good, this life I finally live
And feels so real
So real this freedom I finally feel
Show me the money
Money makes the world go round
(Go money, go money)
You believe it if you want to
Money makes the world go round
(Go money, go money, yo)
Said that almighty dollar
Money makes the world go round
Yes it does
(Still don't nuttin' move but the money)
This brother's got to have it
Money makes the world go round
From sun up till the sun goes down
(Yeah, what?)
So much money
Money makes the world go round
Hey, makes the world go round
Money makes the world go round
Money makes the world go round
Show me a man that don't need money
Money makes the world go around
And I'll show you a world
(Show me a world)
Standing still, oh
Money makes the world go round
Yes it does, talking 'bout the loot
Money makes the world go round
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