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"
Good evening
We want to just quickly send a nice friendly message
To uh, Fraternal Order of Police in Philadelphia
Here's something nice and friendly
Here's something nice and friendly
Here's something nice and friendly
And it goes something like this
Fuck tha police
Comin' straight from the underground
Young nigga got it bad 'cause I'm brown
And not the other color so police think
They have the authority to kill a minority
Fuck that shit, 'cause I ain't tha one
For a punk mutha fucka with a badge and a gun
To be beatin' on, and throwin' in jail
We could go toe to toe in the middle of a cell
Fuckin' with me 'cause I'm a teenager
With a little bit of gold and a pager
Searchin' my car, lookin' for the product
Thinkin' every nigga is sellin' narcotics
You'd rather see me in the pen
Then me and Lorenzo chilling in the Benzo
Beat tha police outta shape
And when I'm finished, bring the yellow tape
To mark off the scene of the slaughter
No controller, bread and water
A young nigga on a warpath
And when I'm finished, it's gonna be a bloodbath
Of cops, dyin' in L. A
Yo, I got somethin to say
Fuck the police
Comon! Off, What?
Fuck the police
Yeah!
Comon!
Fuck tha police
Yeah
Fuck The police
Comin' straight from the underground
Young nigga got it bad 'cause I'm brown
And not the other color so police think
They have the authority to kill a minority
Fuck that shit, 'cause I ain't tha one
For a punk mutha fucka with a badge and a gun
To be beatin' on, and throwin' in jail
We could go toe to toe in the middle of a cell
Fuckin' with me 'cause I'm a teenager
With a little bit of gold and a pager
Searchin' my car, lookin' for the product
Thinkin' every nigga is sellin' narcotics
You'd rather see me in the pen
Then me and Lorenzo chilling in the Benzo
Beat tha police outta shape
And when I'm finished, bring the yellow tape
To mark off the scene of the slaughter
No controller, bread and water
I don't know if they fags or what
Search a nigga down and grabbin' in the nuts
And on the other hand, without a gun they can't get none
But don't let it be a black and a white one
'Cause they slam ya down to the street top
Black police showin out for the white cop
Yeah, my brothas will swarm
On any mutha fucka in a blue uniform
Just 'cause we in Washington D.C, punk police are afraid of me
Hey!
Punk on a warpath
And when I'm finished, it's gonna be a bloodbath
Of cops, dyin' in L.A.
Hey yo, We got somethin' to say
Fuck the police
Comon, sing that shit
Right now
Comon!
Comon!
One more time
Here we go, here we go
Comon!
One More, We gotta do it, right now
Yeah
Check it out
We want to just quickly send a nice friendly message
To uh, Fraternal Order of Police in Philadelphia
Here's something nice and friendly
Here's something nice and friendly
Here's something nice and friendly
And it goes something like this
Fuck tha police
Comin' straight from the underground
Young nigga got it bad 'cause I'm brown
And not the other color so police think
They have the authority to kill a minority
Fuck that shit, 'cause I ain't tha one
For a punk mutha fucka with a badge and a gun
To be beatin' on, and throwin' in jail
We could go toe to toe in the middle of a cell
Fuckin' with me 'cause I'm a teenager
With a little bit of gold and a pager
Searchin' my car, lookin' for the product
Thinkin' every nigga is sellin' narcotics
You'd rather see me in the pen
Then me and Lorenzo chilling in the Benzo
Beat tha police outta shape
And when I'm finished, bring the yellow tape
To mark off the scene of the slaughter
No controller, bread and water
A young nigga on a warpath
And when I'm finished, it's gonna be a bloodbath
Of cops, dyin' in L. A
Yo, I got somethin to say
Fuck the police
Comon! Off, What?
Fuck the police
Yeah!
Comon!
Fuck tha police
Yeah
Fuck The police
Comin' straight from the underground
Young nigga got it bad 'cause I'm brown
And not the other color so police think
They have the authority to kill a minority
Fuck that shit, 'cause I ain't tha one
For a punk mutha fucka with a badge and a gun
To be beatin' on, and throwin' in jail
We could go toe to toe in the middle of a cell
Fuckin' with me 'cause I'm a teenager
With a little bit of gold and a pager
Searchin' my car, lookin' for the product
Thinkin' every nigga is sellin' narcotics
You'd rather see me in the pen
Then me and Lorenzo chilling in the Benzo
Beat tha police outta shape
And when I'm finished, bring the yellow tape
To mark off the scene of the slaughter
No controller, bread and water
I don't know if they fags or what
Search a nigga down and grabbin' in the nuts
And on the other hand, without a gun they can't get none
But don't let it be a black and a white one
'Cause they slam ya down to the street top
Black police showin out for the white cop
Yeah, my brothas will swarm
On any mutha fucka in a blue uniform
Just 'cause we in Washington D.C, punk police are afraid of me
Hey!
Punk on a warpath
And when I'm finished, it's gonna be a bloodbath
Of cops, dyin' in L.A.
Hey yo, We got somethin' to say
Fuck the police
Comon, sing that shit
Right now
Comon!
Comon!
One more time
Here we go, here we go
Comon!
One More, We gotta do it, right now
Yeah
Check it out
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I've been a RATM fan for years now, but I don't agree with there support of Jamal. Go to their website BUT also go to Daniel Falkner's website as well. Cop killers generally do get treated worse than most criminals, but cop killing is ridiculous. His website actually has a really good FAQ with logical answers.
I'm not saying Falkner was a saint, but I'd be sad if someone unloaded a revolver into the face of someone i knew.