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"
So I take another step, and one more breath
Closer to death. there's things going on in this
World that got me stressed. lately I find myself
Searching my soul. looking for signs of life,
A warmth in the cold. I'm young and restless
And they want me to fold. I'm hard headed, I
Ain't never did shit I was told. I get too mad too
Fast over too much shit, but I put too much heart
Into the words I spit. maybe I'm too proud,
Maybe I scream too loud...but what goes in,
Must come out. and I'm hurting inside. I can't
Show it. obstructed by pride. I ain't being hard I
Just don't know why. fuck tomorrow if I live or
I die. who comes first? you not before i. I'm still
A ways off from my lofty goals, so fuck those
Who oppose and those who's acting like ho's. I
Ain't got time for ya'll. focus my goals. I chose.
C'mon now, you just write ryhmes...i recite lifelines.
You're in it for the long haul...i'm in it for a lifetime.
Let a brother try to come between me and mine.
I'll lie cheat and steal to keep feeding mine. that's
The deal and that's for real, by any means. am I
Wrong because I want the finer things in life?
Hell no. take this world by storm.
All I ever wanted was a taste of. all I ever wanted
Was a piece of what I could not have.
Closer to death. there's things going on in this
World that got me stressed. lately I find myself
Searching my soul. looking for signs of life,
A warmth in the cold. I'm young and restless
And they want me to fold. I'm hard headed, I
Ain't never did shit I was told. I get too mad too
Fast over too much shit, but I put too much heart
Into the words I spit. maybe I'm too proud,
Maybe I scream too loud...but what goes in,
Must come out. and I'm hurting inside. I can't
Show it. obstructed by pride. I ain't being hard I
Just don't know why. fuck tomorrow if I live or
I die. who comes first? you not before i. I'm still
A ways off from my lofty goals, so fuck those
Who oppose and those who's acting like ho's. I
Ain't got time for ya'll. focus my goals. I chose.
C'mon now, you just write ryhmes...i recite lifelines.
You're in it for the long haul...i'm in it for a lifetime.
Let a brother try to come between me and mine.
I'll lie cheat and steal to keep feeding mine. that's
The deal and that's for real, by any means. am I
Wrong because I want the finer things in life?
Hell no. take this world by storm.
All I ever wanted was a taste of. all I ever wanted
Was a piece of what I could not have.
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ETC is an amazingly talented band. Their lyrics mean alot to me.
What genre of music is this?
Its considered Hardcore, but its not really, you cant put ETC into any single catagorie. This song is rap. Anyway ETC is amazing somebody post on here. Peace
Amazing song.
Always skipped it by b/c I didn't like the synthesizer in the beginning. My mistake, completely.
This song has some great lyrics, and his flow is tight - as usual. Anthony Martini is someone I definetly look up to as a wordsmith and singer.
This song is pretty self-explanatory...he speaks about his beliefs and focusing his goals. The title of this song speaks for itself.