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'm in a, new section got my fist made like i'm Arthur
I'm sinner, i'm mal-perfection like i'm Mr. Carter
I been there, up in yo mansion swapin' liquids wit yo daughter
Daddy caught us but she know me, i'm still poppin; up tomorrow
Rap like GTA, i hate the game and hate the players
But i still run around, do stupid shit with all my paper
I'm a baller in me yellow and the purple, born a Laker
All these rappers act like they got hella haters bitch i'm satan
Me and JayMan turn up for 3 months but i don't see the reason
I been poppin' pills that i don't recognize and now im tweakin'
OD on fentynol that xanax told me lies it commit treason
It ain't hard to ball ya just gotta know who got an 11
I can't fuck wit yall, yall sayin that you'll never make a million
I'm gon get up wit my brethren we gon spend it all at saks
Seen ya lookin at my headband man yall better watch yall back
I'm on go for mine and we always high yall betta watch yall back
Aye, aye, betta watch yo back, when i'm comin' wit that strap
I got fonem in that back, yeah you betta watch yo back
Niggas tweak they gettin' smacked, yeah i'm always in the trap
And i'm steady makin' bands aye, Apollo in this bitch
No you do not want no smoke wit me
Always on the tech if any nigga try to go wit me
And im on the bag, I gotta 30 wit a fuckin drum
And im on the bag, I gotta 30 wit a fuckin drum
Lets go, lets go, lets go, lets go, lets go, lets go, hoe lets get it, get i,t get it
Lets go, lets go, lets go, lets go, lets go, lets go, hoe lets get it, get i,t get it, aye
I'm sinner, i'm mal-perfection like i'm Mr. Carter
I been there, up in yo mansion swapin' liquids wit yo daughter
Daddy caught us but she know me, i'm still poppin; up tomorrow
Rap like GTA, i hate the game and hate the players
But i still run around, do stupid shit with all my paper
I'm a baller in me yellow and the purple, born a Laker
All these rappers act like they got hella haters bitch i'm satan
Me and JayMan turn up for 3 months but i don't see the reason
I been poppin' pills that i don't recognize and now im tweakin'
OD on fentynol that xanax told me lies it commit treason
It ain't hard to ball ya just gotta know who got an 11
I can't fuck wit yall, yall sayin that you'll never make a million
I'm gon get up wit my brethren we gon spend it all at saks
Seen ya lookin at my headband man yall better watch yall back
I'm on go for mine and we always high yall betta watch yall back
Aye, aye, betta watch yo back, when i'm comin' wit that strap
I got fonem in that back, yeah you betta watch yo back
Niggas tweak they gettin' smacked, yeah i'm always in the trap
And i'm steady makin' bands aye, Apollo in this bitch
No you do not want no smoke wit me
Always on the tech if any nigga try to go wit me
And im on the bag, I gotta 30 wit a fuckin drum
And im on the bag, I gotta 30 wit a fuckin drum
Lets go, lets go, lets go, lets go, lets go, lets go, hoe lets get it, get i,t get it
Lets go, lets go, lets go, lets go, lets go, lets go, hoe lets get it, get i,t get it, aye
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