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"
Now here's a song all about the flows
All about the plastic that's in between my toes
All about the hip hop all about the flip-flops that I rock
And don't ya know they are locales
I got em in hawaii yea waikiki
But now I'm going back to cali
Drivin with my friends gonna surf in the ocean
From santa cruz all the way up to oregon
They got me laid back feelin that warm tap
Slappin to the bottom of my feet
And jamming on the beach yea rappin to the beat
I'm gonna take off my shirt and get myself a tan (what?)
So get up get up and get down (get down)
Get your flip flops off the ground
You gotta get your flip flops off the ground
And jump jump well everybody
Everything's gonna be alright
As were dancing in the sun light
(We're representing c'mon cmon)
From the west coast
(We're representing c'mon cmon)
To the east coast
I said everything's gonna be ok 'cause I'm the emcee
But who's the dj?
Yes, yes ya'll rock rock ya'll non stop ya'll
Check it out ya'll
Portland, oregon, seattle, washington
Chi-town, inglewood, new york, boston
West coast, east coast, pacific ocean
Stopped at the atlantic just to stick my toe in
Rode in airplanes, subways, taxis, ferries,
Trains all the way across the usa
From nashville to memphis, atlanta, st. louis
Ran a marathon and got first in the us
From texas to phoenix to cairo in egypt
The belly dancers danced as I ran with achievement
In sync with the flips of the flops that I rock
I stopped in miami and I said 'what?'
Everything's gonna be alright
From the west coast to the east coast
From LA all the way to new york city
Yes, yes ya'll rock rock ya'll, non stop ya'll rock the mic
All about the plastic that's in between my toes
All about the hip hop all about the flip-flops that I rock
And don't ya know they are locales
I got em in hawaii yea waikiki
But now I'm going back to cali
Drivin with my friends gonna surf in the ocean
From santa cruz all the way up to oregon
They got me laid back feelin that warm tap
Slappin to the bottom of my feet
And jamming on the beach yea rappin to the beat
I'm gonna take off my shirt and get myself a tan (what?)
So get up get up and get down (get down)
Get your flip flops off the ground
You gotta get your flip flops off the ground
And jump jump well everybody
Everything's gonna be alright
As were dancing in the sun light
(We're representing c'mon cmon)
From the west coast
(We're representing c'mon cmon)
To the east coast
I said everything's gonna be ok 'cause I'm the emcee
But who's the dj?
Yes, yes ya'll rock rock ya'll non stop ya'll
Check it out ya'll
Portland, oregon, seattle, washington
Chi-town, inglewood, new york, boston
West coast, east coast, pacific ocean
Stopped at the atlantic just to stick my toe in
Rode in airplanes, subways, taxis, ferries,
Trains all the way across the usa
From nashville to memphis, atlanta, st. louis
Ran a marathon and got first in the us
From texas to phoenix to cairo in egypt
The belly dancers danced as I ran with achievement
In sync with the flips of the flops that I rock
I stopped in miami and I said 'what?'
Everything's gonna be alright
From the west coast to the east coast
From LA all the way to new york city
Yes, yes ya'll rock rock ya'll, non stop ya'll rock the mic
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