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 am the line
But I ain't thin
Like hot men
I'm thick
Like my dick
I'll fuck up your system
Like weed and speed and shit
I need a ten or an ounce
A hit or a blast
Cause I'm a loser (drug abuser)
And I always come last
You can snort me
Drink a quart of me
Turn me up and distort me
Hey ma, why didn't you abort me?
Bathe in a quart or three
I like my girls portly
Call you a retard
And don't wait to see
What you report of me
Bend me, Shake me
Smack me, Crack me
Just like a spine
But you ain't gonna get no further
Cause I am the line
I am the line!
And I'm fine
Don't cry for me, L please
Just another man
Trying to make ends meet
With his band
Uncle Outtie sucking dick
That's my bit
And this is for
The fucking critics!
You can say we suck!
You can break our thumbs!
Well, don't do that cause
H and Poles play drums
Telling shit, that's your bit
On this track, it's so phat
Come on bitches, let's sing it loud!
I'll make you fall so hard
You'll think you got the belt
I'll make you fall so hard
'Cause I'm the line
You are one fix mean girl
Starting to bleed through
I'm not one of those people
That fucks without needles
Wake up!
I did it all for you
Your sick fantasy is coming true
Even though I'm not in the mood
Can't stop this kid
From bleeding on you
Cause I'm a Mexican not a Mexican't
Come down on your fans with a single hand
Don't understand that it was all a sham?
Got everybody thinking that I'm a band
I was never empty I was full of shit
If I was black I'd be a hit
Wanna double cross me cause I'm the line
But I'm just too fast like a Tech9 run
Maybe some day
I will be
Just like a rapper
Named D.G.!
Get you by the balls
You can turn and cough
And tell me one more time
Just how much I rip off
Because I'm sick and tired of all these fans
Sick and tired of shaking hands
Sick and tired of dead rock stars
Sick and tired of bass guitars
Sick and tired of techno clubs
Sick and tired of two bit drums
Sick and tired of all these raves
Sick and tired of gameboy games
Sick and tired of punching girls
Sick and tired of kissing guys
Sick and tired of Betty's trash
Sick and tired of M.S.I.
Sick and tired of missing dates
Sick and tired of demo tapes
Sick and tired of getting dropped
Sick and tired of what I'm not
Sick and tired of being the stream
Sick and tired of the triple cheese
Sick and tired of my jealousy
Sick and tired of every sleaze
Sick and tired of paying bills
Sick and tired of fucking Nils
This is how I made my millions
Sick and tired of everything
I have the nerve to try and sing
This is how I made my millions
But I ain't thin
Like hot men
I'm thick
Like my dick
I'll fuck up your system
Like weed and speed and shit
I need a ten or an ounce
A hit or a blast
Cause I'm a loser (drug abuser)
And I always come last
You can snort me
Drink a quart of me
Turn me up and distort me
Hey ma, why didn't you abort me?
Bathe in a quart or three
I like my girls portly
Call you a retard
And don't wait to see
What you report of me
Bend me, Shake me
Smack me, Crack me
Just like a spine
But you ain't gonna get no further
Cause I am the line
I am the line!
And I'm fine
Don't cry for me, L please
Just another man
Trying to make ends meet
With his band
Uncle Outtie sucking dick
That's my bit
And this is for
The fucking critics!
You can say we suck!
You can break our thumbs!
Well, don't do that cause
H and Poles play drums
Telling shit, that's your bit
On this track, it's so phat
Come on bitches, let's sing it loud!
I'll make you fall so hard
You'll think you got the belt
I'll make you fall so hard
'Cause I'm the line
You are one fix mean girl
Starting to bleed through
I'm not one of those people
That fucks without needles
Wake up!
I did it all for you
Your sick fantasy is coming true
Even though I'm not in the mood
Can't stop this kid
From bleeding on you
Cause I'm a Mexican not a Mexican't
Come down on your fans with a single hand
Don't understand that it was all a sham?
Got everybody thinking that I'm a band
I was never empty I was full of shit
If I was black I'd be a hit
Wanna double cross me cause I'm the line
But I'm just too fast like a Tech9 run
Maybe some day
I will be
Just like a rapper
Named D.G.!
Get you by the balls
You can turn and cough
And tell me one more time
Just how much I rip off
Because I'm sick and tired of all these fans
Sick and tired of shaking hands
Sick and tired of dead rock stars
Sick and tired of bass guitars
Sick and tired of techno clubs
Sick and tired of two bit drums
Sick and tired of all these raves
Sick and tired of gameboy games
Sick and tired of punching girls
Sick and tired of kissing guys
Sick and tired of Betty's trash
Sick and tired of M.S.I.
Sick and tired of missing dates
Sick and tired of demo tapes
Sick and tired of getting dropped
Sick and tired of what I'm not
Sick and tired of being the stream
Sick and tired of the triple cheese
Sick and tired of my jealousy
Sick and tired of every sleaze
Sick and tired of paying bills
Sick and tired of fucking Nils
This is how I made my millions
Sick and tired of everything
I have the nerve to try and sing
This is how I made my millions
Lyrics submitted by BuTToNz
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