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"
Judgment night,
Judgment night,
Judgment night,
Judgment night,
Judgment night!
Over here, and bust the way, crush a sucka gutter
Sun don't cease at a hundred degrees I'm coolin' in your freezer
(He's a breezer) I hits it up with that bald faced rap
I sinks to the crack, and I make shit get wild
Run it by, bust to start, to punch, others front
Top drop Cesar, it's more than a leisure
Bitch every fuckin' grain in your brain, like a tweezer
The sinister thief, shaded to six feet deep
For the misdemeanor, offender, the back bender (uh)
Corny nigga, the bullshit trip ender (yeah)
Never perpetratin', so ain't no lurkin in the dark
I'm lurkin' near the workin' niggas heart
Used to be a gambler, when I was a scrambler
Now I'm grand to her, shorty back might damage her
Who's this here, state my facts, and react
And saturate brains with a plate of hot wax
Intertwining, combining and aligning, shining, studies
In the light right now while we wreak fuckin' havoc!
Judgment night, got gun got badge
Judgment night, huh!
Judgment night, in the echo of a gunblast
Judgment night!
Judgment night, got gun got badge
Judgment night, huh!
Judgment night, in the echo of a gunblast
Judgment night!
Come inside with his highness, the illinest
Killin' 'em with adrenalin, blast past the minimum
Look to the winter's ugliness, ruggedness
Under the rug, front to this, money strikes confidence
Chopped in the days and the blazin' smell
Then the realm of a seance, I black loose, guns!
Comin' to the project, walls with aks
We're talkin' days, word, that you sun
You really want some next shit, some blood on the exit?
Onyx! Watch me wreck shit as they exit
But yo I keep em hollerin', screamin' out for mercy
Minds of a lowest of enemies, ghetto mentality
So blast it as I hit your head you're dead not disbelievin'
Got the toxic rock, to bring a nigga biohazard!
Judgment night, got gun got badge
Judgment night, huh!
Judgment night, in the echo of a gunblast
Judgment night!
Judgment night, got gun got badge
Judgment night, huh!
Judgment night, in the echo of a gunblast
Judgment night!
Gimme that shit, you fuckin' baldheaded bastard!
(What the evil nasty access?) mad shit to burn the acids!
(So ashes to ashes) raps with the ghetto gats!
(And I'm, doin' niggas ruin em showin' 'em my razzamatazz
Mainly a devil rebel, foul) niggas know we fuckin' wild!
(I'm wild!) I'm wild (He's wild) so we's wild!
(Capture the rapture!) come blackness after!
I swear to fuckin' god I raise hell and make the white man call me master
I'm six-six-six, and need to repent to the pastor
So fuck the radio and close your ears but read my lips I rips
And if you eat my words I'll leave your strung like um (Um, um!)
It was on the tip of my tongue!
But now it's stuck in between my throat
I can't breath so I lick it
Onyx ain't the top pick, you must be suckin' a black dick
And if it takes the death of me, to make history
The whole world will remember my misery
I know what I'm tryin' to say my words get in the way
They render me speechless, oh black Jesus I'm cryin' inside
Couldn't give a fuck if I live or die
Cause I'm just a slave who's brave (uh-huh)
But fuck pickin' cotton, I'd rather see my grave, so I
Meditated, before I was created
And if you prefer sorrow, made me reincarnated
Now I'm back rulin' MC's but pussy niggas increase
Well then it's just another nigga that, gotta get greased
So if you wanna talk shit, in order to avoid a fight
Say what the fuck you wanna say, just spell my name right
Yeah, mother-fucker!
Judgment night, got gun got badge
Judgment night, huh!
Judgment night, in the echo of a gunblast
Judgment night!
Judgment night, got gun got badge
Judgment night, huh!
Judgment night, in the echo of a gunblast
Judgment night!
Judgment night, got gun got badge
Judgment night, huh!
Judgment night, in the echo of a gunblast
Judgment night!
Judgment night, got gun got badge
Judgment night, huh!
Judgment night, in the echo of a gunblast
Judgment night!
Judgment night, got gun got badge
Judgment night, huh!
Judgment night, in the echo of a gunblast
Judgment night,
Judgment night,
Judgment night,
Judgment night!
Over here, and bust the way, crush a sucka gutter
Sun don't cease at a hundred degrees I'm coolin' in your freezer
(He's a breezer) I hits it up with that bald faced rap
I sinks to the crack, and I make shit get wild
Run it by, bust to start, to punch, others front
Top drop Cesar, it's more than a leisure
Bitch every fuckin' grain in your brain, like a tweezer
The sinister thief, shaded to six feet deep
For the misdemeanor, offender, the back bender (uh)
Corny nigga, the bullshit trip ender (yeah)
Never perpetratin', so ain't no lurkin in the dark
I'm lurkin' near the workin' niggas heart
Used to be a gambler, when I was a scrambler
Now I'm grand to her, shorty back might damage her
Who's this here, state my facts, and react
And saturate brains with a plate of hot wax
Intertwining, combining and aligning, shining, studies
In the light right now while we wreak fuckin' havoc!
Judgment night, got gun got badge
Judgment night, huh!
Judgment night, in the echo of a gunblast
Judgment night!
Judgment night, got gun got badge
Judgment night, huh!
Judgment night, in the echo of a gunblast
Judgment night!
Come inside with his highness, the illinest
Killin' 'em with adrenalin, blast past the minimum
Look to the winter's ugliness, ruggedness
Under the rug, front to this, money strikes confidence
Chopped in the days and the blazin' smell
Then the realm of a seance, I black loose, guns!
Comin' to the project, walls with aks
We're talkin' days, word, that you sun
You really want some next shit, some blood on the exit?
Onyx! Watch me wreck shit as they exit
But yo I keep em hollerin', screamin' out for mercy
Minds of a lowest of enemies, ghetto mentality
So blast it as I hit your head you're dead not disbelievin'
Got the toxic rock, to bring a nigga biohazard!
Judgment night, got gun got badge
Judgment night, huh!
Judgment night, in the echo of a gunblast
Judgment night!
Judgment night, got gun got badge
Judgment night, huh!
Judgment night, in the echo of a gunblast
Judgment night!
Gimme that shit, you fuckin' baldheaded bastard!
(What the evil nasty access?) mad shit to burn the acids!
(So ashes to ashes) raps with the ghetto gats!
(And I'm, doin' niggas ruin em showin' 'em my razzamatazz
Mainly a devil rebel, foul) niggas know we fuckin' wild!
(I'm wild!) I'm wild (He's wild) so we's wild!
(Capture the rapture!) come blackness after!
I swear to fuckin' god I raise hell and make the white man call me master
I'm six-six-six, and need to repent to the pastor
So fuck the radio and close your ears but read my lips I rips
And if you eat my words I'll leave your strung like um (Um, um!)
It was on the tip of my tongue!
But now it's stuck in between my throat
I can't breath so I lick it
Onyx ain't the top pick, you must be suckin' a black dick
And if it takes the death of me, to make history
The whole world will remember my misery
I know what I'm tryin' to say my words get in the way
They render me speechless, oh black Jesus I'm cryin' inside
Couldn't give a fuck if I live or die
Cause I'm just a slave who's brave (uh-huh)
But fuck pickin' cotton, I'd rather see my grave, so I
Meditated, before I was created
And if you prefer sorrow, made me reincarnated
Now I'm back rulin' MC's but pussy niggas increase
Well then it's just another nigga that, gotta get greased
So if you wanna talk shit, in order to avoid a fight
Say what the fuck you wanna say, just spell my name right
Yeah, mother-fucker!
Judgment night, got gun got badge
Judgment night, huh!
Judgment night, in the echo of a gunblast
Judgment night!
Judgment night, got gun got badge
Judgment night, huh!
Judgment night, in the echo of a gunblast
Judgment night!
Judgment night, got gun got badge
Judgment night, huh!
Judgment night, in the echo of a gunblast
Judgment night!
Judgment night, got gun got badge
Judgment night, huh!
Judgment night, in the echo of a gunblast
Judgment night!
Judgment night, got gun got badge
Judgment night, huh!
Judgment night, in the echo of a gunblast
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