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"
Bone bone bone bone, bone, bone, bone, bone, bone
Now tell me whatcha gonna do
When there ain't no where to run (tell me what)
(When judgment comes for you, when judgment comes for you)
And whatcha gonna do?
When there ain't no where to hide (tell me what)
When judgment comes for you ('cause it's gonna come for you)
Dead souls, nigga, this for Wally, Eazy sees Uncle Charlie
Little boo, God's got him and I'm gonna miss everybody
I don't roll with blows like AIDS, look to where they lay
When playin' with destiny, plays too deep for me to say
Lil' Layzie came to me, told me if he should decease well then, please
Bury me by my grand-grand and when you can, come follow me
God bless you workin' on a plan to heaven
Follow the Lord all twenty-four-seven days, God is who we praise
Even though the devil's all up in my face
But he keepin' me safe and in my place, say grace
For the case to race with a chance to face the judge
And I'm guessin' my soul won't budge
Grudge because there's no mercy for thugs
Ooh, what can I do it's all about our family and how we roll
Can I get a witness let it unfold
We livin' our lives to eternal our soul aye-oh-aye-oh
Pray, and we pray and we pray, and we pray, and we pray
Everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday
And we pray, and we pray, and we pray, and we pray
Still we laced, now follow me roll stroll
Whether is tell of his heaven
Come let's go take a visit of people that's long gone
Darris, Wally, Eazy, Terry, Boo
It's steadily creepin' up on the family
Exactly how many days we got lastin'
While you laughin' we're passin', passin' away
So y'all go rest y'all souls
'Cause I know I'ma meet you up at the crossroads
Y'all know y'all forever got love from them Bone Thugs, baby
Now Eazy's long gone
Really wish he would come home
But when it's time to die
Gotta go bye bye
All a thug could do is cry, cry
Why they kill my dog?
And man, I miss my Uncle Charles, y'all
And he shouldn't be gone, in front of his home
What they did to Boo was wrong
Ooh, so wrong, oh, so wrong
Gotta hold on, gotta stay strong
When the day comes
Better believe Bone got a shoulder you can lean on (lean on)
Hey and we pray, and we pray, and we pray, and we pray
Everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday
And we pray, and we pray, and we pray, and we pray
Everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday
See you at the crossroads, crossroads, crossroads
So you won't be lonely
See you at the crossroads, crossroads, crossroads
So you won't be lonely
See you at the crossroads, crossroads, crossroads
So you won't be lonely
See you at the crossroads, crossroads, crossroads
And I'm gonna miss everybody
And I'm gonna miss everybody (long gone, long gone)
And I'm gonna miss everybody (long gone)
And I'm gonna miss everybody (long gone)
And I'm gonna miss everybody (long gone, long gone)
And I'm gonna miss everybody
Livin' in a hateful world sendin' me straight to heaven
That's how we roll
Livin' in a hateful world sendin' me straight to heaven
That's how we roll
Livin' in a hateful world sendin' me straight to heaven
That's how we roll
And I'm askin' the good Lord why it's I?
He told me we live to die
What's up with murder y'all? See my little cousin was hung
Somebody was really wrong, everybody want to test us, dawg
Then Miss Sleazy set up Eazy to fall, you know why we sinnin'
And Krayzie intended on endin' it when it ends
Wanna come again, again and again
Now tell me whatcha gonna do?
Can somebody anybody tell me why?
Hey, can somebody, anybody tell me why we die, we die?
I don't wanna die (oh, wrong)
Oh, so wrong
Oh, wrong
See you at the crossroads (crossroads, crossroads)
So you won't be lonely
See you at the crossroads (crossroads, crossroads)
So you won't be lonely
See you at the crossroads (crossroads, crossroads)
So you won't be lonely
See you at the crossroads (crossroads, crossroads)
So you won't be lonely
See you at the crossroads (crossroads, crossroads)
So you won't be lonely
See you at the crossroads (crossroads, crossroads)
So you won't be lonely
See you at the crossroads (crossroads, crossroads)
So you won't be lonely
See you at the crossroads (crossroads, crossroads)
So you won't be lonely
See you at the crossroads (crossroads, crossroads)
So you won't be lonely
See you at the crossroads
Now tell me whatcha gonna do
When there ain't no where to run (tell me what)
(When judgment comes for you, when judgment comes for you)
And whatcha gonna do?
When there ain't no where to hide (tell me what)
When judgment comes for you ('cause it's gonna come for you)
Dead souls, nigga, this for Wally, Eazy sees Uncle Charlie
Little boo, God's got him and I'm gonna miss everybody
I don't roll with blows like AIDS, look to where they lay
When playin' with destiny, plays too deep for me to say
Lil' Layzie came to me, told me if he should decease well then, please
Bury me by my grand-grand and when you can, come follow me
God bless you workin' on a plan to heaven
Follow the Lord all twenty-four-seven days, God is who we praise
Even though the devil's all up in my face
But he keepin' me safe and in my place, say grace
For the case to race with a chance to face the judge
And I'm guessin' my soul won't budge
Grudge because there's no mercy for thugs
Ooh, what can I do it's all about our family and how we roll
Can I get a witness let it unfold
We livin' our lives to eternal our soul aye-oh-aye-oh
Pray, and we pray and we pray, and we pray, and we pray
Everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday
And we pray, and we pray, and we pray, and we pray
Still we laced, now follow me roll stroll
Whether is tell of his heaven
Come let's go take a visit of people that's long gone
Darris, Wally, Eazy, Terry, Boo
It's steadily creepin' up on the family
Exactly how many days we got lastin'
While you laughin' we're passin', passin' away
So y'all go rest y'all souls
'Cause I know I'ma meet you up at the crossroads
Y'all know y'all forever got love from them Bone Thugs, baby
Now Eazy's long gone
Really wish he would come home
But when it's time to die
Gotta go bye bye
All a thug could do is cry, cry
Why they kill my dog?
And man, I miss my Uncle Charles, y'all
And he shouldn't be gone, in front of his home
What they did to Boo was wrong
Ooh, so wrong, oh, so wrong
Gotta hold on, gotta stay strong
When the day comes
Better believe Bone got a shoulder you can lean on (lean on)
Hey and we pray, and we pray, and we pray, and we pray
Everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday
And we pray, and we pray, and we pray, and we pray
Everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday
See you at the crossroads, crossroads, crossroads
So you won't be lonely
See you at the crossroads, crossroads, crossroads
So you won't be lonely
See you at the crossroads, crossroads, crossroads
So you won't be lonely
See you at the crossroads, crossroads, crossroads
And I'm gonna miss everybody
And I'm gonna miss everybody (long gone, long gone)
And I'm gonna miss everybody (long gone)
And I'm gonna miss everybody (long gone)
And I'm gonna miss everybody (long gone, long gone)
And I'm gonna miss everybody
Livin' in a hateful world sendin' me straight to heaven
That's how we roll
Livin' in a hateful world sendin' me straight to heaven
That's how we roll
Livin' in a hateful world sendin' me straight to heaven
That's how we roll
And I'm askin' the good Lord why it's I?
He told me we live to die
What's up with murder y'all? See my little cousin was hung
Somebody was really wrong, everybody want to test us, dawg
Then Miss Sleazy set up Eazy to fall, you know why we sinnin'
And Krayzie intended on endin' it when it ends
Wanna come again, again and again
Now tell me whatcha gonna do?
Can somebody anybody tell me why?
Hey, can somebody, anybody tell me why we die, we die?
I don't wanna die (oh, wrong)
Oh, so wrong
Oh, wrong
See you at the crossroads (crossroads, crossroads)
So you won't be lonely
See you at the crossroads (crossroads, crossroads)
So you won't be lonely
See you at the crossroads (crossroads, crossroads)
So you won't be lonely
See you at the crossroads (crossroads, crossroads)
So you won't be lonely
See you at the crossroads (crossroads, crossroads)
So you won't be lonely
See you at the crossroads (crossroads, crossroads)
So you won't be lonely
See you at the crossroads (crossroads, crossroads)
So you won't be lonely
See you at the crossroads (crossroads, crossroads)
So you won't be lonely
See you at the crossroads (crossroads, crossroads)
So you won't be lonely
See you at the crossroads
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