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"
Shayton never came so ill, he got skill
met a brother from the drill that gave my spine chills
all.. thirty three nerves controllin my curves
common sense just swerved everytime I got served
stress, frustration, empty rhetoric
cold as winter in Conneticut
compassion lackin deficit
thought it was love life, sent from above
you not a soulmate
more ways and actions of a crimate
who by low and census comin faker than extentions
pistol way offed in intentions outta here sister was missin
intuition baby it was me I couldn't see
holdin onto fantasy, gettin bitten by reality
[chorus]
war wound, purple heart, love veteran
morphine, pain killers, drugs and medicine
anything just to forget the hurt, INCOMING...
take cover hit the dirt
on the frontline, there's casualities in the mind
and the POW's get left behind
mentally scarred for life, love is war
and some chics are just too hard to wife
I shoulda debtted it from Genisis
instead of hittin them Guinnesses
now I'm free fallin cursin at the street brawlin
he cease callin, no appetite for free stallin
so deep all in, I bet he never stop ballin
women, forsake God for the scent of a man
sacrifice I hold life for a slice, overstand?
maybe it's a lack of pigment
loneliness imagine figment
ownly got the car tinted to pull extra G's in it
damn Jody... comin with the okie doke, pokie poke
steady rockin boats, got me aimin for ya throats
sniper scope, weren't we supposed to elope?
propose then ya froze, I don't think that I can cope
[chorus]
constant frustration, stemmin from a no win situation
rushin lust and fornication, adding to the complication
patience is a virtue, pain run deep with love desert you
listenin to wisperin, choosin chaos over discipline
simpleton, life should really be a piece of intimance
relationships swiftin in
flower essence: penstemon
gentlemen, my favorite shit, so I never forsaken it
I presevere, make it fit, sculptin and reshapin it
takin sips off a fifth and if passionate
inscense incenses candles lit, scandalous
emotional bandages, why would he abandon us?
guess he couldn't handle it, the boss is magnanimous
[chorus]
met a brother from the drill that gave my spine chills
all.. thirty three nerves controllin my curves
common sense just swerved everytime I got served
stress, frustration, empty rhetoric
cold as winter in Conneticut
compassion lackin deficit
thought it was love life, sent from above
you not a soulmate
more ways and actions of a crimate
who by low and census comin faker than extentions
pistol way offed in intentions outta here sister was missin
intuition baby it was me I couldn't see
holdin onto fantasy, gettin bitten by reality
[chorus]
war wound, purple heart, love veteran
morphine, pain killers, drugs and medicine
anything just to forget the hurt, INCOMING...
take cover hit the dirt
on the frontline, there's casualities in the mind
and the POW's get left behind
mentally scarred for life, love is war
and some chics are just too hard to wife
I shoulda debtted it from Genisis
instead of hittin them Guinnesses
now I'm free fallin cursin at the street brawlin
he cease callin, no appetite for free stallin
so deep all in, I bet he never stop ballin
women, forsake God for the scent of a man
sacrifice I hold life for a slice, overstand?
maybe it's a lack of pigment
loneliness imagine figment
ownly got the car tinted to pull extra G's in it
damn Jody... comin with the okie doke, pokie poke
steady rockin boats, got me aimin for ya throats
sniper scope, weren't we supposed to elope?
propose then ya froze, I don't think that I can cope
[chorus]
constant frustration, stemmin from a no win situation
rushin lust and fornication, adding to the complication
patience is a virtue, pain run deep with love desert you
listenin to wisperin, choosin chaos over discipline
simpleton, life should really be a piece of intimance
relationships swiftin in
flower essence: penstemon
gentlemen, my favorite shit, so I never forsaken it
I presevere, make it fit, sculptin and reshapin it
takin sips off a fifth and if passionate
inscense incenses candles lit, scandalous
emotional bandages, why would he abandon us?
guess he couldn't handle it, the boss is magnanimous
[chorus]
Lyrics submitted by Sociodemographic
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