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"
Look at the plush, truck, women'll blush
Especially when I bust "Adrenaline Rush", crush, pennin' from us
Venomous flowin' is hard, look at the ice, oh, look at the walk
In the presence of a god, see how he thinks, oh, look how he talks
And I'mma come with the style, most of 'em like, then, most of 'em bite
Whether they go write it down, or spit it then, they, move a device
Niggas could never compete, they lesser than me, I'm, destined to be
Run the Midwest and the reason the lesson'll be, one of the best in the streets
Takin' a lesson from me cause I'm wreckin' the beat, a molecular special MC
If you wanna take it and be, with knowledge of self, there's no better weapon than me
And I hope you got the kush, gimme the woods, cause, I gotta smoke
And if you don't got the dough, then it'll be, adios, I gotta go
Unless you got somethin' to say, look at the time, no, look at the mind
Don't think about what I'mma do if it ain't about money or you don't say nothin' divine
I'm ? that you in the way, I wanna get, that, power and guap'
Remember I used to get break, now I don't sleep, nope, now I don't stop
I do it for me and you
They wanna know why do I work work (c'mon)
Why do I smoke?
So I could be turnt turnt (c'mon)
Why do I grind?
So we can floss floss (c'mon)
And why do I shine?
Because I'm a boss boss
I do it for me and you, c'mon
I do it for me and you, c'mon
I want you to visualize and just, look at the stage, look at the bright lights
C'mon, look at the rage, look at the night life
Listen to a dope individual, not one of them niggas who flowin' so pitiful
Hopin' that you would do so when you bring the attention your focus is critical
Snappin' like a Kodak'll be, hope you get the picture, now Twista you notice I beast
Don't flow after me, I'll eat 'em up and then say "Bon appétit"
And it'll be so depressin' if I talk about everything that bother me
Millionaires livin' in the same country as people in poverty
So fuck you and your opinion, I'm on my own dominion
Street scriptures, hieroglyphics that ain't the book of the Gideons
An infinite era I'm in, travellin' through a multiverse
Keepin' it smooth, I tell a motherfucker come insult me first
Can I get ahead of us and I can see you be scared of us
And you be talkin' et cetera, et cetera, but everybody'll know what you spit is a replica
of what I do so I'mma just stay hot
And I be makin' the cash, and when she ask why I'm away a lot
I do it for me and you
They wanna know why do I work work (c'mon)
Why do I smoke?
So I could be turnt turnt (c'mon)
Why do I grind?
So we can floss floss (c'mon)
And why do I shine?
Because I'm a boss boss
I do it for me and you, c'mon
I do it for me and you, c'mon
Especially when I bust "Adrenaline Rush", crush, pennin' from us
Venomous flowin' is hard, look at the ice, oh, look at the walk
In the presence of a god, see how he thinks, oh, look how he talks
And I'mma come with the style, most of 'em like, then, most of 'em bite
Whether they go write it down, or spit it then, they, move a device
Niggas could never compete, they lesser than me, I'm, destined to be
Run the Midwest and the reason the lesson'll be, one of the best in the streets
Takin' a lesson from me cause I'm wreckin' the beat, a molecular special MC
If you wanna take it and be, with knowledge of self, there's no better weapon than me
And I hope you got the kush, gimme the woods, cause, I gotta smoke
And if you don't got the dough, then it'll be, adios, I gotta go
Unless you got somethin' to say, look at the time, no, look at the mind
Don't think about what I'mma do if it ain't about money or you don't say nothin' divine
I'm ? that you in the way, I wanna get, that, power and guap'
Remember I used to get break, now I don't sleep, nope, now I don't stop
I do it for me and you
They wanna know why do I work work (c'mon)
Why do I smoke?
So I could be turnt turnt (c'mon)
Why do I grind?
So we can floss floss (c'mon)
And why do I shine?
Because I'm a boss boss
I do it for me and you, c'mon
I do it for me and you, c'mon
I want you to visualize and just, look at the stage, look at the bright lights
C'mon, look at the rage, look at the night life
Listen to a dope individual, not one of them niggas who flowin' so pitiful
Hopin' that you would do so when you bring the attention your focus is critical
Snappin' like a Kodak'll be, hope you get the picture, now Twista you notice I beast
Don't flow after me, I'll eat 'em up and then say "Bon appétit"
And it'll be so depressin' if I talk about everything that bother me
Millionaires livin' in the same country as people in poverty
So fuck you and your opinion, I'm on my own dominion
Street scriptures, hieroglyphics that ain't the book of the Gideons
An infinite era I'm in, travellin' through a multiverse
Keepin' it smooth, I tell a motherfucker come insult me first
Can I get ahead of us and I can see you be scared of us
And you be talkin' et cetera, et cetera, but everybody'll know what you spit is a replica
of what I do so I'mma just stay hot
And I be makin' the cash, and when she ask why I'm away a lot
I do it for me and you
They wanna know why do I work work (c'mon)
Why do I smoke?
So I could be turnt turnt (c'mon)
Why do I grind?
So we can floss floss (c'mon)
And why do I shine?
Because I'm a boss boss
I do it for me and you, c'mon
I do it for me and you, c'mon
Lyrics submitted by ButNeverOutgunned
Me and You Lyrics as written by Carl Terrell Mitchell Samuel Lindley
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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