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"
Well, it be the real niggas back with that hard street shit
Bitch niggas be pissin' a fit but I say fuck 'em, when I buck 'em
It's that nigga with the cool and mellow shit for your ass
Takin' niggas back through the past
All up on my nuts shit be swingin' like a fist
Can't even take a piss, if I did niggas would cut they wrist
In a motherfuckin' candy 4, beat that ass with the switch
Then blast on the bitch who was all in my shit
It's that nigga Ren back for the '9-5
They say real niggas was dead but this nigga be alive
So I'm puttin' it down with that nigga E
For all of my niggas in the C-P-T
So here we go again with part 3 of the script
Making bitch made niggas bite their lip, when we dip
So tell me how the fuck do it feel
To get hit with the motherfuckin' real
The motherfuckin' real
(Shouts goin' out to the hardcore hip hop)
The motherfuckin' real
(Buckin' these niggas til they drop)
Now everything's good in my hood, and it's on and poppin'
Eazy-muthaphukkin'-E from east side south Compton
Straight givin' up the real
On how a nigga feel talk that shit, mothafuckers' caps get peeled
Layin' low in the cut
Gettin' high than a motherfucker - Niggas know what's up
I'm that gangsta-gangsta, is that what they're still yellin'?
Nigga G to a T saggin' and bailin'
Live by the gun, you know what I'm sayin', Ren? (Yeah)
So I guess I'll die by that motherfucker then
So when I die, niggas bury me
Make sure my shit reads Eazy-muthaphukkin'-E
And it's a fact, to be exact, my tombstone should read
'He put Compton on that map'
And that's how a nigga feel
When I'm givin' up the motherfuckin' real
The motherfuckin' real
(Shouts goin' out to the hardcore hip hop)
The motherfuckin' real
(Buckin' these niggas til they drop)
Niggas be pissin' on they self when the real niggas drop
While they rollin' in they shit, hittin' corners on the block
Niggas fresh out the pen with two strikes
Be bumpin' this real shit every fuckin' night, it's alright niggas
It's two hard motherfuckers on the streets
It's the nigga MC Ren and the nigga Eazy...
Does it ya wish the fuck that you could do it
Got a nine millimeter don't make me have to shoot it
Who gives a fuck about the police
Cause them the main mothafucka that break the peace
Now let me know how the fuck do you feel
Gettin' hit with the motherfuckin' real
The motherfuckin' real
(Shouts goin' out to the hardcore hip hop)
The motherfuckin' real
(Buckin' these niggas til they drop)
Yeah, keepin' it real for the '9-5
For all you niggas out there that's true to the motherfuckin' game
N.W.A.'s back in this, bitch
And busta-ass niggas don't even understand it
Yo, Yella kick that shit
Bitch niggas be pissin' a fit but I say fuck 'em, when I buck 'em
It's that nigga with the cool and mellow shit for your ass
Takin' niggas back through the past
All up on my nuts shit be swingin' like a fist
Can't even take a piss, if I did niggas would cut they wrist
In a motherfuckin' candy 4, beat that ass with the switch
Then blast on the bitch who was all in my shit
It's that nigga Ren back for the '9-5
They say real niggas was dead but this nigga be alive
So I'm puttin' it down with that nigga E
For all of my niggas in the C-P-T
So here we go again with part 3 of the script
Making bitch made niggas bite their lip, when we dip
So tell me how the fuck do it feel
To get hit with the motherfuckin' real
The motherfuckin' real
(Shouts goin' out to the hardcore hip hop)
The motherfuckin' real
(Buckin' these niggas til they drop)
Now everything's good in my hood, and it's on and poppin'
Eazy-muthaphukkin'-E from east side south Compton
Straight givin' up the real
On how a nigga feel talk that shit, mothafuckers' caps get peeled
Layin' low in the cut
Gettin' high than a motherfucker - Niggas know what's up
I'm that gangsta-gangsta, is that what they're still yellin'?
Nigga G to a T saggin' and bailin'
Live by the gun, you know what I'm sayin', Ren? (Yeah)
So I guess I'll die by that motherfucker then
So when I die, niggas bury me
Make sure my shit reads Eazy-muthaphukkin'-E
And it's a fact, to be exact, my tombstone should read
'He put Compton on that map'
And that's how a nigga feel
When I'm givin' up the motherfuckin' real
The motherfuckin' real
(Shouts goin' out to the hardcore hip hop)
The motherfuckin' real
(Buckin' these niggas til they drop)
Niggas be pissin' on they self when the real niggas drop
While they rollin' in they shit, hittin' corners on the block
Niggas fresh out the pen with two strikes
Be bumpin' this real shit every fuckin' night, it's alright niggas
It's two hard motherfuckers on the streets
It's the nigga MC Ren and the nigga Eazy...
Does it ya wish the fuck that you could do it
Got a nine millimeter don't make me have to shoot it
Who gives a fuck about the police
Cause them the main mothafucka that break the peace
Now let me know how the fuck do you feel
Gettin' hit with the motherfuckin' real
The motherfuckin' real
(Shouts goin' out to the hardcore hip hop)
The motherfuckin' real
(Buckin' these niggas til they drop)
Yeah, keepin' it real for the '9-5
For all you niggas out there that's true to the motherfuckin' game
N.W.A.'s back in this, bitch
And busta-ass niggas don't even understand it
Yo, Yella kick that shit
Lyrics submitted by ButNeverOutgunned
Tha Mutha******in Real Lyrics as written by Eric Wright Antoine Carraby
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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