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"
[Repeat: x16]
Hey!
Northside ho! Southside ho! Eastside ho! Westside ho!
Northside ho! Southside ho! Eastside ho! Westside ho!
Northside ho! Southside ho! Eastside ho! Westside ho!
Get crunk motherfucker, get buck (get buck)
Get crunk motherfucker, get buck (get buck)
Get crunk motherfucker, get buck (get buck)
Northside ho! Southside ho! Eastside ho! Westside ho!
Get crunk motherfucker, get buck (get buck)
Get crunk motherfucker, get buck (get buck)
Get crunk motherfucker, get buck (get buck)
That's the way it is, it ain't no other nigga stoppin' it
When Kapone, grab the microphone you know I'm rockin' it
If I was, sippin on some syrup then I'd be choppin' it
I'm the one, with the combination so I'm lockin' it
If I had some Crist', or some Mo' then I'd be poppin' it
Man you know this bumpin' but you hatin' so you knockin' it
When I wrote this rap I hit the yo and started droppin' it
I'ma tell myself that I'm the shit and ain't no toppin' this
You might say it's arrogant, but I say it's confidence
I'm just havin fun with it, take it and I run with it
If you want some of this, get when I'm done with it
All that negative energy that you give I don't want none of it
I'ma keep it crunk with my dawgs and my shorties too
Make way, fo' a real nigga cause I'm comin' through
What's my name? Al Kapone, Mackapeezy, some may call me Scarface Al
Super crunk, super wild, this the way I move the crowd
[Chorus: x2]
Northside ho! Southside ho! Eastside ho! Westside ho!
Get crunk motherfucker, get buck (get buck)
Get crunk motherfucker, get buck (get buck)
Now I'm a young nigga and I got y'all buck nigga
I'ma represent, with my dogs and keep it crunk nigga
Now I'm a young nigga and I got y'all buck nigga
I'ma represent, with my dogs and keep it crunk nigga
I'ma keep it rough but other niggas they be lame with it
Some may say they serious but to me they playin' games with it
If you gonna rep it nigga show it why you claimin' it
You may never gain unless you goin through some pain with it
While you out here talkin' that you dumbin I done came with it
You might think you different but the truth you still the same with it
Nigga this a struggle, ain't no motherfuckin' shame in it
Too many accept the way it is instead of changin' it
But I'm gon', flip it up, take the shit and rip it up
Ain't no lie I smoke a little po' some drank and sip it up
Haters need to give it up, cause you never break me down
Buckin' with the real nigga, represent your side of town
[Chorus]
This ain't a game, this the life that I lead, real nigga 'til I'm frozen
Gift from the almighty let me know I'm chosen
While you haters hopin', that I'm never pokin'
Out, like some Spre's, steady spinnin' cause I'm focused
Crunk, from the jump, this ain't no front, check my resume
Some of y'all was colors I was buckin' since the early day
M-Town bound, that's my city I was born and raised
Still in the game just to keep the record straight
North, where you at? South, where you at?
East West represent, my nigga handle that
I see these others out here takin' but I'm givin' back
And I ain't trippin', I can't help it I'm just trill like that
Now I'm no super thug
Hey!
Northside ho! Southside ho! Eastside ho! Westside ho!
Northside ho! Southside ho! Eastside ho! Westside ho!
Northside ho! Southside ho! Eastside ho! Westside ho!
Get crunk motherfucker, get buck (get buck)
Get crunk motherfucker, get buck (get buck)
Get crunk motherfucker, get buck (get buck)
Northside ho! Southside ho! Eastside ho! Westside ho!
Get crunk motherfucker, get buck (get buck)
Get crunk motherfucker, get buck (get buck)
Get crunk motherfucker, get buck (get buck)
That's the way it is, it ain't no other nigga stoppin' it
When Kapone, grab the microphone you know I'm rockin' it
If I was, sippin on some syrup then I'd be choppin' it
I'm the one, with the combination so I'm lockin' it
If I had some Crist', or some Mo' then I'd be poppin' it
Man you know this bumpin' but you hatin' so you knockin' it
When I wrote this rap I hit the yo and started droppin' it
I'ma tell myself that I'm the shit and ain't no toppin' this
You might say it's arrogant, but I say it's confidence
I'm just havin fun with it, take it and I run with it
If you want some of this, get when I'm done with it
All that negative energy that you give I don't want none of it
I'ma keep it crunk with my dawgs and my shorties too
Make way, fo' a real nigga cause I'm comin' through
What's my name? Al Kapone, Mackapeezy, some may call me Scarface Al
Super crunk, super wild, this the way I move the crowd
[Chorus: x2]
Northside ho! Southside ho! Eastside ho! Westside ho!
Get crunk motherfucker, get buck (get buck)
Get crunk motherfucker, get buck (get buck)
Now I'm a young nigga and I got y'all buck nigga
I'ma represent, with my dogs and keep it crunk nigga
Now I'm a young nigga and I got y'all buck nigga
I'ma represent, with my dogs and keep it crunk nigga
I'ma keep it rough but other niggas they be lame with it
Some may say they serious but to me they playin' games with it
If you gonna rep it nigga show it why you claimin' it
You may never gain unless you goin through some pain with it
While you out here talkin' that you dumbin I done came with it
You might think you different but the truth you still the same with it
Nigga this a struggle, ain't no motherfuckin' shame in it
Too many accept the way it is instead of changin' it
But I'm gon', flip it up, take the shit and rip it up
Ain't no lie I smoke a little po' some drank and sip it up
Haters need to give it up, cause you never break me down
Buckin' with the real nigga, represent your side of town
[Chorus]
This ain't a game, this the life that I lead, real nigga 'til I'm frozen
Gift from the almighty let me know I'm chosen
While you haters hopin', that I'm never pokin'
Out, like some Spre's, steady spinnin' cause I'm focused
Crunk, from the jump, this ain't no front, check my resume
Some of y'all was colors I was buckin' since the early day
M-Town bound, that's my city I was born and raised
Still in the game just to keep the record straight
North, where you at? South, where you at?
East West represent, my nigga handle that
I see these others out here takin' but I'm givin' back
And I ain't trippin', I can't help it I'm just trill like that
Now I'm no super thug
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