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"
That boy, {I see ya lil daddy} (young city)
That grill, {I see ya lil daddy} (we here now, bad boy south)
That truck, {I see ya lil daddy} (as we proceed, as we proceed to give you what you need)
Them grillz, {I see ya lil daddy} (you ready, lets go)
[Young City]
Got a deal, now it's real, a chrome-dipped caddy
I'm a pimp, that's how I live, I see ya lil daddy
Shawty jea, now I'm here, so mean wit ya fatty
I'm a pimp, that's how I live, I see ya lil daddy
[Verse 1]
I know you see me stuntin, big bodies is all I want now
My mouth's about a hundred, some say that I'm the shit now
I done came a long way from the get down, hustlin, jus re-upped but I gained nothin'
Shit done changed when the lil muthafucka nigga started makin hits now
Girlies that Neva used to talk to me, talk to me
Cause I got it made and the kids look up to me
I'm escaladin on them thangs cause I'm young city
Pimp pretty things and they go ‘fo' a buck fifty
No now you can see me in the drop-top
Oh ma that boy from the hot block
Wit me is my semi, neva stay empty cause I gotta keep it on cock, cock
Just in case you try to ball the block, no way cause I call the shots
Show me nigga, tell me not anything, you spend, you flip, you get, you trip, I got
From the yacht, to the g-4, to the g-5, this is stock
Back to the platinum chains and my watch
You can see the purple ring when I spot
I talk cause I live it, on a mission to double up
My wrist on a count of dup, cause it's comming up
Get ready 'fo it bubbles up, yup
Cause I'm
[Chorus: Young City]
That boy, I see ya lil daddy
That grill, I see ya lil daddy
That truck, I see ya lil daddy
Them grillz, I see ya lil daddy
I got a deal, now it's real, a chrome-dipped caddy
I'm a pimp, that's how I live, I see ya lil daddy
Shawty jea, now I'm here, so mean wit ya fatty
I'm a pimp, that's how I live, I see ya lil daddy
[Verse 2: Young City] + (Diddy)
I'm a bad boy millionaire, look at how I spin my hair
So fresh so clean from my head to my feet I dont think y'all heard me clear
I done walked for that cheese, now I got cheesecake oh yea
Lil boy you dont really wanna go there
Dont hurt yourself tryin to keep up cause I do it all year
Look at the price of my jag, look at the name in my tag
Visa's from my momma seater's they be poppin them tags
G's up scrubs down, man it feel good to get love now
And I'm up next to best, how ya lovin that
cause it's really bout to go down (your next kid)
No picture on the mound won't strike me (uh-uh)
I dont give a fuck who dont like me
Get y'all muthafuckas know who I be
Keep it up and get put on I.V.
And I ain't got love, it's good reason why I'm rich as fuck but sho 'nuf
Same good reason to make 'em go nuts when I pull out the aqua green truck
With the diamond in the back, 26 shinin
What mo can I say, I'm ballin and I'm on fire
I'm that nigga that ya want, I'm that nigga that ya need
I'm here like I neva left, I'm soon to be the fuckin king
See I'm
[Chorus]
[Verse 3: Young City] + (Diddy)
Ah, I'm so in love wit myself cause I made it and I didnt need no help (yea, uh huh)
Regulated to the basement, I'ma be from a ten speed, I'm so blessed (bad boy south, young city)
I got credit cards, I got checks, bout a hundred broads, keep 'em unda check
Ima really make it hard for you to process, make way for tha boy cause I got next (I see you lil daddy)
I got this - in a chokehold, dont fuck around wit me cause I'm loco
Got franks in the bank, that's why they wanna bank out wit me but I rock solo
Dolo from state to state, why do these haters hate
Is it cause I'm eatin wit and I backin them easy cakes
Any time of the day I be low-key, untamed nigga you can't hold me
Got fame to my name, put change to ya brain Neva step into the path of a O.G.
Right arm is king-cut bracelet, left arm is a new presidential rolie
Cause I'm in a brand new situation, fuck payback, y'all muthafuckas owe me (bad boy)
Everything I got I deserve, got the record say I'm hot, I'm superb
Not artificial, real to the bone, wrist'll arm nigga, nigga get hot in herre
Seen what are you bootin up, dont make me pollute ya up
Wit my young shawties and they shootin up
Cause I'm
[Chorus]
That grill, {I see ya lil daddy} (we here now, bad boy south)
That truck, {I see ya lil daddy} (as we proceed, as we proceed to give you what you need)
Them grillz, {I see ya lil daddy} (you ready, lets go)
[Young City]
Got a deal, now it's real, a chrome-dipped caddy
I'm a pimp, that's how I live, I see ya lil daddy
Shawty jea, now I'm here, so mean wit ya fatty
I'm a pimp, that's how I live, I see ya lil daddy
[Verse 1]
I know you see me stuntin, big bodies is all I want now
My mouth's about a hundred, some say that I'm the shit now
I done came a long way from the get down, hustlin, jus re-upped but I gained nothin'
Shit done changed when the lil muthafucka nigga started makin hits now
Girlies that Neva used to talk to me, talk to me
Cause I got it made and the kids look up to me
I'm escaladin on them thangs cause I'm young city
Pimp pretty things and they go ‘fo' a buck fifty
No now you can see me in the drop-top
Oh ma that boy from the hot block
Wit me is my semi, neva stay empty cause I gotta keep it on cock, cock
Just in case you try to ball the block, no way cause I call the shots
Show me nigga, tell me not anything, you spend, you flip, you get, you trip, I got
From the yacht, to the g-4, to the g-5, this is stock
Back to the platinum chains and my watch
You can see the purple ring when I spot
I talk cause I live it, on a mission to double up
My wrist on a count of dup, cause it's comming up
Get ready 'fo it bubbles up, yup
Cause I'm
[Chorus: Young City]
That boy, I see ya lil daddy
That grill, I see ya lil daddy
That truck, I see ya lil daddy
Them grillz, I see ya lil daddy
I got a deal, now it's real, a chrome-dipped caddy
I'm a pimp, that's how I live, I see ya lil daddy
Shawty jea, now I'm here, so mean wit ya fatty
I'm a pimp, that's how I live, I see ya lil daddy
[Verse 2: Young City] + (Diddy)
I'm a bad boy millionaire, look at how I spin my hair
So fresh so clean from my head to my feet I dont think y'all heard me clear
I done walked for that cheese, now I got cheesecake oh yea
Lil boy you dont really wanna go there
Dont hurt yourself tryin to keep up cause I do it all year
Look at the price of my jag, look at the name in my tag
Visa's from my momma seater's they be poppin them tags
G's up scrubs down, man it feel good to get love now
And I'm up next to best, how ya lovin that
cause it's really bout to go down (your next kid)
No picture on the mound won't strike me (uh-uh)
I dont give a fuck who dont like me
Get y'all muthafuckas know who I be
Keep it up and get put on I.V.
And I ain't got love, it's good reason why I'm rich as fuck but sho 'nuf
Same good reason to make 'em go nuts when I pull out the aqua green truck
With the diamond in the back, 26 shinin
What mo can I say, I'm ballin and I'm on fire
I'm that nigga that ya want, I'm that nigga that ya need
I'm here like I neva left, I'm soon to be the fuckin king
See I'm
[Chorus]
[Verse 3: Young City] + (Diddy)
Ah, I'm so in love wit myself cause I made it and I didnt need no help (yea, uh huh)
Regulated to the basement, I'ma be from a ten speed, I'm so blessed (bad boy south, young city)
I got credit cards, I got checks, bout a hundred broads, keep 'em unda check
Ima really make it hard for you to process, make way for tha boy cause I got next (I see you lil daddy)
I got this - in a chokehold, dont fuck around wit me cause I'm loco
Got franks in the bank, that's why they wanna bank out wit me but I rock solo
Dolo from state to state, why do these haters hate
Is it cause I'm eatin wit and I backin them easy cakes
Any time of the day I be low-key, untamed nigga you can't hold me
Got fame to my name, put change to ya brain Neva step into the path of a O.G.
Right arm is king-cut bracelet, left arm is a new presidential rolie
Cause I'm in a brand new situation, fuck payback, y'all muthafuckas owe me (bad boy)
Everything I got I deserve, got the record say I'm hot, I'm superb
Not artificial, real to the bone, wrist'll arm nigga, nigga get hot in herre
Seen what are you bootin up, dont make me pollute ya up
Wit my young shawties and they shootin up
Cause I'm
[Chorus]
Lyrics submitted by Matty
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