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"
[Verse - Violent J]
ALL NIGHT - find me, robbin' your jewels
Settin' fires, damagin' and breakin' into schools
IN THE DARKNESS - it's much easier to be heartless
Break the window out the Lincoln, and screwdriver-start this
Muggin' people, droppin' on 'em from street lights
Stab 'em with garden tools or beat 'em with pipes
So don't come out, stay inside cozy and tucked
And if I'm breakin' in, your old lady's gettin..FUCKED!
[Verse - Shaggy 2 Dope]
ALL DAY - car jacks, get out the van
As soon as they step out I pop 'em anyway, BLAAM!
I rob liqour stores with a little 22 hold
I know it's nothing but it's something when it's bustin' at your nose
SUNNY DAYS - I hit up the beach with cleats on
And stomp bitches in they ass tryin' to tan in they thongs
ALL DAY - see me fuckin' hookers at truck stops
And then I kill em, 'cause that's where my buck stops
[Verse - Violent J]
ALL NIGHT - I'm wicked and I got the power
Blood sheds on the wall during the witching hour
IN THE DARKNESS - see me ride by in an Impala
Draggin' some fuck ass by the foot and hear him holla
IN THE NIGHT TIME - I'll take what's rightfully mine
I'll run through emergency rooms and sever life-lines
Fuck the limelight, I'm the one I need to impress
With a double dip swingin' ax chop to your chest!
[Verse - Shaggy 2 Dope]
ALL DAY - I'm sellin' coke laced joints to little kids
I'm a clown in a milk truck handlin' biz
IN THE SUNSHINE - I been known to take shots at the po
I'm in the bushes with the camoflouge on and rifle scope
ALL DAY - I'm wicked, I keep it horrifying
Axe murdered some kid and his dad kite-flying
I knocked the fuckin' mailman out on the grass
And burned holes in his face with the magnifying glass
[Verse - Violent J]
ALL NIGHT - I fly like a vampire bat
Murder people tellin' stories where the campfire's at
BLAME IT ON THE MOONLIGHT OR BLAME IT ON THE BOOGIE
I shot the motherfuckin' sheriff and his deputy rookie
WHEN IT'S DARK OUT - I hit the streets in the shadows and grab yo's
And boogie the woogie and stab hoes
Don't even gimme a pound when you see this clown
You gettin' cut the FUCK up and chopped the FUCK down!
[Verse - Shaggy 2 Dope]
ALL DAY - catch me picknickin' with bitches in the park
Right before I icepick 'em in the heart
24-7, if it ain't us, it's somebody gettin' bloody
Wicked clowns ain't the only ones nutty buddy
CATCH ME..TONGUE KISSING - a severed head
Catch me burying another bitch dead behind the shed
It doesn't matter, night or day, all around the clock
Violent J and Shaggy CHOP! CHOP!! CHOP!!! CHOP!!!!
YOU'RE GONNA DIE!
ALL NIGHT - find me, robbin' your jewels
Settin' fires, damagin' and breakin' into schools
IN THE DARKNESS - it's much easier to be heartless
Break the window out the Lincoln, and screwdriver-start this
Muggin' people, droppin' on 'em from street lights
Stab 'em with garden tools or beat 'em with pipes
So don't come out, stay inside cozy and tucked
And if I'm breakin' in, your old lady's gettin..FUCKED!
[Verse - Shaggy 2 Dope]
ALL DAY - car jacks, get out the van
As soon as they step out I pop 'em anyway, BLAAM!
I rob liqour stores with a little 22 hold
I know it's nothing but it's something when it's bustin' at your nose
SUNNY DAYS - I hit up the beach with cleats on
And stomp bitches in they ass tryin' to tan in they thongs
ALL DAY - see me fuckin' hookers at truck stops
And then I kill em, 'cause that's where my buck stops
[Verse - Violent J]
ALL NIGHT - I'm wicked and I got the power
Blood sheds on the wall during the witching hour
IN THE DARKNESS - see me ride by in an Impala
Draggin' some fuck ass by the foot and hear him holla
IN THE NIGHT TIME - I'll take what's rightfully mine
I'll run through emergency rooms and sever life-lines
Fuck the limelight, I'm the one I need to impress
With a double dip swingin' ax chop to your chest!
[Verse - Shaggy 2 Dope]
ALL DAY - I'm sellin' coke laced joints to little kids
I'm a clown in a milk truck handlin' biz
IN THE SUNSHINE - I been known to take shots at the po
I'm in the bushes with the camoflouge on and rifle scope
ALL DAY - I'm wicked, I keep it horrifying
Axe murdered some kid and his dad kite-flying
I knocked the fuckin' mailman out on the grass
And burned holes in his face with the magnifying glass
[Verse - Violent J]
ALL NIGHT - I fly like a vampire bat
Murder people tellin' stories where the campfire's at
BLAME IT ON THE MOONLIGHT OR BLAME IT ON THE BOOGIE
I shot the motherfuckin' sheriff and his deputy rookie
WHEN IT'S DARK OUT - I hit the streets in the shadows and grab yo's
And boogie the woogie and stab hoes
Don't even gimme a pound when you see this clown
You gettin' cut the FUCK up and chopped the FUCK down!
[Verse - Shaggy 2 Dope]
ALL DAY - catch me picknickin' with bitches in the park
Right before I icepick 'em in the heart
24-7, if it ain't us, it's somebody gettin' bloody
Wicked clowns ain't the only ones nutty buddy
CATCH ME..TONGUE KISSING - a severed head
Catch me burying another bitch dead behind the shed
It doesn't matter, night or day, all around the clock
Violent J and Shaggy CHOP! CHOP!! CHOP!!! CHOP!!!!
YOU'RE GONNA DIE!
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24 Lyrics as written by Frank Myers Bernie Nelson
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