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"
Yep
Don't bother me!
I'm indestructable
Yeah another Vendetta
No I won't stop
I take em down a level
One by one
Imma come down
I never
Let em up
To play this song
I live this song
So put em up
I'm a dog
I'm a playa
Yeah know what I mean
I'm no chump
I'm a hustla
I got mouths to feed
Imma born american
A natural born killer
Now Imma rude boy
Son I'm a predator
Harder they come
Harder they fall
One and all
I wanna see you suffa
Never lay down
Never say die
Never tap out
I wanna see you suffa
You might win some
But you just lost one
I'm the champion
I wanna see you suffa
Harder they come
Harder they fall
One and all
I talk back then let em have it
The sun is getting higher
Your on your own
I'm moving back to Zion
I'm going home
And when my job is done
I'll find my place in the sun
And never look back
Inside my Babylon
They keep playing with me
Like every single day
Oh yeah but I got something
To put these haters in their place
Imma born american
A natural born killer
Yeah imma rude boy
Son I'm a predator
Harder they come
Harder they fall
One and all
I wanna see you suffa
Never lay down
Never say die
Never tap out
I wanna see you suffa
You might win some
But you just lost one
I'm the champion
I wanna see you suffa
Harder they come
Harder they fall
One and all
I talk back then let em have it
I wanna see you suffa
I wanna see you suffa
Harder they come
Harder they fall
One and all
I wanna see you suffa
Never lay down
Never say die
Never tap out
I wanna see you suffa
You might win some
But you just lost one
I'm the champion
I wanna see you suffa
Harder they come
Harder they fall
One and all
I talk back then let em have it
don't fuck with me
Don't fuck with me
Talk back then let em have it
I talk back then let em have it
I talk back then let em have it
Don't bother me!
I'm indestructable
Yeah another Vendetta
No I won't stop
I take em down a level
One by one
Imma come down
I never
Let em up
To play this song
I live this song
So put em up
I'm a dog
I'm a playa
Yeah know what I mean
I'm no chump
I'm a hustla
I got mouths to feed
Imma born american
A natural born killer
Now Imma rude boy
Son I'm a predator
Harder they come
Harder they fall
One and all
I wanna see you suffa
Never lay down
Never say die
Never tap out
I wanna see you suffa
You might win some
But you just lost one
I'm the champion
I wanna see you suffa
Harder they come
Harder they fall
One and all
I talk back then let em have it
The sun is getting higher
Your on your own
I'm moving back to Zion
I'm going home
And when my job is done
I'll find my place in the sun
And never look back
Inside my Babylon
They keep playing with me
Like every single day
Oh yeah but I got something
To put these haters in their place
Imma born american
A natural born killer
Yeah imma rude boy
Son I'm a predator
Harder they come
Harder they fall
One and all
I wanna see you suffa
Never lay down
Never say die
Never tap out
I wanna see you suffa
You might win some
But you just lost one
I'm the champion
I wanna see you suffa
Harder they come
Harder they fall
One and all
I talk back then let em have it
I wanna see you suffa
I wanna see you suffa
Harder they come
Harder they fall
One and all
I wanna see you suffa
Never lay down
Never say die
Never tap out
I wanna see you suffa
You might win some
But you just lost one
I'm the champion
I wanna see you suffa
Harder they come
Harder they fall
One and all
I talk back then let em have it
don't fuck with me
Don't fuck with me
Talk back then let em have it
I talk back then let em have it
I talk back then let em have it
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dude!!! this song is the shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wondering if it's war-related, based on lyrics and the writing on the cards that appear in their video for this song (youtube.com/watch)
I'm sooo disappointed with this song. The breakdown is so cliche. I do like this part:
The sun is getting higher Your on your own Im moving back to Zion Im going home And when my job is done I'll find my place in the sun And never look back Inside my Babylon
but it doesnt even seem to fit the feeling of this song...harsh..in your face..that's Jamaican shit, stoner shit.
I don't think they'll make a better album then "Broke"
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