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"
Light one up (uh)
Headbanger
Uh
(Dot Da Genius)
Yup
(Midwest Action) yup
Look at me, Lee (I got it)
Come look at me, Lee, I'm a star (Takeover)
These people love me, man (I got it)
These people love me
Mcfly-high
I come from Cleveland
Y'all can really hear it now
Hit 'em like comic books, kaboom pow-pow
Into a girl's mind, spit fine, no wine dine
I keep two phones, sidekick for bad dimes
And the topic in question is why I'm so chill
Girls don't understand, he ain't even made a mil'
And say I'm complexed just like the magazine
I wear my closet complex like the magazine
I get in their head (uh-huh, I do)
They don't even see my bread (uh-huh, oh no)
Oh so, oh so fly (wow)
Cool as I wanna be, one hell of a guy
I keep 'em short and sweet, thick and petite
Ridin' alongside in my Cutlass Supreme
I'm from a place where Old Schools are common (yup, yup)
Gotta explain every time I'm rhymin' I be (I be)
I be all day rollin' in my whip (uh)
Got my sippin' cup out on the low (uh-huh, ayy)
I keep two pretty women by my side
I'm cooler than a polar bear's toes and I say
Cleveland is that (oh), Cleveland is the (oh)
Cleveland is the reason I'm cool
Cleveland is that (oh), Cleveland is the (oh)
Cleveland is the reason I'm leanin'
Cleveland is that (oh), Cleveland is the (oh)
Cleveland is the reason I'm cool
Cleveland is that (oh), Cleveland is the (oh)
Cleveland is my, my city, my city (wow, oh)
Yup, yuppers, smile all the time while
I chop it up like Michael Watt's slow talk style
So the girlies can really catch all my accent
And the double O got her own accent
Some niggas sell drugs to provide for they fam
Some niggas sell CD's up out they trunk, man
Some niggas they go to school for that higher learnin'
I play the O'Jays while I'm turnin' lanes
We be on our shit (uh-huh)
Freakin' Black & Milds, still controllin' the whip (oh, just chillin')
Ain't no city like Cleveland (no)
Cruisin' wit my bad bitch in the evenin'
You wanna know exactly why I'm this way
Take a trip to the land, swing this way
After the song done, ain't much I can say (yup, yup)
Cleveland is my city, city (I be, oh)
I be all day rollin' in my whip (uh)
Got my sippin' cup out on the low (uh-huh, ayy)
I keep two pretty women by my side
I'm cooler than a polar bear's toes and I say
Cleveland is that (oh), Cleveland is the (oh)
Cleveland is the reason I'm cool
Cleveland is that (oh), Cleveland is the (oh)
Cleveland is the reason I'm leanin'
Cleveland is that (oh), Cleveland is the (oh)
Cleveland is the reason I'm cool
Cleveland is that (oh), Cleveland is the (oh)
Cleveland is my, my city, my city (oh)
Headbanger
Uh
(Dot Da Genius)
Yup
(Midwest Action) yup
Look at me, Lee (I got it)
Come look at me, Lee, I'm a star (Takeover)
These people love me, man (I got it)
These people love me
Mcfly-high
I come from Cleveland
Y'all can really hear it now
Hit 'em like comic books, kaboom pow-pow
Into a girl's mind, spit fine, no wine dine
I keep two phones, sidekick for bad dimes
And the topic in question is why I'm so chill
Girls don't understand, he ain't even made a mil'
And say I'm complexed just like the magazine
I wear my closet complex like the magazine
I get in their head (uh-huh, I do)
They don't even see my bread (uh-huh, oh no)
Oh so, oh so fly (wow)
Cool as I wanna be, one hell of a guy
I keep 'em short and sweet, thick and petite
Ridin' alongside in my Cutlass Supreme
I'm from a place where Old Schools are common (yup, yup)
Gotta explain every time I'm rhymin' I be (I be)
I be all day rollin' in my whip (uh)
Got my sippin' cup out on the low (uh-huh, ayy)
I keep two pretty women by my side
I'm cooler than a polar bear's toes and I say
Cleveland is that (oh), Cleveland is the (oh)
Cleveland is the reason I'm cool
Cleveland is that (oh), Cleveland is the (oh)
Cleveland is the reason I'm leanin'
Cleveland is that (oh), Cleveland is the (oh)
Cleveland is the reason I'm cool
Cleveland is that (oh), Cleveland is the (oh)
Cleveland is my, my city, my city (wow, oh)
Yup, yuppers, smile all the time while
I chop it up like Michael Watt's slow talk style
So the girlies can really catch all my accent
And the double O got her own accent
Some niggas sell drugs to provide for they fam
Some niggas sell CD's up out they trunk, man
Some niggas they go to school for that higher learnin'
I play the O'Jays while I'm turnin' lanes
We be on our shit (uh-huh)
Freakin' Black & Milds, still controllin' the whip (oh, just chillin')
Ain't no city like Cleveland (no)
Cruisin' wit my bad bitch in the evenin'
You wanna know exactly why I'm this way
Take a trip to the land, swing this way
After the song done, ain't much I can say (yup, yup)
Cleveland is my city, city (I be, oh)
I be all day rollin' in my whip (uh)
Got my sippin' cup out on the low (uh-huh, ayy)
I keep two pretty women by my side
I'm cooler than a polar bear's toes and I say
Cleveland is that (oh), Cleveland is the (oh)
Cleveland is the reason I'm cool
Cleveland is that (oh), Cleveland is the (oh)
Cleveland is the reason I'm leanin'
Cleveland is that (oh), Cleveland is the (oh)
Cleveland is the reason I'm cool
Cleveland is that (oh), Cleveland is the (oh)
Cleveland is my, my city, my city (oh)
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even tho i am not from cleveland...i still like this song... tha beat is amazin nd tha lyrics r so simple..he obvioulsy loves and respects his native state...
Gotta rep.. 216 forever.
I'm not from Cleaveland but this song is dope as fuck.
I'd really like to know what he was thinking when he wrote this line...
"I get in their head, They don't even see my bread. Oh so, oh so fly cool as I wanna be with another guy."
Sounds a little gay. Still an awesome song though.
Im thinking the same thing!
that's cuz those lyrics are wrong... he actually sez:<br /> <br /> "I get in their head, They don't even see my bread.<br /> Oh so, oh so fly cool as I wanna be, one hell of a guy."<br />
This song is essentially Cudi's tribute to his hometown of Cleveland Ohio. Furthermore how it's influenced his game with females and pretty much how he conducts his life. Dope track for sure.
CLEVELAND REPRESENT.
i made an account just to say it's not
"I get in their head, They don't even see my bread. Oh so, oh so fly cool as I wanna be with another guy. "
the correct lyrics are
"I get in their head, They don't even see my bread. Oh so, oh so fly cool as I wanna be ONE HELL OF A GUY. "
k that's all, much love for Cudi <3 amazing fucking song.