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"
Nigga holla at your boy
See I think y'all see the similarities now
Me and Nicki we both like money
We both run the streets, and our haters
Oh man, y'all make us do what we do (Aphilliates nigga, pay attention)
Envy
All they do is envy
Don't they know what's in me?
Don't they know I'm comin' back swingin' for that envy?
Why would they offend me?
Why they go against me?
Don't they know I'm comin' back, swingin' for that ass?
Sw-swingin' for, sw-sw-sw-swingin' for
Sw-swingin' for, sw-sw-sw-swingin' for
Sw-swingin' for (mercy, mercy, mercy)
Sw-sw-sw-swingin' for (why they wanna curse me, curse me, curse me?)
Sw-swingin' for (thirsty, thirsty, thirsty)
Sw-sw-sw-swingin' for (why they wanna curse me, curse me, curse me?)
Now every club promoter wanna bid like auctions
'Cause I pack shows, sell ticks like Boston
Pat your back ho, why the fuck they coughin'?
Oh, I got 'em sick, better get that coffin'
I say coffin', you can say casket
They're so trash but where's the waste basket?
Where's my hat and where's my straight jacket?
Yup, they jackin', back the Maybach in
Everythin' I do, bitches wanna do it too
I guess-guess you just skip to my lou
I just came through, I flew to St. Lou
Back to kill you, they blew like HQ
Why is it that they make Nicki a target?
Just 'cause this lil piggy went to the market
Marketin' steps, they marketed sex
M-mark it with a X, they talkin' them checks now, now
Envy
All they do is envy
Don't they know what's in me?
Don't they know I'm comin' back swingin' for that envy?
Why would they offend me?
Why they go against me?
Don't they know I'm comin' back, swingin' for that ass?
Sw-swingin' for, sw-sw-sw-swingin' for
Sw-swingin' for, sw-sw-sw-swingin' for
Sw-swingin' for (mercy, mercy, mercy)
Sw-sw-sw-swingin' for (why they wanna curse me, curse me, curse me?)
Sw-swingin' for (thirsty, thirsty, thirsty)
Sw-sw-sw-swingin' for (why they wanna curse me, curse me, curse me?)
Why did envy? Why you go against me?
When I got trendy, why you ain't commend me?
Why when I needed it, why you couldn't lend me?
Why you was secretive, frontin' like you friendly?
Why did you fear that, held my career back?
Kick it like air max, I don't wanna hear that
'Cause now I see-see-see-see all your run-down
Niggas better have my money by sun down
'Cause now when I come through I'm stylin' on 'em
It's like I got hotter than islands on 'em
They say she got colder than igloos, did she?
I'm in a GT, she in a Mitsubishi
Just left Mr. Miyagi
Tell that bitch jump if that bitch feel froggy
'Cause I got one leg up in the middle of the ring
And that bitch better duck when that bell go ding
Envy
All they do is envy
Don't they know what's in me?
Don't they know I'm comin' back swingin' for that envy?
Why would they offend me?
Why they go against me?
Don't they know I'm comin' back, swingin' for that ass?
Sw-swingin' for, sw-sw-sw-swingin' for
Sw-swingin' for, sw-sw-sw-swingin' for
Sw-swingin' for (mercy, mercy, mercy)
Sw-sw-sw-swingin' for (why they wanna curse me, curse me, curse me?)
Sw-swingin' for (thirsty, thirsty, thirsty)
Sw-sw-sw-swingin' for (why they wanna curse me, curse me, curse me?)
I'm me, don't you like what you see?
Won't you get like me?
'Cause you thought that I would die
But I'm fine
I'm me, don't you like what you see?
Won't you get like me?
'Cause you thought that I would die
But I'm fine (fine, fine)
Envy
All they do is envy
Don't they know what's in me?
Don't they know I'm comin' back swingin' for that envy?
Why would they offend me?
Why they go against me?
Don't they know I'm comin' back, swingin' for that ass? (The Aphelliates nigga)
See I think y'all see the similarities now
Me and Nicki we both like money
We both run the streets, and our haters
Oh man, y'all make us do what we do (Aphilliates nigga, pay attention)
Envy
All they do is envy
Don't they know what's in me?
Don't they know I'm comin' back swingin' for that envy?
Why would they offend me?
Why they go against me?
Don't they know I'm comin' back, swingin' for that ass?
Sw-swingin' for, sw-sw-sw-swingin' for
Sw-swingin' for, sw-sw-sw-swingin' for
Sw-swingin' for (mercy, mercy, mercy)
Sw-sw-sw-swingin' for (why they wanna curse me, curse me, curse me?)
Sw-swingin' for (thirsty, thirsty, thirsty)
Sw-sw-sw-swingin' for (why they wanna curse me, curse me, curse me?)
Now every club promoter wanna bid like auctions
'Cause I pack shows, sell ticks like Boston
Pat your back ho, why the fuck they coughin'?
Oh, I got 'em sick, better get that coffin'
I say coffin', you can say casket
They're so trash but where's the waste basket?
Where's my hat and where's my straight jacket?
Yup, they jackin', back the Maybach in
Everythin' I do, bitches wanna do it too
I guess-guess you just skip to my lou
I just came through, I flew to St. Lou
Back to kill you, they blew like HQ
Why is it that they make Nicki a target?
Just 'cause this lil piggy went to the market
Marketin' steps, they marketed sex
M-mark it with a X, they talkin' them checks now, now
Envy
All they do is envy
Don't they know what's in me?
Don't they know I'm comin' back swingin' for that envy?
Why would they offend me?
Why they go against me?
Don't they know I'm comin' back, swingin' for that ass?
Sw-swingin' for, sw-sw-sw-swingin' for
Sw-swingin' for, sw-sw-sw-swingin' for
Sw-swingin' for (mercy, mercy, mercy)
Sw-sw-sw-swingin' for (why they wanna curse me, curse me, curse me?)
Sw-swingin' for (thirsty, thirsty, thirsty)
Sw-sw-sw-swingin' for (why they wanna curse me, curse me, curse me?)
Why did envy? Why you go against me?
When I got trendy, why you ain't commend me?
Why when I needed it, why you couldn't lend me?
Why you was secretive, frontin' like you friendly?
Why did you fear that, held my career back?
Kick it like air max, I don't wanna hear that
'Cause now I see-see-see-see all your run-down
Niggas better have my money by sun down
'Cause now when I come through I'm stylin' on 'em
It's like I got hotter than islands on 'em
They say she got colder than igloos, did she?
I'm in a GT, she in a Mitsubishi
Just left Mr. Miyagi
Tell that bitch jump if that bitch feel froggy
'Cause I got one leg up in the middle of the ring
And that bitch better duck when that bell go ding
Envy
All they do is envy
Don't they know what's in me?
Don't they know I'm comin' back swingin' for that envy?
Why would they offend me?
Why they go against me?
Don't they know I'm comin' back, swingin' for that ass?
Sw-swingin' for, sw-sw-sw-swingin' for
Sw-swingin' for, sw-sw-sw-swingin' for
Sw-swingin' for (mercy, mercy, mercy)
Sw-sw-sw-swingin' for (why they wanna curse me, curse me, curse me?)
Sw-swingin' for (thirsty, thirsty, thirsty)
Sw-sw-sw-swingin' for (why they wanna curse me, curse me, curse me?)
I'm me, don't you like what you see?
Won't you get like me?
'Cause you thought that I would die
But I'm fine
I'm me, don't you like what you see?
Won't you get like me?
'Cause you thought that I would die
But I'm fine (fine, fine)
Envy
All they do is envy
Don't they know what's in me?
Don't they know I'm comin' back swingin' for that envy?
Why would they offend me?
Why they go against me?
Don't they know I'm comin' back, swingin' for that ass? (The Aphelliates nigga)
Lyrics submitted by Keykeykinszx3
Envy Lyrics as written by Johnathan Joyner Jahmon Pauling
Lyrics © MIZAY PUBLISHING, Universal Music Publishing Group, Songtrust Ave
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