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"
[Psiklone]
My tongue catches virus and unleashes
I meditate in subzero climates till my blood freezes
Hunt cheaters in training sessions with drug dealers
That shot keys to the gates of Heaven, so pay attention
Cut you down to size with scissor kicks
I'm lifting Egyptian pyramids on my fingertips
I rob holy prophets to pay for my sins
Time flies but not since I amputated his wings
I'm a firebreathing siamese dragon from a lost dynasty
That traveled to this mic in a time machine
Locked in crossfire and sniper beams
Catch 22 bullets and throw 11 back at twice the speed
Check my mental logistics, my lexicon holds every language that ever existed
I sacrifice disciples in ancient churches
Swam back from Atlantis for a lifetime to break the surface
[Chorus]
You don't wanna fuck with us
Because you know that we're coming up
Said you don't wanna fuck with us
We take it far beyond, rather burn twice as bright for half as long
[Possessed]
Get a load of this (holy shit!)
I ejaculate Sperm Whales out of my Moby Dick
I regard Earth with envious eyes
I'm my own worst enemy like Jekyll and Hyde
Ahead of my time, no burial site
I'm expected to die when the Devil is blind
Vengeance is mine, cannibalistic, I got a finger in every pie
You get outshined and put in the shade
Found our my Achilles heel, put that one foot in the grave
Alive and kicking
Gave planes the same coordinates; look skyward for flight collisions
Got you opened like a y-incision
Keep friends close and enemies in striking distance
Defecate on your final resting place
Fight me, you'll need braces to set your dental records straight
[Chorus]
You don't wanna fuck with us
Because you know that we're coming up
Said you don't wanna fuck with us
We take it far beyond, rather burn twice as bright for half as long
[Skirmish]
RA connects with the best in the west coast
Visited by an escaped convict from deathrow
Murderous dressed in a trenchcoat
After killings my trademark for death is a red rose
Living legend even if I happen to die
Cause "Best rapper alive" will be etched on my headstone
I penetrate pressure points
Giving listeners vivid images when I project my voice
Lusting blood as my mouth salivates
We coming up, every underdog has his day
Muzzle's off and all love is lost so I have to play my part in acts of hate
Decapitate you as you gasp for breath
Costs you an arm and leg to pay your last respects
If you're nobody till somebody kills you
I'm ready to die and live a life after death, yes
[Chorus]
You don't wanna fuck with us
Because you know that we're coming up
Said you don't wanna fuck with us
We take it far beyond, rather burn twice as bright for half as long
[Crooked I]
On the microphone I'm chemical explosives mixed in high doses
Sick as psychosis and cystic fibrosis
Touch me and die, my energy's high voltage
When I wrote this Hennessy had my mind focused
Every rhyme I write becomes my new magnum opus
Pointing a chrome Magnum at whoever raps the dopest
You cats are hopeless, matter of fact fags are bogus
Snap your neck backwards, maggot I'm that ferocious
Put this is in your hand, hit you with lead
Pistol flashing like cameras, I can picture you dead
Crooked's sick in the head, hit you with lead
Since he ain't a stand-up nigga, the feds found him missin' his legs
I'm on the balcony practicin' ancient alchemy
Vest on the chest in case they try to Martin or Malcolm me
I know you think I love myself because the straight jacket is making me hug myself
Fuck it
My tongue catches virus and unleashes
I meditate in subzero climates till my blood freezes
Hunt cheaters in training sessions with drug dealers
That shot keys to the gates of Heaven, so pay attention
Cut you down to size with scissor kicks
I'm lifting Egyptian pyramids on my fingertips
I rob holy prophets to pay for my sins
Time flies but not since I amputated his wings
I'm a firebreathing siamese dragon from a lost dynasty
That traveled to this mic in a time machine
Locked in crossfire and sniper beams
Catch 22 bullets and throw 11 back at twice the speed
Check my mental logistics, my lexicon holds every language that ever existed
I sacrifice disciples in ancient churches
Swam back from Atlantis for a lifetime to break the surface
[Chorus]
You don't wanna fuck with us
Because you know that we're coming up
Said you don't wanna fuck with us
We take it far beyond, rather burn twice as bright for half as long
[Possessed]
Get a load of this (holy shit!)
I ejaculate Sperm Whales out of my Moby Dick
I regard Earth with envious eyes
I'm my own worst enemy like Jekyll and Hyde
Ahead of my time, no burial site
I'm expected to die when the Devil is blind
Vengeance is mine, cannibalistic, I got a finger in every pie
You get outshined and put in the shade
Found our my Achilles heel, put that one foot in the grave
Alive and kicking
Gave planes the same coordinates; look skyward for flight collisions
Got you opened like a y-incision
Keep friends close and enemies in striking distance
Defecate on your final resting place
Fight me, you'll need braces to set your dental records straight
[Chorus]
You don't wanna fuck with us
Because you know that we're coming up
Said you don't wanna fuck with us
We take it far beyond, rather burn twice as bright for half as long
[Skirmish]
RA connects with the best in the west coast
Visited by an escaped convict from deathrow
Murderous dressed in a trenchcoat
After killings my trademark for death is a red rose
Living legend even if I happen to die
Cause "Best rapper alive" will be etched on my headstone
I penetrate pressure points
Giving listeners vivid images when I project my voice
Lusting blood as my mouth salivates
We coming up, every underdog has his day
Muzzle's off and all love is lost so I have to play my part in acts of hate
Decapitate you as you gasp for breath
Costs you an arm and leg to pay your last respects
If you're nobody till somebody kills you
I'm ready to die and live a life after death, yes
[Chorus]
You don't wanna fuck with us
Because you know that we're coming up
Said you don't wanna fuck with us
We take it far beyond, rather burn twice as bright for half as long
[Crooked I]
On the microphone I'm chemical explosives mixed in high doses
Sick as psychosis and cystic fibrosis
Touch me and die, my energy's high voltage
When I wrote this Hennessy had my mind focused
Every rhyme I write becomes my new magnum opus
Pointing a chrome Magnum at whoever raps the dopest
You cats are hopeless, matter of fact fags are bogus
Snap your neck backwards, maggot I'm that ferocious
Put this is in your hand, hit you with lead
Pistol flashing like cameras, I can picture you dead
Crooked's sick in the head, hit you with lead
Since he ain't a stand-up nigga, the feds found him missin' his legs
I'm on the balcony practicin' ancient alchemy
Vest on the chest in case they try to Martin or Malcolm me
I know you think I love myself because the straight jacket is making me hug myself
Fuck it
Lyrics submitted by str8lowlife
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