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"
Yeah, yeah, hell yeah!
Come on.
So all you people on the left:
(Are you ready to rock the house?)
People on the right:
(Are you ready to rock the house?)
People up front:
(Are you ready to rock the house?)
Man in the back:
(Are you ready to rock the house?)
Well, say: ho! (Ho!)
Say: Ho! Ho! (Ho! Ho!)
Say: Ho! Ho! Ho! (Ho! Ho! Ho!)
Now scream!
Mic check.
Are you ready yet?
Well, get set,
'Cause I'm about to jet like a Corvette,
With the quickness, snap it like a whip.
It's a sickness that's making my rhymes rip.
Peddle to the metal;
ninety-four octane.
Flow like the rain,
And I aim to entertain.
Like it or not,
F.P. won't stop,
Because I'm the cream of the crop,
So, sss, hot.
Up and down they go, just watch them.
Up and down they go, (jump, jump.)
And as they go,
Well, I'm a show
Them that I can flow.
But homie, should I stop though?
Hell no!
But no, wait, ah, ah, until the end, I...
Kick the volume pump the adrenaline. I...
Watch the crowd sway
Every time we play,
Each and every day,
We make the crowd say:
Ho! (Ho!)
Say: Ho! Ho! (Ho! Ho!)
Say: Ho! Ho! Ho! (Ho! Ho! Ho!)
Now scream!
Once again, I'm in the house.
When I be rippin' it,
The crowd be kickin' it.
This boy's bad,
With a pen and a pad.
Records selling like mad.
People thought it was a fad,
'Cause back in the day some folks weren't with it.
What's this rap thing? They just ain't get it.
They didn't understand, they didn't quite see,
It's all about adrenaline, straight up energy.
So everybody say: hey! (Hey!)
So everybody say: hey! (Hey!)
I want to rip it, J.
Well, homie, go ahead, man.
I want to rip it, J.
Well, homie, go ahead, yeah.
Yo, a super dooper,
Party trooper;
Never been a party pooper.
Heart breakin',
Money makin';
Man, they get them parties shakin'.
Music pumpin',
Crowd is jumpin',
Giving people what they want,
And always rhymin' all the time, and check it.
Yo, and now
I wanted to make up a record
That I could just rock at the nick of the time.
I wanted to make it so funky,
That it would just stick in the back of your mind.
I wanted it simple, so people could sing it,
And dance while they're bopping their heads.
So gimme the uh, gimme the uh, gimme the uh, gimme the uh, yeah.
That's the way, ah ha, ah ha, I like it, ah ha, ah ha, yeah.
Let it go, yo.
The boys are all-pro.
So get on the floor right now and let me hear you say: ho! (Ho!)
Say: Ho! Ho! (Ho! Ho!)
Say: Ho! Ho! Ho! (Ho! Ho! Ho!)
Now scream!
Come on, all the ladies in the house,
All the pretty young ladies in the house.
Let me hear you say: aahh owww! (Aahh owww!)
Come on, say: aahh owww! (Aahh owww!)
Homeboys, make some noise, let me hear you say: yeah!
(Yeah!)
Say: hell, yeah! (Hell, yeah!)
Now scream!
For years they been tryin' to figure out how to stop the prince.
They say that I'm conceited, but I'm not, it's just confidence.
Rougher than an outlaw, quicker than the flash.
From records, to movie, to TV - I'm grabbing cash and I'm dashing.
The P-(R)-I-(N)-C-(E),
With the fresh on the front.
And I'm a give you what you want.
Step on stage and just rip it as I laugh.
Tear down the house, leaving lookin' like backdraft
All night I'm on the flow on,
And I'm a go on...
On the stage,
In a rage.
I'm a flow on.
You read the billboard, then I'm sure that you know,
The riggidy, riggidy, rhymes are riggidy rhyme, and climb to uno.
Uh, uh, uh, yo, don't, don't, don't.
Jeff will we be taking out.
(No, no, no.)
The only other crew that play the way that we play,
And all day, everyday, we play to make the crowd say:
Ho! (Ho!)
Say: ho! Ho! (Ho! Ho!)
Lemme hear you say: Ho! Ho! Ho! (Ho! Ho! Ho!)
Now scream!
Come on, say: Ho! (Ho!)
Come on, say: Ho! Ho! (Ho! Ho!)
One more time, say: Ho! Ho! (Ho! Ho!)
Now scream!
It's hot, y'all.
You don't stop, y'all.
I keep on,
Till the break of dawn.
It's like a little boy blue, blowing on his horn.
Its like a daylight dance marathon.
It's like a grasshopper, hopping on the morning lawn.
And you know its got to be...
You know it's got to be...
You know it's really, really, got to be...
Now you know it's got to be on,
Yeah.
Come on.
So all you people on the left:
(Are you ready to rock the house?)
People on the right:
(Are you ready to rock the house?)
People up front:
(Are you ready to rock the house?)
Man in the back:
(Are you ready to rock the house?)
Well, say: ho! (Ho!)
Say: Ho! Ho! (Ho! Ho!)
Say: Ho! Ho! Ho! (Ho! Ho! Ho!)
Now scream!
Mic check.
Are you ready yet?
Well, get set,
'Cause I'm about to jet like a Corvette,
With the quickness, snap it like a whip.
It's a sickness that's making my rhymes rip.
Peddle to the metal;
ninety-four octane.
Flow like the rain,
And I aim to entertain.
Like it or not,
F.P. won't stop,
Because I'm the cream of the crop,
So, sss, hot.
Up and down they go, just watch them.
Up and down they go, (jump, jump.)
And as they go,
Well, I'm a show
Them that I can flow.
But homie, should I stop though?
Hell no!
But no, wait, ah, ah, until the end, I...
Kick the volume pump the adrenaline. I...
Watch the crowd sway
Every time we play,
Each and every day,
We make the crowd say:
Ho! (Ho!)
Say: Ho! Ho! (Ho! Ho!)
Say: Ho! Ho! Ho! (Ho! Ho! Ho!)
Now scream!
Once again, I'm in the house.
When I be rippin' it,
The crowd be kickin' it.
This boy's bad,
With a pen and a pad.
Records selling like mad.
People thought it was a fad,
'Cause back in the day some folks weren't with it.
What's this rap thing? They just ain't get it.
They didn't understand, they didn't quite see,
It's all about adrenaline, straight up energy.
So everybody say: hey! (Hey!)
So everybody say: hey! (Hey!)
I want to rip it, J.
Well, homie, go ahead, man.
I want to rip it, J.
Well, homie, go ahead, yeah.
Yo, a super dooper,
Party trooper;
Never been a party pooper.
Heart breakin',
Money makin';
Man, they get them parties shakin'.
Music pumpin',
Crowd is jumpin',
Giving people what they want,
And always rhymin' all the time, and check it.
Yo, and now
I wanted to make up a record
That I could just rock at the nick of the time.
I wanted to make it so funky,
That it would just stick in the back of your mind.
I wanted it simple, so people could sing it,
And dance while they're bopping their heads.
So gimme the uh, gimme the uh, gimme the uh, gimme the uh, yeah.
That's the way, ah ha, ah ha, I like it, ah ha, ah ha, yeah.
Let it go, yo.
The boys are all-pro.
So get on the floor right now and let me hear you say: ho! (Ho!)
Say: Ho! Ho! (Ho! Ho!)
Say: Ho! Ho! Ho! (Ho! Ho! Ho!)
Now scream!
Come on, all the ladies in the house,
All the pretty young ladies in the house.
Let me hear you say: aahh owww! (Aahh owww!)
Come on, say: aahh owww! (Aahh owww!)
Homeboys, make some noise, let me hear you say: yeah!
(Yeah!)
Say: hell, yeah! (Hell, yeah!)
Now scream!
For years they been tryin' to figure out how to stop the prince.
They say that I'm conceited, but I'm not, it's just confidence.
Rougher than an outlaw, quicker than the flash.
From records, to movie, to TV - I'm grabbing cash and I'm dashing.
The P-(R)-I-(N)-C-(E),
With the fresh on the front.
And I'm a give you what you want.
Step on stage and just rip it as I laugh.
Tear down the house, leaving lookin' like backdraft
All night I'm on the flow on,
And I'm a go on...
On the stage,
In a rage.
I'm a flow on.
You read the billboard, then I'm sure that you know,
The riggidy, riggidy, rhymes are riggidy rhyme, and climb to uno.
Uh, uh, uh, yo, don't, don't, don't.
Jeff will we be taking out.
(No, no, no.)
The only other crew that play the way that we play,
And all day, everyday, we play to make the crowd say:
Ho! (Ho!)
Say: ho! Ho! (Ho! Ho!)
Lemme hear you say: Ho! Ho! Ho! (Ho! Ho! Ho!)
Now scream!
Come on, say: Ho! (Ho!)
Come on, say: Ho! Ho! (Ho! Ho!)
One more time, say: Ho! Ho! (Ho! Ho!)
Now scream!
It's hot, y'all.
You don't stop, y'all.
I keep on,
Till the break of dawn.
It's like a little boy blue, blowing on his horn.
Its like a daylight dance marathon.
It's like a grasshopper, hopping on the morning lawn.
And you know its got to be...
You know it's got to be...
You know it's really, really, got to be...
Now you know it's got to be on,
Yeah.
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