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"
Well, you don't know what you want
You work everyday in a restaurant
Your life is slipping out of control
Lose your grip and you lose your soul
Boy, you're young and white and you want to make it bigger
Boy, you better watch your step, 'cause you're just a white nigger
When you were young you had such big plans
You had so much ambitions gonna be a good man
But look at you now, you're just a coward
Riding your big car but you don't know how to live
Boy, you're young and white and you want to make it bigger
Boy, you better watch your step, 'cause you're just a white nigger
Ah well look at you now, look at you now
What ever happened to all your ambitions
What ever happened to all your integrity
I see you, a different person
Greed, the money and that's all you want
Boy, you're young and white and you want to make it bigger
Boy, you better watch your step, 'cause you're just a white nigger
Think you got it made, son you're name
But you know you're gonna lose playing someone else's game
Now you got bills don't ever count a thing
Know a lot, lot of money
So you, shaking his hand
To you, to that man
You're gonna spend money, you're gonna live off credit
Work everyday for the rest of your life oh
You're so wrong
If you think that's kinda how it works
Anything, just my mother
That won't do it, won't do it
Oh your moneys all wrong wrong
You're all screwed up in the head
You're so lame
Playing his game, you're shaking his hand
You're shaking his hand
You lied, you lied to yourself
You work everyday in a restaurant
Your life is slipping out of control
Lose your grip and you lose your soul
Boy, you're young and white and you want to make it bigger
Boy, you better watch your step, 'cause you're just a white nigger
When you were young you had such big plans
You had so much ambitions gonna be a good man
But look at you now, you're just a coward
Riding your big car but you don't know how to live
Boy, you're young and white and you want to make it bigger
Boy, you better watch your step, 'cause you're just a white nigger
Ah well look at you now, look at you now
What ever happened to all your ambitions
What ever happened to all your integrity
I see you, a different person
Greed, the money and that's all you want
Boy, you're young and white and you want to make it bigger
Boy, you better watch your step, 'cause you're just a white nigger
Think you got it made, son you're name
But you know you're gonna lose playing someone else's game
Now you got bills don't ever count a thing
Know a lot, lot of money
So you, shaking his hand
To you, to that man
You're gonna spend money, you're gonna live off credit
Work everyday for the rest of your life oh
You're so wrong
If you think that's kinda how it works
Anything, just my mother
That won't do it, won't do it
Oh your moneys all wrong wrong
You're all screwed up in the head
You're so lame
Playing his game, you're shaking his hand
You're shaking his hand
You lied, you lied to yourself
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White Nigger Lyrics as written by Greg Ingrham Daniel O'brien
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