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"
WHILE I PEEP YOU NIGGAS HATING, on the other side
No you can not roll with us I'm rolling with my other guys
Somebody bout to fold on us like Jesus said at supper time
Here's my body drink my blood, this the last we'll reunite
Not allowed to slide with us if you can't prove your innocent
Caught your ahh on the camera had the nerve to plead a second chance
Well ahh shall never ever trust again
Shoulda cut your tongue to demonstrate how far my insolent
Infinite my instrument I'll play it till the strings detach
Tell em' play it back
You got greedy bet I'll be that nigga that was wrong for that
If there is a problem fucking solve it I'll be done with that
While I peep you niggas hating, man I hate it
Had to mark the nigga who weren't there participating
Hard to be myself when people always say I'm changing
So I had to switch it up cause what's the point if nigga hate it
WHILE I PEEP YOU NIGGAS HATING, on the other side
No you can not roll with us I'm rolling with my other guys
Somebody bout to fold on us like Jesus said at supper time
Here's my body drink my blood, this the last we'll reunite
Not allowed to slide with us if you can't prove your innocent
Caught your ahh on the camera had the nerve to plead a second chance
Well ahh shall never ever trust again
Shoulda cut your tongue to demonstrate how far my insolent
Ignorant and stubborn huh got that from my mother yeh
Love has been a burden I don't know who I could love again
No matter you my parents I ain't taking no belittlement
Handle me with care I'm truly fragile but not limited
Please get out my way if you ain't plan to come this way with me
I've been out the way within my lane ain't no one cutting me
And ahh am never in reality
Never get to sleep I'm chasing dreams within my fantasy
Can't wait to see my future me become what I was meant to be
Hold up wait pour my Hennessy
Open up you know you got it, baby why you tempting me
Neighbors in the back you know they hear you breathing heavily
WHILE I PEEP YOU NIGGAS HATING, on the other side
No you can not roll with us I'm rolling with my other guys
Somebody bout to fold on us like Jesus said at supper time
Here's my body drink my blood, this the last we'll reunite
Not allowed to slide with us if you can't prove your innocent
Caught your ahh on the camera had the nerve to plead a second chance
Well ahh shall never ever trust again
Shoulda cut your tongue to demonstrate how far my insolent
Infinite my instrument I'll play it till the strings detach
Tell em' play that back
You got greedy bet I'll be that nigga that was wrong for that
If there is a problem fucking solve it I'll be done with that
No you can not roll with us I'm rolling with my other guys
Somebody bout to fold on us like Jesus said at supper time
Here's my body drink my blood, this the last we'll reunite
Not allowed to slide with us if you can't prove your innocent
Caught your ahh on the camera had the nerve to plead a second chance
Well ahh shall never ever trust again
Shoulda cut your tongue to demonstrate how far my insolent
Infinite my instrument I'll play it till the strings detach
Tell em' play it back
You got greedy bet I'll be that nigga that was wrong for that
If there is a problem fucking solve it I'll be done with that
While I peep you niggas hating, man I hate it
Had to mark the nigga who weren't there participating
Hard to be myself when people always say I'm changing
So I had to switch it up cause what's the point if nigga hate it
WHILE I PEEP YOU NIGGAS HATING, on the other side
No you can not roll with us I'm rolling with my other guys
Somebody bout to fold on us like Jesus said at supper time
Here's my body drink my blood, this the last we'll reunite
Not allowed to slide with us if you can't prove your innocent
Caught your ahh on the camera had the nerve to plead a second chance
Well ahh shall never ever trust again
Shoulda cut your tongue to demonstrate how far my insolent
Ignorant and stubborn huh got that from my mother yeh
Love has been a burden I don't know who I could love again
No matter you my parents I ain't taking no belittlement
Handle me with care I'm truly fragile but not limited
Please get out my way if you ain't plan to come this way with me
I've been out the way within my lane ain't no one cutting me
And ahh am never in reality
Never get to sleep I'm chasing dreams within my fantasy
Can't wait to see my future me become what I was meant to be
Hold up wait pour my Hennessy
Open up you know you got it, baby why you tempting me
Neighbors in the back you know they hear you breathing heavily
WHILE I PEEP YOU NIGGAS HATING, on the other side
No you can not roll with us I'm rolling with my other guys
Somebody bout to fold on us like Jesus said at supper time
Here's my body drink my blood, this the last we'll reunite
Not allowed to slide with us if you can't prove your innocent
Caught your ahh on the camera had the nerve to plead a second chance
Well ahh shall never ever trust again
Shoulda cut your tongue to demonstrate how far my insolent
Infinite my instrument I'll play it till the strings detach
Tell em' play that back
You got greedy bet I'll be that nigga that was wrong for that
If there is a problem fucking solve it I'll be done with that
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