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"
I'm sick and tired of the loose rap
Uh, now now, yeah
For the '01
I know you can come better
Can come better than that
So you can kill all your loose rap
Baby girl
How many times I tell you don't come to me?
Don't be bringing me all of that jealousy
'Cause you got envy (don't hate me, baby)
Talk smack behind my back
Then when you see me
You try to come up and talk to me (don't talk to me)
Not saying nothing, nothing (nothing)
I know you can come better
Can come better than that (yeah)
Don't come here with all that loose rap (loose rap)
You can keep that (keep that)
I know you can come better
Can come better than that (hey)
I'm sick and tired of the loose rap (loose rap)
You can save that, oh, save that
Too many times you guys would come step to me
I guess you call yourself booking me
Now do I look easy? (It ain't easy)
But it never hurts to try
I just might let you call me (hey)
I hope you don't plan on bugging me
That would be ugly, I
I know you can come better
Can come better than that (than that)
Don't come here with all that loose rap (loose rap)
You can keep that (yeah, yeah)
(Yeah) I know you can come better
Can come better than that (yeah)
I'm sick and tired of the loose rap
You can save that, save that
I know you can come better
Can come better than that
So you can kill all the loose rap
You can quit that, quit that
I know you can come better
Can come better than that
So you can stop all your loose rap
Your loose rap
Yeah, yeah
Too many times I hear you try knocking my crew
Well, we've got something for all the fools
It ain't just rhythm and blues
If you just quit trying to compete, yeah
No telling what you could be
Might even be doper than me (I doubt it)
I know you can come better
Can come better than that
Don't come here with all that loose rap (all that loose rap)
You can keep that (oh, save that)
I know you can come better
Can come better than that
I'm sick and tired of the loose rap
You can save that, save that
I know you can come better
Can come better than that
Don't come here with all that loose rap
You can keep that (oh, keep that)
I know you can come better
Can come better than that (yeah)
I'm sick and tired of the loose rap
You can save that, save that
I know you can come better
Can come better than that
Don't come here with all that loose rap
You can keep that (yeah)
I know you can come better
Can come better than that
Uh, now now, yeah
For the '01
I know you can come better
Can come better than that
So you can kill all your loose rap
Baby girl
How many times I tell you don't come to me?
Don't be bringing me all of that jealousy
'Cause you got envy (don't hate me, baby)
Talk smack behind my back
Then when you see me
You try to come up and talk to me (don't talk to me)
Not saying nothing, nothing (nothing)
I know you can come better
Can come better than that (yeah)
Don't come here with all that loose rap (loose rap)
You can keep that (keep that)
I know you can come better
Can come better than that (hey)
I'm sick and tired of the loose rap (loose rap)
You can save that, oh, save that
Too many times you guys would come step to me
I guess you call yourself booking me
Now do I look easy? (It ain't easy)
But it never hurts to try
I just might let you call me (hey)
I hope you don't plan on bugging me
That would be ugly, I
I know you can come better
Can come better than that (than that)
Don't come here with all that loose rap (loose rap)
You can keep that (yeah, yeah)
(Yeah) I know you can come better
Can come better than that (yeah)
I'm sick and tired of the loose rap
You can save that, save that
I know you can come better
Can come better than that
So you can kill all the loose rap
You can quit that, quit that
I know you can come better
Can come better than that
So you can stop all your loose rap
Your loose rap
Yeah, yeah
Too many times I hear you try knocking my crew
Well, we've got something for all the fools
It ain't just rhythm and blues
If you just quit trying to compete, yeah
No telling what you could be
Might even be doper than me (I doubt it)
I know you can come better
Can come better than that
Don't come here with all that loose rap (all that loose rap)
You can keep that (oh, save that)
I know you can come better
Can come better than that
I'm sick and tired of the loose rap
You can save that, save that
I know you can come better
Can come better than that
Don't come here with all that loose rap
You can keep that (oh, keep that)
I know you can come better
Can come better than that (yeah)
I'm sick and tired of the loose rap
You can save that, save that
I know you can come better
Can come better than that
Don't come here with all that loose rap
You can keep that (yeah)
I know you can come better
Can come better than that
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i love this song! something about it just sticks out to me everytime i hear it! rip aaliyah!!!!
damn aaliyah.. y u gotta be dead???!!! You r tha best!!!! R.I.P.... This song has a good beat and makes me wanna dance.
love this song, miss that lovely voice aaliyah