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"
Young black brotha can never be a lover
He keeps a joint in one hand and heem in the other
So fly you never see him buming
He's never had a job and keeps a pocket full of money
Live low daytons and vogues
A beeper on his belt and a gang of hos
Been in and out of jail sense the day he was ten
The hall, the county, and next is the pen
See really doesn't know what the games about
Get in stack a bank and get the fuck out
Because a D-boys life is cool at first
But in the end it's the pen or even wares a hearst
Young brotha loves to get keyed
'cause he feels so good when he's hitin' the weed
He's never been ta high school let alone college
Now so much game and to much knowledge
Some call him a sad case but who do that figga
Many want to be like that young nigga
And its not just him it's a nuther and a nether
'cause many of us live the liiffee of a young black bruutthhaaa
he's a young black bruutthhaaa
18 years on this earth and Oakland is my place of berth
And now the big CREST SIDE! is where I stay
Va-lay-ho
Cal-i-fron-ie-ay
Mob shots
Drop tops
Bass cocaine and corked cops
Niggas grinden to stak a bank
And ta flip a fresh lode with the candy pant
Some fail and some succeed
Some seal coke and some seal weed
Some pimp hos
And some strate gank Any damn thang to stack that bank
Young black brotha he's a bisnis man
Tryin to make money any way he can
Clockin hos Rollin voges Smokin the weed that's how it gos
Young black brotha he's doin it man
Getin at a ho with a brew in his hand
He gets the number and then he burns rubber
'cause he's livin the liiffee of a young black bruutthhaaa
He's a young black bruutthhaaa
Khayree brake it down for me one time
Hos jock they throw the cock
At a young black brotha rosin to tha top
Material strolla pushin' 1$ snakes
And daytons and voges is all it takes
For a young black brotha ta fill her like ?furrow?
And straight thrust and finde him a new ho
Be a Mac nigga a straight Mac nigga
And kick back and let the bank get bigger
Find a million doller spot but don't get hot
'cause you'll feel so dumb when you got popped
Peep game and let the shit soak man
Don't be a nuther little dope man
Get in where you fit in if you don't then squeeze
Stack Gs will you please
I'm Mac dre baby the young black brotha
The young nigga on tha album cover
From the bay boy
Mac dre boy
The mutherfucking Mac ass play boy
Mackin dope rhymes anouther and anouther
'cause I'm livin the liiffee of a young black bruutthhaaa
he's a young black brotha
Ya I'd like say wus up to my young black brothas
on the crest side tha best
side ya young marty ya wus up merdot,
kleep, nut ya we all kickin it tuff
tryin ta get right about some game mayn
My young black brothas, my young black brothas
He keeps a joint in one hand and heem in the other
So fly you never see him buming
He's never had a job and keeps a pocket full of money
Live low daytons and vogues
A beeper on his belt and a gang of hos
Been in and out of jail sense the day he was ten
The hall, the county, and next is the pen
See really doesn't know what the games about
Get in stack a bank and get the fuck out
Because a D-boys life is cool at first
But in the end it's the pen or even wares a hearst
Young brotha loves to get keyed
'cause he feels so good when he's hitin' the weed
He's never been ta high school let alone college
Now so much game and to much knowledge
Some call him a sad case but who do that figga
Many want to be like that young nigga
And its not just him it's a nuther and a nether
'cause many of us live the liiffee of a young black bruutthhaaa
he's a young black bruutthhaaa
18 years on this earth and Oakland is my place of berth
And now the big CREST SIDE! is where I stay
Va-lay-ho
Cal-i-fron-ie-ay
Mob shots
Drop tops
Bass cocaine and corked cops
Niggas grinden to stak a bank
And ta flip a fresh lode with the candy pant
Some fail and some succeed
Some seal coke and some seal weed
Some pimp hos
And some strate gank Any damn thang to stack that bank
Young black brotha he's a bisnis man
Tryin to make money any way he can
Clockin hos Rollin voges Smokin the weed that's how it gos
Young black brotha he's doin it man
Getin at a ho with a brew in his hand
He gets the number and then he burns rubber
'cause he's livin the liiffee of a young black bruutthhaaa
He's a young black bruutthhaaa
Khayree brake it down for me one time
Hos jock they throw the cock
At a young black brotha rosin to tha top
Material strolla pushin' 1$ snakes
And daytons and voges is all it takes
For a young black brotha ta fill her like ?furrow?
And straight thrust and finde him a new ho
Be a Mac nigga a straight Mac nigga
And kick back and let the bank get bigger
Find a million doller spot but don't get hot
'cause you'll feel so dumb when you got popped
Peep game and let the shit soak man
Don't be a nuther little dope man
Get in where you fit in if you don't then squeeze
Stack Gs will you please
I'm Mac dre baby the young black brotha
The young nigga on tha album cover
From the bay boy
Mac dre boy
The mutherfucking Mac ass play boy
Mackin dope rhymes anouther and anouther
'cause I'm livin the liiffee of a young black bruutthhaaa
he's a young black brotha
Ya I'd like say wus up to my young black brothas
on the crest side tha best
side ya young marty ya wus up merdot,
kleep, nut ya we all kickin it tuff
tryin ta get right about some game mayn
My young black brothas, my young black brothas
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Young Black Brotha Lyrics as written by Jeffrey Bhasker Kamaal Ibn John Fareed
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