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"
Duke E Loud, Lil' Flip, you see what we doing
You see what we driving, you see how we living
You see the rims spinning, you see the platinum grill
Still man in it, uh uh
I pulled up in the jag (you see it)
Everybody know I got Texas cash (you see it)
I'm like Juve throwing up a soldier rag (you see it)
In H-Town I throw up a Clover flag (you see it)
On T.V. I'm still leaning to the left (you see it)
Got a deal but I didn't sign with Def (you see it)
Got a deal with Sony now we richer (you see it)
Look me up I'm in The Source see my picture (you see it)
I got hoes just coming to my shows (you see it)
I got niggas just running to my do' (you see it)
You see everything we smoke is endo (you see it)
It's a truck but it's made by Benzo (you see it)
I'm Lil' Flip I'm in the Dirty Dirty South (you see it)
I got about fifty grand in my mouth (you see it)
I represent for my nigga named Screw (you see it)
Some niggas claim red, some claim blue (you see it)
[Chorus:]
Nothing less than twenty thousand on my wrist (you see it)
You got cars in your yard but none like this (you see it)
Candy frame, I'ma swing on twenty inch (you see it)
I ain't got to tell these hoes that I'm a pimp (you see it)
Be banging the Jaguar behind the ten (you see it)
Hydro chronic smoking know you smell the scent (you see it)
Got my heater under my Iceberg fit (you see it)
I'm the shit, I got these hatas pissed you see it, you see it
You got a Cartier but it's little (you see it)
Look at mine I got X's in the middle (you see it)
I go to sleep on a Iceberg bed (you see it)
I'm feeling smart cause I always get head (you see it)
I might ride candy red, or black (you see it)
If it's called a Escalade it's a Lac (you see it)
If you sitting on twenties then they shine (you see it)
If it ain't endo, we call it pine (you see it)
Down here everybody got gold (you see it)
Still flipping cause we all got hoes (you see it)
Still rich cause we all got shows (you see it)
Couple of friends but we all got foes (you see it)
Down here Lil' Flip run the South (you see it)
Owe me money there's a gun in your mouth (you see it)
Want a show you better send my deposit (you see it)
As far as Sucka Free camp go I got it (you see it)
[Chorus:]
Pump your breaks my rims be spinning in place (you see it)
Don't worry we ain't got bad breaks (you see it)
This frozen water got my gums feeling numb (you see it)
I'm like naw cause I know I got a gun (you see it)
Got a thug girl, a slugs hit me brain freeze (you see it)
I'm like Alicia cause we move the same keys
Niggas know I got more dope than Homer (you see it)
I'm getting head from your gal in the sauna (you see it)
My strap's sticking in my lap but never hit me (you see it)
I got some millions but I'm still on a mission (you see it)
A million that dot com tatted on my arm (you see it)
The Screwed Up Click written in platinum on my charm (you see it)
I'm bending corners in that Lac, I'm gripping grain
This that Dirty Dirty what we do is swang
We gone ball and we gone never be ashamed
Platinum versus, platinum teeth and platinum chains
[Chorus:]
You see it (Repeat 4X)
You see what we driving, you see how we living
You see the rims spinning, you see the platinum grill
Still man in it, uh uh
I pulled up in the jag (you see it)
Everybody know I got Texas cash (you see it)
I'm like Juve throwing up a soldier rag (you see it)
In H-Town I throw up a Clover flag (you see it)
On T.V. I'm still leaning to the left (you see it)
Got a deal but I didn't sign with Def (you see it)
Got a deal with Sony now we richer (you see it)
Look me up I'm in The Source see my picture (you see it)
I got hoes just coming to my shows (you see it)
I got niggas just running to my do' (you see it)
You see everything we smoke is endo (you see it)
It's a truck but it's made by Benzo (you see it)
I'm Lil' Flip I'm in the Dirty Dirty South (you see it)
I got about fifty grand in my mouth (you see it)
I represent for my nigga named Screw (you see it)
Some niggas claim red, some claim blue (you see it)
[Chorus:]
Nothing less than twenty thousand on my wrist (you see it)
You got cars in your yard but none like this (you see it)
Candy frame, I'ma swing on twenty inch (you see it)
I ain't got to tell these hoes that I'm a pimp (you see it)
Be banging the Jaguar behind the ten (you see it)
Hydro chronic smoking know you smell the scent (you see it)
Got my heater under my Iceberg fit (you see it)
I'm the shit, I got these hatas pissed you see it, you see it
You got a Cartier but it's little (you see it)
Look at mine I got X's in the middle (you see it)
I go to sleep on a Iceberg bed (you see it)
I'm feeling smart cause I always get head (you see it)
I might ride candy red, or black (you see it)
If it's called a Escalade it's a Lac (you see it)
If you sitting on twenties then they shine (you see it)
If it ain't endo, we call it pine (you see it)
Down here everybody got gold (you see it)
Still flipping cause we all got hoes (you see it)
Still rich cause we all got shows (you see it)
Couple of friends but we all got foes (you see it)
Down here Lil' Flip run the South (you see it)
Owe me money there's a gun in your mouth (you see it)
Want a show you better send my deposit (you see it)
As far as Sucka Free camp go I got it (you see it)
[Chorus:]
Pump your breaks my rims be spinning in place (you see it)
Don't worry we ain't got bad breaks (you see it)
This frozen water got my gums feeling numb (you see it)
I'm like naw cause I know I got a gun (you see it)
Got a thug girl, a slugs hit me brain freeze (you see it)
I'm like Alicia cause we move the same keys
Niggas know I got more dope than Homer (you see it)
I'm getting head from your gal in the sauna (you see it)
My strap's sticking in my lap but never hit me (you see it)
I got some millions but I'm still on a mission (you see it)
A million that dot com tatted on my arm (you see it)
The Screwed Up Click written in platinum on my charm (you see it)
I'm bending corners in that Lac, I'm gripping grain
This that Dirty Dirty what we do is swang
We gone ball and we gone never be ashamed
Platinum versus, platinum teeth and platinum chains
[Chorus:]
You see it (Repeat 4X)
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