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"
[Fabolous]
Don't try to fuck wit me y'all
Cause you cant
I stay way ahead of the game
Ya know, catch me if you can nigga
Throwback this, throwback that
It ain't where you from its where you wear ya throwback at
I rock the reds pete rose when I'm in the 'natti
And [repeat: x4]
You cant see the semi-automatti
When I'm in the chi' you think they ain't that shocked
To see the kid roll through in the st. pats socks
So pull out the Chicago and the script to wear on soul train
The bulls, when mike had hair and a gold chain
I get the spirit in St. Louis, how could the god lose
I do back flips in the ozzie cardinals
They love me in Cleveland, every time I travel there
I'm in the Indians or that cavaliers
When I hit Minnesota, that kid from brooklyn wear
The vikings or the Timberwolves from Garnett's rookie year
And in Milwaukee I had to pimp it and go back
20 years with the bucks and brewers throw backs
[Chorus:]
Throwback this, throwback that
They even look better with the matching hat
All you gotta check is the players stats
It ain't where you from its where you wear ya throwback at
Throwback this, throwback that
They even look better with the matching hat
All you gotta check is the players stats
It ain't where you from its where you wear ya throwback at
I might charge through San Diego with the bolts on my shoulder
Rock the trailblazer warm-up, cause Portland gets colder
And even the pimps be jealous
When I'm in the floor seat at the forum in the m.p.l.s.
And they be askin' what teams on the kid chest
This the rams before they moved to the midwest
When I'm in the bay with it, I don't play with it
I'm in the athletics with the matchin' A's fitted
This ain't even for the minors
Cause they don't know nothin' bout the Joe Montana, 49ers
Seattle, probably heard different rumors
Either about the Payton or the Griffey Jr.
I come through Denver like 4th quarter with Elway
Or the nuggets that make them yell
In phoenix I do the old suns
Cause the new jerseys is cool, but nothings really like the old ones
Ya know
[Chorus]
In new york what I wear the the club may vary
Mets or Yankees like the subway series
When I'm in Boston I melt the bean
In a hot red Soxs or Celtics green
In the city of Philly, I roll up on the biddes like feel these
In a size 56 Phillies
In jersey I got the nets on
That you can bet on
In d.c. I couldn't pull it
Without the bullets
When I stop in Atlanta I cant talk long
Them birds know I got the falcons or the hawks on
That peach Tampa bay don't hit the streets too often
Not even Miami could take the heat of dolphins
Ain't no complaints on
When I'm in New Orleans with the saints on
In Houston I pass hoes
In the Astros
In Dallas I always gotta have
The cowboys or the mavs
? to keep it coming, and I'ma keep it coming
[Chorus]
Don't try to fuck wit me y'all
Cause you cant
I stay way ahead of the game
Ya know, catch me if you can nigga
Throwback this, throwback that
It ain't where you from its where you wear ya throwback at
I rock the reds pete rose when I'm in the 'natti
And [repeat: x4]
You cant see the semi-automatti
When I'm in the chi' you think they ain't that shocked
To see the kid roll through in the st. pats socks
So pull out the Chicago and the script to wear on soul train
The bulls, when mike had hair and a gold chain
I get the spirit in St. Louis, how could the god lose
I do back flips in the ozzie cardinals
They love me in Cleveland, every time I travel there
I'm in the Indians or that cavaliers
When I hit Minnesota, that kid from brooklyn wear
The vikings or the Timberwolves from Garnett's rookie year
And in Milwaukee I had to pimp it and go back
20 years with the bucks and brewers throw backs
[Chorus:]
Throwback this, throwback that
They even look better with the matching hat
All you gotta check is the players stats
It ain't where you from its where you wear ya throwback at
Throwback this, throwback that
They even look better with the matching hat
All you gotta check is the players stats
It ain't where you from its where you wear ya throwback at
I might charge through San Diego with the bolts on my shoulder
Rock the trailblazer warm-up, cause Portland gets colder
And even the pimps be jealous
When I'm in the floor seat at the forum in the m.p.l.s.
And they be askin' what teams on the kid chest
This the rams before they moved to the midwest
When I'm in the bay with it, I don't play with it
I'm in the athletics with the matchin' A's fitted
This ain't even for the minors
Cause they don't know nothin' bout the Joe Montana, 49ers
Seattle, probably heard different rumors
Either about the Payton or the Griffey Jr.
I come through Denver like 4th quarter with Elway
Or the nuggets that make them yell
In phoenix I do the old suns
Cause the new jerseys is cool, but nothings really like the old ones
Ya know
[Chorus]
In new york what I wear the the club may vary
Mets or Yankees like the subway series
When I'm in Boston I melt the bean
In a hot red Soxs or Celtics green
In the city of Philly, I roll up on the biddes like feel these
In a size 56 Phillies
In jersey I got the nets on
That you can bet on
In d.c. I couldn't pull it
Without the bullets
When I stop in Atlanta I cant talk long
Them birds know I got the falcons or the hawks on
That peach Tampa bay don't hit the streets too often
Not even Miami could take the heat of dolphins
Ain't no complaints on
When I'm in New Orleans with the saints on
In Houston I pass hoes
In the Astros
In Dallas I always gotta have
The cowboys or the mavs
? to keep it coming, and I'ma keep it coming
[Chorus]
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Throw Back Lyrics as written by John Jackson Ernesto Shaw
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