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"
[Bow Wow]
Yeah, uh, uh a huh, uh, yeah
Uh uh a huh, uh
I'm gamed (who what?)
I'm gamed (OK)
I see that y'all want to be like the boy wonder (true true)
Well, don't they all (me, me, me, me)
So just sit back and relax and let holla at y'all
(Talk to 'em playboy), this how you be me (how)
[Bow Wow]
It's me capital be, rap it'll be
Different after me, what a disaster to see (yeah)
It's a fact, that no other cat attractive as me (nope)
Can't no other MC step in my IV's
But see I wrote a booklet for you to get (cope it)
The game on track, a couple platinum plaques
Number one, it's apparent you gotta appeal to parents
Be real when they see through you like you transparent
Number two, I scan the whole world in panoramic
Find a loophole develop my flow, then I ran with it
Now step number three, ha, it ain't that easy (nope)
Gotta listen close if you want to be Weezy
Dress wild, make sure your attire stay hot
Top to bottom, got them school girls cryin
Step off, you gotta make sure your style remains raw
But wait, there's more (yeah)
[Chorus: x2]
All you youngn's trying do it how I done it
What I been y'all want to become
But it's nothing now, follow
All you kids trying get it how I get it
Want to spit it how I live it
Won't you listen then, follow
[Bow Wow]
Yeah, gotta have some attitude, can't dress sloppy (no)
Talk with some slang and you gotta act cocky
Make sure your pants sag low
And if you rocking a new Era fitted
Make sure that you stick the shows
It's a must that you rock two chains (bling)
Cause dog where I'm from, well "Money Ain't A Thing"
Clothes gotta be over sized (yeah) tires real wide
Gotta be a dime or over just so she can ride
Gotta be real smooth, be too cool
Gotta be that cat, that guy, that dude
If you want to be Bow, watch how I walk this (OK)
Easy, sit back, listen while I'm talking
Make sure your shoot game is up to par
Make sure you remain number one on "106th & Park" (yeah)
Gotta like your girls ghetto, gotta be a headliner
Gotta be a platinum back to back rhymer
I'm game .
[Chorus: x2]
[Bow Wow]
Follow me, follow me but don't lose your grip (ah uh)
Get your cornrows and Shell Toes and learn how to skip
Mix that with a throwback and a flow that's sick
Now hold that pose right there, that's almost it
And if you want to copy my jewels
Don't go and get no Looney Tunes trying do what I do
Like dude I got more karats than that wascaly Rabbit
And it's a fact that I'm responsible for y'all funny rappers
I try to let it ride for a minute
But every time I kick a sentence it's like y'all re-spit it (yeah)
Readmit into the system right after I did it
You kid, you make a living off the way that I'm living
Copy my image, so I want a percentage
Listen don't be sloppy, I'll show you how to get it
You gotta rhyme hotter, dress proper
So you got a lot a ladies and diamonds in your pocket now
You got it?
[Chorus: x2]
Yeah, uh, uh a huh, uh, yeah
Uh uh a huh, uh
I'm gamed (who what?)
I'm gamed (OK)
I see that y'all want to be like the boy wonder (true true)
Well, don't they all (me, me, me, me)
So just sit back and relax and let holla at y'all
(Talk to 'em playboy), this how you be me (how)
[Bow Wow]
It's me capital be, rap it'll be
Different after me, what a disaster to see (yeah)
It's a fact, that no other cat attractive as me (nope)
Can't no other MC step in my IV's
But see I wrote a booklet for you to get (cope it)
The game on track, a couple platinum plaques
Number one, it's apparent you gotta appeal to parents
Be real when they see through you like you transparent
Number two, I scan the whole world in panoramic
Find a loophole develop my flow, then I ran with it
Now step number three, ha, it ain't that easy (nope)
Gotta listen close if you want to be Weezy
Dress wild, make sure your attire stay hot
Top to bottom, got them school girls cryin
Step off, you gotta make sure your style remains raw
But wait, there's more (yeah)
[Chorus: x2]
All you youngn's trying do it how I done it
What I been y'all want to become
But it's nothing now, follow
All you kids trying get it how I get it
Want to spit it how I live it
Won't you listen then, follow
[Bow Wow]
Yeah, gotta have some attitude, can't dress sloppy (no)
Talk with some slang and you gotta act cocky
Make sure your pants sag low
And if you rocking a new Era fitted
Make sure that you stick the shows
It's a must that you rock two chains (bling)
Cause dog where I'm from, well "Money Ain't A Thing"
Clothes gotta be over sized (yeah) tires real wide
Gotta be a dime or over just so she can ride
Gotta be real smooth, be too cool
Gotta be that cat, that guy, that dude
If you want to be Bow, watch how I walk this (OK)
Easy, sit back, listen while I'm talking
Make sure your shoot game is up to par
Make sure you remain number one on "106th & Park" (yeah)
Gotta like your girls ghetto, gotta be a headliner
Gotta be a platinum back to back rhymer
I'm game .
[Chorus: x2]
[Bow Wow]
Follow me, follow me but don't lose your grip (ah uh)
Get your cornrows and Shell Toes and learn how to skip
Mix that with a throwback and a flow that's sick
Now hold that pose right there, that's almost it
And if you want to copy my jewels
Don't go and get no Looney Tunes trying do what I do
Like dude I got more karats than that wascaly Rabbit
And it's a fact that I'm responsible for y'all funny rappers
I try to let it ride for a minute
But every time I kick a sentence it's like y'all re-spit it (yeah)
Readmit into the system right after I did it
You kid, you make a living off the way that I'm living
Copy my image, so I want a percentage
Listen don't be sloppy, I'll show you how to get it
You gotta rhyme hotter, dress proper
So you got a lot a ladies and diamonds in your pocket now
You got it?
[Chorus: x2]
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Follow Me Lyrics as written by Shad Gregory Moss Roosevelt Harrell Iii
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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