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"
Yeah, bout to get my head right on this one
'04-'04-'04, yeah, '04-'04-'04, uh-huh uh-huh
Yeah
Yeah
C'mon
Hav' come through, slump low with the seat back
With somethin' in the stash to push a elephant bean back
Shit, my shit is touchin, hungry hurry up need that
Tryin' to live right, only a juk for the relapse (yeah)
Perhaps I'll fold, maybe I won't
Go back to it like an old bitch I boned
Nigga Havoc he a problem 'specially when he zoned
Let a nigga get foul like the wool he smoked, so
Smell me people, these clowns ain't equal to I
Bitches feel me cause they love my vibe
Know what a chick want, know what a chick need
Recognize the difference from a male, and chicken feed
I'm blessed that's why my neck is glistening
You in a slump cause you not listening
We hold our own and earn our keep
And never ever get more than the one eye sleep
(We up) Word man
(We up) I be havin' nightmares son
(We up)
(And I love it, and I love it)
(We up) I don't even wanna go to sleep no more
(We up) I be havin' the illest dreams son
(We up) Tell you about this shit son
(We up) Yo (Everybody wake up)
I'm havin' dreams of squeezin' a gun that don't work
And some nigga with a tec come and wet my shirt
I catch bullets in my stomach, and them shits burn
I wake up sweatin, holdin' my stomach cause it hurt
Yo the shit seem too real, I'm dyin' of thirst
I gotta drink mad water just to calm me down thirst
'Fore I get back to sleep, and get some rest
Then I can't get back to sleep, I'm too stressed
I got the shotty real close, right under my bed
I know that work, cause I been practicin
With my gauge at the range, nigga I'm nice wit it
Nigga motherfuck them dreams, I'm real life wit it
You'll be coughin' up yo' spleen, guts an' all kinda shit
You invade my space, I'm beatin' the case
Nigga come fuckin' with me, yeah that's my kind of shit
Please, or all of my guns'll be a waste
(We up) Yeah, I feel you my nigga
(We up) No doubt
(We up) That's why I'm glad we up man
(And I love it, and I love it)
(We up) We got niggaz to do that shit for us y'know?
(We up) Word up man
(We up) That's right my nigga we up
(We up) (Everybody wake up)
'04-'04-'04, yeah, '04-'04-'04, uh-huh uh-huh
Yeah
Yeah
C'mon
Hav' come through, slump low with the seat back
With somethin' in the stash to push a elephant bean back
Shit, my shit is touchin, hungry hurry up need that
Tryin' to live right, only a juk for the relapse (yeah)
Perhaps I'll fold, maybe I won't
Go back to it like an old bitch I boned
Nigga Havoc he a problem 'specially when he zoned
Let a nigga get foul like the wool he smoked, so
Smell me people, these clowns ain't equal to I
Bitches feel me cause they love my vibe
Know what a chick want, know what a chick need
Recognize the difference from a male, and chicken feed
I'm blessed that's why my neck is glistening
You in a slump cause you not listening
We hold our own and earn our keep
And never ever get more than the one eye sleep
(We up) Word man
(We up) I be havin' nightmares son
(We up)
(And I love it, and I love it)
(We up) I don't even wanna go to sleep no more
(We up) I be havin' the illest dreams son
(We up) Tell you about this shit son
(We up) Yo (Everybody wake up)
I'm havin' dreams of squeezin' a gun that don't work
And some nigga with a tec come and wet my shirt
I catch bullets in my stomach, and them shits burn
I wake up sweatin, holdin' my stomach cause it hurt
Yo the shit seem too real, I'm dyin' of thirst
I gotta drink mad water just to calm me down thirst
'Fore I get back to sleep, and get some rest
Then I can't get back to sleep, I'm too stressed
I got the shotty real close, right under my bed
I know that work, cause I been practicin
With my gauge at the range, nigga I'm nice wit it
Nigga motherfuck them dreams, I'm real life wit it
You'll be coughin' up yo' spleen, guts an' all kinda shit
You invade my space, I'm beatin' the case
Nigga come fuckin' with me, yeah that's my kind of shit
Please, or all of my guns'll be a waste
(We up) Yeah, I feel you my nigga
(We up) No doubt
(We up) That's why I'm glad we up man
(And I love it, and I love it)
(We up) We got niggaz to do that shit for us y'know?
(We up) Word up man
(We up) That's right my nigga we up
(We up) (Everybody wake up)
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