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"
Yo, yo, this is Chris Rock
You heard my man
He ain't on no commercial shit
The ODB
It ain't the Young D.B.
It's the Ol' D.B.
That old shit
This ain't the Embry-O D.B.
This is the Ol' mothafuckin' D.B.
I'm Chris Rock, I'm chillin with theODB
So I'm the wrong place, at the wrong mothafuckin' time
With the wrong mothafuckin' man
TheODB, baby
All y'all niggas talkin bout commercial song
This ain't no commercial song
Straight up, nigga, what?
Y'all niggas can't fuck with me
All y'all niggas lovin' me
Mister courageous ODB
You need to recognize he's a P-I-M-P
You need to recognize
Yo, what's my name? (You need to recognize)
Shut the fuck up (you need to recognize)
I bring the mothafuckin' ruckus
(You need to recognize) c'mon punk ass niggas
Uh, nah, nah, I'm just fuckin wit'chall (uh-huh)
Who get drunk at night 'til the early morn'?
Tap dances at the party like it's goin on
Bitches and niggas all around scopin' each other down
I'm takin pictures at y'all at the fuckin lounge
Mad niggas was, gettin' drunk at the bar
I'm throwin' Moet bottles, hahahaha
It's rowdy outside, I ain't signin' shit
Don't flow bitch, I take your microphone
You party bitches fallin' in line
With your fat ass stinkin' behind
You don't know who the fuck is here
I back smack your ass, make pressure appear
'Cause cold Lucky knockin' at your door
I dedicate that to your source
'Cause this (nigga please) is dirty and it's stinkin'
Funkier than (Peppi Le Pew, so I was thinkin')
I drop you mothafuckin' niggas on the (weekend)
(Lettin' you know that) bitch-nigga don't start
You thought that I was weak? Huh, let me speak
My rhymes come funkier than your grandfather's feet
So listen mister, don't you ever forget
Rhyme dirty, you couldn't even clean it with Comet
Or even Worex, some tried Ajax
Only mix wit' the back get this track
Y'all niggas can't fuck with me
All y'all niggas lovin' me
Mister courageous ODB
You need to recognize he's a P-I-M-P
You need to recognize, you need to recognize
You need to recognize, niggas need to recognize
Uh-huh, uh-huh
Uh-huh, uh-huh
Sweet girl, sweet girl
Each and every day-a, each and every way-a
See you niggas, most of your strayers
Stray off from a thing, civilization-a
Don't understand the true nation-a
Go back like cold ovens and ice boxes
(Murder Avenue L trains, Broadway blackouts
Brooklyn Zoo keep history, fam shake the trends
Five years of workin bodies, voice box hits the shotty
I move in parties, stickin hotties
And all you fake mob Gotti's, I push your skirt up
My shit's so bad I wipe my ass with a burner)
I said, y'all niggas can't fuck with me
All y'all niggas lovin' me
Mister courageous ODB
You need to recognize he's a P-I-M-P
You need to recognize, you need to recognize
You niggas need to recognize, uh-huh, uh-huh
Y'all niggas can't fuck with me
All y'all niggas lovin' me
Mister courageous ODB
You need to recognize he's a P-I-M-P
You need to recognize, you need to recognize
Bitches and niggas'll recognize
Look, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh
Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh
You heard my man
He ain't on no commercial shit
The ODB
It ain't the Young D.B.
It's the Ol' D.B.
That old shit
This ain't the Embry-O D.B.
This is the Ol' mothafuckin' D.B.
I'm Chris Rock, I'm chillin with theODB
So I'm the wrong place, at the wrong mothafuckin' time
With the wrong mothafuckin' man
TheODB, baby
All y'all niggas talkin bout commercial song
This ain't no commercial song
Straight up, nigga, what?
Y'all niggas can't fuck with me
All y'all niggas lovin' me
Mister courageous ODB
You need to recognize he's a P-I-M-P
You need to recognize
Yo, what's my name? (You need to recognize)
Shut the fuck up (you need to recognize)
I bring the mothafuckin' ruckus
(You need to recognize) c'mon punk ass niggas
Uh, nah, nah, I'm just fuckin wit'chall (uh-huh)
Who get drunk at night 'til the early morn'?
Tap dances at the party like it's goin on
Bitches and niggas all around scopin' each other down
I'm takin pictures at y'all at the fuckin lounge
Mad niggas was, gettin' drunk at the bar
I'm throwin' Moet bottles, hahahaha
It's rowdy outside, I ain't signin' shit
Don't flow bitch, I take your microphone
You party bitches fallin' in line
With your fat ass stinkin' behind
You don't know who the fuck is here
I back smack your ass, make pressure appear
'Cause cold Lucky knockin' at your door
I dedicate that to your source
'Cause this (nigga please) is dirty and it's stinkin'
Funkier than (Peppi Le Pew, so I was thinkin')
I drop you mothafuckin' niggas on the (weekend)
(Lettin' you know that) bitch-nigga don't start
You thought that I was weak? Huh, let me speak
My rhymes come funkier than your grandfather's feet
So listen mister, don't you ever forget
Rhyme dirty, you couldn't even clean it with Comet
Or even Worex, some tried Ajax
Only mix wit' the back get this track
Y'all niggas can't fuck with me
All y'all niggas lovin' me
Mister courageous ODB
You need to recognize he's a P-I-M-P
You need to recognize, you need to recognize
You need to recognize, niggas need to recognize
Uh-huh, uh-huh
Uh-huh, uh-huh
Sweet girl, sweet girl
Each and every day-a, each and every way-a
See you niggas, most of your strayers
Stray off from a thing, civilization-a
Don't understand the true nation-a
Go back like cold ovens and ice boxes
(Murder Avenue L trains, Broadway blackouts
Brooklyn Zoo keep history, fam shake the trends
Five years of workin bodies, voice box hits the shotty
I move in parties, stickin hotties
And all you fake mob Gotti's, I push your skirt up
My shit's so bad I wipe my ass with a burner)
I said, y'all niggas can't fuck with me
All y'all niggas lovin' me
Mister courageous ODB
You need to recognize he's a P-I-M-P
You need to recognize, you need to recognize
You niggas need to recognize, uh-huh, uh-huh
Y'all niggas can't fuck with me
All y'all niggas lovin' me
Mister courageous ODB
You need to recognize he's a P-I-M-P
You need to recognize, you need to recognize
Bitches and niggas'll recognize
Look, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh
Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh
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