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"
MC T on a hit and to make sure I don't miss,
Kick the beat as this fool persists
Step off me, get the hell off, well I'm riding
Flowing with this funky beat, you suckers keep on tryin'a
Diss this, uh-uh, I ain't having it
Sucker duck, understand my schedule work too heavy
I'm a man, I mean, sometimes it seems hammer claim
But I can still cop a lean and explain to you
An MC who's got beef, I'm giving grief to disbelief
You said that I was new to this well put me on your hit list
I'm 'quipped to rule, and I squash all the bull
[Chorus: ]
We got our own ideas!
We got our own ideas!
Yeah
Antagonistic action, it's just a fraction
Oof what I feel for you, I'll take my time in a rhyme
Yo, let's bust a move, I'm steppin' with confidence
Yes I know it's evident, a backseat to you that's irrelevant
You see it's like this, you shot and missed, and now it's my turn
You learn, you mess with the fire, you burn. and it's a heat up
Situation sticky
You're the duck, huh, I won't be picky, I'm bassin'
You're chasing a dream that I'm livin'
You stupid pigeon, cause even with the high flow, I keep a low pro
You step off on me, and that's a sho' nuff n.o.
I mean a no-go
Yeah, something like that
[Chorus: ]
Fuck it, you're tryin' to step on my tip, yeah
I'm a brother with a purpose (pump it up, T)
So I'll take my time and serve this right
Despite the negativity,
Never want society to get the best of me
You sold out, just another fool, holdin' out
On the pockets of my brothers tryin' to get clout
Step back, cast the vapors, your vision's blurred, check out my behaviour
Calm, cool, never sweat the issue (so what you're saying?)
What I'm saying is that we're past due
Gotta stand up and be counted, can't you see the trouble keeps mountin', boy
And I won't stand for it, so get off
'Cause I'm about to have a fit
You can't step unless you step legit
Enough talk y'all, this is it, let's get ill with this
Yeah, yeah
Suckers are trying to step off on my tip
We got our own ideas!
Suckers are trying to step off on my tip
We got our own ideas!
Suckers are trying to step off on my tip
We got our own ideas!
Suckers are trying to step off on my tip
As I roast, you toast - can't stand the heat of the aftermath
The worst you ran with you dis just to get a laugh
the brother you ridiculed,
they say you're the king of rules
yeah, time for school, time for walking,
I'm stalking, you're talking
as you run your mouth down, I'm chalking up another way of
gettin' paid in dividends
in the end, my friend, its just a verbal blend
yeah, get with that
[Chorus: ]
Brothers be jocking, freaks keep clocking
Brothers be jocking, skeezers are clocking
We got our own ideas!
Skeezers be on my tip (yeah)
trying to get with this
We got our own ideas!
Skeezers be on my tip (yeah)
trying to get with this
Skeezers be on my tip (yeah)
trying to get with this
Skeezers be on my tip (yeah)
We got our own ideas!
Trying to get to this
Clocking, I got my own ideas,
And they ain't got nothing to do with what's in here
See ya next year, 91, in full effect
I'm getting ign'ant
(yeah, yeah)
We got our own ideas! (yeah, yeah)
Kick the beat as this fool persists
Step off me, get the hell off, well I'm riding
Flowing with this funky beat, you suckers keep on tryin'a
Diss this, uh-uh, I ain't having it
Sucker duck, understand my schedule work too heavy
I'm a man, I mean, sometimes it seems hammer claim
But I can still cop a lean and explain to you
An MC who's got beef, I'm giving grief to disbelief
You said that I was new to this well put me on your hit list
I'm 'quipped to rule, and I squash all the bull
[Chorus: ]
We got our own ideas!
We got our own ideas!
Yeah
Antagonistic action, it's just a fraction
Oof what I feel for you, I'll take my time in a rhyme
Yo, let's bust a move, I'm steppin' with confidence
Yes I know it's evident, a backseat to you that's irrelevant
You see it's like this, you shot and missed, and now it's my turn
You learn, you mess with the fire, you burn. and it's a heat up
Situation sticky
You're the duck, huh, I won't be picky, I'm bassin'
You're chasing a dream that I'm livin'
You stupid pigeon, cause even with the high flow, I keep a low pro
You step off on me, and that's a sho' nuff n.o.
I mean a no-go
Yeah, something like that
[Chorus: ]
Fuck it, you're tryin' to step on my tip, yeah
I'm a brother with a purpose (pump it up, T)
So I'll take my time and serve this right
Despite the negativity,
Never want society to get the best of me
You sold out, just another fool, holdin' out
On the pockets of my brothers tryin' to get clout
Step back, cast the vapors, your vision's blurred, check out my behaviour
Calm, cool, never sweat the issue (so what you're saying?)
What I'm saying is that we're past due
Gotta stand up and be counted, can't you see the trouble keeps mountin', boy
And I won't stand for it, so get off
'Cause I'm about to have a fit
You can't step unless you step legit
Enough talk y'all, this is it, let's get ill with this
Yeah, yeah
Suckers are trying to step off on my tip
We got our own ideas!
Suckers are trying to step off on my tip
We got our own ideas!
Suckers are trying to step off on my tip
We got our own ideas!
Suckers are trying to step off on my tip
As I roast, you toast - can't stand the heat of the aftermath
The worst you ran with you dis just to get a laugh
the brother you ridiculed,
they say you're the king of rules
yeah, time for school, time for walking,
I'm stalking, you're talking
as you run your mouth down, I'm chalking up another way of
gettin' paid in dividends
in the end, my friend, its just a verbal blend
yeah, get with that
[Chorus: ]
Brothers be jocking, freaks keep clocking
Brothers be jocking, skeezers are clocking
We got our own ideas!
Skeezers be on my tip (yeah)
trying to get with this
We got our own ideas!
Skeezers be on my tip (yeah)
trying to get with this
Skeezers be on my tip (yeah)
trying to get with this
Skeezers be on my tip (yeah)
We got our own ideas!
Trying to get to this
Clocking, I got my own ideas,
And they ain't got nothing to do with what's in here
See ya next year, 91, in full effect
I'm getting ign'ant
(yeah, yeah)
We got our own ideas! (yeah, yeah)
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