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"
[Intro]
You stand here beside me, and all the times you just pretend
To be my friend...
[Krayzie]
Nigga get your hands up out my fuckin' pockets before I cock
This A.K. fo' seven and rott your body (might...) opposites
Plottin' niggaz don't think I'm watchin' get 'em in my scope
They say keep it, enemies in focus, watch 'em closely
Niggaz that takin' a roll in it comes in a (?) slowly cause of the
Money man and that can be a dangerous thing cause when they
Play with the paper Krayzie go loco insane my nigga I just
Let you hang so quit tryin' to mothafuckin' sue my brotha
Nigga cause I just now met ya so don't play me to close
So keep your distance cause I'll split ya, for tryin' to
Infitrate mine what about my nickel plate nine these niggaz
Ain't no friends of mine niggaz get drunk and tell you they
Love you twenty-five times in one night next thing you know
Niggaz is kickin' in your door for your life, got your wife
And your kids, and your crib this your shit you see he was
Fuckin' around with them suckas and you started trustin'
The mothafuckas nigga don't you know, you can't trust no one
At all cause that one might be the one that get you bring
You down, make you fall
[Chorus]
What's friends (what's friends)
I don't want no more friends (no more friends)
I don't need no more friends (no more friends)
I can't take no more friends
Because they always end up back stabbin' in the end
What's friends (what's friends) (*X2*)
[Layzie]
This is strange shit if he'd explain shit don't act like you'd
Understand this like we would be on some lame shit I read it all
In your conversation you think I didn't pin your player hation
Gotta nigga thinkin' Mo Murda when I face him put him on down
With a real situation, take 'em nigga this how we take 'em dog
Nigga will sing us with song nigga will spin us what's wrong
It's all real (real) you haters was born to piss me off
Or kill (kill) nigga we comin' to break you off nigga break you
Off somethin' proper (proper) you used to be my nigga now I might
Have to watch ya, ghetto bird snitchin' like a helicopter so when
You see me comin' dog I might have to pop ya (pop ya)
[Chorus]
What's friends (what's friends)
I don't want no more friends (no more friends)
I don't need no more friends (no more friends)
I can't take no more friends
Because they always end up back stabbin' in the end
What's friends (what's friends) (*X2*)
[Bizzy]
Ride or die... ain't nothin' wrong we're ready to get the battle on and
Ride or die... ain't nothin' wrong I'm ready to get my battle on
You my aquittant so what am I 'posed to do, I'm gettin' closer to
The Angel of Death fuckin' with you how to make promises, promises
So how can I owe you naughty kids so I won't hold you carry a load
I only fuck with soldiers seventh sign ride rolled 'em all over
He's the benign double glock whole clique no colder beef with
Niggaz I'm trippin' I'm just ready to pop a clip in let me fall
Back in line {laughs} Bone Thug connect gang... Bone Thugs forever...
[Chorus]
What's friends (what's friends)
I don't want no more friends (no more friends)
I don't need no more friends (no more friends)
I can't take no more friends
Because they always end up back stabbin' in the end
What's friends (what's friends) (*X4*)
You stand here beside me, and all the times you just pretend
To be my friend...
[Krayzie]
Nigga get your hands up out my fuckin' pockets before I cock
This A.K. fo' seven and rott your body (might...) opposites
Plottin' niggaz don't think I'm watchin' get 'em in my scope
They say keep it, enemies in focus, watch 'em closely
Niggaz that takin' a roll in it comes in a (?) slowly cause of the
Money man and that can be a dangerous thing cause when they
Play with the paper Krayzie go loco insane my nigga I just
Let you hang so quit tryin' to mothafuckin' sue my brotha
Nigga cause I just now met ya so don't play me to close
So keep your distance cause I'll split ya, for tryin' to
Infitrate mine what about my nickel plate nine these niggaz
Ain't no friends of mine niggaz get drunk and tell you they
Love you twenty-five times in one night next thing you know
Niggaz is kickin' in your door for your life, got your wife
And your kids, and your crib this your shit you see he was
Fuckin' around with them suckas and you started trustin'
The mothafuckas nigga don't you know, you can't trust no one
At all cause that one might be the one that get you bring
You down, make you fall
[Chorus]
What's friends (what's friends)
I don't want no more friends (no more friends)
I don't need no more friends (no more friends)
I can't take no more friends
Because they always end up back stabbin' in the end
What's friends (what's friends) (*X2*)
[Layzie]
This is strange shit if he'd explain shit don't act like you'd
Understand this like we would be on some lame shit I read it all
In your conversation you think I didn't pin your player hation
Gotta nigga thinkin' Mo Murda when I face him put him on down
With a real situation, take 'em nigga this how we take 'em dog
Nigga will sing us with song nigga will spin us what's wrong
It's all real (real) you haters was born to piss me off
Or kill (kill) nigga we comin' to break you off nigga break you
Off somethin' proper (proper) you used to be my nigga now I might
Have to watch ya, ghetto bird snitchin' like a helicopter so when
You see me comin' dog I might have to pop ya (pop ya)
[Chorus]
What's friends (what's friends)
I don't want no more friends (no more friends)
I don't need no more friends (no more friends)
I can't take no more friends
Because they always end up back stabbin' in the end
What's friends (what's friends) (*X2*)
[Bizzy]
Ride or die... ain't nothin' wrong we're ready to get the battle on and
Ride or die... ain't nothin' wrong I'm ready to get my battle on
You my aquittant so what am I 'posed to do, I'm gettin' closer to
The Angel of Death fuckin' with you how to make promises, promises
So how can I owe you naughty kids so I won't hold you carry a load
I only fuck with soldiers seventh sign ride rolled 'em all over
He's the benign double glock whole clique no colder beef with
Niggaz I'm trippin' I'm just ready to pop a clip in let me fall
Back in line {laughs} Bone Thug connect gang... Bone Thugs forever...
[Chorus]
What's friends (what's friends)
I don't want no more friends (no more friends)
I don't need no more friends (no more friends)
I can't take no more friends
Because they always end up back stabbin' in the end
What's friends (what's friends) (*X4*)
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What's Friends Lyrics as written by Bryon Mccane Anthony Henderson
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