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"
Madness! Madness!
This is pure madness that we're talking about
Pure madness all the time now
This is pure madness that we're talking about
And I can't believe they wanna do it again
We gonna have to get em up
They gonna have to get me off
And you win some you lose some
So take this as loss
And cause a mother fuck smiles
Don't mean that mother fuckers soft
I'm laughing all the while
While they come to hall you off
I got the powers got my powder
Cops is casing the scene
That's how it goes something in me steady chasing the green
It's strictly cash only basis, but you're digging in your chest
Let's fuck em out everybody where its mutual respect
Madness! Madness!
This is pure madness that we're talking about
Pure madness all the time now
This is pure madness that we're talking about
And I can't believe they wanna do it again
Skinhead rob fuck a bitch
No I never gave a shit
Good or bad present, past
No I never save a bitch
Suck I dick I need a down bitch one that ain't too flossy
One that's down to hold my work and bust the heat to get em' off me
She's the baddest, I mean baddest bitch that's up in the club
Same one that's in the parking lot reloading the snug
That's the one who get my love
And you can't call it what you want
Or if that bitch is down to ride
That's the bitch that I'ma flaunt
Madness! Madness!
This is pure madness that we're talking about
Pure madness all the time now
This is pure madness that we're talking about
And I can't believe they wanna do it again
I'm from the west coast, best coast
Pump in the trench coat
Nothing like columbine everybody gets smoked
Heard that I got smoked naw alls I gots smokes
Best Mary Jane right down to the rock coke
You're being jipped, so take em to the river
Had to drop a tall can, I was fucking up my liver
Yet still I deliver like the first of 15
And I still make you quiver like your first 16th
Madness! Madness!
This is pure madness that we're talking about
Pure madness all the time now
This is pure madness that we're talking about
And I can't believe they wanna do it again
This is pure madness that we're talking about
Pure madness all the time now
This is pure madness that we're talking about
And I can't believe they wanna do it again
We gonna have to get em up
They gonna have to get me off
And you win some you lose some
So take this as loss
And cause a mother fuck smiles
Don't mean that mother fuckers soft
I'm laughing all the while
While they come to hall you off
I got the powers got my powder
Cops is casing the scene
That's how it goes something in me steady chasing the green
It's strictly cash only basis, but you're digging in your chest
Let's fuck em out everybody where its mutual respect
Madness! Madness!
This is pure madness that we're talking about
Pure madness all the time now
This is pure madness that we're talking about
And I can't believe they wanna do it again
Skinhead rob fuck a bitch
No I never gave a shit
Good or bad present, past
No I never save a bitch
Suck I dick I need a down bitch one that ain't too flossy
One that's down to hold my work and bust the heat to get em' off me
She's the baddest, I mean baddest bitch that's up in the club
Same one that's in the parking lot reloading the snug
That's the one who get my love
And you can't call it what you want
Or if that bitch is down to ride
That's the bitch that I'ma flaunt
Madness! Madness!
This is pure madness that we're talking about
Pure madness all the time now
This is pure madness that we're talking about
And I can't believe they wanna do it again
I'm from the west coast, best coast
Pump in the trench coat
Nothing like columbine everybody gets smoked
Heard that I got smoked naw alls I gots smokes
Best Mary Jane right down to the rock coke
You're being jipped, so take em to the river
Had to drop a tall can, I was fucking up my liver
Yet still I deliver like the first of 15
And I still make you quiver like your first 16th
Madness! Madness!
This is pure madness that we're talking about
Pure madness all the time now
This is pure madness that we're talking about
And I can't believe they wanna do it again
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