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"
Let's do it again
Let's do it again
[Chorus]
Sweet breeze in the summer time
Were makin' everything alright
Always keep ya hypnotized
We keep ya feelin' oh so high
Like its 1999
All over again with all of my hustlers, soldiers by my side
Been a long, long ride, I'm still amazed how the time fly by
A lot of my niggas didn't make it to see this
But I'm not gonna cry
We slammin' doors on the caddy coupe
After bar groupin'
When them niggas was out there shootin'
Drinkin' 40's on the roof
Went from zeros to six figures
To seven figures and better
Niggas determined to get on the level
Down for whatever, chasin' that chedda
Ride anywhere necessary, the celebration is necessary
It's a hard load to carry
But that there was temporary
I let it relax sometime
Just chill out with my money
Then when Layzie Bone is at it again, another summer
Lets have a ball nigga and keep this one blazin'
[Chorus: x2]
Hey they thought it was over
The bone thugs n harmony was finished
But they, they must of forgot, they forgot how much I rapper like I
Sat back recline, and trained my mastermind
Came up with a faster rhyme
In time this dogg has got you hypnotized
So I gotta ask them how in the hell we gon fall off
When we got half of this industry swangin' from my balls
Me and dawgs
Untouchable niggas, could never see us, never be us
Won't even get close enough to try to defeat us
Niggas that have they come learn with the milla-meta, meta
Loudest niggas you ever gonna see ah
Talk and get served and you'll that we be it, runnin' the game
Still doin' our everyday thangs, bang
So I really hope you got you game up
Cause we comin' hard so don't get envolved
If y'all ain't ready to bring ya gangsta
[chorus: x2]
You feelin' we slippin' huh
You think that we missin' the 1st of the month
10 years we done been here
We spending them thangs and bringin' them guns yup
We better get it, we don't have that ammunition
But I bet we takin' it there
Got us a mac if you wanna ride I ain't braggin' but I keeps it real
You know them thug niggas is gonna bring something
That everybody gonna feel
You ridin' and rollin and smokin' and bumpin'
Yeah that's how I live
And I been here so I live here
Won't put me out my crib
My address is the game and my second it is the hood
We comin' back like cool water and soda
A couple of shakes and we hittin' the hood with that heart
Do it again we gotta ?
Part of the thugsta law back to nothing
Nothing bumpin' goin to jump
I did it then and that is where I'm from
And I can do it again and again and again and again
[Chorus: x2]
Let's do it again
[Chorus]
Sweet breeze in the summer time
Were makin' everything alright
Always keep ya hypnotized
We keep ya feelin' oh so high
Like its 1999
All over again with all of my hustlers, soldiers by my side
Been a long, long ride, I'm still amazed how the time fly by
A lot of my niggas didn't make it to see this
But I'm not gonna cry
We slammin' doors on the caddy coupe
After bar groupin'
When them niggas was out there shootin'
Drinkin' 40's on the roof
Went from zeros to six figures
To seven figures and better
Niggas determined to get on the level
Down for whatever, chasin' that chedda
Ride anywhere necessary, the celebration is necessary
It's a hard load to carry
But that there was temporary
I let it relax sometime
Just chill out with my money
Then when Layzie Bone is at it again, another summer
Lets have a ball nigga and keep this one blazin'
[Chorus: x2]
Hey they thought it was over
The bone thugs n harmony was finished
But they, they must of forgot, they forgot how much I rapper like I
Sat back recline, and trained my mastermind
Came up with a faster rhyme
In time this dogg has got you hypnotized
So I gotta ask them how in the hell we gon fall off
When we got half of this industry swangin' from my balls
Me and dawgs
Untouchable niggas, could never see us, never be us
Won't even get close enough to try to defeat us
Niggas that have they come learn with the milla-meta, meta
Loudest niggas you ever gonna see ah
Talk and get served and you'll that we be it, runnin' the game
Still doin' our everyday thangs, bang
So I really hope you got you game up
Cause we comin' hard so don't get envolved
If y'all ain't ready to bring ya gangsta
[chorus: x2]
You feelin' we slippin' huh
You think that we missin' the 1st of the month
10 years we done been here
We spending them thangs and bringin' them guns yup
We better get it, we don't have that ammunition
But I bet we takin' it there
Got us a mac if you wanna ride I ain't braggin' but I keeps it real
You know them thug niggas is gonna bring something
That everybody gonna feel
You ridin' and rollin and smokin' and bumpin'
Yeah that's how I live
And I been here so I live here
Won't put me out my crib
My address is the game and my second it is the hood
We comin' back like cool water and soda
A couple of shakes and we hittin' the hood with that heart
Do it again we gotta ?
Part of the thugsta law back to nothing
Nothing bumpin' goin to jump
I did it then and that is where I'm from
And I can do it again and again and again and again
[Chorus: x2]
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