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"
Everytime I turn around
Baby I need this, baby I need that
Man I'm like bitch I can't give you shit, I can't give you shat
I can't give you nothin, I can't fuck with yo period
I can let you suck my dick tho
[Verse 1]
Bill folds of 20s
Bank rolls of 100s
Body bags of 50s
Yeah I'm out here gettin money
There's too many ways to get it if you jokin it ain't funny
If you hatin cause I got it you a god damn dummy
Put yo brain in some books and quit
Worryin bout these hoes
Either get a 9 to 5 quick and start sellin dro
Life don't get crazier than this, I'm tellin you because I know
I ain't always had cheese I used to be very broke
That's when I realized I could flow and I jumped up on the track
I was only 17 a studio is all I lacked
Now I'm 24 and got currency by the stack
M town reppa liquor sippa and the souths on my back
[Chorus 3x]
I got that cake, I got that cake
These suckas see me out here flossin and they hate
[Verse 2]
Its 420 in the mornin and we still up
Drinkin, rappin, makin tracks, trynna get these bucks
We gon get it even if it kill us yes we are
How you think we afford this candy paint on all these cars
Gotta crib here in Memphis across the street from the green
I can watch a golf game on my porch and smoke weed
What you think about that, I be ballin you know me
Get a lot of cake er'ry year thanks to H.C.P.
I done made it to the top
Now I'm flossin and they hate
This one year gon make me a millionaire and I can't wait
I be doin what I do so good lil pimpin can't quit
I'm gon get the doe regardless so you haters ain't shit
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
200 and 15 diamons on me at all times
They ain't huge but in the day light these bitches shine
Got a bad motherfuckin bitch cookin up steak
She ain't worried bout shit cause she know I get that cake
If I come through your hood ill be comin with my boys
All our guns weigh a ton and our trucks makin noise
We ain't got no time to be fuckin round with these hoes
We gotta get it get it quick and that's the way the game goes
I be puffin on some dro, I be sippin on some crown
I'm the caucasion persuasion and I stay puttin it down
If you wanna 16 its gon cost ya 16
Not hundreds, that's gs and I'm gon need a pint of lean
[Chorus]
Baby I need this, baby I need that
Man I'm like bitch I can't give you shit, I can't give you shat
I can't give you nothin, I can't fuck with yo period
I can let you suck my dick tho
[Verse 1]
Bill folds of 20s
Bank rolls of 100s
Body bags of 50s
Yeah I'm out here gettin money
There's too many ways to get it if you jokin it ain't funny
If you hatin cause I got it you a god damn dummy
Put yo brain in some books and quit
Worryin bout these hoes
Either get a 9 to 5 quick and start sellin dro
Life don't get crazier than this, I'm tellin you because I know
I ain't always had cheese I used to be very broke
That's when I realized I could flow and I jumped up on the track
I was only 17 a studio is all I lacked
Now I'm 24 and got currency by the stack
M town reppa liquor sippa and the souths on my back
[Chorus 3x]
I got that cake, I got that cake
These suckas see me out here flossin and they hate
[Verse 2]
Its 420 in the mornin and we still up
Drinkin, rappin, makin tracks, trynna get these bucks
We gon get it even if it kill us yes we are
How you think we afford this candy paint on all these cars
Gotta crib here in Memphis across the street from the green
I can watch a golf game on my porch and smoke weed
What you think about that, I be ballin you know me
Get a lot of cake er'ry year thanks to H.C.P.
I done made it to the top
Now I'm flossin and they hate
This one year gon make me a millionaire and I can't wait
I be doin what I do so good lil pimpin can't quit
I'm gon get the doe regardless so you haters ain't shit
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
200 and 15 diamons on me at all times
They ain't huge but in the day light these bitches shine
Got a bad motherfuckin bitch cookin up steak
She ain't worried bout shit cause she know I get that cake
If I come through your hood ill be comin with my boys
All our guns weigh a ton and our trucks makin noise
We ain't got no time to be fuckin round with these hoes
We gotta get it get it quick and that's the way the game goes
I be puffin on some dro, I be sippin on some crown
I'm the caucasion persuasion and I stay puttin it down
If you wanna 16 its gon cost ya 16
Not hundreds, that's gs and I'm gon need a pint of lean
[Chorus]
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