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"
Hi this is Steve Austin
Reportin' live from San Diego, California
I'm here wit two controversial rappers from the city
Lil' Rob and Mr. Shadow A-K-A The Mayhem Click
And we're talkin' about rumors
Now Lil' Rob we understand you have an album out entitle the Crazy Life
Can you tell us what kind of rumors have you murder sense the release of that album
And some of the things you been through
Well let me put it like this
All this fools talkin' shit all the time
I was sixteen wit the bullet representin' the 6-1-9
But this fools couldn't take it, they didn't want me to make it
And so they rather hate it because they just can't fade it
Gang related, situated, now I'm back
This putos talkin' smack but I kind of like that
In a way, in one day, I might say that the ones who helped me do this
Had it any other time and I knew this I'm still foolish fools are clueless
To what I can do wit my ability thought of myself as a cholo not a real MC
And so I did what I did, I'm so glad that I did it
Because it put some chips in my pocket when I finished
Using words like Homes, Simon, and Leba
People try to put me down but end floatin' on the river
See I told you twice before but I'll say it one more time
You do your thing Homes but I'm gonna do mine
[Chorus: x2]
Look at all this rumors
Started by jealous people
And basically that's what I think
All this fuckin' fools can talk all the fuckin shit they want about me
'Cause I can give a fuck you know what I mean
It proves that I'm above their level, You Know
So Shadow we understand you havin' similar problem as those of Lil' Robs
Is there anythin' that you would like to say
To them Player Haters and if so what would it be
Man I gotta give it up to the punks tryin' to diss me
Talkin' mad shit 'cause they miss me
Reminisce me because they use to talk head about my rhymes
And when they heard me in the radio they requested till I die and I must admit
That I love you yappin' lips
'Cause it makes me ride my rolas amd my music stacks my chips
Mr. Shadow the crazy vato that fools wanna battle
When they end up undergravel when they act like who's in tattle
Now Why would you want part of this truthfulness
Don't get caught up in the mess
'Cause I hate them phony putos dippin' all up in my business ese
Got hate straight for all the fools that player hate
'Cause ain't no punk chavala stoppin' me from makin' bake
I don't need to take it to make it like claus I brake it unfaded
I be remainin' like say it I'm servin' hate to those perpetrated it
[Chorus: x2]
Yeah, that's pretty much how I feel
Gotta tell them haters that ah
You can only witness what you see not the things you hear
Remember that
Sense we're talkin' about rumors
I heard that Lil' Rob and Shadow weren't always the best of friends
So Shadow can you clear that up for us and tell us what's really goin' on
Simon, we had some problems like a dose we had to squash it
We're from the Mayhem Click (WHY?)
'Cause everybody wants it
The baddest mother fuckers now together no one is ever gonna
Intimidate us, just imitate us player haters
Don't bother analyzin' anythin' we do
'Cause the shit we kick is tight and you know that this is true
Mr. Shadow and Lil' Rob makin' heads bob and it don't stop
'Cause we're about to keep on flowin' 'til you see our caskets drop
It's the one lil' cholo, back before I go
Just thought that I let you know that you can never stop my flow
So I suggest you put that shit to rest, quit talkin' all the mess
You're talkin' about the best and you're just wastin' your breath
As sit here, thinkin' neva thought it would be you
The city that I represent talkin' all that shit
Because all we do is kick it and mind our own business
Lil' Rob and Mr. Shadow scratchin' fools off the bitch list
[Chorus: x4]
So now you know where we're comin' from
And wit that it concludes the story for today
I hope you mother fuckers learned your lesson
And learn how to keep your fuckin' trap shut
And quit spreadin' rumors that ain't true
'Cause that shit be gettin' mother fuckers in trouble
And believe me, you don't want part of that
You don't want none of this The Mayhem Click
And we're out
Reportin' live from San Diego, California
I'm here wit two controversial rappers from the city
Lil' Rob and Mr. Shadow A-K-A The Mayhem Click
And we're talkin' about rumors
Now Lil' Rob we understand you have an album out entitle the Crazy Life
Can you tell us what kind of rumors have you murder sense the release of that album
And some of the things you been through
Well let me put it like this
All this fools talkin' shit all the time
I was sixteen wit the bullet representin' the 6-1-9
But this fools couldn't take it, they didn't want me to make it
And so they rather hate it because they just can't fade it
Gang related, situated, now I'm back
This putos talkin' smack but I kind of like that
In a way, in one day, I might say that the ones who helped me do this
Had it any other time and I knew this I'm still foolish fools are clueless
To what I can do wit my ability thought of myself as a cholo not a real MC
And so I did what I did, I'm so glad that I did it
Because it put some chips in my pocket when I finished
Using words like Homes, Simon, and Leba
People try to put me down but end floatin' on the river
See I told you twice before but I'll say it one more time
You do your thing Homes but I'm gonna do mine
[Chorus: x2]
Look at all this rumors
Started by jealous people
And basically that's what I think
All this fuckin' fools can talk all the fuckin shit they want about me
'Cause I can give a fuck you know what I mean
It proves that I'm above their level, You Know
So Shadow we understand you havin' similar problem as those of Lil' Robs
Is there anythin' that you would like to say
To them Player Haters and if so what would it be
Man I gotta give it up to the punks tryin' to diss me
Talkin' mad shit 'cause they miss me
Reminisce me because they use to talk head about my rhymes
And when they heard me in the radio they requested till I die and I must admit
That I love you yappin' lips
'Cause it makes me ride my rolas amd my music stacks my chips
Mr. Shadow the crazy vato that fools wanna battle
When they end up undergravel when they act like who's in tattle
Now Why would you want part of this truthfulness
Don't get caught up in the mess
'Cause I hate them phony putos dippin' all up in my business ese
Got hate straight for all the fools that player hate
'Cause ain't no punk chavala stoppin' me from makin' bake
I don't need to take it to make it like claus I brake it unfaded
I be remainin' like say it I'm servin' hate to those perpetrated it
[Chorus: x2]
Yeah, that's pretty much how I feel
Gotta tell them haters that ah
You can only witness what you see not the things you hear
Remember that
Sense we're talkin' about rumors
I heard that Lil' Rob and Shadow weren't always the best of friends
So Shadow can you clear that up for us and tell us what's really goin' on
Simon, we had some problems like a dose we had to squash it
We're from the Mayhem Click (WHY?)
'Cause everybody wants it
The baddest mother fuckers now together no one is ever gonna
Intimidate us, just imitate us player haters
Don't bother analyzin' anythin' we do
'Cause the shit we kick is tight and you know that this is true
Mr. Shadow and Lil' Rob makin' heads bob and it don't stop
'Cause we're about to keep on flowin' 'til you see our caskets drop
It's the one lil' cholo, back before I go
Just thought that I let you know that you can never stop my flow
So I suggest you put that shit to rest, quit talkin' all the mess
You're talkin' about the best and you're just wastin' your breath
As sit here, thinkin' neva thought it would be you
The city that I represent talkin' all that shit
Because all we do is kick it and mind our own business
Lil' Rob and Mr. Shadow scratchin' fools off the bitch list
[Chorus: x4]
So now you know where we're comin' from
And wit that it concludes the story for today
I hope you mother fuckers learned your lesson
And learn how to keep your fuckin' trap shut
And quit spreadin' rumors that ain't true
'Cause that shit be gettin' mother fuckers in trouble
And believe me, you don't want part of that
You don't want none of this The Mayhem Click
And we're out
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Rumours [Featuring Lil Rob] Lyrics as written by Carlton Lennox Hines
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