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"
Many motherfuckers criticize
Pros and how they play
And many motherfuckers criticize
Rappers and what they say
Even though they criticize
Secretly they fantasize
But they know they'll never paid be to play
Yea
I'ma kill one of you young punks
With a old school flow
Flow flow
Though I walk through the shadow of death
I gotta make sure that my shoes and my outfit fresh
Y'all bitches get jealous when you see me coming
Y'all would too if you seen my woman
Y'all know we bout to do what we do
This shit here bout as sick as the flu
Drunk motherfuckers wanna vomit on my shoe
Niggas can't have shit prolly cause of you
Rappers go to jail like Oprah go to Yale
Stedman policy don't ask don't tell
Where my waterbees as I go get the mail
Half black is the new black can't you tell?
It was blue black like Wesley Snipes in new jack
Now you got to have a white mama just to do that
Tiger woods used to be a safe nigga
Go ahead let your daughter have a date with him
He'll mate wit 'em prolly in a wifebeater
Tiger 'bout to change his name to cheater
I don't like it when you call me big poppa
From south central and I hate helicopters
If we at school I'll break in your locker
See me with a water bottle its probably vodka
Drink responsibly or drink constantly
Be who you wanna be in this economy
Drunk as Sean Connery at the Bonavie
Can't throw me out motherfucker I'm the honery
Trust me I'll never be the nominee
I don't kiss enough ass I'm too honery
Ice cube be where the piranha be
Swim upstream eatin' all kind of meat
West coast treat it like hyenas
Take what you want from these lieing ass cheaters
Eat the fuck out these beavers
That's how we act when you don't wanna feed us
Crazy motherfucker ever since I was a fetus
Might as well join us you ain't gonna beat us
Please believe us you can ask Jesus
I'ma be here bout as long as Regis
Understand I never pledge of alligiance
To this balla confusion might cause a contusion boy
I see you're cruising for a bruising
Fucking with a principal that don't like students
Don't you know that detention is a lynching
And if I fail to mention I'm spending out my pension
No no no no
The reason I hung in
Cause this right here ain't no country for young men
Sunny you done fucked up the churches money
I'm red fox and you that big dummy
This junkyard was a empire
Y'all let it get over ran by vampires
Most M.C's is god damn liars
Like them fucking supervisors working up Kaiser?
Bitch I'm not a dodger I'm a laker punk
Yous a fucking clipper you can call me jack the ripper
Cut you up by your gizzard then down by your liver
Rooter by the tooter gut you like flipper
Dipper y'all better treat me like the skipper
Head trigga the heir nigga
Air honkey and air critter
I come through and kill every litter
Like that like that like that
No country for young men
No no no no
It's like balla' confusion
No country for young men
No no no no
Your world is just an illusion
No no no no
No country for young men
No no no no
It's like balla confusion
No country for young men
Your world is just an illusion
Pros and how they play
And many motherfuckers criticize
Rappers and what they say
Even though they criticize
Secretly they fantasize
But they know they'll never paid be to play
Yea
I'ma kill one of you young punks
With a old school flow
Flow flow
Though I walk through the shadow of death
I gotta make sure that my shoes and my outfit fresh
Y'all bitches get jealous when you see me coming
Y'all would too if you seen my woman
Y'all know we bout to do what we do
This shit here bout as sick as the flu
Drunk motherfuckers wanna vomit on my shoe
Niggas can't have shit prolly cause of you
Rappers go to jail like Oprah go to Yale
Stedman policy don't ask don't tell
Where my waterbees as I go get the mail
Half black is the new black can't you tell?
It was blue black like Wesley Snipes in new jack
Now you got to have a white mama just to do that
Tiger woods used to be a safe nigga
Go ahead let your daughter have a date with him
He'll mate wit 'em prolly in a wifebeater
Tiger 'bout to change his name to cheater
I don't like it when you call me big poppa
From south central and I hate helicopters
If we at school I'll break in your locker
See me with a water bottle its probably vodka
Drink responsibly or drink constantly
Be who you wanna be in this economy
Drunk as Sean Connery at the Bonavie
Can't throw me out motherfucker I'm the honery
Trust me I'll never be the nominee
I don't kiss enough ass I'm too honery
Ice cube be where the piranha be
Swim upstream eatin' all kind of meat
West coast treat it like hyenas
Take what you want from these lieing ass cheaters
Eat the fuck out these beavers
That's how we act when you don't wanna feed us
Crazy motherfucker ever since I was a fetus
Might as well join us you ain't gonna beat us
Please believe us you can ask Jesus
I'ma be here bout as long as Regis
Understand I never pledge of alligiance
To this balla confusion might cause a contusion boy
I see you're cruising for a bruising
Fucking with a principal that don't like students
Don't you know that detention is a lynching
And if I fail to mention I'm spending out my pension
No no no no
The reason I hung in
Cause this right here ain't no country for young men
Sunny you done fucked up the churches money
I'm red fox and you that big dummy
This junkyard was a empire
Y'all let it get over ran by vampires
Most M.C's is god damn liars
Like them fucking supervisors working up Kaiser?
Bitch I'm not a dodger I'm a laker punk
Yous a fucking clipper you can call me jack the ripper
Cut you up by your gizzard then down by your liver
Rooter by the tooter gut you like flipper
Dipper y'all better treat me like the skipper
Head trigga the heir nigga
Air honkey and air critter
I come through and kill every litter
Like that like that like that
No country for young men
No no no no
It's like balla' confusion
No country for young men
No no no no
Your world is just an illusion
No no no no
No country for young men
No no no no
It's like balla confusion
No country for young men
Your world is just an illusion
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No Country for Young Men Lyrics as written by Darrell E. Jackson Darrell Christian Jackson
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