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"
Yeah
No sleep til Brooklyn
Khrysis on the board with the heat y'all
Kweli
Yeah
Let's get 'em
Son
Come on son
Yeah, yeah I'm on one
Son
Come on son
I I I'm on one
Son
Come on son
Yeah, yeah I'm on one
Son
Come on son
This that crack must be what you using if you challenge me
You sniffing on that white girl the Valerie's the Natalie's the Mallory's
Got you sweating like you losing calories
Battle me? You confuse illusion with reality
Back up off me you had your glory
Man I never seen a sadder story
Blame yourself you mad at me you mad at Cory
I left the maze you still the white mice in the laboratory
Don't test the brain son I'm quite nice at Scattergories
Metaphors and allegories speaking at your colleges
Pathologies I keep on gettin' promises I promised this
The rhyme'll leave you bloody as first responders get
You hear 'em coming with the sirens and titans like Kurt Vonnegut
The appetite for dominance rival that of the Ottoman
Phenomenon I'll eat you after dark like this was Ramadan
Ain't no patience for the whack MC
This ain't World Star homie this ain't VladTV
Stop posing for the camera I'm showing all you amateurs
Life is a bitch its how you handle her
You let the chips drop let 'em fall where they may
This an everyday struggle like Notorious say
Son
Come on son
Yeah, yeah I'm on one
Come on son
I I I
I got the recipe for rest in peace
I never ran but I'm looking so presidential
I still command you to arrest the chief rebellion is my specialty
While the mad cows convince you to invest in beef
I play this game without a referee so there ain't no official
So even Too Short couldn't blow the whistle
Oh yeah I flow a little you might a heard of me
Producers got restraining orders I murder beats
State of emergency like Dudus Coke you hate it but you love it though
We smoke roll one up a double dutch, but I ain't jumping rope
My gutter flow ice cold like the love below
Bring the hood right into your bungalow
Teach you how to start ironically bionic Lee Majors
Now you can do us a favor and stop your hoonish behavior
You rudest Judas who was an intruder, truly a hater
Stab your neighbor in the back you'll do anything to be famous
Stop posing for the camera I'm showing all you amateurs
Life is a bitch it's how you handle her
You let the chips drop, let 'em fall where they may
This an everyday struggle like Notorious say
Son
Come on son
Yeah, yeah I'm on one
Come on son
Yeah, yeah I'm on one
No sleep til Brooklyn
Khrysis on the board with the heat y'all
Kweli
Yeah
Let's get 'em
Son
Come on son
Yeah, yeah I'm on one
Son
Come on son
I I I'm on one
Son
Come on son
Yeah, yeah I'm on one
Son
Come on son
This that crack must be what you using if you challenge me
You sniffing on that white girl the Valerie's the Natalie's the Mallory's
Got you sweating like you losing calories
Battle me? You confuse illusion with reality
Back up off me you had your glory
Man I never seen a sadder story
Blame yourself you mad at me you mad at Cory
I left the maze you still the white mice in the laboratory
Don't test the brain son I'm quite nice at Scattergories
Metaphors and allegories speaking at your colleges
Pathologies I keep on gettin' promises I promised this
The rhyme'll leave you bloody as first responders get
You hear 'em coming with the sirens and titans like Kurt Vonnegut
The appetite for dominance rival that of the Ottoman
Phenomenon I'll eat you after dark like this was Ramadan
Ain't no patience for the whack MC
This ain't World Star homie this ain't VladTV
Stop posing for the camera I'm showing all you amateurs
Life is a bitch its how you handle her
You let the chips drop let 'em fall where they may
This an everyday struggle like Notorious say
Son
Come on son
Yeah, yeah I'm on one
Come on son
I I I
I got the recipe for rest in peace
I never ran but I'm looking so presidential
I still command you to arrest the chief rebellion is my specialty
While the mad cows convince you to invest in beef
I play this game without a referee so there ain't no official
So even Too Short couldn't blow the whistle
Oh yeah I flow a little you might a heard of me
Producers got restraining orders I murder beats
State of emergency like Dudus Coke you hate it but you love it though
We smoke roll one up a double dutch, but I ain't jumping rope
My gutter flow ice cold like the love below
Bring the hood right into your bungalow
Teach you how to start ironically bionic Lee Majors
Now you can do us a favor and stop your hoonish behavior
You rudest Judas who was an intruder, truly a hater
Stab your neighbor in the back you'll do anything to be famous
Stop posing for the camera I'm showing all you amateurs
Life is a bitch it's how you handle her
You let the chips drop, let 'em fall where they may
This an everyday struggle like Notorious say
Son
Come on son
Yeah, yeah I'm on one
Come on son
Yeah, yeah I'm on one
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I'm On One Lyrics as written by Faheem Najm Adam Blake Cherrington
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Peermusic Publishing, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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