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"
The mixtape's got a little Hank, little Drake
A little somethin' bumpin', thumb thumpin' on the wheel right
The mix in our drink's a little stronger than you think
So get a grip, take a sip of that feel right
Truck's jacked up, flat bills flipped back
Yeah, you can find us where the party's at
This is how we roll
We hangin' 'round singin' down everything on the radio
We light it up with our hands up
This is how we roll, this is how we do
We burnin' down the night, shootin' bullets at the moon
Baby, this is how we roll
Yeah, baby, this is how we roll, we rollin' into town
With nothin' else to do, we take another lap around
Yeah, holler at your boy if you need a ride (let's go)
If you roll with me, yeah, you know we rollin' high
Up on them 37 Nittos, windows tinted, hard to see though
How fresh my baby is in the shotgun seat, oh
Them kisses are for me though, automatic like a free throw
This life I live, it might not be for you but it's for me though
Let's roll
This is how we roll
We hangin' 'round singin' down everything on the radio
We light it up with our hands up
This is how we roll, this is how we do
When the world turns ugly, I just turn and look at you
Baby, this is how we roll
(LB, go and sing it to 'em)
Yeah, we're proud to be young, we stick to our guns
We love who we love and we wanna have fun
Yeah, we cuss on them Mondays and pray on them Sundays
Pass it around and we dream about one day
'Cause this is how we roll (come on, y'all)
We hangin' 'round singin' down everything on the radio
(Get your hands up, get your hands up, get your hands up)
We light it up with our hands up
This is how we roll, this is how we ride
We slangin' up the mud, cuttin' through the countryside
Baby, this is how we roll
Yeah this is how we roll (this is how we roll)
(Yeah, baby, yo LB, let's go)
Yeah, this is how we roll, this is how we do
We burnin' down the night, shootin' bullets at the moon
Baby, this is how we roll
(BK, Tyler)
(LB, baby, one more time boys, let's go)
Yeah, this is how we roll
A little somethin' bumpin', thumb thumpin' on the wheel right
The mix in our drink's a little stronger than you think
So get a grip, take a sip of that feel right
Truck's jacked up, flat bills flipped back
Yeah, you can find us where the party's at
This is how we roll
We hangin' 'round singin' down everything on the radio
We light it up with our hands up
This is how we roll, this is how we do
We burnin' down the night, shootin' bullets at the moon
Baby, this is how we roll
Yeah, baby, this is how we roll, we rollin' into town
With nothin' else to do, we take another lap around
Yeah, holler at your boy if you need a ride (let's go)
If you roll with me, yeah, you know we rollin' high
Up on them 37 Nittos, windows tinted, hard to see though
How fresh my baby is in the shotgun seat, oh
Them kisses are for me though, automatic like a free throw
This life I live, it might not be for you but it's for me though
Let's roll
This is how we roll
We hangin' 'round singin' down everything on the radio
We light it up with our hands up
This is how we roll, this is how we do
When the world turns ugly, I just turn and look at you
Baby, this is how we roll
(LB, go and sing it to 'em)
Yeah, we're proud to be young, we stick to our guns
We love who we love and we wanna have fun
Yeah, we cuss on them Mondays and pray on them Sundays
Pass it around and we dream about one day
'Cause this is how we roll (come on, y'all)
We hangin' 'round singin' down everything on the radio
(Get your hands up, get your hands up, get your hands up)
We light it up with our hands up
This is how we roll, this is how we ride
We slangin' up the mud, cuttin' through the countryside
Baby, this is how we roll
Yeah this is how we roll (this is how we roll)
(Yeah, baby, yo LB, let's go)
Yeah, this is how we roll, this is how we do
We burnin' down the night, shootin' bullets at the moon
Baby, this is how we roll
(BK, Tyler)
(LB, baby, one more time boys, let's go)
Yeah, this is how we roll
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