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"
Tell 'em that I need more
Fire
Tell 'em that we need more
Tell 'em that I need more
I woke up this morning, rolled a joint, then got to it
Dealt with real life shit, manned up and got through it
I'm a real D Boy, take a look up in my face
Never did real estate, and still put you in your place
I don't trust dog hos, dog hos got fleas
From where they rock ski-masks and don't nobody ski
Every time I spit a verse, my city like "Preach!"
Niggas thought I got evicted how my shit up in the streets
B-I-G Sean, ain't nothing obese, but the feast
Swear I'm skinny cause I'm always on my feet
Gotta hustle every second, stacking paper every week
Boy I'm in the field for real, I might run up in some cleats
Was in Japan so long, I almost learn to speak, had to leave
Back to the hood, where they don't understand unless you speaking trapanese
If I fall down, bet I only trampoline, bounce back
Back on my feet, that's just how I be
I be out of town reppin' valid as an absentee
Lord G's, jealous motherfuckers trying to absent me
Fuck these niggas up, now it's absent teeth
Trying to pass on me, when I'm first place in the playoffs bitch
I'm even working half days on my day off bitch
Say it's gon' kill me fuck it, I work graveyard shifts
'Long as that weed and money chilling in the pile
Bitch I need that fucking fire
Fire
Tell 'em that I need more
Fire
Tell 'em that we need more
Right now, right now, right now
I know it's been a long, long
It's been a long, long time
A long time, I know it's been a long, long time
I woke up this morning, rolled a joint, then got to it
Can do anything in the world except not do it
Bought my fam new land, six star crib
Momma feeling like she Jewish, I'm the motherfucking truest
Yeah I talk about my mom, but shout out to my dad
Would drive me to school every single chance he had
Tell me 'bout the crazy girls and all about his past
And gave me the talks that made me to a man
Not everybody got a dad but they got a Uncle Sam
And he ain't came around till I made a 100 grand
Coming from Detroit where everybody say "whaddup doe?"
Horror movie shit, cause everybody there cut throat
Watch who you hustle with you might not get a cut though
Even though you deserved a commission plus mo
The grandma sad when she saw my commercial
"Stop having people at your shows that wasn't at rehearsal's"
I'm tryna to get a office at the Empire State
To bring it back to empire's plate, that's home
Man, I'm reppin' for my entire state
Prayin' that I won't be late, when it's all finished at the endin'
After all bottles spill it, throttle gripping, models switching
Chin chilling in my villa, fucking like I tryna populate a village
I'm replenished, I didn't do it just for the money
Man, for the feeling, I made it through the
Fire
Tell 'em that I need more
Fire
Tell 'em that we need more
Right now, right now, right now
I know it's been a long, long
It's been a long, long time
A long time, I know it's been a long, long time
But it's never, never been too late
It's never, never been too late
It's never, never been too late
It's never ever been too late
Right now, right now
I know it's been a long time
I know it's been a long, long time
Just know it's never, never been to late
It's never, never been too late
It's never ever been too late
It's never ever been to late
To do what you wanna do
Fuck everything else
Fire
Tell 'em that we need more
Tell 'em that I need more
I woke up this morning, rolled a joint, then got to it
Dealt with real life shit, manned up and got through it
I'm a real D Boy, take a look up in my face
Never did real estate, and still put you in your place
I don't trust dog hos, dog hos got fleas
From where they rock ski-masks and don't nobody ski
Every time I spit a verse, my city like "Preach!"
Niggas thought I got evicted how my shit up in the streets
B-I-G Sean, ain't nothing obese, but the feast
Swear I'm skinny cause I'm always on my feet
Gotta hustle every second, stacking paper every week
Boy I'm in the field for real, I might run up in some cleats
Was in Japan so long, I almost learn to speak, had to leave
Back to the hood, where they don't understand unless you speaking trapanese
If I fall down, bet I only trampoline, bounce back
Back on my feet, that's just how I be
I be out of town reppin' valid as an absentee
Lord G's, jealous motherfuckers trying to absent me
Fuck these niggas up, now it's absent teeth
Trying to pass on me, when I'm first place in the playoffs bitch
I'm even working half days on my day off bitch
Say it's gon' kill me fuck it, I work graveyard shifts
'Long as that weed and money chilling in the pile
Bitch I need that fucking fire
Fire
Tell 'em that I need more
Fire
Tell 'em that we need more
Right now, right now, right now
I know it's been a long, long
It's been a long, long time
A long time, I know it's been a long, long time
I woke up this morning, rolled a joint, then got to it
Can do anything in the world except not do it
Bought my fam new land, six star crib
Momma feeling like she Jewish, I'm the motherfucking truest
Yeah I talk about my mom, but shout out to my dad
Would drive me to school every single chance he had
Tell me 'bout the crazy girls and all about his past
And gave me the talks that made me to a man
Not everybody got a dad but they got a Uncle Sam
And he ain't came around till I made a 100 grand
Coming from Detroit where everybody say "whaddup doe?"
Horror movie shit, cause everybody there cut throat
Watch who you hustle with you might not get a cut though
Even though you deserved a commission plus mo
The grandma sad when she saw my commercial
"Stop having people at your shows that wasn't at rehearsal's"
I'm tryna to get a office at the Empire State
To bring it back to empire's plate, that's home
Man, I'm reppin' for my entire state
Prayin' that I won't be late, when it's all finished at the endin'
After all bottles spill it, throttle gripping, models switching
Chin chilling in my villa, fucking like I tryna populate a village
I'm replenished, I didn't do it just for the money
Man, for the feeling, I made it through the
Fire
Tell 'em that I need more
Fire
Tell 'em that we need more
Right now, right now, right now
I know it's been a long, long
It's been a long, long time
A long time, I know it's been a long, long time
But it's never, never been too late
It's never, never been too late
It's never, never been too late
It's never ever been too late
Right now, right now
I know it's been a long time
I know it's been a long, long time
Just know it's never, never been to late
It's never, never been too late
It's never ever been too late
It's never ever been to late
To do what you wanna do
Fuck everything else
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Fire Lyrics as written by Darhyl Camper Sean Michael Anderson
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, O/B/O DistroKid, Walt Disney Music Company, Songtrust Ave, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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