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,
Yeah
I remember
(Maybach Music)
I remember nights I used to sell rock
Posted on the corner like a mailbox
First class ticket to a cell block
Just to get some Polo and some shell tops
Cold world and they say hell's hot
But it ain't hotter than that choppa when them shells drop
Man, I seen niggas play that block and get they bell rocked
Cops cleared the scene and I was back by twelve o'clock
Tryna get it, Dickies on and my fitted
Gun in my draws, duckin' the law, I'm all with it
Money, cars and clothes, I wanted 'em all, nigga
I never was good at hoopin', I wanted to ball, nigga
'Cause the OG's sold keys and I had no cheese
Coppers lock me, beat me down like I was Cochise
Old fiends coppin' work due to their old dreams
They got shattered, it ain't matter cause we thirst cream
Niggas servin' niggas moms just to make a flip
Homies murder other homies just to make a brick
Most my niggas done got busted tryna take a hit
The feds were lurkin', we was servin', they was takin' flicks
This how it goes down in the jungle
Where niggas learn to shoot before they could rumble
Cops rush in, they gon' kick in the front door
And if they chase you better hope you don't stumble
I wanted Polo with some shell tops
I just wanted Polo and some shell tops
And I was out there tryna sell rocks
'Cause I wanted Polo and some shell tops
I done seen close neighbors lose hope
Fall victim to the streets and start to use dope
I used to load my gun before I went to school first
It's crazy niggas wanna kill me, we was cool first
And when it comes to friends you can't let 'em too close
That's why they call 'em close friends
You turn your back they move first (move first)
And I just bought a new Ghost (new Ghost)
And a crib out on that new coast (new coast)
And it all started from a dolla
Runnin' from the law, scuffin' up my Pradas
Crack all in my draws, tryna make a profit
All I wanted was some shells and some Polo for my closet, aw
Drug money, turn to blood money
I only roll with niggas that'll take a slug for me
No matter what it is, I'ma pay that bail money
To get my niggas right, my niggas for life
This how it goes down in the jungle
Where niggas learn to shoot before they could rumble
Cops rush in', they gon' kick in the front door
And if they chase you better hope you don't stumble
I wanted Polo with some shell tops
I just wanted Polo and some shell tops
And I was out there tryna sell rocks
'Cause I wanted Polo and some shell tops (shell tops)
Yeah
I remember
(Maybach Music)
I remember nights I used to sell rock
Posted on the corner like a mailbox
First class ticket to a cell block
Just to get some Polo and some shell tops
Cold world and they say hell's hot
But it ain't hotter than that choppa when them shells drop
Man, I seen niggas play that block and get they bell rocked
Cops cleared the scene and I was back by twelve o'clock
Tryna get it, Dickies on and my fitted
Gun in my draws, duckin' the law, I'm all with it
Money, cars and clothes, I wanted 'em all, nigga
I never was good at hoopin', I wanted to ball, nigga
'Cause the OG's sold keys and I had no cheese
Coppers lock me, beat me down like I was Cochise
Old fiends coppin' work due to their old dreams
They got shattered, it ain't matter cause we thirst cream
Niggas servin' niggas moms just to make a flip
Homies murder other homies just to make a brick
Most my niggas done got busted tryna take a hit
The feds were lurkin', we was servin', they was takin' flicks
This how it goes down in the jungle
Where niggas learn to shoot before they could rumble
Cops rush in, they gon' kick in the front door
And if they chase you better hope you don't stumble
I wanted Polo with some shell tops
I just wanted Polo and some shell tops
And I was out there tryna sell rocks
'Cause I wanted Polo and some shell tops
I done seen close neighbors lose hope
Fall victim to the streets and start to use dope
I used to load my gun before I went to school first
It's crazy niggas wanna kill me, we was cool first
And when it comes to friends you can't let 'em too close
That's why they call 'em close friends
You turn your back they move first (move first)
And I just bought a new Ghost (new Ghost)
And a crib out on that new coast (new coast)
And it all started from a dolla
Runnin' from the law, scuffin' up my Pradas
Crack all in my draws, tryna make a profit
All I wanted was some shells and some Polo for my closet, aw
Drug money, turn to blood money
I only roll with niggas that'll take a slug for me
No matter what it is, I'ma pay that bail money
To get my niggas right, my niggas for life
This how it goes down in the jungle
Where niggas learn to shoot before they could rumble
Cops rush in', they gon' kick in the front door
And if they chase you better hope you don't stumble
I wanted Polo with some shell tops
I just wanted Polo and some shell tops
And I was out there tryna sell rocks
'Cause I wanted Polo and some shell tops (shell tops)
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Polo & Shell Tops Lyrics as written by Carl Mccormick Robert Williams
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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