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"
[Intro]
Ken: Well I should have you hooked up next week
Chance: It's all good or whatever, I can wait 'til my birthday. I uh-
Ken: No, no, no, no. I told ya, I know you need it now, so next week I promise you I'll have you hooked up, ok?
Chance: Oh, alright. I just wanted to say thank you for everything. For the computer, the t-shirts, and all the other stuff
Ken: You know, Chance. Let me tell you something. You know, I could never be more proud of anything in my life, you know, than I am of you and what you've done. Chance, you have done remarkable and wondrous things, so you don't have to tell me thank you for anything. I'm supposed to do this, that stuff for you anyway, and ya know, just keep doing what you're doing. I am very, very proud of you. Just keep doing what you're doing, ok?
Chance: Thank you, love you
Ken: Alright, son. Love you too, take care
Chance: Bye bye
Thanks for coming guys
[Verse 1]
'Member sittin' in class the first time listening to Dilla
Everything's good
Rubbin' on yo chin, sippin' gin, Margiela brand chinchilla
Everything's good
My manager backpack packed with packs of cigarillos
And some fruit snacks, and some killas
Phone numbers on speed dial call them save monkey guerillas
Everything's good
I ain't really that good at goodbyes, I ain't really that bad at leaving
I ain't really always been a good guy, I used to be thirsty thievin'
Runnin' through purses even persons leave em hurtin' bleedin'
I ain't really help the helpless
I used to be worse than worthless
Now I'm worth hooks and verses
I'm good like books in churches
Harolds and Hooks and Churches
Everything's good
See my name when you Google search it
Use a card when I make a purchase
Everything's good
But I knew it was fly when I was just a caterpillar
That I'd make it even if I never make a milla,
When I meet my maker he gonna make sure that we chillin'
And everything's good
I ain't really that good at goodnight, I ain't really that bad at sleepin'
With bad bitches, put them aside, I used to be thirsty creeping
Now I'm out working evenings birthdays even Tuesdays Wednesdays Thursdays weekends, rehearsing verses, murdering merch and events
Damn it feel good to be a gangsta
And it feel good for me to thank you
Put money back in your bank account
Off of songs I barely could think up,
Cause a lot of songs niggas gonna make up
Make sense, but they never gonna make a sound
I'm better than I was the last time, crescendo
Thanks Justin, lending them pencils
Mr. Menzies, Mensa, Chris Minto
The time I beat Chris on Nintendo
Nanana hey hey, good intro,
Remember jacket shoppin' after listening to Thriller
Remember the first time you heard this through and thought, "Damn that's that nigga."
Everything's good
[Outro]
Ken: Well I should have you hooked up next week
Chance: It's all good or whatever, I can wait 'til my birthday. I uh-
Ken: No, no, no, no. I told ya, I know you need it now, so next week I promise you I'll have you hooked up, ok?
Chance: Oh, alright. I just wanted to say thank you for everything. For the computer, the t-shirts, and all the other stuff
Ken: You know, Chance. Let me tell you something. You know, I could never be more proud of anything in my life, you know, than I am of you and what you've done. Chance, you have done remarkable and wondrous things, so you don't have to tell me thank you for anything. I'm supposed to do this, that stuff for you anyway, and ya know, just keep doing what you're doing. I am very, very proud of you. Just keep doing what you're doing, ok?
Chance: Thank you, love you
Ken: Alright, son. Love you too, take care
Chance: Bye bye
Thanks for coming guys
[Verse 1]
'Member sittin' in class the first time listening to Dilla
Everything's good
Rubbin' on yo chin, sippin' gin, Margiela brand chinchilla
Everything's good
My manager backpack packed with packs of cigarillos
And some fruit snacks, and some killas
Phone numbers on speed dial call them save monkey guerillas
Everything's good
I ain't really that good at goodbyes, I ain't really that bad at leaving
I ain't really always been a good guy, I used to be thirsty thievin'
Runnin' through purses even persons leave em hurtin' bleedin'
I ain't really help the helpless
I used to be worse than worthless
Now I'm worth hooks and verses
I'm good like books in churches
Harolds and Hooks and Churches
Everything's good
See my name when you Google search it
Use a card when I make a purchase
Everything's good
But I knew it was fly when I was just a caterpillar
That I'd make it even if I never make a milla,
When I meet my maker he gonna make sure that we chillin'
And everything's good
I ain't really that good at goodnight, I ain't really that bad at sleepin'
With bad bitches, put them aside, I used to be thirsty creeping
Now I'm out working evenings birthdays even Tuesdays Wednesdays Thursdays weekends, rehearsing verses, murdering merch and events
Damn it feel good to be a gangsta
And it feel good for me to thank you
Put money back in your bank account
Off of songs I barely could think up,
Cause a lot of songs niggas gonna make up
Make sense, but they never gonna make a sound
I'm better than I was the last time, crescendo
Thanks Justin, lending them pencils
Mr. Menzies, Mensa, Chris Minto
The time I beat Chris on Nintendo
Nanana hey hey, good intro,
Remember jacket shoppin' after listening to Thriller
Remember the first time you heard this through and thought, "Damn that's that nigga."
Everything's good
[Outro]
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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