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"
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A lot of bad bitches twerking thinking it's a talent
Crunch Time bitches lunch time yeah I'm coming through
Keep a black man head down what we're going through
I am never lackin rappers always cappin
Hoes acting up here come Von bitch I'm smackin
Mama kicked me out cause her shit didn't phase me
All it ever did made her crazy brazy
Cardi Bardi nigga I'm not sorry
Girl give me brain countin bands in my rari
Money make me crazy
Clout going up now these hoes want my baby
My boy switched up the nigga gotta die
Shit hit the fan we'll see who'll ride
Running from my past I'm scared to face my fears
I only have myself eyes filled up with tears
Crunch Time empty stomach so it's lunch time
Diss yo ass off like a flea call me frontline
Call me hang time blow it up like a land mine
Take a nigga plate when a nigga tryna shine
Thinking that they care always tryna set you up
At your lowest point and they never give a fuck
Negativity so I'm locked in a prison
If I kill myself they won't care if I'm missin
Use me for clout or they use me for change
My heart is a monopoly play it like a game
Everybody tryna watch cause they always watch my move
Rather do than help cause I always get accused
Fuck all the haters I'll see them later
Vicious ass nigga crawl out alligator
Fuck all the haters I'll see them later
Vicious ass nigga crawl out alligator
Let me tell you how my life change got a couple new chains
I've been going global so you know I'm doing big things
And I'm getting married to my new fiancé
Down from the beginning never switching that's my baby
And my grandma called said her baby is on TV
Back on senior year I'm skipping school just to chase my dream
Lot of things broke my heart but it fixed my vision
Bettering myself everyday its a given
If you make music break up relationships
Sacrificing on your craft dodging all the bullshit
Everybody tryna rap hypothetically they're ass
Waste Management and I'm taking out the trash
I might drop an album I might drop a single
Yeah I'm single I don't want to mingle
I might drop an album I might drop a single
Yeah I'm single I don't want to mingle
A lot of bad bitches twerking thinking it's a talent
Crunch Time bitches lunch time yeah I'm coming through
Keep a black man head down what we're going through
I am never lackin rappers always cappin
Hoes acting up here come Von bitch I'm smackin
Mama kicked me out cause her shit didn't phase me
All it ever did made her crazy brazy
Cardi Bardi nigga I'm not sorry
Girl give me brain countin bands in my rari
Money make me crazy
Clout going up now these hoes want my baby
My boy switched up the nigga gotta die
Shit hit the fan we'll see who'll ride
Running from my past I'm scared to face my fears
I only have myself eyes filled up with tears
Crunch Time empty stomach so it's lunch time
Diss yo ass off like a flea call me frontline
Call me hang time blow it up like a land mine
Take a nigga plate when a nigga tryna shine
Thinking that they care always tryna set you up
At your lowest point and they never give a fuck
Negativity so I'm locked in a prison
If I kill myself they won't care if I'm missin
Use me for clout or they use me for change
My heart is a monopoly play it like a game
Everybody tryna watch cause they always watch my move
Rather do than help cause I always get accused
Fuck all the haters I'll see them later
Vicious ass nigga crawl out alligator
Fuck all the haters I'll see them later
Vicious ass nigga crawl out alligator
Let me tell you how my life change got a couple new chains
I've been going global so you know I'm doing big things
And I'm getting married to my new fiancé
Down from the beginning never switching that's my baby
And my grandma called said her baby is on TV
Back on senior year I'm skipping school just to chase my dream
Lot of things broke my heart but it fixed my vision
Bettering myself everyday its a given
If you make music break up relationships
Sacrificing on your craft dodging all the bullshit
Everybody tryna rap hypothetically they're ass
Waste Management and I'm taking out the trash
I might drop an album I might drop a single
Yeah I'm single I don't want to mingle
I might drop an album I might drop a single
Yeah I'm single I don't want to mingle
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Crunch Time Lyrics as written by Jovon James
Lyrics © O/B/O DistroKid
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