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"
Skin is, skin, is
Skin black, my skin is black
My, black, my skin is yellow
Light nigga, dark nigga, faux nigga, real nigga
Rich nigga, poor nigga, house nigga, field nigga
Still nigga, still nigga
I like that second one
Light nigga, dark nigga, faux nigga, real nigga
Rich nigga, poor nigga, house nigga, field nigga
Still nigga, still nigga
O.J. like, "I'm not black, I'm O.J."
Okay
House nigga, don't fuck with me
I'm a field nigga with shined cutlery
Gold-plated quarters where the butlers be
I'mma play the corners where the hustlers be
I told him, "Please don't die over the neighborhood
That your momma rentin'
Take your drug money and buy the neighborhood
That's how you rinse it"
I bought every V12 engine
Wish I could take it back to the beginnin'
I coulda bought a place in Dumbo before it was Dumbo
For like two million
That same building today is worth twenty-five million
Guess how I'm feelin'? Dumbo
Light nigga, dark nigga, faux nigga, real nigga
Rich nigga, poor nigga, house nigga, field nigga
Still nigga, still nigga
Light nigga, dark nigga, faux nigga, real nigga
Rich nigga, poor nigga, house nigga, field nigga
Still nigga, still nigga
You wanna know what's more important than throwin' away money at a strip club? Credit
You ever wonder why Jewish people own all the property in America? This how they did it
Financial freedom my only hope
Fuck livin' rich and dyin' broke
I bought some artwork for one million
Two years later, that shit worth two million
Few years later, that shit worth eight million
I can't wait to give this shit to my children
Y'all think it's bougie, I'm like, it's fine
But I'm tryin' to give you a million dollars worth of game for nine ninety-nine
I turned that two to a four, four to an eight
I turned my life into a nice first week release date, mm
Y'all out here still takin' advances, huh?
Me and my niggas takin' real chances, uh
Y'all on the 'gram holdin' money to your ear
There's a disconnect, we don't call that money over here, yeah
Light nigga, dark nigga, faux nigga, real nigga
Rich nigga, poor nigga, house nigga, field nigga
Still nigga, still nigga
Light nigga, dark nigga, faux nigga, real nigga
Rich nigga, poor nigga, house nigga, field nigga
Still nigga, still nigga
Skin black, my skin is black
My, black, my skin is yellow
Light nigga, dark nigga, faux nigga, real nigga
Rich nigga, poor nigga, house nigga, field nigga
Still nigga, still nigga
I like that second one
Light nigga, dark nigga, faux nigga, real nigga
Rich nigga, poor nigga, house nigga, field nigga
Still nigga, still nigga
O.J. like, "I'm not black, I'm O.J."
Okay
House nigga, don't fuck with me
I'm a field nigga with shined cutlery
Gold-plated quarters where the butlers be
I'mma play the corners where the hustlers be
I told him, "Please don't die over the neighborhood
That your momma rentin'
Take your drug money and buy the neighborhood
That's how you rinse it"
I bought every V12 engine
Wish I could take it back to the beginnin'
I coulda bought a place in Dumbo before it was Dumbo
For like two million
That same building today is worth twenty-five million
Guess how I'm feelin'? Dumbo
Light nigga, dark nigga, faux nigga, real nigga
Rich nigga, poor nigga, house nigga, field nigga
Still nigga, still nigga
Light nigga, dark nigga, faux nigga, real nigga
Rich nigga, poor nigga, house nigga, field nigga
Still nigga, still nigga
You wanna know what's more important than throwin' away money at a strip club? Credit
You ever wonder why Jewish people own all the property in America? This how they did it
Financial freedom my only hope
Fuck livin' rich and dyin' broke
I bought some artwork for one million
Two years later, that shit worth two million
Few years later, that shit worth eight million
I can't wait to give this shit to my children
Y'all think it's bougie, I'm like, it's fine
But I'm tryin' to give you a million dollars worth of game for nine ninety-nine
I turned that two to a four, four to an eight
I turned my life into a nice first week release date, mm
Y'all out here still takin' advances, huh?
Me and my niggas takin' real chances, uh
Y'all on the 'gram holdin' money to your ear
There's a disconnect, we don't call that money over here, yeah
Light nigga, dark nigga, faux nigga, real nigga
Rich nigga, poor nigga, house nigga, field nigga
Still nigga, still nigga
Light nigga, dark nigga, faux nigga, real nigga
Rich nigga, poor nigga, house nigga, field nigga
Still nigga, still nigga
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
The Story Of O.J. Lyrics as written by Gene Redd Sr Ernest Wilson
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That's about the housing market. Property ownership is one of the main things that separates the haves from the have-nots.
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Promoting the free market
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@secondtooth Dude. You missed, or either don't get, half of what he's saying. <br /> Furthermore, he states that that many of the Jewish people in America built credit and wealth, so that they could own a large chunk of the real estate market.<br /> How is that anti-Semitic?
@allaboutthemusic547 @Terror44 Man, you guys can throw shade but it's all empty. Explain, like what are you even trying to say? I don't get what? That he's implying that riches and fame don't override one's master status, in this case "blackness"? Yeah, I get that, and disagree with it while still acknowledging intersectional theory. Master status override certainly exists, a good example of that would be Stephen Hawking and how his intellect tends to distract from his disability. If I had to guess, I'd say you guys have no clue what you're talking about. I'm talking upper-level sociology and Marxist theory, and you're just throwing up criticism that isn't even constructive. <br /> <br /> About the anti-semitism, he's (maybe inadvertently) promoting the far-right conspiracy that Jewish people own all the wealth In America which simply isn't true. Furthermore, any sort of wealth that the now-rich had was old money, credit wasn't really "built". If you disagree, explain yourself, cause right now you ain't saying shit.
@secondtooth Ya that is a pretty negative view you have taken on the lyrics.<br /> <br /> In my opinion is he praising the strength of personal finance, and the ability of personal savings to continually double in the free market (investing in the stock market). Which is accessible to almost all income ranges, except the very bottom. He is simply commenting that the Jewish people were wise to personal finance, investing their savings, growing their money (whether that be in businesses, or gold, or diamonds, or artwork, etc.) He is talking about building a legacy for his children, which is unlocked through personal finance; that the root is to save money and invest it and watch it grow, versus buying luxury goods or wearing all your wealth, or spending all your money to look rich, while you die with nothing.<br /> <br /> Apologies for my run on sentences.
@secondtooth Ya that is a pretty negative view you have taken on the lyrics.<br /> <br /> In my opinion is he praising the strength of personal finance, and the ability of personal savings to continually double in the free market (investing in the stock market). Which is accessible to almost all income ranges, except the very bottom. He is simply commenting that the Jewish people were wise to personal finance, investing their savings, growing their money (whether that be in businesses, or gold, or diamonds, or artwork, etc.) He is talking about building a legacy for his children, which is unlocked through personal finance; that the root is to save money and invest it and watch it grow, versus buying luxury goods or wearing all your wealth, or spending all your money to look rich, while you die with nothing.<br /> <br /> Apologies for my run on sentences.