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"
We're broken people now
We're burning out
So cold I'm bleeding now now now
Gonna let you down
We're broken people now
We're broken people now
Tell me I won't ever be nothin', ain't that somthin'?
I've risen from the bottom
I got 'em eyes on the prize and inside 'em
Damn right I overcame, y'all know the name
We similar but never been the same
Everybody, yeah they know the name
Right now, we'll make it some how
We'll make it some way
Yeah you know we gon' get it today like
I'm all on my own now
I won't ever let you down
Won't let you down down down
Yes I've been through it
They know I do it for the people
I'm fighting so we be equal
For my son and my sequel
And anybody who listenin'
In they system like venom
I get in 'em and spread visciously
This is me
We're broken people now
We're burning out
So cold I'm bleeding now now now
Gonna let you down
We're broken people now
We back at it
Young Logic, the rap addict
Giving it every part of myself on the real you would think that I'd be asthmatic
Allergic to your bullshit, yeah that's right I done had it
Real all the time, if you rep it get it tatted right now
This right here a vibe right now
I am too alive right now
I'm alive right now
Come on feel the vibe right now
Feel the vibe
Feel the vibe
Feel the, feel the, feel, feel the, feel the vibe
Yes I've been through it
They know I do it for the people
I'm fighting so we be equal
For my son and my sequel
And anybody who listenin'
In they system like venom
I get in 'em and spread visciously
This is me
We're broken people now
We're burning out
So cold I'm bleeding now now now
Gonna let you down
Broken we ain't beaten
There's no glory in defeat
We won't fall into the cracks between our streets
We're broken people now
We're broken people now
We're broken people now
We're burning out
So cold I'm bleeding now now now
Gonna let you down
We're broken people now
We're burning out
So cold I'm bleeding now now now
Gonna let you down
We're broken people now
We're broken people now
Tell me I won't ever be nothin', ain't that somthin'?
I've risen from the bottom
I got 'em eyes on the prize and inside 'em
Damn right I overcame, y'all know the name
We similar but never been the same
Everybody, yeah they know the name
Right now, we'll make it some how
We'll make it some way
Yeah you know we gon' get it today like
I'm all on my own now
I won't ever let you down
Won't let you down down down
Yes I've been through it
They know I do it for the people
I'm fighting so we be equal
For my son and my sequel
And anybody who listenin'
In they system like venom
I get in 'em and spread visciously
This is me
We're broken people now
We're burning out
So cold I'm bleeding now now now
Gonna let you down
We're broken people now
We back at it
Young Logic, the rap addict
Giving it every part of myself on the real you would think that I'd be asthmatic
Allergic to your bullshit, yeah that's right I done had it
Real all the time, if you rep it get it tatted right now
This right here a vibe right now
I am too alive right now
I'm alive right now
Come on feel the vibe right now
Feel the vibe
Feel the vibe
Feel the, feel the, feel, feel the, feel the vibe
Yes I've been through it
They know I do it for the people
I'm fighting so we be equal
For my son and my sequel
And anybody who listenin'
In they system like venom
I get in 'em and spread visciously
This is me
We're broken people now
We're burning out
So cold I'm bleeding now now now
Gonna let you down
Broken we ain't beaten
There's no glory in defeat
We won't fall into the cracks between our streets
We're broken people now
We're broken people now
We're broken people now
We're burning out
So cold I'm bleeding now now now
Gonna let you down
We're broken people now
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Broken People Lyrics as written by Daniel Robin Priddy Alexander Junior Grant
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Songtrust Ave, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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