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"
Had some baggy gear, now my clothes tailored (x2)
Had a fitted cap, now I rock a snapback (x2)
Uh, I used to rock a double X L
Now the ladies all say I dress well
With a nice pair of jeans, LRG or Mizou
Crew neck sweatshirt, hat and some clean shoes
Pocket stayed equipped with some paper and some gold piff
Pack of gum squares, blackberry and a phone clip
Got Most Dope Clique, bunch of mothafuckers lookin' fresh
Crooks and castle dress
Sl-sl-sloppy haters shouldn't mess
Walkin' by your lady and I'm sorry if I took her breath
You was just baby, crying till you was shook to death (bitch)
Fade away like an etch-e-scetch
Don't second guess, ain't nobody better dressed
Text hoes we're less clothes then her mama like
Church girl always go to school she the honest type
But when it comes to boys she like 'em bad
So holla at the kid I got swag
Had some baggy gear, now my clothes tailored (x2)
Had a fitted cap, now I rock a snapback (x2)
Nic nac paddy whack give that boy some clothes
Imitate the kid, you may get yourself some hoes
Snap back, flat cap, abstract swagga
Kid come correct never messin' up the pattern
Y'all jigsaw puzzle
Mismatch mess, got my J's on wit some jeans lookin' fresh
Yes my colors match
And I ain't no other cat lookin' the kid
Yeah none of y'all fuck with Mac
You rockin' something that lookin' like a lumberjack
How you wearin' 3 different t shirts under that?
Teach you how to dress real stylish, I'm the wildest
Nothin' on me lookin' childish
Fire talk, I am hot
Y'all is just some mild sauce
Got my clothes tailored
Fits so nicely
Soon you'll see these mothafuckers dressin' just like me
Had some baggy gear, now my clothes tailored (x2)
Had a fitted cap, now I rock a snapback (x2)
Had a fitted cap, now I rock a snapback (x2)
Uh, I used to rock a double X L
Now the ladies all say I dress well
With a nice pair of jeans, LRG or Mizou
Crew neck sweatshirt, hat and some clean shoes
Pocket stayed equipped with some paper and some gold piff
Pack of gum squares, blackberry and a phone clip
Got Most Dope Clique, bunch of mothafuckers lookin' fresh
Crooks and castle dress
Sl-sl-sloppy haters shouldn't mess
Walkin' by your lady and I'm sorry if I took her breath
You was just baby, crying till you was shook to death (bitch)
Fade away like an etch-e-scetch
Don't second guess, ain't nobody better dressed
Text hoes we're less clothes then her mama like
Church girl always go to school she the honest type
But when it comes to boys she like 'em bad
So holla at the kid I got swag
Had some baggy gear, now my clothes tailored (x2)
Had a fitted cap, now I rock a snapback (x2)
Nic nac paddy whack give that boy some clothes
Imitate the kid, you may get yourself some hoes
Snap back, flat cap, abstract swagga
Kid come correct never messin' up the pattern
Y'all jigsaw puzzle
Mismatch mess, got my J's on wit some jeans lookin' fresh
Yes my colors match
And I ain't no other cat lookin' the kid
Yeah none of y'all fuck with Mac
You rockin' something that lookin' like a lumberjack
How you wearin' 3 different t shirts under that?
Teach you how to dress real stylish, I'm the wildest
Nothin' on me lookin' childish
Fire talk, I am hot
Y'all is just some mild sauce
Got my clothes tailored
Fits so nicely
Soon you'll see these mothafuckers dressin' just like me
Had some baggy gear, now my clothes tailored (x2)
Had a fitted cap, now I rock a snapback (x2)
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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