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"
Ridin' with the window down, rollin' through the city
Got the weed goin' round and the Most Dope with me
Hey, simply gettin' high like it's 1969
I'm a be grindin' 'til the kid a hunnid-sixty
New York, Atlanta too, flyer than Santa's shoes
She bring her camera through, I'm playin' Crash Bandicoot
This be the bitch, got some cock to serve her
I'ma rape the game, no Roethlisberger
Hey, above the clouds, seein' stars like LA
Have your girl always comin' back like Elway
I'ma be rich, that's what they tell me
So let me start workin' with this paper like a essay
Hey, athleticism, workin' game when I'm gettin' women
The freshest linen, like I'm spittin' through your television
In a daydream, living while these minutes pass me by
Lean back and hang these Nikes out the ride
Just roll the windows down, turn the system up
We just tryna ride around 'cause we don't give a fuck
Got a full tank of gas and some shit to smoke
Hey, let's just hit the road
Roll the windows down, turn the system up
We just tryna ride around 'cause we don't give a fuck
Got a full tank of gas and some shit to smoke
Hey, let's just hit the road
Rocking khaki colored jeans, and a plain white T
Nike watch, Pow chain, spend a day like me
Hey, everyday like a movie scene
Smokin' weed, eyes glued to the computer screen
I'm super-duper skeed, ridin' in the Civic
Uh, just got some speakers, now I'm tryin' to get it tinted
Every dream vivid, talk it how I live it
Uh, up in the air playing Quidditch, bitches
This is once in a lifetime
They gon' put me in a flight, no Priceline
Used to want to be in Marvel, fightin' crimes
'Til I realized the boy had the nicest rhymes, uh
Roll the windows down, turn the system up
We just tryna ride around 'cause we don't give a fuck
Got a full tank of gas and some shit to smoke
Hey, let's just hit the road
Roll the windows down, turn the system up
We just tryna ride around 'cause we don't give a fuck
Got a full tank of gas and some shit to smoke
Hey, let's just hit the road
Got the weed goin' round and the Most Dope with me
Hey, simply gettin' high like it's 1969
I'm a be grindin' 'til the kid a hunnid-sixty
New York, Atlanta too, flyer than Santa's shoes
She bring her camera through, I'm playin' Crash Bandicoot
This be the bitch, got some cock to serve her
I'ma rape the game, no Roethlisberger
Hey, above the clouds, seein' stars like LA
Have your girl always comin' back like Elway
I'ma be rich, that's what they tell me
So let me start workin' with this paper like a essay
Hey, athleticism, workin' game when I'm gettin' women
The freshest linen, like I'm spittin' through your television
In a daydream, living while these minutes pass me by
Lean back and hang these Nikes out the ride
Just roll the windows down, turn the system up
We just tryna ride around 'cause we don't give a fuck
Got a full tank of gas and some shit to smoke
Hey, let's just hit the road
Roll the windows down, turn the system up
We just tryna ride around 'cause we don't give a fuck
Got a full tank of gas and some shit to smoke
Hey, let's just hit the road
Rocking khaki colored jeans, and a plain white T
Nike watch, Pow chain, spend a day like me
Hey, everyday like a movie scene
Smokin' weed, eyes glued to the computer screen
I'm super-duper skeed, ridin' in the Civic
Uh, just got some speakers, now I'm tryin' to get it tinted
Every dream vivid, talk it how I live it
Uh, up in the air playing Quidditch, bitches
This is once in a lifetime
They gon' put me in a flight, no Priceline
Used to want to be in Marvel, fightin' crimes
'Til I realized the boy had the nicest rhymes, uh
Roll the windows down, turn the system up
We just tryna ride around 'cause we don't give a fuck
Got a full tank of gas and some shit to smoke
Hey, let's just hit the road
Roll the windows down, turn the system up
We just tryna ride around 'cause we don't give a fuck
Got a full tank of gas and some shit to smoke
Hey, let's just hit the road
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Ride Around Lyrics as written by Malcolm James Mccormick
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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