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"
[Intro: Tech N9ne]
If you can't dance, this the maint'nance
[Hook: Liz Suwandi]
I need release from this frantic mind
I've got the cure, I know you've got mine
So go ahead and pour me more wine
We've got all night, we can make it right
(Let's party the pain away)
[Verse 1: Tech N9ne]
Whenever problems show up
Man I really wanna pou up, drinkin' 'til I throw up
And tonight I'm havin mo' luck
Couple bad bitches rolled up, to puff a little dough up
And they givin' us the dame thang
Puffin', drinkin', than we bang-bang
Knock it out the frame, mane
Called a couple mo' dame-dames
Than my homies with the cane came
Now we got a Strange thang
Yeah... y'all do, I don't (what's that, Tech?)
Turn down something I won't
I'm a... grinch when I'm yearning it
Get so hot up in the spot, I think I'm partying at Burning Man
I deal with the real, when I feel
But tonight I'm takin Bou Lou to the grill
I'll be damned, if it ain't a day, I kick it and can't obey
When life gets heavy we uh... party the pain away
[Hook: Liz Suwandi]
I need release from this frantic mind
I've got the cure, I know you've got mine
So go ahead and pour me more wine
We've got all night, we can make it right
(Let's party the pain away)
[Verse 2: Tech N9ne]
I be off in Australia
Where the ladies really didgeridoo it if they smell ya
Aboriginal's will tell ya
That they rollin hella deep, and if you trippin it's a failure
When I'm off in California
Molly got me so dehydrated, smell ammonia
I be feelin' like a donor
Not blood, but the other stuff
Cause the women bone ya
When the real life's on my case
A woman waits, to sit on my face
In Missouri, it's all on my state
When I'm home, yes I keep a heapin' on my plate
I'm in a dark party, with a red light
'Bout to be another "take it to the head" night
Whether you're drinkin', or you're smokin', or the med type
Partyin' the pain away, don't even got your bread right
[Hook: Liz Suwandi]
I need release from this frantic mind
I've got the cure, I know you've got mine
So go ahead and pour me more wine
We've got all night, we can make it right
(Let's party the pain away)
[Bridge: Tech N9ne]
If you can't dance, this the maint'nance
Let's party the pain away
[Verse 3: Tech N9ne]
If you're stressin', I feel ya
If I'm off up in your city, come and party with the Milla
20 shots of tequila
Yes I make a little money so I'm gonna pay the billa
If she lookin' don't be jello
Get your woman, take her picture with me cause I'm hella mello
If you're tough and wanna yell though
She'll be leavin' with the crew
And I'ma stick her like some velcro
We the party people, night and day
Livin' crazy is the only way, got a...
Party persona, fuck the pain and come and kick it
Are you smellin my aroma?
When things get bad, get trashed
That's my advice on yo bitch ass
Faded like you think I am
On the brink, of a drink, and the drink I slam
[Hook: Liz Suwandi]
I need release from this frantic mind
I've got the cure, I know you've got mine
So go ahead and pour me more wine
We've got all night, we can make it right
(Let's party the pain away)
If you can't dance, this the maint'nance
[Hook: Liz Suwandi]
I need release from this frantic mind
I've got the cure, I know you've got mine
So go ahead and pour me more wine
We've got all night, we can make it right
(Let's party the pain away)
[Verse 1: Tech N9ne]
Whenever problems show up
Man I really wanna pou up, drinkin' 'til I throw up
And tonight I'm havin mo' luck
Couple bad bitches rolled up, to puff a little dough up
And they givin' us the dame thang
Puffin', drinkin', than we bang-bang
Knock it out the frame, mane
Called a couple mo' dame-dames
Than my homies with the cane came
Now we got a Strange thang
Yeah... y'all do, I don't (what's that, Tech?)
Turn down something I won't
I'm a... grinch when I'm yearning it
Get so hot up in the spot, I think I'm partying at Burning Man
I deal with the real, when I feel
But tonight I'm takin Bou Lou to the grill
I'll be damned, if it ain't a day, I kick it and can't obey
When life gets heavy we uh... party the pain away
[Hook: Liz Suwandi]
I need release from this frantic mind
I've got the cure, I know you've got mine
So go ahead and pour me more wine
We've got all night, we can make it right
(Let's party the pain away)
[Verse 2: Tech N9ne]
I be off in Australia
Where the ladies really didgeridoo it if they smell ya
Aboriginal's will tell ya
That they rollin hella deep, and if you trippin it's a failure
When I'm off in California
Molly got me so dehydrated, smell ammonia
I be feelin' like a donor
Not blood, but the other stuff
Cause the women bone ya
When the real life's on my case
A woman waits, to sit on my face
In Missouri, it's all on my state
When I'm home, yes I keep a heapin' on my plate
I'm in a dark party, with a red light
'Bout to be another "take it to the head" night
Whether you're drinkin', or you're smokin', or the med type
Partyin' the pain away, don't even got your bread right
[Hook: Liz Suwandi]
I need release from this frantic mind
I've got the cure, I know you've got mine
So go ahead and pour me more wine
We've got all night, we can make it right
(Let's party the pain away)
[Bridge: Tech N9ne]
If you can't dance, this the maint'nance
Let's party the pain away
[Verse 3: Tech N9ne]
If you're stressin', I feel ya
If I'm off up in your city, come and party with the Milla
20 shots of tequila
Yes I make a little money so I'm gonna pay the billa
If she lookin' don't be jello
Get your woman, take her picture with me cause I'm hella mello
If you're tough and wanna yell though
She'll be leavin' with the crew
And I'ma stick her like some velcro
We the party people, night and day
Livin' crazy is the only way, got a...
Party persona, fuck the pain and come and kick it
Are you smellin my aroma?
When things get bad, get trashed
That's my advice on yo bitch ass
Faded like you think I am
On the brink, of a drink, and the drink I slam
[Hook: Liz Suwandi]
I need release from this frantic mind
I've got the cure, I know you've got mine
So go ahead and pour me more wine
We've got all night, we can make it right
(Let's party the pain away)
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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