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"
They try to take me out the game but ain't no stopping me
No
I'll never change it I don't owe any apologies
Yeah fuck what they thought
I rise they fall
Got all of these rules just to live by the law
This is my surefire I don't get no applause
I'm just being me ain't no way that it's my fault
No no
I was rocking a show back in '03
A pack a people started lovin me lowkey
I give em a lot of more sounds
Them system cats in more towns
Rappers from Cleveland and rappers from OC
Forever bound and loving the clever sounds
With the people seeking my evil
And people runnin' a clown throwi' down
Lot of love going round
Got the blood blowing now
It was a group effort the Juggalos and the Metalheads
The thugs and college kids they boost records
No matter who's neck in the woods clues get work
All in together no matter who's net worth
So many years with Whoop Whoop experts
Then something got weird just like a blue Tech shirt
Hot 97 compared the two vet's work
Pretty much how they one in the same ooh that hurt
Somebody you can't compare to anyone
All I know for sure is I'm making plenty funds
I took offense to the incredible sinny brung
It's some Juggalos took it bad and wanted to gimme guns
Death threats from a couple of tough Jugs when they leader said
I wasn't really giving enough love on the show
To the Juggalo this is not for all of the family but
To the few that is trippin' to hell you can go
They try to take me out the game but ain't no stopping me
No
I'll never change it I don't owe any apologies
Yeah fuck what they thought
I rise they fall
Got all of these rules just to live by the law
This is my surefire I don't get no applause
I'm just being me ain't no way that it's my fault
No no
Last Strictly Strange Tour off in Milwaukee
3000 fans so I feel bossy
'Cause I remember we used to play The Rave downstairs
Now we up in The Room it's real costly
All the people they catchin' the chills off me
My camera crew is taping the ill frosties
From the fans we making the ladies dance
And the ladies are already laid it, not sedated like Bill Cosby's
They just waiting for the ooh Areola near the end of the show
Then we do Areola but we didn't see anything but few Areolas
Out of so many women so that was boo Areola
Only saw 4 from the stage when they up on the shoulders you can never tell they underage
Next day when the parent was creeping on her daughter's page
Saw the bit of her daughter flashing and now she in a rage
She made her tell authorities we made her do it
Yeah right more like the guy that raised her to it
My partner O' apostrophe called me hostily
Saying the cameras got em yellin' child pornography
We been doing Areola for 8 years
Now we gotta stay clear cause some fake tears
Tried to shut Tech down so I cut that now
When I bust that sound
But I betcha Milwaukee really fucked that round
When the Tech Nina come into ya town
They try to take me out the game but ain't no stopping me
No
I'll never change it I don't owe any apologies
Yeah fuck what they thought
I rise they fall
Got all of these rules just to live by the law
This is my surefire I don't get no applause
I'm just being me ain't no way that it's my fault
No no
None of this shit is my fault
So long Areola
Yeah none of this shit is my fault
It was fun while it lasted
Know they was winning but lost
Damn
Trying to shut out a boss
No
I'll never change it I don't owe any apologies
Yeah fuck what they thought
I rise they fall
Got all of these rules just to live by the law
This is my surefire I don't get no applause
I'm just being me ain't no way that it's my fault
No no
I was rocking a show back in '03
A pack a people started lovin me lowkey
I give em a lot of more sounds
Them system cats in more towns
Rappers from Cleveland and rappers from OC
Forever bound and loving the clever sounds
With the people seeking my evil
And people runnin' a clown throwi' down
Lot of love going round
Got the blood blowing now
It was a group effort the Juggalos and the Metalheads
The thugs and college kids they boost records
No matter who's neck in the woods clues get work
All in together no matter who's net worth
So many years with Whoop Whoop experts
Then something got weird just like a blue Tech shirt
Hot 97 compared the two vet's work
Pretty much how they one in the same ooh that hurt
Somebody you can't compare to anyone
All I know for sure is I'm making plenty funds
I took offense to the incredible sinny brung
It's some Juggalos took it bad and wanted to gimme guns
Death threats from a couple of tough Jugs when they leader said
I wasn't really giving enough love on the show
To the Juggalo this is not for all of the family but
To the few that is trippin' to hell you can go
They try to take me out the game but ain't no stopping me
No
I'll never change it I don't owe any apologies
Yeah fuck what they thought
I rise they fall
Got all of these rules just to live by the law
This is my surefire I don't get no applause
I'm just being me ain't no way that it's my fault
No no
Last Strictly Strange Tour off in Milwaukee
3000 fans so I feel bossy
'Cause I remember we used to play The Rave downstairs
Now we up in The Room it's real costly
All the people they catchin' the chills off me
My camera crew is taping the ill frosties
From the fans we making the ladies dance
And the ladies are already laid it, not sedated like Bill Cosby's
They just waiting for the ooh Areola near the end of the show
Then we do Areola but we didn't see anything but few Areolas
Out of so many women so that was boo Areola
Only saw 4 from the stage when they up on the shoulders you can never tell they underage
Next day when the parent was creeping on her daughter's page
Saw the bit of her daughter flashing and now she in a rage
She made her tell authorities we made her do it
Yeah right more like the guy that raised her to it
My partner O' apostrophe called me hostily
Saying the cameras got em yellin' child pornography
We been doing Areola for 8 years
Now we gotta stay clear cause some fake tears
Tried to shut Tech down so I cut that now
When I bust that sound
But I betcha Milwaukee really fucked that round
When the Tech Nina come into ya town
They try to take me out the game but ain't no stopping me
No
I'll never change it I don't owe any apologies
Yeah fuck what they thought
I rise they fall
Got all of these rules just to live by the law
This is my surefire I don't get no applause
I'm just being me ain't no way that it's my fault
No no
None of this shit is my fault
So long Areola
Yeah none of this shit is my fault
It was fun while it lasted
Know they was winning but lost
Damn
Trying to shut out a boss
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
My Fault Lyrics as written by Nave Monjo Michael Summers
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