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"
(Woo) y'all stupid ass parents so lazy
Praise a snapback more than a baby
Bet that baby grow up like, "Who raised me?"
Never had no car so she named her Mercedes
Dumb shit y'all do, yeah I'm talking 'bout you
Conehead ass bitches but don't know the scoop
Kid in a crib lonely cooking up soup
While momma on dates eating lobsters, I'm through
You failed the mission
You kept your distance
That kid would be rich if you'd paid her attention
The morals is missing, the world is different
If you mind your business, you could own a business
Deadbeat fathers and deadbeat mothers
Crazy how y'all pin blacks against each other
"You too dark for blonde hair, look at your skin color"
Bitch my skin look it tastes just like Nutella
You racist, so fuck what you say
He black selling weed, he would never see day
That's funny when abusers ain't locked away
They in the crib giving more beats than Dr. Dre
They suspect, on they cops we don't trust that
Black people don't drive home, just take the bus back
These cops killing us off like we some Rugrats
So I ain't got time I'm finna get me a bus pass
Cereal and water, I'ma eat either way
Niggas only wave when the fee getting waived
Said what he said, then be like, "What I say?"
Like K. Michelle I got rid of the fake
Cereal and water, I'ma eat either way
Niggas only wave when the fee getting waived
Said what he said, then be like, "What I say?"
Like K. Michelle I got rid of the fake
All that fuck shit just dead it
They don't wanna give us our credit (credit)
Ain't the same tape they spreading (nah)
If it's black on white crime then it's edit
Young queens feeling like peasants
Priorities mixed up, yeah I said it
One 'bout to jump off the edge
The other worry 'bout her edges
Labels offer me advance
I'm too advanced, so that shit dead
They swear to God that they God pleasers
Ain't close to what I just said
People be so confused
One day the sky blue then it's red
I don't ever get it twisted, if I got it twisted, I'ma get dreads
Damn, is they 'bout to fight?
Hold the fuck on, let me put my phone out
Really wish I could see the shit, but the crowd big and they zoned out
But I'ma get this for Worldstar, let me get close, "Beat that ass ho!"
It all hit, what she should've did when she found out, "It's her cousin bro!"
Cupcakke, let's go out for a drink
"Nah, can't link if I'm on link"
Yeah back then that's all I think
Struggle my dream but I ain't sink
Females thinking that they better than another
But at night we all playing that ting
All going through the way yet
Am I good enough in everything in-between?
I don't wanna hear it, you can save it
We all getting played like a playlist
Women scared to tell what they age is
'Cause men want the kids, fucking rapists
Uh, step back, you contagious
Friends turned on me like pages
Heart got a lot of empty spaces
Gotta keep it together like braces
Suicide, they giving up so quickly
Jump out the car but not doing the Shiggy
Rain on my parade it will never get me
A little drizzle will only make my hair frizzy
Pass me the towel rag
All that nonsense I'll pass
Anything mom want, I'll grab
Cop it like Angela Valdes, look
Don't be a puppet, don't be corrupted
Don't be a motherfucking outcast
I don't say shit 'cause words get switched
Like was it cash cow or cow cash?
Once worried 'bout doing numbers
Is the main numbers I'ma dial last
Same man said he don't piss
shit, be scared to wipe the shit from his child ass
Cereal and water, I'ma eat either way
Niggas only wave when the fee getting waived
Said what he said, then be like "What I say?"
Like K. Michelle I got rid of the fake
Cereal and water, I'ma eat either way
Niggas only wave when the fee getting waived
Said what he said, then be like "What I say?"
Like K. Michelle I got rid of the fake
Praise a snapback more than a baby
Bet that baby grow up like, "Who raised me?"
Never had no car so she named her Mercedes
Dumb shit y'all do, yeah I'm talking 'bout you
Conehead ass bitches but don't know the scoop
Kid in a crib lonely cooking up soup
While momma on dates eating lobsters, I'm through
You failed the mission
You kept your distance
That kid would be rich if you'd paid her attention
The morals is missing, the world is different
If you mind your business, you could own a business
Deadbeat fathers and deadbeat mothers
Crazy how y'all pin blacks against each other
"You too dark for blonde hair, look at your skin color"
Bitch my skin look it tastes just like Nutella
You racist, so fuck what you say
He black selling weed, he would never see day
That's funny when abusers ain't locked away
They in the crib giving more beats than Dr. Dre
They suspect, on they cops we don't trust that
Black people don't drive home, just take the bus back
These cops killing us off like we some Rugrats
So I ain't got time I'm finna get me a bus pass
Cereal and water, I'ma eat either way
Niggas only wave when the fee getting waived
Said what he said, then be like, "What I say?"
Like K. Michelle I got rid of the fake
Cereal and water, I'ma eat either way
Niggas only wave when the fee getting waived
Said what he said, then be like, "What I say?"
Like K. Michelle I got rid of the fake
All that fuck shit just dead it
They don't wanna give us our credit (credit)
Ain't the same tape they spreading (nah)
If it's black on white crime then it's edit
Young queens feeling like peasants
Priorities mixed up, yeah I said it
One 'bout to jump off the edge
The other worry 'bout her edges
Labels offer me advance
I'm too advanced, so that shit dead
They swear to God that they God pleasers
Ain't close to what I just said
People be so confused
One day the sky blue then it's red
I don't ever get it twisted, if I got it twisted, I'ma get dreads
Damn, is they 'bout to fight?
Hold the fuck on, let me put my phone out
Really wish I could see the shit, but the crowd big and they zoned out
But I'ma get this for Worldstar, let me get close, "Beat that ass ho!"
It all hit, what she should've did when she found out, "It's her cousin bro!"
Cupcakke, let's go out for a drink
"Nah, can't link if I'm on link"
Yeah back then that's all I think
Struggle my dream but I ain't sink
Females thinking that they better than another
But at night we all playing that ting
All going through the way yet
Am I good enough in everything in-between?
I don't wanna hear it, you can save it
We all getting played like a playlist
Women scared to tell what they age is
'Cause men want the kids, fucking rapists
Uh, step back, you contagious
Friends turned on me like pages
Heart got a lot of empty spaces
Gotta keep it together like braces
Suicide, they giving up so quickly
Jump out the car but not doing the Shiggy
Rain on my parade it will never get me
A little drizzle will only make my hair frizzy
Pass me the towel rag
All that nonsense I'll pass
Anything mom want, I'll grab
Cop it like Angela Valdes, look
Don't be a puppet, don't be corrupted
Don't be a motherfucking outcast
I don't say shit 'cause words get switched
Like was it cash cow or cow cash?
Once worried 'bout doing numbers
Is the main numbers I'ma dial last
Same man said he don't piss
shit, be scared to wipe the shit from his child ass
Cereal and water, I'ma eat either way
Niggas only wave when the fee getting waived
Said what he said, then be like "What I say?"
Like K. Michelle I got rid of the fake
Cereal and water, I'ma eat either way
Niggas only wave when the fee getting waived
Said what he said, then be like "What I say?"
Like K. Michelle I got rid of the fake
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Cereal and Water Lyrics as written by Elizabeth Harris
Lyrics © TuneCore Inc.
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