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"
Back against the wall, what do you hold onto? (Yung Lan on the track)
I know it's something that we all go through
Just aim for yours
When it rains, it pours
I'll learn how to fly again
Painful game, I made mistakes, but I ain't never tell on nobody
They called me names, I fell on my face, I started sellin' narcotics
Thrown in crosses, took some losses, never complained, I went got it
I thought I would be Muhammad Ali, but I didn't make it with boxing
Defied the odds, went got me a job, but they wasn't paying me proper
Rap game passed me lots of times, I never hate on nobody
I'm a gangster, my heart colder than Chicago
This black Impala just put bullets in my car door
Lord know my heart and I got so much love to give
He who tries gotta die, put on murder gloves for him, yeah
Lord know my heart and I got so much love to give
He who tries gotta die, put on murder gloves for him, yeah
Back against the wall, what do you hold onto?
I know it's something that we all go through
Just aim for yours
When it rains, it pours
I'll learn how to fly again
I was born a prince
The supreme council had advised against this
But I was in love, and I followed my heart
No getting used to living a human life (uh-uh)
May sound stupid, I'm not human, but I'm human-like (right)
My skin glow in the dark, it's only safe for me to move at night
Sometimes my eyes turn black while in the pale moonlight (I got you)
I'm your guardian angel (Who?), and it translates into Kevin (Kevin)
No love like mine, another lifetime, we used to be together (we used to be together)
It hurt my heart to see you hurt, in desperate need of affection
Gave up my wings and fell in love, was 'posed to be your protector
Love somebody else, you broke my heart and it's just not getting better
The angels telling me that God won't let me back into Heaven
Bae, I'm tired of playing games with you
I know inside, you feel the same way too
We the reciprocal of one another, come from the same star
We got the same Os under our nose and we got the same scars
LA Fitness, wasn't surprised at all, we driving the same car
Same mall, shopping on impulse, I don't find it odd
Breadwinner, moving them kilos 'round, I'ma supply the raw
Great pretenders, we on the Instagram actin' like we not involved
Back against the wall, what do you hold onto?
I know it's something that we all go through
Just aim for yours
When it rains, it pours
I'll learn how to fly again
I'll learn how to fly again
I'll learn how to fly again
I'll learn how to fly again
I'll learn how to fly again
Your majesty
The royal court's decision is respected
And it's entirely part of Breadwinner world court and executive style
But we both know our exercise of passionate speech
By fluctuation of tone and pitch
May have aroused unwanted recollections of negative occurrences
But no harm would've ever come to one
Possessing royal blood from dying on hand
For as we move in the signs of love, true peace, freedom, and justice
Only he that draws his sword shall be met with brute force
If you would've decreed that matter saying we were cleared for departure
I would've threw it all away
And accepted whatever ridicule or consequence behind my actions
For I believe in our love
And one day maybe in this eternity or another
You'll see yourself for what I know you to be
A queen
If you ever need me for anything, this line never changes
Such is my love for you
For you are me, and I am you
I'm in love with you
The short moments we shared will forever be appreciated
I never withheld anything from you
Because my heart rests securely with you
I know you'd never do me a bitch ass thing
My heart will forever hurt to be in your arms
But at least we both know I'm willing to die for my beliefs
'Cause I've died for you before
And regret it not
For I did it all for the glory of love
In closing
I remain the same, I come as I leave
Upright, independent, and fearless
We just both good at pretending
I love you forever
Prince Salahudin
Prince Salahudin (Yyeah)
Prince Salahudin
I know it's something that we all go through
Just aim for yours
When it rains, it pours
I'll learn how to fly again
Painful game, I made mistakes, but I ain't never tell on nobody
They called me names, I fell on my face, I started sellin' narcotics
Thrown in crosses, took some losses, never complained, I went got it
I thought I would be Muhammad Ali, but I didn't make it with boxing
Defied the odds, went got me a job, but they wasn't paying me proper
Rap game passed me lots of times, I never hate on nobody
I'm a gangster, my heart colder than Chicago
This black Impala just put bullets in my car door
Lord know my heart and I got so much love to give
He who tries gotta die, put on murder gloves for him, yeah
Lord know my heart and I got so much love to give
He who tries gotta die, put on murder gloves for him, yeah
Back against the wall, what do you hold onto?
I know it's something that we all go through
Just aim for yours
When it rains, it pours
I'll learn how to fly again
I was born a prince
The supreme council had advised against this
But I was in love, and I followed my heart
No getting used to living a human life (uh-uh)
May sound stupid, I'm not human, but I'm human-like (right)
My skin glow in the dark, it's only safe for me to move at night
Sometimes my eyes turn black while in the pale moonlight (I got you)
I'm your guardian angel (Who?), and it translates into Kevin (Kevin)
No love like mine, another lifetime, we used to be together (we used to be together)
It hurt my heart to see you hurt, in desperate need of affection
Gave up my wings and fell in love, was 'posed to be your protector
Love somebody else, you broke my heart and it's just not getting better
The angels telling me that God won't let me back into Heaven
Bae, I'm tired of playing games with you
I know inside, you feel the same way too
We the reciprocal of one another, come from the same star
We got the same Os under our nose and we got the same scars
LA Fitness, wasn't surprised at all, we driving the same car
Same mall, shopping on impulse, I don't find it odd
Breadwinner, moving them kilos 'round, I'ma supply the raw
Great pretenders, we on the Instagram actin' like we not involved
Back against the wall, what do you hold onto?
I know it's something that we all go through
Just aim for yours
When it rains, it pours
I'll learn how to fly again
I'll learn how to fly again
I'll learn how to fly again
I'll learn how to fly again
I'll learn how to fly again
Your majesty
The royal court's decision is respected
And it's entirely part of Breadwinner world court and executive style
But we both know our exercise of passionate speech
By fluctuation of tone and pitch
May have aroused unwanted recollections of negative occurrences
But no harm would've ever come to one
Possessing royal blood from dying on hand
For as we move in the signs of love, true peace, freedom, and justice
Only he that draws his sword shall be met with brute force
If you would've decreed that matter saying we were cleared for departure
I would've threw it all away
And accepted whatever ridicule or consequence behind my actions
For I believe in our love
And one day maybe in this eternity or another
You'll see yourself for what I know you to be
A queen
If you ever need me for anything, this line never changes
Such is my love for you
For you are me, and I am you
I'm in love with you
The short moments we shared will forever be appreciated
I never withheld anything from you
Because my heart rests securely with you
I know you'd never do me a bitch ass thing
My heart will forever hurt to be in your arms
But at least we both know I'm willing to die for my beliefs
'Cause I've died for you before
And regret it not
For I did it all for the glory of love
In closing
I remain the same, I come as I leave
Upright, independent, and fearless
We just both good at pretending
I love you forever
Prince Salahudin
Prince Salahudin (Yyeah)
Prince Salahudin
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Fly Again Lyrics as written by Milan Modi Kevin Gilyard
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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