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"
Yeah, Glaciers
Goodness gracious
Power, patience
Greatness, Glaciers
Goodness gracious (Yeah)
Glaciers, gracious
Greatness, patience
Stages, Phases
Don't face us (Nope)
Just grace us
Blaze us with lasers
Raise us houses like mazes (Wow)
Models, Megans (Yeah)
Madonnas, Rachels, fellatio
Powder, up nasals
New houses, appraisals (Sold)
New neighbors (Hi), New tables
New towels, new label (No)
No new friends, new choppers
You try us, it's fatal (Pow)
You try us, it's fatal (Pow)
New bodies, new halos (Yeah)
New bodies, new halos (Yeah)
New money, new pesos
Nobody, don't play though (No)
Cause they know, yeah they know
We catch a body, lay low (Yeah)
Can't find your body, case cold (Yeah)
Like glaciers, glaciers, glacier, glacier
Nigga, that's cold
Nigga, that's bold
Nigga, that's scary
Like Jason
Goodness gracious
I got way too much drank in me
I got way too much bank on me
Sip too much I might faint, homie
Don't wake me up, just put a blanket on me
Ain't you homie, I ain't your homie
Diamonds blingin' on me like they blinkin' on me (Bling)
All about my Ben Franklins homie
Bitch can't even get a Abe Lincoln from me
I ain't thinkin' normally, nigga
Bring a tank and all of that with you (Come on)
Cause you know I'm from New Orleans, nigga
All I gotta do is just borrow, no limits
Cutting up in a brand new Ferrari my nigga
I'ma get one for all of my niggas
You know I influenced all of these niggas
I just see y'all as my minions
I just see y'all in my menu
I just see y'all as civilians
I don't see y'all as competition
I can see God when I'm squinting
I can't see y'all in my position
I can't see y'all from my condition
I'm wasted
Pill poppin' and pacing (Yeah)
Prescription medications
Like redemption, revelation (Yeah)
She pill poppin' and naked (Ooh)
How can you blame her, she waiting for it to kick in
I kick back when it kick in and let her do what she came for
He don't let her do what she made for and that's messed up
She come by me and get messed up and then fess up
I'm like that sucks and that's cold (Yeah)
Like glaciers, glaciers, glaciers (Glaciers)
Like glaciers, glaciers
Say that's cold (Cold)
Damn shame
He hatin', that's tasteless
He fucked up, good vibrations (Yeah)
Glaciers, gracious
Racin' in the latest spaceship
No chasin' , no chases
No break in, we made it safely
I'm facin' cases, make 'em disappear like David Copperfield
I'm tasting victory like flavors
They frame us, O'Lord we public enemy like Flavor
I'm famous, O'Lord I always wanted to be so famous
I came up (Yeah)
Now I kick my feet up and collect my payments (Woo)
I'm way up (Yeah)
I fuck on that bitch and we lay up (Yeah)
I cuddle and shit, I'm a sweetheart (Yeah)
I drink all this sip but I stay up (Yeah)
I pop all theses pills but I stay up (Yeah)
I fuck up and shit but we made up (Yeah)
And it ain't trickin' if you got it, nigga
I do all these tricks, I'm a skater
It's all about money and power, nigga
The pussy and shit gon come later (Yeah)
No time for drama on my conscience
And my shoulders too small to put weight on
And my hoes take too long just to wait on
In the bathroom putting her face on
She say my pole just too long to put bait on (Yeah)
These niggas be getting their [?] on and that's cold (Yeah)
Like glaciers, glaciers, glaciers, glaciers (Glaciers)
And that's cold
Damn shame
That's satin
That's tasty, I'm tasty
She cravin', her favorite tune
No ceiling
Goodness gracious
Power, patience
Greatness, Glaciers
Goodness gracious (Yeah)
Glaciers, gracious
Greatness, patience
Stages, Phases
Don't face us (Nope)
Just grace us
Blaze us with lasers
Raise us houses like mazes (Wow)
Models, Megans (Yeah)
Madonnas, Rachels, fellatio
Powder, up nasals
New houses, appraisals (Sold)
New neighbors (Hi), New tables
New towels, new label (No)
No new friends, new choppers
You try us, it's fatal (Pow)
You try us, it's fatal (Pow)
New bodies, new halos (Yeah)
New bodies, new halos (Yeah)
New money, new pesos
Nobody, don't play though (No)
Cause they know, yeah they know
We catch a body, lay low (Yeah)
Can't find your body, case cold (Yeah)
Like glaciers, glaciers, glacier, glacier
Nigga, that's cold
Nigga, that's bold
Nigga, that's scary
Like Jason
Goodness gracious
I got way too much drank in me
I got way too much bank on me
Sip too much I might faint, homie
Don't wake me up, just put a blanket on me
Ain't you homie, I ain't your homie
Diamonds blingin' on me like they blinkin' on me (Bling)
All about my Ben Franklins homie
Bitch can't even get a Abe Lincoln from me
I ain't thinkin' normally, nigga
Bring a tank and all of that with you (Come on)
Cause you know I'm from New Orleans, nigga
All I gotta do is just borrow, no limits
Cutting up in a brand new Ferrari my nigga
I'ma get one for all of my niggas
You know I influenced all of these niggas
I just see y'all as my minions
I just see y'all in my menu
I just see y'all as civilians
I don't see y'all as competition
I can see God when I'm squinting
I can't see y'all in my position
I can't see y'all from my condition
I'm wasted
Pill poppin' and pacing (Yeah)
Prescription medications
Like redemption, revelation (Yeah)
She pill poppin' and naked (Ooh)
How can you blame her, she waiting for it to kick in
I kick back when it kick in and let her do what she came for
He don't let her do what she made for and that's messed up
She come by me and get messed up and then fess up
I'm like that sucks and that's cold (Yeah)
Like glaciers, glaciers, glaciers (Glaciers)
Like glaciers, glaciers
Say that's cold (Cold)
Damn shame
He hatin', that's tasteless
He fucked up, good vibrations (Yeah)
Glaciers, gracious
Racin' in the latest spaceship
No chasin' , no chases
No break in, we made it safely
I'm facin' cases, make 'em disappear like David Copperfield
I'm tasting victory like flavors
They frame us, O'Lord we public enemy like Flavor
I'm famous, O'Lord I always wanted to be so famous
I came up (Yeah)
Now I kick my feet up and collect my payments (Woo)
I'm way up (Yeah)
I fuck on that bitch and we lay up (Yeah)
I cuddle and shit, I'm a sweetheart (Yeah)
I drink all this sip but I stay up (Yeah)
I pop all theses pills but I stay up (Yeah)
I fuck up and shit but we made up (Yeah)
And it ain't trickin' if you got it, nigga
I do all these tricks, I'm a skater
It's all about money and power, nigga
The pussy and shit gon come later (Yeah)
No time for drama on my conscience
And my shoulders too small to put weight on
And my hoes take too long just to wait on
In the bathroom putting her face on
She say my pole just too long to put bait on (Yeah)
These niggas be getting their [?] on and that's cold (Yeah)
Like glaciers, glaciers, glaciers, glaciers (Glaciers)
And that's cold
Damn shame
That's satin
That's tasty, I'm tasty
She cravin', her favorite tune
No ceiling
Lyrics submitted by herbertweezy
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