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"
[Ice Cube]
I'm sick wit' it but it'll still take ten of why'all
To take the Emperor's temperature
Can I represent wit' ya?
Smokin' hemp wit' ya
Pass the blunt from East to West
[Cube to KRS] (yes)
Take it from the Don
Where I'm from the Man of Steel is made of Teflon
Keep yo' vest on
Hit me with yo' best one baby
& watch me mack you
Comin' through with hard *** & Shaq-Fu
Never up in Spago's when we knock hoes
Head her off with some Reeboks and cagos
Westside rollin' even if the car's stolen
Even if my eyes shut & jaw swollen
That's how it's goin' down
You always smile when I frown
'cause you want the crown
You fuckin' clown
I keep it real no more beef with Cypress Hill
Now we super friends makin' super ends
WESTSIIDE
[Shaq ]
It's a fact many know that Shaq made of mils
But did you know that Shaq made of Steel
Feel me!
No matter what I do the billy it's gone flourish
Big **** just like a bus full of Japanese tourists
Or it's styles that flow like Hudson River debris
Ship quarter keys of them Shaq CD's Roo roo
Next MC that claim to keep it real
Shaquille gone slap 'em with a mil
Criss cut clean numerical order bills
Ill, now put it on the wrist
The best thing since grits & fake tits
Man Of Steel who you with?
I'm so fly when I walk I levitate
My caliber's first rate
Exceptional above great
Diesel's large, guilty on every charge
Of bein' dope imagine Superman with a dookey rope
[Chorus]
1 2 3 4 Hit it
It's the Men Of Steel bangin' with the drum Hit it
4 3 2 1
Shaq be Real KRS Peter Gunz (Ice Cube)
1 2 3 4 Hit it
It's the Men Of Steel bangin' with the drum Hit it
4 3 2 1
Shaq be Real
[be Real]
Hip hop has plenty of Steel
With Shaquille & Chris & Real
Nobody move stay still while the Masters build the Track
React the foundation hip-hop *** generation
Hear my voice playin' at the station
Immortal thought for the recorder
Consider the picture deliver the scripture still hit ya
If the shoe fits ya wear it
You'll inherit the culture
Let me break down the whole structure
East Coast West Coast universal flava
Pullin' together with my neighbor no playa haters
Just real no outrageous fantasies
Jump out the pages from the book of MC's
& nothin' can penetrate the Steel mind state
Like Shaq when he go back & dominate
[Peter Gunz]
Aiiyo I stop many hearts
Part many wigs
*** & get it twisted &
Play me for any pig
Conceived in the Bronx
Born & raised but on the real
I be made of Steel like O' Neal
Feel me if ya got the skill
Squeeze pale **** cause disaster
Have you makin' Tracks like Master
Faster ghost like Casper
Man Of Steel hangin' & bangin' in yo' district
Never get it twisted I'm lifted, gifted
Like Steel hard to penetrate
Generate dollar signs you follow mine
Come in peace money I will bless that
Bring the noise leave you on the Fourth
Where I rest at For real
[Chorus]
1 2 3 4 Hit it
It's the Men Of Steel bangin' with the drum Hit it
4 3 2 1
Hip-Hop's the same no matter where you came from
(Cube) WESTSIIDE
(B Real) Men Of Steel
(Cube) EASTSIIDE
(KRS) Men Of Steel throw ya hands up
(Cube) WESTSIIDE
(B Real) Men Of Steel
(Cube) EASTSIIDE
(KRS) Men Of Steel throw ya hands up
[KRS-One]
WHOOP WHOOP
That's the sound of EMS
After some boy try test the KRS
Pick a single any single
What I bring you makes you tingle
It's the lingo from the star like Ringo
& I mingle in the clubs
DJ's MC's get rug cut like shrubs
Over the dub sound buzz
No one's really knowin'
How I'm comin' & goin' showin' & flowin' cold
Throwin' these rappers chasin' the dough
& out the frame my name remains the same
I came to maintain
Hip-Hop's the same no matter where you came from
It's all the same son get it correct
All that metal to pleather whatever
Give me respect!
Then I'll collect a check & you can expect
Something you'll never forget
Comin' from my intellect
Oh what the heck
Lyrical flex cash checks
I step through the brush like a Tyrannosaurus Rex
KRS-One is the nicest
Shaquille O'Neal definitely from Men Of Steel
You know how we feel
Comin' through like that on the track
KRS-One & we back (oooh oooooh)
[Chorus]
1 2 3 4 Hit it
It's the Men Of Steel bangin' with the drum Hit it
4 3 2 1
Shaq be Real KRS Peter Gunz (Ice Cube)
[Gunz (Cube)]
Throw ya hands up what up now (It don't stop)
South Bronx represent that, Brooklyn represent that
(It don''t stop)(It don't stop)
(Huh, What about South Central? Ha ha haa )
I'm sick wit' it but it'll still take ten of why'all
To take the Emperor's temperature
Can I represent wit' ya?
Smokin' hemp wit' ya
Pass the blunt from East to West
[Cube to KRS] (yes)
Take it from the Don
Where I'm from the Man of Steel is made of Teflon
Keep yo' vest on
Hit me with yo' best one baby
& watch me mack you
Comin' through with hard *** & Shaq-Fu
Never up in Spago's when we knock hoes
Head her off with some Reeboks and cagos
Westside rollin' even if the car's stolen
Even if my eyes shut & jaw swollen
That's how it's goin' down
You always smile when I frown
'cause you want the crown
You fuckin' clown
I keep it real no more beef with Cypress Hill
Now we super friends makin' super ends
WESTSIIDE
[Shaq ]
It's a fact many know that Shaq made of mils
But did you know that Shaq made of Steel
Feel me!
No matter what I do the billy it's gone flourish
Big **** just like a bus full of Japanese tourists
Or it's styles that flow like Hudson River debris
Ship quarter keys of them Shaq CD's Roo roo
Next MC that claim to keep it real
Shaquille gone slap 'em with a mil
Criss cut clean numerical order bills
Ill, now put it on the wrist
The best thing since grits & fake tits
Man Of Steel who you with?
I'm so fly when I walk I levitate
My caliber's first rate
Exceptional above great
Diesel's large, guilty on every charge
Of bein' dope imagine Superman with a dookey rope
[Chorus]
1 2 3 4 Hit it
It's the Men Of Steel bangin' with the drum Hit it
4 3 2 1
Shaq be Real KRS Peter Gunz (Ice Cube)
1 2 3 4 Hit it
It's the Men Of Steel bangin' with the drum Hit it
4 3 2 1
Shaq be Real
[be Real]
Hip hop has plenty of Steel
With Shaquille & Chris & Real
Nobody move stay still while the Masters build the Track
React the foundation hip-hop *** generation
Hear my voice playin' at the station
Immortal thought for the recorder
Consider the picture deliver the scripture still hit ya
If the shoe fits ya wear it
You'll inherit the culture
Let me break down the whole structure
East Coast West Coast universal flava
Pullin' together with my neighbor no playa haters
Just real no outrageous fantasies
Jump out the pages from the book of MC's
& nothin' can penetrate the Steel mind state
Like Shaq when he go back & dominate
[Peter Gunz]
Aiiyo I stop many hearts
Part many wigs
*** & get it twisted &
Play me for any pig
Conceived in the Bronx
Born & raised but on the real
I be made of Steel like O' Neal
Feel me if ya got the skill
Squeeze pale **** cause disaster
Have you makin' Tracks like Master
Faster ghost like Casper
Man Of Steel hangin' & bangin' in yo' district
Never get it twisted I'm lifted, gifted
Like Steel hard to penetrate
Generate dollar signs you follow mine
Come in peace money I will bless that
Bring the noise leave you on the Fourth
Where I rest at For real
[Chorus]
1 2 3 4 Hit it
It's the Men Of Steel bangin' with the drum Hit it
4 3 2 1
Hip-Hop's the same no matter where you came from
(Cube) WESTSIIDE
(B Real) Men Of Steel
(Cube) EASTSIIDE
(KRS) Men Of Steel throw ya hands up
(Cube) WESTSIIDE
(B Real) Men Of Steel
(Cube) EASTSIIDE
(KRS) Men Of Steel throw ya hands up
[KRS-One]
WHOOP WHOOP
That's the sound of EMS
After some boy try test the KRS
Pick a single any single
What I bring you makes you tingle
It's the lingo from the star like Ringo
& I mingle in the clubs
DJ's MC's get rug cut like shrubs
Over the dub sound buzz
No one's really knowin'
How I'm comin' & goin' showin' & flowin' cold
Throwin' these rappers chasin' the dough
& out the frame my name remains the same
I came to maintain
Hip-Hop's the same no matter where you came from
It's all the same son get it correct
All that metal to pleather whatever
Give me respect!
Then I'll collect a check & you can expect
Something you'll never forget
Comin' from my intellect
Oh what the heck
Lyrical flex cash checks
I step through the brush like a Tyrannosaurus Rex
KRS-One is the nicest
Shaquille O'Neal definitely from Men Of Steel
You know how we feel
Comin' through like that on the track
KRS-One & we back (oooh oooooh)
[Chorus]
1 2 3 4 Hit it
It's the Men Of Steel bangin' with the drum Hit it
4 3 2 1
Shaq be Real KRS Peter Gunz (Ice Cube)
[Gunz (Cube)]
Throw ya hands up what up now (It don't stop)
South Bronx represent that, Brooklyn represent that
(It don''t stop)(It don't stop)
(Huh, What about South Central? Ha ha haa )
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Men of Steel Lyrics as written by Lawrence Krsone Parker Jean Claude Olivier
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Downtown Music Publishing, Missing Link Music, Cloud9
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