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"
[Intro: KRS-One]
Feel this, a new experience
And your approach to the lyrics
To the beats and the rhymes
KRS
[Verse 1: KRS-One]
After 19 years of rocking, how do you rank me?
Poorly or greatly? I'm no Johnny-Come-Lately
It's the people that pays me
G-O-D is what raised me
To think that you could blaze me, you must be more than crazy
Radio is Fugazi, XM satellite plays me
Criticism don't faze me, being rich don't amaze me
These princely rappers, they gettin' parked like Paisley
I'm two times the effects like Scoop and Crazy Drazy
I know that no man out there could save me
So I save myself with knowledge of self and [?] that God gave me
No coulda shoulda or maybe
I'm in 2024 with the adult version of your baby
The path of life is so wavy, you can not be lazy
Or mindless like a ship sailing eternal gravy
Through hip-hop we speak so plainly
So let's unite and sail through life as a navy
[Hook: Dax & (Triune)]
It's just another day for me (beats rhymes living a life)
Another day (in these times it's gotta be life)
[?] freedom (yeah, living)
It's just another day for me (beats rhymes living a life)
The only way (in these times it's gotta be life)
[?] freedom (yeah, living)
[Verse 2: KRS-One]
All these people looking at me
Walking with me, staring at me
This is how we work, flash film glaring at me
Little children very happy, I'm signing books CDs
Now I'm signing t-shirts, and yeah my hair stay nappy
Living giving advice on living your life
Oh no, you don't have to be stopped
I'm talking walking working
Inserting energy for certain, not an average person
Temple of hip-hop to hold the over boulder
Money folder for soldier, big up Tony Toker
I don't bridge or poker, not a sauna soaker but come on over
Let's make a plan to get free as we can
Cruisin' the span of this land [?] in a new range rover
Get out the city my friend, they have no pity my friend
The way we treat each other is silly, my friend
When you consider the millions of men and women and children
We gotta raise the quality of living
[Hook: Dax & (Triune)]
It's just another day for me (beats rhymes living a life)
Another day (in these times it's gotta be life)
[?] freedom (yeah, living)
It's just another day for me (beats rhymes living a life)
The only way (in these times it's gotta be life)
[?] freedom (yeah, living)
[Verse 3: Ishues]
Music don't make me, I make it then make it
Make sense, don't it?
And if it don't, you should spend some more contemplation on it
Moments of time spent honing my rhymes
Sent from only the divine, my purpose is mine
And mine alone to define despite your prospective vision
Or skeptic criticism or messed-up definition
I'm a servant of God, don't ever mistake it
And your fate for all that faking, you can never escape it
I'm faceless and raceless, my message is ageless
I'm within all faces the same like with hatred
The Matrix was fake but how they make it so tight?
It's a Mahalia Jackson, imitations of life
[Hook: Dax & (Triune)]
It's just another day for me (beats rhymes living a life)
Another day (in these times it's gotta be life)
[?] freedom (yeah, living)
It's just another day for me (beats rhymes living a life)
The only way (in these times it's gotta be life)
[?] freedom (yeah, living)
Feel this, a new experience
And your approach to the lyrics
To the beats and the rhymes
KRS
[Verse 1: KRS-One]
After 19 years of rocking, how do you rank me?
Poorly or greatly? I'm no Johnny-Come-Lately
It's the people that pays me
G-O-D is what raised me
To think that you could blaze me, you must be more than crazy
Radio is Fugazi, XM satellite plays me
Criticism don't faze me, being rich don't amaze me
These princely rappers, they gettin' parked like Paisley
I'm two times the effects like Scoop and Crazy Drazy
I know that no man out there could save me
So I save myself with knowledge of self and [?] that God gave me
No coulda shoulda or maybe
I'm in 2024 with the adult version of your baby
The path of life is so wavy, you can not be lazy
Or mindless like a ship sailing eternal gravy
Through hip-hop we speak so plainly
So let's unite and sail through life as a navy
[Hook: Dax & (Triune)]
It's just another day for me (beats rhymes living a life)
Another day (in these times it's gotta be life)
[?] freedom (yeah, living)
It's just another day for me (beats rhymes living a life)
The only way (in these times it's gotta be life)
[?] freedom (yeah, living)
[Verse 2: KRS-One]
All these people looking at me
Walking with me, staring at me
This is how we work, flash film glaring at me
Little children very happy, I'm signing books CDs
Now I'm signing t-shirts, and yeah my hair stay nappy
Living giving advice on living your life
Oh no, you don't have to be stopped
I'm talking walking working
Inserting energy for certain, not an average person
Temple of hip-hop to hold the over boulder
Money folder for soldier, big up Tony Toker
I don't bridge or poker, not a sauna soaker but come on over
Let's make a plan to get free as we can
Cruisin' the span of this land [?] in a new range rover
Get out the city my friend, they have no pity my friend
The way we treat each other is silly, my friend
When you consider the millions of men and women and children
We gotta raise the quality of living
[Hook: Dax & (Triune)]
It's just another day for me (beats rhymes living a life)
Another day (in these times it's gotta be life)
[?] freedom (yeah, living)
It's just another day for me (beats rhymes living a life)
The only way (in these times it's gotta be life)
[?] freedom (yeah, living)
[Verse 3: Ishues]
Music don't make me, I make it then make it
Make sense, don't it?
And if it don't, you should spend some more contemplation on it
Moments of time spent honing my rhymes
Sent from only the divine, my purpose is mine
And mine alone to define despite your prospective vision
Or skeptic criticism or messed-up definition
I'm a servant of God, don't ever mistake it
And your fate for all that faking, you can never escape it
I'm faceless and raceless, my message is ageless
I'm within all faces the same like with hatred
The Matrix was fake but how they make it so tight?
It's a Mahalia Jackson, imitations of life
[Hook: Dax & (Triune)]
It's just another day for me (beats rhymes living a life)
Another day (in these times it's gotta be life)
[?] freedom (yeah, living)
It's just another day for me (beats rhymes living a life)
The only way (in these times it's gotta be life)
[?] freedom (yeah, living)
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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