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"
Lungs full of pine tar, kush walks the city
Scape of scrappy captains
Capes tucked in the aftermath of unassuming blurprints not suitable for bombings
The fires are alarming
The fire alarms are oddly calming
A water beetle jitterbugs in litter
Kitty cats across the sidewalk after rats are fat enough to die happy
The savvy climb the nail-less pine staircase
[?] Jesus walks to where the [?] and the streets aren't even matter
So they don't
No one pays no nevermind
Higher than the ever-resting deities of better times
Here the sun refracts so much the prisons look like prisms
Rainbow chains ain't shit but long division
A vision of a suited black man peddling dream logic overlooks a park bench
Kids kaleidoscope into an arch and two by two are Lorax'd off the block
The floods are warm and blood is just red colored chicken stock
It was all a dream
Pictures in murder dog magazine
[?] and Master P rocking high-waisted jeans
Grab the [?] off the table and bag it up for fiends
It was all a dream
It was all a dream
Lung full of pine tar, kush walks the ocean
Waves like 'hi, hater'
Buildings looking shoddy low at distance
Skip like stones
The sharks have biters but the teeth more kitten tongue than needle
And so the lung walks on
With a wax-on wax-off Miyagi focus
Fording of America
What's with all this conquering
Wouldn't it be nice to beach boy for a year or six
Turn harmony to capitol
Trade the bricks for sand dollars
Dreams are made of comfort
Struggle bursts the nightmares
The existence of this voice implies he made it
[?] keeping a G in the face of a [?] kumbaya
Ali boom ba yay
Got that 'oh my ya'
Chemotherapay
Who said oh my god? How disrespectful
Don't they see the way he Poseidon'd up to the top where it all breaks
And everyone that rides the wave falls off
It was all a dream
Pictures in murder dog magazine
Messy [?] blue chucks hanging where his jeans should be
True ski-mask and a bulletproof limousine
It was all a dream
It was all a dream
Lung full of pine tar, kush walks the clouds
This is why the wheel wells be cut
The [?] gotta reach for altitude
Much as they're used in slang verse, don't give a fuck really
Drop as much shit as people talk
'Rise above it' someone always said while marching
Easier said than done while flipping fries at golden archie
Just tryna be that double rainbow meme
Ice cream painted on the borders of those dreams
Shit yeah, that's what
Bet five on a dice game in the clouds
Pull all your money out and make it rain
[?] god-like
That's what the must mean by going green
Noah's Ark this block and start anew
Damn, this kush is crazy right?
You can see your roof from here but not much else
The world outside the city limits, not yet cartography
And everybody learn to fly the same
Tapping B and Up to glide in one direction
It was all a dream
Pictures in murder dog magazine
[?] keep the [?] screaming [?]
Dark room familiar, pulling guns on police
It was all a dream
It was all a dream
It was all a dream
Pictures in murder dog magazine
[?] back to back, haulin' [?]
Riding dirty, puffin' that [?]
It was all a dream
Scape of scrappy captains
Capes tucked in the aftermath of unassuming blurprints not suitable for bombings
The fires are alarming
The fire alarms are oddly calming
A water beetle jitterbugs in litter
Kitty cats across the sidewalk after rats are fat enough to die happy
The savvy climb the nail-less pine staircase
[?] Jesus walks to where the [?] and the streets aren't even matter
So they don't
No one pays no nevermind
Higher than the ever-resting deities of better times
Here the sun refracts so much the prisons look like prisms
Rainbow chains ain't shit but long division
A vision of a suited black man peddling dream logic overlooks a park bench
Kids kaleidoscope into an arch and two by two are Lorax'd off the block
The floods are warm and blood is just red colored chicken stock
It was all a dream
Pictures in murder dog magazine
[?] and Master P rocking high-waisted jeans
Grab the [?] off the table and bag it up for fiends
It was all a dream
It was all a dream
Lung full of pine tar, kush walks the ocean
Waves like 'hi, hater'
Buildings looking shoddy low at distance
Skip like stones
The sharks have biters but the teeth more kitten tongue than needle
And so the lung walks on
With a wax-on wax-off Miyagi focus
Fording of America
What's with all this conquering
Wouldn't it be nice to beach boy for a year or six
Turn harmony to capitol
Trade the bricks for sand dollars
Dreams are made of comfort
Struggle bursts the nightmares
The existence of this voice implies he made it
[?] keeping a G in the face of a [?] kumbaya
Ali boom ba yay
Got that 'oh my ya'
Chemotherapay
Who said oh my god? How disrespectful
Don't they see the way he Poseidon'd up to the top where it all breaks
And everyone that rides the wave falls off
It was all a dream
Pictures in murder dog magazine
Messy [?] blue chucks hanging where his jeans should be
True ski-mask and a bulletproof limousine
It was all a dream
It was all a dream
Lung full of pine tar, kush walks the clouds
This is why the wheel wells be cut
The [?] gotta reach for altitude
Much as they're used in slang verse, don't give a fuck really
Drop as much shit as people talk
'Rise above it' someone always said while marching
Easier said than done while flipping fries at golden archie
Just tryna be that double rainbow meme
Ice cream painted on the borders of those dreams
Shit yeah, that's what
Bet five on a dice game in the clouds
Pull all your money out and make it rain
[?] god-like
That's what the must mean by going green
Noah's Ark this block and start anew
Damn, this kush is crazy right?
You can see your roof from here but not much else
The world outside the city limits, not yet cartography
And everybody learn to fly the same
Tapping B and Up to glide in one direction
It was all a dream
Pictures in murder dog magazine
[?] keep the [?] screaming [?]
Dark room familiar, pulling guns on police
It was all a dream
It was all a dream
It was all a dream
Pictures in murder dog magazine
[?] back to back, haulin' [?]
Riding dirty, puffin' that [?]
It was all a dream
Lyrics submitted by furyroad97
Dream Lyrics as written by William Moran Hutson Daveed Diggs
Lyrics © Songtrust Ave, Fintage House Publishing
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