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"
Aw, shit, what, uh
You know the freaks can't handle it
We keep on searching from the seaside to the mountainside, come on
Hardly out styled and hardly outblazened
Nectar natural, completely amazing
Others more concerned with just fronting on hardness
I flow sweet with millennium niceness
I don't know if they're just scared or what
But a little sincerity would knock them on their butt
I keep my dogs at my side and I keep my shit tight
Let me tell you how I feel, all right
Y'all's radio rock ain't tough
Can't move to that, ain't deep enough
One more time, groove on the line
Chills up my spine, ready, rewind
[Chorus]
The only thing that never gets old is honesty
You'll probably be caught up fronting
The only thing you always try to be is hard
Because you're scared that someone might pull your card
The only thing that never gets played out
Is melody, I'm hearing it calling me
It's plain to see because it's all laid out
Full ride, I'm a master of technology
Livin' my life nice in pursuit of groove-ology I'm getting vibes like you checking me out
Without a doubt, I pull clout and crush crews in a rout
I'm a Doberman in any given reaction
Well mannered and reserved, yet ready for action
I let you have it all, I got nothin' to hide
Let me tell you how we comin'
We comin' what? Full what, full ride
We work it on the inside
As you'd expect, we come correct
While others just run and hide
Full ride, we work it on the inside
As you'd expect we come correct, uhh
I get the fuck up rockin' the jams, I bump disco
Playin' records all day, then let go
I'm the king of my town but when my girl is around
Parlay like the Count of Monte Cristo
So simple, the jams are in front of me
Get drunk in New York, make fun of me
When we play, it's a serious thing
To all the people who gather, here's what we bring
[Chorus]
Yeah, yeah
Full ride, we work it on the inside
As you'd expect we come correct
While others just run and hide
Full ride, we work it on the inside
As you'd expect we come correct
Yes, yes, full ride, we work it on the inside
As you'd expect we come correct
While others just run and hide
Full ride, we work it on the inside
As you'd expect we come correct, uh
You know the freaks can't handle it
We keep on searching from the seaside to the mountainside, come on
Hardly out styled and hardly outblazened
Nectar natural, completely amazing
Others more concerned with just fronting on hardness
I flow sweet with millennium niceness
I don't know if they're just scared or what
But a little sincerity would knock them on their butt
I keep my dogs at my side and I keep my shit tight
Let me tell you how I feel, all right
Y'all's radio rock ain't tough
Can't move to that, ain't deep enough
One more time, groove on the line
Chills up my spine, ready, rewind
[Chorus]
The only thing that never gets old is honesty
You'll probably be caught up fronting
The only thing you always try to be is hard
Because you're scared that someone might pull your card
The only thing that never gets played out
Is melody, I'm hearing it calling me
It's plain to see because it's all laid out
Full ride, I'm a master of technology
Livin' my life nice in pursuit of groove-ology I'm getting vibes like you checking me out
Without a doubt, I pull clout and crush crews in a rout
I'm a Doberman in any given reaction
Well mannered and reserved, yet ready for action
I let you have it all, I got nothin' to hide
Let me tell you how we comin'
We comin' what? Full what, full ride
We work it on the inside
As you'd expect, we come correct
While others just run and hide
Full ride, we work it on the inside
As you'd expect we come correct, uhh
I get the fuck up rockin' the jams, I bump disco
Playin' records all day, then let go
I'm the king of my town but when my girl is around
Parlay like the Count of Monte Cristo
So simple, the jams are in front of me
Get drunk in New York, make fun of me
When we play, it's a serious thing
To all the people who gather, here's what we bring
[Chorus]
Yeah, yeah
Full ride, we work it on the inside
As you'd expect we come correct
While others just run and hide
Full ride, we work it on the inside
As you'd expect we come correct
Yes, yes, full ride, we work it on the inside
As you'd expect we come correct
While others just run and hide
Full ride, we work it on the inside
As you'd expect we come correct, uh
Lyrics submitted by pen1234567
Full Ride Lyrics as written by Chad Sexton Aaron Wills
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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