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"
[Jurassic 5]
Hey yo, it's like this when Allah says "Let it be like"
We are some designated, poetical brothers with mics
For whoever had skills to possess the gift
Combination with the flavor and it goes like this...Tuna Fish
[Chali 2na]
I'm amphibious, citizen with the lesson plan
Cashier at the J5 concession stand (Akil)
[Akil]
The militant steel with the peripheral
Telegraphic skill build up cross field (Mark 7even)
[Mark 7even]
Fundamentalist bringing my verbal gift
My style is packed Quik like cocoa in Swiss Miss (Zaakir)
[Zaakir]
For the way my pen sticks to rhymes
Cause a million party people, it's about that time
[Jurassic 5]
And together, we'll show you how to improvise
Reminiscent of the Wild Style '75
Cause it's the brothers on the mic occupying the drums
Taking four MC's and make them sound like one
[Akil]
I be the spark from the cannon, blaze the outstanding
Tug of war, with the poor, rich, and scandalous
Road running bandit, race against advancement
Style winds cause storms when I perform
[Mark 7even]
I'm a Parker John robot and stomp your whole spot
And beat you whole crew to a bunch of whole knots
Dissect you from the inner then declare myself the winner
Once the style clears, you'll be (real like Finner)
[Chali 2na]
One of the black your contractor
Attacking your backdoor, you're trapped in my trash compactor
Move back, whore, swingings before the trap door
It's causin' the capture of brothers who rap more
[Zaakir]
Yeah, check the shelling, rock niggas redder than watermelon
The grief-stricken, rotated 20/20 vision
Rap felon, hottest rebel with bad spelling
I pitch shift with unprecedented sharpness
[Jurassic 5]
Distributor, local street corner contributor
Word inhibitor, scientific positioner
Rhythm commission be J's for real
"He drives the crossfader like a cutmobile"
We perpetrate the fake, the fraud, the phony
Jurassic Masters of the Ceremony
You came and saw right before your eyes
In fact the old school flavor has survived, like this...
And together, we show you how to improvise
Reminiscent of the Wild Style '75
Cause it's the brothers on the mic occupying the drums
We taking four MC's and make 'em sound like one
And together, we show you how to improvise
Reminiscent of the Wild Style '75
So whoever bought the tape bring your butt right back
'Cause you never in your life heard a cut like that
[Zaakir]
Hey, we flip fast phonographs 45 records smash
High was the forecast, ain't nothing they never had
[Mark 7even]
Make a move, never lose, competition quick to choose
New styles, hot rhymes, guaranteed to blow your mind
[Chali 2na]
(Who's he?) The fanatic for unity
Chemistry in the ghetto, diplomatic immunity
[Akil]
Well I'm the style stimulist, sound photosynthesis
Super with the sentences in the Latin centuries
[Jurassic 5]
And together, we'll show you how to improvise
Reminiscent of the Wild Style '75
Cause it's the brothers on the mic occupying the drums
Taking four MC's and make them sound like one
And together, we'll show you how to improvise
Reminiscent of the Wild Style '75
Cause it's the brothers on the mic in the place to be
It's the J-you-are-A double S I-see
Hey yo, it's like this when Allah says "Let it be like"
We are some designated, poetical brothers with mics
For whoever had skills to possess the gift
Combination with the flavor and it goes like this...Tuna Fish
[Chali 2na]
I'm amphibious, citizen with the lesson plan
Cashier at the J5 concession stand (Akil)
[Akil]
The militant steel with the peripheral
Telegraphic skill build up cross field (Mark 7even)
[Mark 7even]
Fundamentalist bringing my verbal gift
My style is packed Quik like cocoa in Swiss Miss (Zaakir)
[Zaakir]
For the way my pen sticks to rhymes
Cause a million party people, it's about that time
[Jurassic 5]
And together, we'll show you how to improvise
Reminiscent of the Wild Style '75
Cause it's the brothers on the mic occupying the drums
Taking four MC's and make them sound like one
[Akil]
I be the spark from the cannon, blaze the outstanding
Tug of war, with the poor, rich, and scandalous
Road running bandit, race against advancement
Style winds cause storms when I perform
[Mark 7even]
I'm a Parker John robot and stomp your whole spot
And beat you whole crew to a bunch of whole knots
Dissect you from the inner then declare myself the winner
Once the style clears, you'll be (real like Finner)
[Chali 2na]
One of the black your contractor
Attacking your backdoor, you're trapped in my trash compactor
Move back, whore, swingings before the trap door
It's causin' the capture of brothers who rap more
[Zaakir]
Yeah, check the shelling, rock niggas redder than watermelon
The grief-stricken, rotated 20/20 vision
Rap felon, hottest rebel with bad spelling
I pitch shift with unprecedented sharpness
[Jurassic 5]
Distributor, local street corner contributor
Word inhibitor, scientific positioner
Rhythm commission be J's for real
"He drives the crossfader like a cutmobile"
We perpetrate the fake, the fraud, the phony
Jurassic Masters of the Ceremony
You came and saw right before your eyes
In fact the old school flavor has survived, like this...
And together, we show you how to improvise
Reminiscent of the Wild Style '75
Cause it's the brothers on the mic occupying the drums
We taking four MC's and make 'em sound like one
And together, we show you how to improvise
Reminiscent of the Wild Style '75
So whoever bought the tape bring your butt right back
'Cause you never in your life heard a cut like that
[Zaakir]
Hey, we flip fast phonographs 45 records smash
High was the forecast, ain't nothing they never had
[Mark 7even]
Make a move, never lose, competition quick to choose
New styles, hot rhymes, guaranteed to blow your mind
[Chali 2na]
(Who's he?) The fanatic for unity
Chemistry in the ghetto, diplomatic immunity
[Akil]
Well I'm the style stimulist, sound photosynthesis
Super with the sentences in the Latin centuries
[Jurassic 5]
And together, we'll show you how to improvise
Reminiscent of the Wild Style '75
Cause it's the brothers on the mic occupying the drums
Taking four MC's and make them sound like one
And together, we'll show you how to improvise
Reminiscent of the Wild Style '75
Cause it's the brothers on the mic in the place to be
It's the J-you-are-A double S I-see
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I absolutly love this song. First heard it when playing Jet Grind Radio back in 2000. I think they're saying they think they're a good group because they know how to use their seperate styles to make one smooth sound.
If anyone can find out what Chali says here you'll have my eternal gratitude.
"(Who is he?) The subtle ->??<- fanatic for unity Demonstratin the ghetto diplomatic immunity"
Anyway, to me this is both a song just showcasing their skills as freestyle mc's (hence the title I suppose) and a more serious jab at the new wave of commercial over-produced soulless "rap-pop".