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"
Once again it's on, and all the kids are lined up
Pumpin' their fist in the air, getting fired up
It's all about you
It's all about your loyalty
Keepin' it real
You're part of the family, and that's who I am
And that's where our heads at all
That rock star ego-shit
We ain't about that
'Cause I feel the love, and I feel the unity
You and me raisin' the fuckin' roof
So let's fuck up this bitch
Fuck it up
Set it off
Set it off, set it off, bitch, set it off
Come into our world
I open all your eyes up
The word on the street
Can you feel the heat rise up
And see what my troops did?
I'm telling the truth, kid
All the hard heads in the pit getting stupid, so what
Should we do is this?
What you want to see
Are you down
Muthafucka want to get crazy 'cause I feel the love
And I feel the unity
You and me raising the fuckin' roof
So let's fuck up this bitch
Fuck it up
Set it off
Set it off, set it off, bitch, set it off
Life's a gift
We all make our choices as one
We all bring our forces
Hey, muthafucka, I'm talk to you
Yeah, you, muthfucka
I'm through fuckin' with you
Now I don't need that shit, and I don't like that shit
I flip the script, and I re-write that shit
Sucker emcees hear my spit, and they bite that shit
I grab the mic, and I ignite that shit
Good times like J.J., all dyn-o-mite and shit
I don't quit, like a phoenix
I take flight and shit
Oh yeah, you fuck with me, I'll fight like a pit
And shit all over everything you love
And all that you hold sacred
Open up my eyes and see your face
The muthfuckin' face of hatred
So let's fuck up this bitch
Fuck it up
Set it off
Set it off, set it off, bitch, set it off
Set it off right
Pumpin' their fist in the air, getting fired up
It's all about you
It's all about your loyalty
Keepin' it real
You're part of the family, and that's who I am
And that's where our heads at all
That rock star ego-shit
We ain't about that
'Cause I feel the love, and I feel the unity
You and me raisin' the fuckin' roof
So let's fuck up this bitch
Fuck it up
Set it off
Set it off, set it off, bitch, set it off
Come into our world
I open all your eyes up
The word on the street
Can you feel the heat rise up
And see what my troops did?
I'm telling the truth, kid
All the hard heads in the pit getting stupid, so what
Should we do is this?
What you want to see
Are you down
Muthafucka want to get crazy 'cause I feel the love
And I feel the unity
You and me raising the fuckin' roof
So let's fuck up this bitch
Fuck it up
Set it off
Set it off, set it off, bitch, set it off
Life's a gift
We all make our choices as one
We all bring our forces
Hey, muthafucka, I'm talk to you
Yeah, you, muthfucka
I'm through fuckin' with you
Now I don't need that shit, and I don't like that shit
I flip the script, and I re-write that shit
Sucker emcees hear my spit, and they bite that shit
I grab the mic, and I ignite that shit
Good times like J.J., all dyn-o-mite and shit
I don't quit, like a phoenix
I take flight and shit
Oh yeah, you fuck with me, I'll fight like a pit
And shit all over everything you love
And all that you hold sacred
Open up my eyes and see your face
The muthfuckin' face of hatred
So let's fuck up this bitch
Fuck it up
Set it off
Set it off, set it off, bitch, set it off
Set it off right
Lyrics submitted by HoldURBreath
Set It Off Lyrics as written by Casey Jones Axel Morgan
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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