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"
Yeah
Been a long time coming
Yeah
Mhm
It's Swift
Back up in this bitch man
Yeah
Yeah
Look inside my mind tell me what you find
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Look inside my eyes tell me what you find
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Don't jus peak inside gotta analyze
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Ain gotta give me time I know what you like
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Look inside my mind tell I'll you what you find
Diamonds (D-Diamonds)
Look inside my eyes I'll tell you what you find
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Don't jus peak inside you gotta analyze
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Ain gotta give me time cause I know what you like
Diamonds (Diamonds)
I know what they want
Something they can't have
We human (human)
What you runnin from
Like you chasin sum
Confusing (so confusing)
Hidden messages
Indirectly hit
Amusing (Haha)
Think about that shit (Psh)
Grab a pen n write some music (Yeah)
Nah they can't be on the shit that I be on (What?)
Don't talk to me because you is a peon (What?)
Hit that bitch when once n I tell her to be gone (Be gone)
Why she want me she be leavin the streets on
Read
She jus wan lay in her bed
Lay back her head after taking her meds (She do)
Damn that's how she deal with her stress
Yeah (Well)
Difference between us shit there isn't much (Except)
She eat the dick up for breakfast n lunch
N after she clean up she rollin the runtz
Nah She ain leavin she packin my blunts (Oo)
Damn
I toke it she start to blush
Yeah
But to me nah it ain much
She jus want a piece a me ain talkin crust (Let's go)
Look inside my mind tell me what you find
Diamonds (Big diamonds)
Look inside my eyes tell me what you find
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Don't jus peak inside gotta analyze
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Ain gotta give me time I know what you like
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Look inside my mind tell I'll you what you find
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Look inside my eyes I'll tell you what you find
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Don't jus peak inside you gotta analyze
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Ain gotta give me time cause I know what you like
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Damn I think you good
And you from the hood
Ruthless (Damn)
We be smokin woods
Know you wish you could
Do it
Don't get misunderstood
Cause I'm that type who would
Use it (Oh yeah)
I be in the Stu goin Stu yeah I'm stupid
She wanna get cool cause I'm cooler than some cool whip (Mhm)
Take her to the Ruth Chris (Mhm)
Show her how I'm movin (Mhm)
Do it on my own ain worried bout ya 2 cent
Get it cause I'm grown I'm goin gold keep ya distance
I be in city with my mind on high
And my seat down low
Music sound right every place I go
Take a lil ride to every place I know
Last time I seen you you was in cocoa
Now why you in my city ridin inna tahoe (Huh)
Used to be shy now you in front row (Huh)
She look me in the eye n then I go
Look inside my mind tell me what you find
Diamonds
Look inside my eyes tell me what you find
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Don't jus peak inside gotta analyze
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Ain gotta give me time I know what you like
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Look inside my mind tell I'll you what you find
Diamonds
Look inside my eyes I'll tell you what you find
Diamonds
Don't jus peak inside you gotta analyze
Diamonds
Ain gotta give me time cause I know what you like
Diamonds
Been a long time coming
Yeah
Mhm
It's Swift
Back up in this bitch man
Yeah
Yeah
Look inside my mind tell me what you find
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Look inside my eyes tell me what you find
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Don't jus peak inside gotta analyze
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Ain gotta give me time I know what you like
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Look inside my mind tell I'll you what you find
Diamonds (D-Diamonds)
Look inside my eyes I'll tell you what you find
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Don't jus peak inside you gotta analyze
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Ain gotta give me time cause I know what you like
Diamonds (Diamonds)
I know what they want
Something they can't have
We human (human)
What you runnin from
Like you chasin sum
Confusing (so confusing)
Hidden messages
Indirectly hit
Amusing (Haha)
Think about that shit (Psh)
Grab a pen n write some music (Yeah)
Nah they can't be on the shit that I be on (What?)
Don't talk to me because you is a peon (What?)
Hit that bitch when once n I tell her to be gone (Be gone)
Why she want me she be leavin the streets on
Read
She jus wan lay in her bed
Lay back her head after taking her meds (She do)
Damn that's how she deal with her stress
Yeah (Well)
Difference between us shit there isn't much (Except)
She eat the dick up for breakfast n lunch
N after she clean up she rollin the runtz
Nah She ain leavin she packin my blunts (Oo)
Damn
I toke it she start to blush
Yeah
But to me nah it ain much
She jus want a piece a me ain talkin crust (Let's go)
Look inside my mind tell me what you find
Diamonds (Big diamonds)
Look inside my eyes tell me what you find
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Don't jus peak inside gotta analyze
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Ain gotta give me time I know what you like
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Look inside my mind tell I'll you what you find
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Look inside my eyes I'll tell you what you find
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Don't jus peak inside you gotta analyze
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Ain gotta give me time cause I know what you like
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Damn I think you good
And you from the hood
Ruthless (Damn)
We be smokin woods
Know you wish you could
Do it
Don't get misunderstood
Cause I'm that type who would
Use it (Oh yeah)
I be in the Stu goin Stu yeah I'm stupid
She wanna get cool cause I'm cooler than some cool whip (Mhm)
Take her to the Ruth Chris (Mhm)
Show her how I'm movin (Mhm)
Do it on my own ain worried bout ya 2 cent
Get it cause I'm grown I'm goin gold keep ya distance
I be in city with my mind on high
And my seat down low
Music sound right every place I go
Take a lil ride to every place I know
Last time I seen you you was in cocoa
Now why you in my city ridin inna tahoe (Huh)
Used to be shy now you in front row (Huh)
She look me in the eye n then I go
Look inside my mind tell me what you find
Diamonds
Look inside my eyes tell me what you find
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Don't jus peak inside gotta analyze
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Ain gotta give me time I know what you like
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Look inside my mind tell I'll you what you find
Diamonds
Look inside my eyes I'll tell you what you find
Diamonds
Don't jus peak inside you gotta analyze
Diamonds
Ain gotta give me time cause I know what you like
Diamonds
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