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"
Rule number one don't go against the grain
Rule number two give respect where respect due
Rule number three if you get knocked play games and say names
[gun click sound] the 45 will tear you out the frame
Its like the rich get richer and the poor don't get fuckin thing
Don't mean nothin changed but the things my money bring
My style will leave you aggy like them cats in jail
You peoples got pleany money actin like they ain't got bail
I feel for you niggas gettin shot while I'm sayin this rhyme
Or niggas in the mess hall gettin shot on shallow lines
An old timer schooled me don't burn bridges my friend
Imagine the G-Dub close and yo ass gotta swim
I watch the fifth melt a nigga melt a nigga of the sidewalk of New York
Me and shorty saw from afar and had a talk
He said I told em if he came around I'd clap him, I gave him my word
Look at his head its still shakin he had alot of nerve
If it wasn't for the flow
I'd probably have to double Back bubble crack
yea yea I'm a hustler
If it wasn't for the flow
I'd probably have to double Back bubble crack
yea yea I'm a hustler
If it wasn't for the flow
I'd probably have to double Back bubble crack
yea yea I'm a hustler
Yo when the fed come in the game loyalty is limited
Hardcore niggas start actin feminine
With the feds you do eighty five percent of your time
Duke you get ten you'll damn near do nine
Hate a liar more than I hate thief
A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality
The streets I know'em like my ABC's
Stay away from the D's and stack ya cheese
Try to see three hundred g's fore you see three hundred C's
Tree top to feel the breeze co connect for key's
Yo bitches sexin me take me to ecstacy
Once I nut (ahh oh shit) I don't want 'em next to me
If its on mother fucker believe I'm gonna ride
I'm the type to swallow my blood fore I swallow my pride
Letters on my shirt read DKNY
Got grimy niggas runnin with me from BKNY
If it wasn't for the flow
I'd probably have to double Back bubble crack
yea yea I'm a hustler
They say I don't sound like a killer well how a killer sound
I bet I grab a foe pound and back that ass down
See many men live baby and many men die
Many men get drunk puff lah and stay high
Here's a jewel love you enemies and hate your friends
Your enemies remain the same friends always change
I don't quit that theres more that one way to skin a cat
You can get him in the face dog or down his back
All bullshit aside now its time to be honest
I fear no man for death is all thats promised
I got niggas standin in line waitin to hear me spit
From eighty six to ninety six the game went from sugar to shit
This for you niggas in the background dyin to shine
I hate you like fiends who ask for a dime for nine
Don't nothin change in the game but faces and names
Skate to wait to date and the jake
If it wasn't for the flow
I'd probably have to double Back bubble crack
yea yea I'm a hustler
Rule number two give respect where respect due
Rule number three if you get knocked play games and say names
[gun click sound] the 45 will tear you out the frame
Its like the rich get richer and the poor don't get fuckin thing
Don't mean nothin changed but the things my money bring
My style will leave you aggy like them cats in jail
You peoples got pleany money actin like they ain't got bail
I feel for you niggas gettin shot while I'm sayin this rhyme
Or niggas in the mess hall gettin shot on shallow lines
An old timer schooled me don't burn bridges my friend
Imagine the G-Dub close and yo ass gotta swim
I watch the fifth melt a nigga melt a nigga of the sidewalk of New York
Me and shorty saw from afar and had a talk
He said I told em if he came around I'd clap him, I gave him my word
Look at his head its still shakin he had alot of nerve
If it wasn't for the flow
I'd probably have to double Back bubble crack
yea yea I'm a hustler
If it wasn't for the flow
I'd probably have to double Back bubble crack
yea yea I'm a hustler
If it wasn't for the flow
I'd probably have to double Back bubble crack
yea yea I'm a hustler
Yo when the fed come in the game loyalty is limited
Hardcore niggas start actin feminine
With the feds you do eighty five percent of your time
Duke you get ten you'll damn near do nine
Hate a liar more than I hate thief
A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality
The streets I know'em like my ABC's
Stay away from the D's and stack ya cheese
Try to see three hundred g's fore you see three hundred C's
Tree top to feel the breeze co connect for key's
Yo bitches sexin me take me to ecstacy
Once I nut (ahh oh shit) I don't want 'em next to me
If its on mother fucker believe I'm gonna ride
I'm the type to swallow my blood fore I swallow my pride
Letters on my shirt read DKNY
Got grimy niggas runnin with me from BKNY
If it wasn't for the flow
I'd probably have to double Back bubble crack
yea yea I'm a hustler
They say I don't sound like a killer well how a killer sound
I bet I grab a foe pound and back that ass down
See many men live baby and many men die
Many men get drunk puff lah and stay high
Here's a jewel love you enemies and hate your friends
Your enemies remain the same friends always change
I don't quit that theres more that one way to skin a cat
You can get him in the face dog or down his back
All bullshit aside now its time to be honest
I fear no man for death is all thats promised
I got niggas standin in line waitin to hear me spit
From eighty six to ninety six the game went from sugar to shit
This for you niggas in the background dyin to shine
I hate you like fiends who ask for a dime for nine
Don't nothin change in the game but faces and names
Skate to wait to date and the jake
If it wasn't for the flow
I'd probably have to double Back bubble crack
yea yea I'm a hustler
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50 cent is gay he ain't no fucking hustler he's a wannabe.
This artist is promoting the torture of youth as whores by glorifying whores and hookery its because of artists such as him that some youth think its ok to be involved in gangs and street violence. This guy promotes greed, violence and sodomy!!
Yes also whoredom! He thinks hes so fit, urgh! disgusting
Honestly, you call these lyrics?
honestly if 50s a wanna-be than every other rapper in the world that youve ever heard of is a wanna-be.
That goes fore every other rap artist around the globe to mention violence and PROSTITUTION. (QuiefLoraine, hookery isnt even a real word, you pro-female cunt.)
What makes it a fad to all of a sudden hate 50 Cent? God only knows.
As for the man thinking he is fit, Randomhugs, did the doctor mistake your head for your ass and slap you in that empty hollow spot you call a head? the man knows he is fit, he IS fit. if you know youre skinny, youre skinny. if you know youre fat youre fat. if i were to say you are a loser who likes to complain about successful rap artists and who chooses to bitch about him even though you are looking at the lyrics to this one of the most unpopular of all 50s song lyrics hinting that you must like the guy even a little, i would be right because all these things are based on fact.
Honestly, storyxofxaxbitch, if they look like lyrics and they sound like lyrics, it rhymes, and they are on a lyrics website then YES i would have to call these LYRICS. if you disagree then maybe you can show us how its done. im sure you must have loads of boring storys to write about.
You Fucking Twats .
by the way i completely forgot why i was here in the first place, damnit, see what wasting your stupid people time for too long does to you? anyway.
I think this song is a clever, and cleverly written. He writes about everything he knew about the streets and the life lessons he learned along the way.
"Hate a liar more than I hate thief A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality"
"Here's a jewel love you enemies and hate your friends Your enemies remain the same friends always change"
These are some of the most clever lines ive ever heard in a song of any genre. A theme song for any hustler, drug dealer or gangster to feel.
This song is a life's lesson. It's amazingly meaningful. I mean just listen to theses lines:
''Rule number two give respect where respect due''
''All bullshit aside now, it's time to be honest; I fear no man for death is all that's promised''
''If it's on motherf***er, believe me I'm gonna ride; I'm the type that swallows my blood before I swallow my pride''
50 cent was a true rapper back in the 1997-8-9-2000... I Mean he was hungry back then. Just listen to ''Power Of The Dollar'' album, it's so good. 50 cent has so much confidence and he knows it. Just listen to his lines you'll see how much confidence he has. The man is now on top of that music industry. Yes, he became big out of nothing. Nowadays he's getting money and having a good life, sadly you haters can't appreciate his art. Well guess what? 50 cent is not giving a flying fuck about you, he's getting money and has succeed so much in his career. Seriously if you think this song is crap, you don't know what rap is. I mean this is legit old school man.