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"
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The song is basically about the rap wars and how much the danger of being hurt or killed by your rivals is highly possible. Eminem sings a little about most of his feuds with multiple artists and the video is just what could possibly happen to someone from his crew due to all of the fighting between the groups. The person that dies in the video actually dies 2 years later after the song was made. He was shot in a bar after shooting someone over a game of pool.
There are some people that he has named, I will try to clarify the situation.
Benzino is an older rapper, whom had control over Source magazine for a while and used it to bash on Eminem and even made a new album with a lot of songs directed to Eminem and I'm assuming that Eminem believed Benzino was irrelevant to everything that was going on and decided to try to be on top of the rap game by starting drama with him.
50 Cent's feud is said to be started in his words that Ja Rule was robbed out of his jewelry and Ja Rule thought 50 Cent had something to do with it and Ja Rule said that 50 Cent was jealous over the fact that when he was making videos in his 'hood, he got a lot of love from the people there. That's when they started to make diss song at each other with Ja Rule and Murder Inc artists and 50 Cent with his G-Unit. 50 Cent was nearly killed after being shot 9 times. It's said that a local drug kingpin sent the hit after 50 Cent made an album that exposed Murder Inc's illegal activties with the said drug dealer. It's also believed that the same drug dealer killed Jam Master Jay for helping out 50 Cent make and send the album and pretty much taught 50 Cent how to actually make music. 50 Cent later joined in Eminem's record label and Ja Rule threatened Eminem and Dre to not make any diss songs about him and they didn't until Dre produced a 50 Cent song that pretty much destroyed Ja Rule and his family and that's when Ja Rule came out with ''Loose Change'' and it was directed to Dre and Eminem and people from their labels and that's when Eminem/D12, Dr. Dre, 50 Cent/G-Unit battled Ja Rule/Murder Inc and other artists for a while. There was a time where Dre and Eminem talked with 50 Cent to try kill the drama with Ja Rule, but Ja Rule was talking and joking about how he was the one that stabbed 50 Cent in a club and that continued the fued. It was actually Black Child from Murder Inc that stabbed 50 Cent because he thought he was pulling out a gun.
Now to the Suge Knight thing. Eminem wasn't afraid of Suge Knight, he just didn't attack Suge Knight out of respect for his friend Dr. Dre who told him to stay out of it because it wasn't his beef and wanted to do things by himself.
I don't usually listen to Eminem, but these lyrics are so raw and real I just had to comment. He talks about trying to be the responsible person in a world of immature rappers. He doesn't want to lose his temper but when the people he cherishes the most are involved then it's war. He just sounds so mature, and I like how with this song he basically says how he knows what's right from wrong but he will fight to the end for his loved ones. Good job, E!
eminem is right... ja is a tool.
2 comments above say it all! Great song!
@Matty Ain't no 2 comments.
I love how angry he sounds in this song. This song is simply amazing. Amazing. I bet he felt so much looser after writing this song, he let out alot of his rage and thoughts in this. Congrats Eminem, this is just another song that proves you're the best rapper the world has ever seen.
Incredible. Incredible.
Ja Rule's song that said that stuff about Hailie was called Loose Change (a freestyle).
The line was ""Em, you claim your mother is a crackhead and Kim is a known slut/So what's Hailie gonna be when she grows up?"
thats something someones gonna b remembered for..
cool song....i like the way eminem is rapping faster on this cd
THIS IS ONE OF EM'S BEST SONGS,LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
to can u keep up why do you hate eminem so much? He is making something of his life. He is trying to create something good out of something that was bad. How can you rank on someone for that? A lot of people like his music so he is good for something. He is not out there shooting people or throwing away his life. He's speaking out against it. Some communities are not in very good condition and we need people like eminem to inspire people and have something to hang on to. What we don't need is blind hate. You look completely one sided. Maybe you should open up your mind. I am not saying you have to like it but at least respect it. Its art don't trash it.