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"
Follow me! upon a black star line
Off for the rest and for brand Nubian
Now go to Africa again, watch dis!
Black star line it's the black star line
Everybody come aboard and free your mind
Black star line it's the black star line
Everybody come aboard and free your mind
Black star line it's the black star line
Everybody come aboard and free your mind
Black star line it's the black star line
Everybody come aboard and free your mind
It's the black star line that's leavin' at nine
Here's a paid ticket so you can free your mind
Playgrounds is filled with visions of steel
Grab the black babies it's time to build
See we got a mental ship somethin' like Noah's ark
Spark your brain cell now let's set sail
(With no avail) we flowin' on a positive trip
All nubians is welcome, male and female
I, wouldn't resort, to askin' for a passport
Love vibes rule so your black face is cool
Cool, but not frozen, a trip for the chosen few..
Form a line-ah, upon the black star liner
Goin' to Africa, one more time
Goin' to Africa, one more time
Goin' to Africa, one more time
Form a line-ah, upon the black star liner
Goin' to Africa, one more time, true!
Let me tell you bout Marcus Garvey
Born in Jamaica, God left him in country
He go to America to make black people free
He walk around low and just try make money
Him buy up some ship and just start for we
America or Africa and live irie
We hav some man where wan gonna be
Young nasty and just licky licky
Some love Marcus Garvey, the place of peace
Or peace around it, and dem sparkle up him say
I just light up, make the first hungry
Writer no block it but just run follow me
Form a line-ah, upon the black star liner
Goin' to Africa, one more time
Form a line-ah, upon the black star liner
Brand Nubian! tell dem one more time
As we look to the stars, they take ours
Yeah we got fly cars but you can live in four wheels?
We need new approaches, old style is null and void
Makes me paranoid, to think
That we own the whole ocean yet we can't even drink
You couldn't swim the nine thousand so we got you a means
Of transportation, for the Nubian nation
Marcus Garvey had the idea back in the days
Doin for self, keepin' the wealth
I gotta add on and create
Though the devil thinks it's not the latest fashion
Navigatin' lost, somethin' like a ship's captain
Black star line it's the black star line
Everybody come aboard and free your mind
Black star line it's the black star line
Everybody come aboard and free your mind
Black star line it's the black star line
Everybody come aboard and free your mind
Black star line it's the black star line
Everybody come aboard and free your mind
When I'm ova, arms will be raised for the tom-toms
Push up ya arm they call ya proud to be black
Push up ya arm they call ya proud to be black
Call me proud to be black, cause I'm not tryin' to fuck
When I'm proud to be black, I'm not some young eedyot
When I'm proud to be black, I'm not some young eedyot
Be gone! I want no dem I want no dem-dem dem-dem dem-dem
Never know they wickedness they haffa come to an end
Don't take a no fey word for de white boy dem
Awayaa tell me, all you get in de end
Awayaa tell me, all you get isa dem
Awayaa tell me, all you get more den dey spend
C'mon, tell de world black man entertainer
Rock dem one and rock entertained
Tell the red foxx style dem a get
When I'm ova, arms will be raised for the tom-toms
Push up ya arm they call ya proud to be black
Push up ya arm they call ya proud to be black
Brand Nubian wanna give nuff respect to the one Marcus Garvey
Nuff respect to Red Foxx
Sting international in the house
Dave Kennedy on the boards
Knowhati'msayin? the one Rafael
Nuff respect to the God sincere
Yeah, yaknowhati'msayin? mark the spark is in the house
And umm, this how we work out
For the ninety-two season
Off for the rest and for brand Nubian
Now go to Africa again, watch dis!
Black star line it's the black star line
Everybody come aboard and free your mind
Black star line it's the black star line
Everybody come aboard and free your mind
Black star line it's the black star line
Everybody come aboard and free your mind
Black star line it's the black star line
Everybody come aboard and free your mind
It's the black star line that's leavin' at nine
Here's a paid ticket so you can free your mind
Playgrounds is filled with visions of steel
Grab the black babies it's time to build
See we got a mental ship somethin' like Noah's ark
Spark your brain cell now let's set sail
(With no avail) we flowin' on a positive trip
All nubians is welcome, male and female
I, wouldn't resort, to askin' for a passport
Love vibes rule so your black face is cool
Cool, but not frozen, a trip for the chosen few..
Form a line-ah, upon the black star liner
Goin' to Africa, one more time
Goin' to Africa, one more time
Goin' to Africa, one more time
Form a line-ah, upon the black star liner
Goin' to Africa, one more time, true!
Let me tell you bout Marcus Garvey
Born in Jamaica, God left him in country
He go to America to make black people free
He walk around low and just try make money
Him buy up some ship and just start for we
America or Africa and live irie
We hav some man where wan gonna be
Young nasty and just licky licky
Some love Marcus Garvey, the place of peace
Or peace around it, and dem sparkle up him say
I just light up, make the first hungry
Writer no block it but just run follow me
Form a line-ah, upon the black star liner
Goin' to Africa, one more time
Form a line-ah, upon the black star liner
Brand Nubian! tell dem one more time
As we look to the stars, they take ours
Yeah we got fly cars but you can live in four wheels?
We need new approaches, old style is null and void
Makes me paranoid, to think
That we own the whole ocean yet we can't even drink
You couldn't swim the nine thousand so we got you a means
Of transportation, for the Nubian nation
Marcus Garvey had the idea back in the days
Doin for self, keepin' the wealth
I gotta add on and create
Though the devil thinks it's not the latest fashion
Navigatin' lost, somethin' like a ship's captain
Black star line it's the black star line
Everybody come aboard and free your mind
Black star line it's the black star line
Everybody come aboard and free your mind
Black star line it's the black star line
Everybody come aboard and free your mind
Black star line it's the black star line
Everybody come aboard and free your mind
When I'm ova, arms will be raised for the tom-toms
Push up ya arm they call ya proud to be black
Push up ya arm they call ya proud to be black
Call me proud to be black, cause I'm not tryin' to fuck
When I'm proud to be black, I'm not some young eedyot
When I'm proud to be black, I'm not some young eedyot
Be gone! I want no dem I want no dem-dem dem-dem dem-dem
Never know they wickedness they haffa come to an end
Don't take a no fey word for de white boy dem
Awayaa tell me, all you get in de end
Awayaa tell me, all you get isa dem
Awayaa tell me, all you get more den dey spend
C'mon, tell de world black man entertainer
Rock dem one and rock entertained
Tell the red foxx style dem a get
When I'm ova, arms will be raised for the tom-toms
Push up ya arm they call ya proud to be black
Push up ya arm they call ya proud to be black
Brand Nubian wanna give nuff respect to the one Marcus Garvey
Nuff respect to Red Foxx
Sting international in the house
Dave Kennedy on the boards
Knowhati'msayin? the one Rafael
Nuff respect to the God sincere
Yeah, yaknowhati'msayin? mark the spark is in the house
And umm, this how we work out
For the ninety-two season
Lyrics submitted by spliphstar
Black Star Line Lyrics as written by Dechalus Allen
Lyrics © Royalty Network Music Publishing Ltd.
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