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"
Come down, skinhead, come down
Come down, skinhead, come down
You wan' fi tek this time create the other years ?
Come down, skinhead, come down
A war inna Dublin
Mi said a war inna Manchester
Mi said a war inna Liverpool
Because him never been to school
Said a war inna Brixton
Dis ya hundred years ?
Dis ya hundred years
No bother trouble Natty Dreadlock
No bother trouble Natty Dreadlock
Skinhead, skinhead, skinhead, skinhead
Said di police ha' bricked?? them rubber bomb ?
Di police ha' bust?? them rubber shot ?
And ha' fling water bomb
While di skinheads ha' flicked them a bottle and stone
Dem ha' fling petrol bomb
Co' dem ha' fling petrol bomb
Mind Natty Dreadlocks
Mind di truth happen Natty Dreadlocks
Coz Natty Dreadlocks who are di start ?
Some a dem will ?
Skinhead, skinhead, skinhead, skinhead
Coz a war inna Dublin
Co' mi couldn't get no Dublin
Appear?? war inna Dublin
Come down, skinhead, come down, skinhead
Come down, skinhead
A shaved to a shaved ?
A shaved to a shaved
Seh you gone a Manchester
You a wear polyester
At Chester you are dressed up ?
Co' I man, do you see a time for the hundred years?
A time for the hundred years
Don't care what you had?? heard o' Natty Dreadlocks
What's strong if a Natty Dreadlocks here ?
You understand?
You better step on your right cord
You better step on your right line
No bother cross the white line
Co' you mash up Manchester and you goin' a Liverpool
You come a Brixton
You even try Wembley Stadium on the way
No touch you a touch
A man of mighty shame
Come down, skinhead, come down
Come down, skinhead, come down
Come off of your ? and your pride
Come off of your ? and your pride
Coz there no time for you hide
No time for you hide
For a hundred years
Move, skinhead, move outa the way
Move, nimble skinhead, move
Get outa di way
Get out of the way
Go hide yourself in a garbage bin
Skinhead, you've got to move
Come down, skinhead, come down
You wan' fi tek this time create the other years ?
Come down, skinhead, come down
A war inna Dublin
Mi said a war inna Manchester
Mi said a war inna Liverpool
Because him never been to school
Said a war inna Brixton
Dis ya hundred years ?
Dis ya hundred years
No bother trouble Natty Dreadlock
No bother trouble Natty Dreadlock
Skinhead, skinhead, skinhead, skinhead
Said di police ha' bricked?? them rubber bomb ?
Di police ha' bust?? them rubber shot ?
And ha' fling water bomb
While di skinheads ha' flicked them a bottle and stone
Dem ha' fling petrol bomb
Co' dem ha' fling petrol bomb
Mind Natty Dreadlocks
Mind di truth happen Natty Dreadlocks
Coz Natty Dreadlocks who are di start ?
Some a dem will ?
Skinhead, skinhead, skinhead, skinhead
Coz a war inna Dublin
Co' mi couldn't get no Dublin
Appear?? war inna Dublin
Come down, skinhead, come down, skinhead
Come down, skinhead
A shaved to a shaved ?
A shaved to a shaved
Seh you gone a Manchester
You a wear polyester
At Chester you are dressed up ?
Co' I man, do you see a time for the hundred years?
A time for the hundred years
Don't care what you had?? heard o' Natty Dreadlocks
What's strong if a Natty Dreadlocks here ?
You understand?
You better step on your right cord
You better step on your right line
No bother cross the white line
Co' you mash up Manchester and you goin' a Liverpool
You come a Brixton
You even try Wembley Stadium on the way
No touch you a touch
A man of mighty shame
Come down, skinhead, come down
Come down, skinhead, come down
Come off of your ? and your pride
Come off of your ? and your pride
Coz there no time for you hide
No time for you hide
For a hundred years
Move, skinhead, move outa the way
Move, nimble skinhead, move
Get outa di way
Get out of the way
Go hide yourself in a garbage bin
Skinhead, you've got to move
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Calm down, skinhead, calm down Calm down, skinhead, calm down Mi wan' fi tek this time fi di anarchists Calm down, skinhead, calm down
A war inna Dublin Mi said a war inna Manchester Mi said a war inna Liverpool Because him never been to school Said a war inna Brixton Dis ya anarchists Dis ya anarchists No bother trouble natty dreadlocks No bother trouble natty dreadlocks Skinhead, skinhead, skinhead, skinhead Said di police ah fling dem rubber bomb Di police ah bust dem rubber shot And ah fling water bomb While di skinheads ah fling dem bokkle and stone Dem ah fling petrol bomb Cuh dem ah fling petrol bomb Mind Natty Dreadlocks Mind yuh throw dat 'pon Natty Dreadlocks Cuh Natty Dreadlocks war a go start dem heap it to you So mind yuh a deal with, unno
Skinhead, skinhead, skinhead, skinhead Cuz a war inna Dublin Cuh mi couldn't get no dumplin' A pure war inna Dublin
Calm down, skinhead, calm down, skinhead Calm down, skinhead A shave you a shave A shave you a shave Seh you gone a Manchester You ah wear polyester A jester you a jester Cuh I man feel seh ah time fi di anarchists A time fi di anarchists Don't care what you heard heard o' Natty Dreadlocks One's strong if a Natty Dreadlocks here You understand? You better stay pon your right cord You better step on your right line No bother cross the white line Cug you mash up Manchester and you gone a Liverpool You come a Brixton You even try Wembley Stadium on the way No touch you a touch A man, a mighty shame Calm down, skinhead, calm down Calm down, skinhead, calm down Come offa your pomps and your pride Come off of your pomps and your pride Cuz there no time fi you hide No time fi you hide Dis a anarchists Move, skinhead, move outta the way Move, likkle skinhead, move Get outa di way Get out of the way Go hide yourself in a garbage bin Skinhead, you've got to move