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"
Well this is the Maestro
I have the doctorate for all things
It's just another one please
Opera
Mi nuh want nuh idle jubbie
Fi come hackle my body
I say
The gal dem all a run mi dung
The gal dem all a hunt mi dung
The gal dem all a draw mi dung
Through dem waan suck out mi tongue
Dem say jump spred out, jump spread out
Gal jump spread out and wine
[Chorus]
A mi sey gal yuh a di wife
Man a treat yuh right
Han up inna di air
yuh naw mek no fiiight
Yuh a di wife, man a treat yuh right
hand up inna di air yuh naw mek no fight
But mi sey, gal from yuh wine Paul
Man lone yuh bad,
Man dem out a road dem see yuh body all a mad
Gal yuh know yuh cute
Yes dat a di truth
Man dem out a road, dem waan fi pick yuh like fruit
Gal yuh body bright
Dim all mi light
But mi naw go lef yuh cause yuh have di slam right
Wifey haffi vex
Cause mi gal a pest
As Mawga as mi be, a mi di gal dem a request
[Chorus]
Well excuse mi boy
After di gal dem mi cry
Wiine Suzy Wiine
Wey dem a call vulgarity a exercise
Wiine Angie wiine
A di Jamaican gal dem yuh waan criticise
Wiine baby wiine
The more remarks them pass
The more yuh bun them eyes
When yuh wine Patsy wine
A whey mi say
Face an the shape an di body whey yuh have
Bare as yuh dare X rated an mad
All a gal a push up, tell a gal sey she hot
Three is a crowd an yuh naw carry no bag
Wifey batter try get rid of the luggage
Matey out a road tek you husband fi carriage
She all a use allum fi try encourage
One night with him yuh wife inna worries
Waaiit
Opera
[Chorus]
Mi nuh want nuh idle jubbie
Fi come hackle my body
I say
The gal dem all a run mi dung
The gal dem all a hunt mi dung
The gal dem all a draw mi dung
Through dem waan suck out mi tongue
Dem say jump spred out, jump spread out
Gal jump spread out and wine
[Chorus: x4]
Clap, clap,clap
I have the doctorate for all things
It's just another one please
Opera
Mi nuh want nuh idle jubbie
Fi come hackle my body
I say
The gal dem all a run mi dung
The gal dem all a hunt mi dung
The gal dem all a draw mi dung
Through dem waan suck out mi tongue
Dem say jump spred out, jump spread out
Gal jump spread out and wine
[Chorus]
A mi sey gal yuh a di wife
Man a treat yuh right
Han up inna di air
yuh naw mek no fiiight
Yuh a di wife, man a treat yuh right
hand up inna di air yuh naw mek no fight
But mi sey, gal from yuh wine Paul
Man lone yuh bad,
Man dem out a road dem see yuh body all a mad
Gal yuh know yuh cute
Yes dat a di truth
Man dem out a road, dem waan fi pick yuh like fruit
Gal yuh body bright
Dim all mi light
But mi naw go lef yuh cause yuh have di slam right
Wifey haffi vex
Cause mi gal a pest
As Mawga as mi be, a mi di gal dem a request
[Chorus]
Well excuse mi boy
After di gal dem mi cry
Wiine Suzy Wiine
Wey dem a call vulgarity a exercise
Wiine Angie wiine
A di Jamaican gal dem yuh waan criticise
Wiine baby wiine
The more remarks them pass
The more yuh bun them eyes
When yuh wine Patsy wine
A whey mi say
Face an the shape an di body whey yuh have
Bare as yuh dare X rated an mad
All a gal a push up, tell a gal sey she hot
Three is a crowd an yuh naw carry no bag
Wifey batter try get rid of the luggage
Matey out a road tek you husband fi carriage
She all a use allum fi try encourage
One night with him yuh wife inna worries
Waaiit
Opera
[Chorus]
Mi nuh want nuh idle jubbie
Fi come hackle my body
I say
The gal dem all a run mi dung
The gal dem all a hunt mi dung
The gal dem all a draw mi dung
Through dem waan suck out mi tongue
Dem say jump spred out, jump spread out
Gal jump spread out and wine
[Chorus: x4]
Clap, clap,clap
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