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"
Everyday yuh been going around and telling story
Boy, yuh know mi?
And 'bout it's your mother grow mi
(No)
Gimmie some bass mek mi sing something first
Mi guh so
Oh nah-nah, nah-nah, nah-nah
Oh nah-nah, nah-nah, nah-nah
Oh nah-nah, nah-nah, nah-nah
Oh nah-nah, nah-nah, nah-nah
It's all about Romie and him big fat sista Nayomi
Di two a dem claim sey dem know mi
And dem argument throw mi, throw mi, throw mi
Di bwoy dey name Romie and him whoring sista Nayomi
Di two a dem claim say them know mi
And dem argument throw mi, throw mi, throw mi
But mi wonder Romie, how him fi know mi?
A Waterhouse mi born, an Craig Town mi guh live
Where Aunt Sita grow mi
Owe di bwoy owe mi, him argument throw mi
Him gal waan blow mi, true, she hear say mi bloomy
Mi hear Nayomi, have 15 Aunty
Mi check it out deep down to the grandma want mi
So a grudge di bwoy grudge mi
Di bwoy badmind me
Dats why mi argument drop pon all
Ro ohh mie - and him big fat sista Nayomi
Di two a dem claim sey dem know mi
An' dem argument throw mi, throw mi, throw mi
Da bwoy dey name Romie and big fat sista Nayomi
Di two a dem claim say them know mi
An' dem argument, but, but, hol' now
Mi hear say Miss Nayomi
One big fat gal fron inna di 1920
If looks was a whole, she live a door 'cause she plenty
An' from a gal plenty her love life h'empty, empty, empty
People look yah, Nayomi a whore an har puppa a preacher
Mi get fi understand di gal a witchcraft worker
She obeah her mother and guh tek di stepfather
Dats why the DJ a utter say
Oh nah-nah, nah-nah, nah-nah
Oh nah-nah, nah-nah, nah-nah
Oh nah-nah, nah-nah, nah-nah
Oh nah-nah-nah, nah-nah, nah-nah
Romie and him big fat sista Nayomi
Di two a dem claim sey dem know mi
An dem argument throw mi, throw mi, throw mi
Da bwoy dey name Romie and him whoring sista Nayomi
Di two a dem claim say dem know mi
An dem argument throw mi, throw mi, throw mi
True, mi girlfriend hyper, her life brighter
Nayomi tun spider
Nayomi tun snake on da grass, she a viper
Gal tun sniper, big time infama
She all a tell Peter seh him gal and Lorna
Gone guh catch man somewhere dung ah Manchester
Warn di yute mother him guh charge fi murda
Gal jus hear yah, gwaan an leave yah
Dats why the DJ ah sing say
Romie and him big fat sista Nayomi
Di two a dem claim sey dem know mi
An' dem argument throw mi, dash mi, catch mi, catch mi, dash mi
Romie and him big fat sista Nayomi
Di two a dem claim say them know mi
An' dem argument throw mi, again
But mi wonder Romie, how him fi know mi?
A Waterhouse mi born, an Craig Town mi guh live
Where Aunt Sita grow mi
Owe di bwoy owe mi, - argument throw mi
Him gal waan blow mi, true, she hear say mi bloomy
Mi hear Nayomi, have 15 Aunty
Mi check it out deep down to the grandma want mi
So a grudge he pass grudge mi
Di punk badmind me
Dats why mi argument drop pon' all
Romie, Romie, Ro-Ro-Ro-Ro, dey, dey, dey
Romie and him big fat sista Nayomi
Di two a dem claim sey dem know mi
And dem argument throw mi, throw mi, throw mi
Da bwoy dey name Romie and him whoring sista Nayomi
Di two a dem claim say them know mi
And dem argument, dem argument
Oye, Miss Nayomi,
One big fat gal fron inna di 1920
Boy, yuh know mi?
And 'bout it's your mother grow mi
(No)
Gimmie some bass mek mi sing something first
Mi guh so
Oh nah-nah, nah-nah, nah-nah
Oh nah-nah, nah-nah, nah-nah
Oh nah-nah, nah-nah, nah-nah
Oh nah-nah, nah-nah, nah-nah
It's all about Romie and him big fat sista Nayomi
Di two a dem claim sey dem know mi
And dem argument throw mi, throw mi, throw mi
Di bwoy dey name Romie and him whoring sista Nayomi
Di two a dem claim say them know mi
And dem argument throw mi, throw mi, throw mi
But mi wonder Romie, how him fi know mi?
A Waterhouse mi born, an Craig Town mi guh live
Where Aunt Sita grow mi
Owe di bwoy owe mi, him argument throw mi
Him gal waan blow mi, true, she hear say mi bloomy
Mi hear Nayomi, have 15 Aunty
Mi check it out deep down to the grandma want mi
So a grudge di bwoy grudge mi
Di bwoy badmind me
Dats why mi argument drop pon all
Ro ohh mie - and him big fat sista Nayomi
Di two a dem claim sey dem know mi
An' dem argument throw mi, throw mi, throw mi
Da bwoy dey name Romie and big fat sista Nayomi
Di two a dem claim say them know mi
An' dem argument, but, but, hol' now
Mi hear say Miss Nayomi
One big fat gal fron inna di 1920
If looks was a whole, she live a door 'cause she plenty
An' from a gal plenty her love life h'empty, empty, empty
People look yah, Nayomi a whore an har puppa a preacher
Mi get fi understand di gal a witchcraft worker
She obeah her mother and guh tek di stepfather
Dats why the DJ a utter say
Oh nah-nah, nah-nah, nah-nah
Oh nah-nah, nah-nah, nah-nah
Oh nah-nah, nah-nah, nah-nah
Oh nah-nah-nah, nah-nah, nah-nah
Romie and him big fat sista Nayomi
Di two a dem claim sey dem know mi
An dem argument throw mi, throw mi, throw mi
Da bwoy dey name Romie and him whoring sista Nayomi
Di two a dem claim say dem know mi
An dem argument throw mi, throw mi, throw mi
True, mi girlfriend hyper, her life brighter
Nayomi tun spider
Nayomi tun snake on da grass, she a viper
Gal tun sniper, big time infama
She all a tell Peter seh him gal and Lorna
Gone guh catch man somewhere dung ah Manchester
Warn di yute mother him guh charge fi murda
Gal jus hear yah, gwaan an leave yah
Dats why the DJ ah sing say
Romie and him big fat sista Nayomi
Di two a dem claim sey dem know mi
An' dem argument throw mi, dash mi, catch mi, catch mi, dash mi
Romie and him big fat sista Nayomi
Di two a dem claim say them know mi
An' dem argument throw mi, again
But mi wonder Romie, how him fi know mi?
A Waterhouse mi born, an Craig Town mi guh live
Where Aunt Sita grow mi
Owe di bwoy owe mi, - argument throw mi
Him gal waan blow mi, true, she hear say mi bloomy
Mi hear Nayomi, have 15 Aunty
Mi check it out deep down to the grandma want mi
So a grudge he pass grudge mi
Di punk badmind me
Dats why mi argument drop pon' all
Romie, Romie, Ro-Ro-Ro-Ro, dey, dey, dey
Romie and him big fat sista Nayomi
Di two a dem claim sey dem know mi
And dem argument throw mi, throw mi, throw mi
Da bwoy dey name Romie and him whoring sista Nayomi
Di two a dem claim say them know mi
And dem argument, dem argument
Oye, Miss Nayomi,
One big fat gal fron inna di 1920
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