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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Me haf' a give this up for my island girls, ya know
And yo', right now we are showcase two of me bad boys
Me dread Pati and me dread Oshen, natty man, watch
Now we've been lovin' from the dark until dawnin'
And now I'm lookin' in your eyes in the mornin'
And then you look at me girl and smile
'Cause you know I treat you right all the while
No where else in the world I've been
No more beautiful women I've seen
When the sky's clear and the grass is green
Island girls, you are a man's best dream
Island girls
I love the way you move me, move me (Move me)
Island girls
I love the way you soothe me, soothe me (I love the way you soothe me, soothe me)
Now everywhere that I go and every time I do a show
Got a bunch of local girls all in the front row
They knowin' all the words and the way the song goes
Bodies bouncin' all around like they playin' a bongo
And you know they wanna come to the party
Kick it up with the Who Two Crew and get naughty
Turn up the stereo so she can shake her body
Baby girl, I love it when you call me big Pati
Island girls
I love the way you move me, move me
(I love the way you move me, I love the way you move me)
Island girls (All the pretty island girls, island girls)
I love the way you soothe me, soothe me (Come on and groove me tonight, tonight)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, island lady
Ooh, ooh, ooh, island lady
If I and I had one weakness it would be island woman
Without the beauty all around, what are you gonna do, mon
When I cruise against the world and lookin' all around the globe
Exotic island girls movin' in a rub-a-dub
I say if I had one of these girls as my companion
We'd be looking at all the stars under the banyan
Been all around the world and see what them countries got to offer
Love what I see, but it don't impress me 'cause island girls is lookin' more proper
So ? talkin' you, you number one
Favorite common island, mon
So I be sendin' all my love to the princess of the sea
Melanesian, Micronesian, Polynesian beauty
Island girls (Ooh, ooh, ooh, island lady)
I love the way you move me, move me (Ooh, ooh, ooh, island lady)
Island girls (Ooh, ooh, ooh, island lady)
I love the way you move me, move me (Ooh, ooh, ooh, island lady)
Me haf' a give this up for my island girls, ya know
And yo', right now we are showcase two of me bad boys
Me dread Pati and me dread Oshen, natty man, watch
Now we've been lovin' from the dark until dawnin'
And now I'm lookin' in your eyes in the mornin'
And then you look at me girl and smile
'Cause you know I treat you right all the while
No where else in the world I've been
No more beautiful women I've seen
When the sky's clear and the grass is green
Island girls, you are a man's best dream
Island girls
I love the way you move me, move me (Move me)
Island girls
I love the way you soothe me, soothe me (I love the way you soothe me, soothe me)
Now everywhere that I go and every time I do a show
Got a bunch of local girls all in the front row
They knowin' all the words and the way the song goes
Bodies bouncin' all around like they playin' a bongo
And you know they wanna come to the party
Kick it up with the Who Two Crew and get naughty
Turn up the stereo so she can shake her body
Baby girl, I love it when you call me big Pati
Island girls
I love the way you move me, move me
(I love the way you move me, I love the way you move me)
Island girls (All the pretty island girls, island girls)
I love the way you soothe me, soothe me (Come on and groove me tonight, tonight)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, island lady
Ooh, ooh, ooh, island lady
If I and I had one weakness it would be island woman
Without the beauty all around, what are you gonna do, mon
When I cruise against the world and lookin' all around the globe
Exotic island girls movin' in a rub-a-dub
I say if I had one of these girls as my companion
We'd be looking at all the stars under the banyan
Been all around the world and see what them countries got to offer
Love what I see, but it don't impress me 'cause island girls is lookin' more proper
So ? talkin' you, you number one
Favorite common island, mon
So I be sendin' all my love to the princess of the sea
Melanesian, Micronesian, Polynesian beauty
Island girls (Ooh, ooh, ooh, island lady)
I love the way you move me, move me (Ooh, ooh, ooh, island lady)
Island girls (Ooh, ooh, ooh, island lady)
I love the way you move me, move me (Ooh, ooh, ooh, island lady)
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Island Girls Lyrics as written by Rob Mullins
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Omg goshness seriously how good is this song aye....??? im like the biggest fan of oshen omg if there are n e new album out there please tell me about it...
heh, this song's about me...and EVERY island girl out there! I love that they mention ALL nesian girls...the melenesian, micronesian, and polynesian! WOOHOO!!!