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"
Bring bring me echo kick down the treble
Watch the bass line come
To bring the wicked rebel
So then me call the Dr. Moor
Who's got the chronic in his right hand
Say when you smoke it down
Boy then you called
Upon the right man
The smoke is clearing and the walls start shaking
What is this now prescription drug
You know that I be taking
He say son you've got to take it
At least 3 times a day
Said if you wanna be quick and livin in the irie way
You've got to pick it up
Before it gets knocked down
You've got to pick it up
Pull the seed straight out from the ground
You've got to pick it up boy before
The one who comes to steal your ganja say
He come up quick behind you
To bring back what he stole
Before you come to found out
That the one wicked man
He control the sound board
Bring bring me echo kick down the treble
Watch the bass line
Come to bring the wicked rebel
The lyrics that make you happy
The lyrics that make you sad
The lyrics that make you feel like
You've lost the love you have
To the man that come before strictly for the line say now
Me don't want no reason to be giving up on the rhyme
Bring bring me echo kick down the treble
Watch the bass line
Come to bring the wicked rebel
Mr. Officer oh no
Say please don't come and go interrogate me no no
Say don't interrogate me no no
But watch out
Me don't want no reason me don't want no rhyme
Me don't want no reason to be givin up on the rhyme
Come give good loving said give loving all the time
Bring bring me echo kick down the treble
Watch the bass line
Come to bring the wicked rebel
Watch the bass line come
To bring the wicked rebel
So then me call the Dr. Moor
Who's got the chronic in his right hand
Say when you smoke it down
Boy then you called
Upon the right man
The smoke is clearing and the walls start shaking
What is this now prescription drug
You know that I be taking
He say son you've got to take it
At least 3 times a day
Said if you wanna be quick and livin in the irie way
You've got to pick it up
Before it gets knocked down
You've got to pick it up
Pull the seed straight out from the ground
You've got to pick it up boy before
The one who comes to steal your ganja say
He come up quick behind you
To bring back what he stole
Before you come to found out
That the one wicked man
He control the sound board
Bring bring me echo kick down the treble
Watch the bass line
Come to bring the wicked rebel
The lyrics that make you happy
The lyrics that make you sad
The lyrics that make you feel like
You've lost the love you have
To the man that come before strictly for the line say now
Me don't want no reason to be giving up on the rhyme
Bring bring me echo kick down the treble
Watch the bass line
Come to bring the wicked rebel
Mr. Officer oh no
Say please don't come and go interrogate me no no
Say don't interrogate me no no
But watch out
Me don't want no reason me don't want no rhyme
Me don't want no reason to be givin up on the rhyme
Come give good loving said give loving all the time
Bring bring me echo kick down the treble
Watch the bass line
Come to bring the wicked rebel
Lyrics submitted by dustinvalid
Wicked Rebel Lyrics as written by Miles Doughty Kyle Alexander Mcdonald
Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing
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