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"
Oh oh yeah
Oh oh yeah
Oh oh yeah
Rollin' under the melody
Rockin' over the beat
As I'm chanting on the rhythm
And make the whole sound sweet
Not like candy
You taste that say you can be
Why MC oh you too good to be true
And you agree
Over and on and on and on and on and on and
Over a song and all to all for all and all
Get into the sound keep rollin' the tune
Like rockin' on the track
You just stand only for you
Get into the sound keep rollin' the tune
Like rockin' on the track
You just stand only for you
Over and on and on and on and on and on and
Over a song and all to all for all and all
He's for me and I for y'all
United we stand divided we fall
One for all and all for one
United we stand we'll get the job done
He's for me and I for young
United we stand divided we fall
One for all and all for one
United we stand we'll get the job done
Oh oh yeah
Oh oh yeah
Oh oh yeah
Rockin' to the beat turn it up
Rockin' to the beat turn it up
Rollin' under the melody
Rockin' over the beat
Rockin' rollin' under the melody
And make the whole sound neat and sweet
Yes from me to you
You taste they say too good to be true
All for all and all for one
And you agree
Get into the sound keep rollin' the tune
Like rockin' on the track
You just stand only for you
Get into the sound keep rollin' the tune
Like rockin' on the track
You just stand only for you
Rollin' under the melody
Rockin' over the beat
As I'm chanting on the rhythm
And make the whole sound sweet
Not like candy
You taste that say you can be
Why MC oh you too good to be true
And you agree
Over and on and on and on and on and on and
All of your love they're there yeah
Rollin' under the melody
Rockin' over the beat
Rockin' rollin' rollin' rockin'
Rockin' rollin' rollin' rock
Get into the sound keep rollin' the tune
Like rockin' on the track
You just stand only for you
Stand only for you
On and on and on and on and
Oh oh yeah
Oh oh yeah
Rollin' under the melody
Rockin' over the beat
As I'm chanting on the rhythm
And make the whole sound sweet
Not like candy
You taste that say you can be
Why MC oh you too good to be true
And you agree
Over and on and on and on and on and on and
Over a song and all to all for all and all
Get into the sound keep rollin' the tune
Like rockin' on the track
You just stand only for you
Get into the sound keep rollin' the tune
Like rockin' on the track
You just stand only for you
Over and on and on and on and on and on and
Over a song and all to all for all and all
He's for me and I for y'all
United we stand divided we fall
One for all and all for one
United we stand we'll get the job done
He's for me and I for young
United we stand divided we fall
One for all and all for one
United we stand we'll get the job done
Oh oh yeah
Oh oh yeah
Oh oh yeah
Rockin' to the beat turn it up
Rockin' to the beat turn it up
Rollin' under the melody
Rockin' over the beat
Rockin' rollin' under the melody
And make the whole sound neat and sweet
Yes from me to you
You taste they say too good to be true
All for all and all for one
And you agree
Get into the sound keep rollin' the tune
Like rockin' on the track
You just stand only for you
Get into the sound keep rollin' the tune
Like rockin' on the track
You just stand only for you
Rollin' under the melody
Rockin' over the beat
As I'm chanting on the rhythm
And make the whole sound sweet
Not like candy
You taste that say you can be
Why MC oh you too good to be true
And you agree
Over and on and on and on and on and on and
All of your love they're there yeah
Rollin' under the melody
Rockin' over the beat
Rockin' rollin' rollin' rockin'
Rockin' rollin' rollin' rock
Get into the sound keep rollin' the tune
Like rockin' on the track
You just stand only for you
Stand only for you
On and on and on and on and
Lyrics submitted by Ultimate Panopticon
Rockin' Over the Beat Lyrics as written by M Kamosi Jo Bogaert
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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