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"
Who stooped low at the kitchen table crying to herself when we weren't home?
Cause the bills just kept on coming, how could she do it single mother alone?
Who worked 16 hours just the other day breaking her back, her pride, her bones?
So that we wouldn't ever have to do the same, never have to groan and moan, when were on our own
Chorus:
Mama, from as deep inside as I can see
Mama, with all the love you've given me
Mama, I sing my heart for you today
Mama, and still its not enough to say...
Who taught me how to be a black woman, how to rock the world in stride?
To grow my dreams up off my shoulders, to always be with Jah Jah by my side?
Who taught me of joy and pain, that the two will ever go hand in hand?
Showed me laughter's lover named sadness, why has it taken me so long to understand?
Chorus
Who loves more than the sun in the sky, giving far more than a heart really should?
Who would give away her life for mine, sacrifice her freedom when I don't think I could?
Who stays up and can't sleep at night, cause she's worrying we're out in the world somewhere?
But gets up just the same at 4 in the morning to run in dedication of justice everywhere?
Chorus
How much I thank you
How much I miss you
How much I love you
How much I hope someday I grow to be
just like you
Cause the bills just kept on coming, how could she do it single mother alone?
Who worked 16 hours just the other day breaking her back, her pride, her bones?
So that we wouldn't ever have to do the same, never have to groan and moan, when were on our own
Chorus:
Mama, from as deep inside as I can see
Mama, with all the love you've given me
Mama, I sing my heart for you today
Mama, and still its not enough to say...
Who taught me how to be a black woman, how to rock the world in stride?
To grow my dreams up off my shoulders, to always be with Jah Jah by my side?
Who taught me of joy and pain, that the two will ever go hand in hand?
Showed me laughter's lover named sadness, why has it taken me so long to understand?
Chorus
Who loves more than the sun in the sky, giving far more than a heart really should?
Who would give away her life for mine, sacrifice her freedom when I don't think I could?
Who stays up and can't sleep at night, cause she's worrying we're out in the world somewhere?
But gets up just the same at 4 in the morning to run in dedication of justice everywhere?
Chorus
How much I thank you
How much I miss you
How much I love you
How much I hope someday I grow to be
just like you
Lyrics submitted by dejavula
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