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"
Intro:
Rastafari and I and I love di yutes dem
Repartriation, woi children of man
1.
Positively clear
The people inna di world
Keep forgetting them past
So dem gone astray
So mi bun dem everyday
Dat dem nuh love,
Conspiracers a talk and never fail
Positively clear,
Di people inna di world a lust fi dem top class
Think yuh are actually there
Yuh toe yuh guh buck skate inna grass
Chorus:
Mi an di yutes a tro one away
Melchesedek way
So if yuh see mi an di yutes
Dem trodding through the earth
Wi haffi trod it King Selassie way, yeah yeah
Trodding this one away, haffi trod one away
Dem sen 50, 60, 70 pagan
Mi slew dem off in space a one day.
2.
Well you see
The people inna di west
Di whole a dem gone crazy
Love fi big up dem chest yet dem dey inna slavery
Dem caan nyam nuh food without nuh money
So foolish is the man
Eat food in fruitful Zion yet him hungry
A tell yuh fi
Cleanse yuh ways, clean up yuh path
Ghetto yutes nuh badda gaze
Mi say unno fus fi staat
Babylon a seek soul an heart
Dem dun get dem piece and want our half
Dats why
Chorus
3.
Yuh see the Prime Minister know what a galong
A dem sell out di yutes to the queen a England
Di whole a dem haffi bow when dem see mi turban
Mi drop every authority fi Babywrong
Melchisedek order never yet wrong
How mi chant mi niabinghi fi di black redemption
Unno careful a di words an di food whey yuh a nyam
From the yutes grow dem good, dats organization
So Bobo hill better pull fi organisation
Emperor Selassie is an Ethiopian
Reign in the heart and flesh from Mt Zion
Mi come fi every Israelite out a Babylon
Show mi who will step forth for repartriation
Nuh cut nuh more throat
Nuh badda kill nuh younger one
So rise an tek yuh stan,
Yuh better know whey fi walk
Selassie I is the almighty one,
Confuse not your heart
Dem sight mi turban, conspiracers a talk
Emanuel, so watch out because him a guh wrath
We haffi trod dis one away,
Dats the first and only way
So if yuh see mi an di yutes dem trodding through
Dats King Alpha and Omega way....
4.
Di whole a dem only secretive
But fi wha mi nuh know
Bun dem corner an dem crevices
Wha dat, it is the show
I need to see every yutes grow
Living up, come mek wi cristen and flow
Caan plant corn an a peas yuh waan fi grow
Chorus
Haffi trod one away...
Melchisedek was an Ethiopian ruler who was especially known for leading the Ethiopians in a victorious battle against the Italians.
=====
Note:
For more info on Melchisedek, read Hebrews 7.
Rastafari and I and I love di yutes dem
Repartriation, woi children of man
1.
Positively clear
The people inna di world
Keep forgetting them past
So dem gone astray
So mi bun dem everyday
Dat dem nuh love,
Conspiracers a talk and never fail
Positively clear,
Di people inna di world a lust fi dem top class
Think yuh are actually there
Yuh toe yuh guh buck skate inna grass
Chorus:
Mi an di yutes a tro one away
Melchesedek way
So if yuh see mi an di yutes
Dem trodding through the earth
Wi haffi trod it King Selassie way, yeah yeah
Trodding this one away, haffi trod one away
Dem sen 50, 60, 70 pagan
Mi slew dem off in space a one day.
2.
Well you see
The people inna di west
Di whole a dem gone crazy
Love fi big up dem chest yet dem dey inna slavery
Dem caan nyam nuh food without nuh money
So foolish is the man
Eat food in fruitful Zion yet him hungry
A tell yuh fi
Cleanse yuh ways, clean up yuh path
Ghetto yutes nuh badda gaze
Mi say unno fus fi staat
Babylon a seek soul an heart
Dem dun get dem piece and want our half
Dats why
Chorus
3.
Yuh see the Prime Minister know what a galong
A dem sell out di yutes to the queen a England
Di whole a dem haffi bow when dem see mi turban
Mi drop every authority fi Babywrong
Melchisedek order never yet wrong
How mi chant mi niabinghi fi di black redemption
Unno careful a di words an di food whey yuh a nyam
From the yutes grow dem good, dats organization
So Bobo hill better pull fi organisation
Emperor Selassie is an Ethiopian
Reign in the heart and flesh from Mt Zion
Mi come fi every Israelite out a Babylon
Show mi who will step forth for repartriation
Nuh cut nuh more throat
Nuh badda kill nuh younger one
So rise an tek yuh stan,
Yuh better know whey fi walk
Selassie I is the almighty one,
Confuse not your heart
Dem sight mi turban, conspiracers a talk
Emanuel, so watch out because him a guh wrath
We haffi trod dis one away,
Dats the first and only way
So if yuh see mi an di yutes dem trodding through
Dats King Alpha and Omega way....
4.
Di whole a dem only secretive
But fi wha mi nuh know
Bun dem corner an dem crevices
Wha dat, it is the show
I need to see every yutes grow
Living up, come mek wi cristen and flow
Caan plant corn an a peas yuh waan fi grow
Chorus
Haffi trod one away...
Melchisedek was an Ethiopian ruler who was especially known for leading the Ethiopians in a victorious battle against the Italians.
=====
Note:
For more info on Melchisedek, read Hebrews 7.
Lyrics submitted by SongMeanings
One Away Lyrics as written by Calvin Scott Colvin George Scott
Lyrics © Royalty Network
Lyrics powered by LyricFind
Add your thoughts
Log in now to tell us what you think this song means.
Don’t have an account? Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. It’s super easy, we promise!
More Featured Meanings
The Night We Met
Lord Huron
Lord Huron
Dreamwalker
Silent Planet
Silent Planet
I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
When We Were Young
Blink-182
Blink-182
This is a sequel to 2001's "Reckless Abandon", and features the band looking back on their clumsy youth fondly.
Magical
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
How would you describe the feeling of being in love? For Ed Sheeran, the word is “Magical.” in HIS three-minute album opener, he makes an attempt to capture the beauty and delicacy of true love with words. He describes the magic of it all over a bright Pop song produced by Aaron Dessner.
Page
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
There aren’t many things that’ll hurt more than giving love a chance against your better judgement only to have your heart crushed yet again. Ed Sheeran tells such a story on “Page.” On this track, he is devastated to have lost his lover and even more saddened by the feeling that he may never move on from this.