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"
Mo' Fire, Bag o' wire, Blaze the liar,
get the kyah, come gimme the dollar, hey!
Mo' Fire, Bag o' wire, Blaze the liar,
get the kyah, come gimme the dollar, hey!
Well a who them a follow, the godfather,
a we a de founder, the vibesbringer,
No dead ringer. No!
I can't tek the way how some punk them dealing.
The way them treat me bad dem done hurt me feeling.
Them want me 4 & 9 them want it start revealing.
Somebody fe get murder me say blood pon the ceiling.
I don't like the way how the punk dem dealing.
Walk inna me way a try fe diss me feeling.
Phassy over deh so you fe get me meaning.
With the Soultrain & Navigator come we burn dem.
Now gimme the gasoline spark them up and make me burn them.
The lyrical style me have me a go use that fe done dem.
Bwoy no get me vex and make me back out me gun dem.
Face the consequence because you know it know it a no fun when.
The Navi, The Soultrain, Black Taran we come fe run dem.
So unu fe left the place before you end up inna problem.
Inna MC contest you know say that we a go flop dem.
Offa skyscraper from deh so we ago drop dem.
Mo' Fire, Bag o' wire, Blaze the liar,
get the kyah, come gimme the dollar, hey!
Mo' Fire, Bag o' wire, Blaze the liar,
get the kyah, come gimme the dollar, hey!
Well a who them a follow, the godfather,
a we a de founder, the vibesbringer,
No dead ringer. No!
Mr. What you called? Me noeven know your name.
You no come nowhere inna the badbwoy hall of fame.
How you want fe diss all the youths dem pon the main.
I going to put inna coffin send you pon the first plane.
through we a shotter, hitter, serial killer.
Go a you funeral & all drink out you liquor.
When you a bury we stand next to vicar
Fling on some dirt and mek you bury little quicker
Shouldn't test the youth?s dem in the Tommy Hilfiger.
Hug up you Mama, say sorry to you Papa.
All a get number from you little sister
A through we cold like Alaska, Freezer? What!
Mo' Fire, Bag o' wire, Blaze the liar,
get the kyah, come gimme the dollar, hey!
Mo' Fire, Bag o' wire, Blaze the liar,
get the kyah, come gimme the dollar, hey!
Well a who them a follow, the godfather,
a we a de founder, the vibesbringer,
No dead ringer. No!
Mic whipping, something kicking, back flipping.
Girl's dem tripping & skipping? Yo!
Who is coming, I'm coming, Shabba's coming.
Ain't no stopping this fire burning.
Top shotting, Party popping.
Stop watching, nuff pushing, nuff squashing? Yo!
How you feeling, tell me how you really feeling.
Are you ready for what's coming, coming.
Cah dance nah run unless the Shabba run it
A me say dance nah dun unless the Navi done it.
When me come in the place & pick up the Mic & everyting crisp.
You done know say me a the true Junglist?. Bo!
Mo' Fire, Bag o' wire, Blaze the liar,
get the kyah, come gimme the dollar, hey!
Mo' Fire, Bag o' wire, Blaze the liar,
get the kyah, come gimme the dollar, hey!
Well a who them a follow, the godfather,
a we a de founder, the vibesbringer,
No dead ringer. No!
get the kyah, come gimme the dollar, hey!
Mo' Fire, Bag o' wire, Blaze the liar,
get the kyah, come gimme the dollar, hey!
Well a who them a follow, the godfather,
a we a de founder, the vibesbringer,
No dead ringer. No!
I can't tek the way how some punk them dealing.
The way them treat me bad dem done hurt me feeling.
Them want me 4 & 9 them want it start revealing.
Somebody fe get murder me say blood pon the ceiling.
I don't like the way how the punk dem dealing.
Walk inna me way a try fe diss me feeling.
Phassy over deh so you fe get me meaning.
With the Soultrain & Navigator come we burn dem.
Now gimme the gasoline spark them up and make me burn them.
The lyrical style me have me a go use that fe done dem.
Bwoy no get me vex and make me back out me gun dem.
Face the consequence because you know it know it a no fun when.
The Navi, The Soultrain, Black Taran we come fe run dem.
So unu fe left the place before you end up inna problem.
Inna MC contest you know say that we a go flop dem.
Offa skyscraper from deh so we ago drop dem.
Mo' Fire, Bag o' wire, Blaze the liar,
get the kyah, come gimme the dollar, hey!
Mo' Fire, Bag o' wire, Blaze the liar,
get the kyah, come gimme the dollar, hey!
Well a who them a follow, the godfather,
a we a de founder, the vibesbringer,
No dead ringer. No!
Mr. What you called? Me noeven know your name.
You no come nowhere inna the badbwoy hall of fame.
How you want fe diss all the youths dem pon the main.
I going to put inna coffin send you pon the first plane.
through we a shotter, hitter, serial killer.
Go a you funeral & all drink out you liquor.
When you a bury we stand next to vicar
Fling on some dirt and mek you bury little quicker
Shouldn't test the youth?s dem in the Tommy Hilfiger.
Hug up you Mama, say sorry to you Papa.
All a get number from you little sister
A through we cold like Alaska, Freezer? What!
Mo' Fire, Bag o' wire, Blaze the liar,
get the kyah, come gimme the dollar, hey!
Mo' Fire, Bag o' wire, Blaze the liar,
get the kyah, come gimme the dollar, hey!
Well a who them a follow, the godfather,
a we a de founder, the vibesbringer,
No dead ringer. No!
Mic whipping, something kicking, back flipping.
Girl's dem tripping & skipping? Yo!
Who is coming, I'm coming, Shabba's coming.
Ain't no stopping this fire burning.
Top shotting, Party popping.
Stop watching, nuff pushing, nuff squashing? Yo!
How you feeling, tell me how you really feeling.
Are you ready for what's coming, coming.
Cah dance nah run unless the Shabba run it
A me say dance nah dun unless the Navi done it.
When me come in the place & pick up the Mic & everyting crisp.
You done know say me a the true Junglist?. Bo!
Mo' Fire, Bag o' wire, Blaze the liar,
get the kyah, come gimme the dollar, hey!
Mo' Fire, Bag o' wire, Blaze the liar,
get the kyah, come gimme the dollar, hey!
Well a who them a follow, the godfather,
a we a de founder, the vibesbringer,
No dead ringer. No!
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