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"
Here's a little story I got to tell
about my Father up in heaven who you know so well
But let me start off by settin' the record straight from the years past
lettin' all those people know that used to poke fun and used to laugh
There's only one reason why we do what we do
That's to serve our God. let His love shine through
We're here to be bold, do what we're told, of Him we are a mold
If it's His will keep rockin' til we're 101 years old
Not once throughout my years will I ever not be the same
I never fell into the trap of the whole east coast west coast thing
'Cause we're all under the reign of one King it's time we realize
One thing Jah people all around the world it's time we all sing
A song of unity cause that's the way it should be
It's time we come together so we can let the world see
From the beaches of Cali to the wheatlands of the plains
His love is yesterday today, forever the same
Captains Log star date 2003
A Range Rover hovercraft in high pursuit of me
They're all blacked out with chrome rims and tinted windows
Sending me death threats with murderous innuendoes
Chase this space renegade with pins and mics
Burshin off stardust from galaxies and nebulae
La vida loca translates to livin' the rap life
And a wrong turn and a runaway truck can jacknife
Pay attention to the road as God watches and He files it
Or get grounded like imported coffee or bad pilots
I used to think I knew a lot so on goes the story
I couldn't see decepticons on the move to transforming
I found the world boring wasted time in my exploring
Dug deeper in excavating into the glory to glory
Writing the Lordship committed to one on one
Solar powered and energetic while running off the Sun
Big God third rock He created all that
Knowdaverbs and Pillar we bound to bless tracks
So step back out the way and watch the Lord move
He rules the territory as the Galaxy Grooves
about my Father up in heaven who you know so well
But let me start off by settin' the record straight from the years past
lettin' all those people know that used to poke fun and used to laugh
There's only one reason why we do what we do
That's to serve our God. let His love shine through
We're here to be bold, do what we're told, of Him we are a mold
If it's His will keep rockin' til we're 101 years old
Not once throughout my years will I ever not be the same
I never fell into the trap of the whole east coast west coast thing
'Cause we're all under the reign of one King it's time we realize
One thing Jah people all around the world it's time we all sing
A song of unity cause that's the way it should be
It's time we come together so we can let the world see
From the beaches of Cali to the wheatlands of the plains
His love is yesterday today, forever the same
Captains Log star date 2003
A Range Rover hovercraft in high pursuit of me
They're all blacked out with chrome rims and tinted windows
Sending me death threats with murderous innuendoes
Chase this space renegade with pins and mics
Burshin off stardust from galaxies and nebulae
La vida loca translates to livin' the rap life
And a wrong turn and a runaway truck can jacknife
Pay attention to the road as God watches and He files it
Or get grounded like imported coffee or bad pilots
I used to think I knew a lot so on goes the story
I couldn't see decepticons on the move to transforming
I found the world boring wasted time in my exploring
Dug deeper in excavating into the glory to glory
Writing the Lordship committed to one on one
Solar powered and energetic while running off the Sun
Big God third rock He created all that
Knowdaverbs and Pillar we bound to bless tracks
So step back out the way and watch the Lord move
He rules the territory as the Galaxy Grooves
Lyrics submitted by Christalena
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