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:
Old dawg, old dawggy, dawggy dog
Woah deh deh, woah..
Chorus
Old dawg like me
We haffi have dem inna two's an three
An everybody know wi wild alreadyyyy
Believe you me,
We navle string cut under pum pum tree
1.
From mi see a gal whey look good
Mi haffi fool har an get whey mi want
Cause mi nuh live over Shortwood
So mi haffi bounce har mek she drop inna mi paw
A nuff gal mi a go pass through
Like Patra an di one Lady Saw
An mi deh hear bout di Oouch crew
Whey have them gal Xrated an raw
Dat mean we a go warn dem
And we haffi get dem
An nuh tell mi sey mi caan
Cause mi nuh join the hol dung an tek
Dat a Rape
But if mi beg an mi get that's great
Sometime mi preach but mi know mi wi wait
Me is a yute man whey have plenty faith
Chorus
2.
Mi believe ina sey man nuh fi watch nuh face
Agony fi gwaan from gal dey pon base
Woman fi get wine an gal fi get lace
Doberman nuh have time fi waa-aa-aste
Yuh know how mi a swear after Diana King
Nadine Sutherland and Chevelle Franklin
Mi want dem fi ride pon mi bulldawg rhythm
An lef di hol a dem alla sing
Chorus
3. How mi waan fi live mi mother tell mi sey mi caan
Five six seven eight gal a whey mi waan
One burner business a nuh me dat yaah
Me's a bwoy wi slam all mi mother-in-law
Think mi naw si-dung an watch how she roun
A long time mi a notice how di leg dem brown
Nuff night mi see har inna har mini night gown
A line mi a line up fi lick out mi sound
Chorus
Old dawg, old dawggy, dawggy dog
Woah deh deh, woah..
Chorus
Old dawg like me
We haffi have dem inna two's an three
An everybody know wi wild alreadyyyy
Believe you me,
We navle string cut under pum pum tree
1.
From mi see a gal whey look good
Mi haffi fool har an get whey mi want
Cause mi nuh live over Shortwood
So mi haffi bounce har mek she drop inna mi paw
A nuff gal mi a go pass through
Like Patra an di one Lady Saw
An mi deh hear bout di Oouch crew
Whey have them gal Xrated an raw
Dat mean we a go warn dem
And we haffi get dem
An nuh tell mi sey mi caan
Cause mi nuh join the hol dung an tek
Dat a Rape
But if mi beg an mi get that's great
Sometime mi preach but mi know mi wi wait
Me is a yute man whey have plenty faith
Chorus
2.
Mi believe ina sey man nuh fi watch nuh face
Agony fi gwaan from gal dey pon base
Woman fi get wine an gal fi get lace
Doberman nuh have time fi waa-aa-aste
Yuh know how mi a swear after Diana King
Nadine Sutherland and Chevelle Franklin
Mi want dem fi ride pon mi bulldawg rhythm
An lef di hol a dem alla sing
Chorus
3. How mi waan fi live mi mother tell mi sey mi caan
Five six seven eight gal a whey mi waan
One burner business a nuh me dat yaah
Me's a bwoy wi slam all mi mother-in-law
Think mi naw si-dung an watch how she roun
A long time mi a notice how di leg dem brown
Nuff night mi see har inna har mini night gown
A line mi a line up fi lick out mi sound
Chorus
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