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"
Certified quality
Ah dat di gyal dem need and ah cry for every day without apology
Buck dem di right way, dat ah my policy (ya man, right way)
Sean de Paul 'longside Beyoncé (uh-huh), now hear di man say
Dis ah dutty yeah (a big tune), dutty yo (yo, yo)
Dutty yeah (yo, yo), dutty yo (yo, yeah)
Beyoncé sing it now, girl
Baby boy, you stay on my mind
Fulfill my fantasies (come on, girl, tell me how you feel)
I think about you all the time
I see you in my dreams
(I see you in my dreams, you done know di love is real)
Baby boy, not a day goes by
Without my fantasies (come on, girl tell me what's the deal)
I think about you all the time
I see you in my dreams
(I see you in my dreams, you done know di love is real)
Ah, oh, my baby's fly, baby, oh (oh, na, na, na)
Yes, no, hurt me so good, baby, oh (this hot, oh, na, na, na)
I'm so wrapped up in your love, let me go (yo, oh, na, na, na)
Let me breathe, stay out my fantasies (yo, yo, yo, alright)
Well, woman ah ready fi gimme da ting, they ready fi really get it live
Tellin' me all about di tings weh you ah fantasize
I know you dig di way me step, di way me mek mi stride
Follow your feelings, baby girl becah they cannot be denied
Come check me inna di night and mek we get it amplified
Me nuh quick fi run da ship, me nah go slip, me nah go slide
In other words the love I got to give is certified
Fi give you di toughest, longest type ah ride, girl
Baby boy, you stay on my mind
Fulfill my fantasies (come on, girl, tell me how you feel)
I think about you all the time
I see you in my dreams
(I see you in my dreams, you done know di love is real)
Baby boy, not a day goes by
Without my fantasies (come on, girl tell me what's the deal, bye, bye, bye)
I think about you all the time
I see you in my dreams
(I see you in my dreams, you done know di love is real)
Picture us dancin' real close
In a dark, dark corner of a basement party (oh, na, na, na)
Every time I close my eyes
It's like everyone left but you and me (oh, na, na, na)
In our own little world
The music is the sun
The dance floor becomes the sea (oh, na, na, na) (ah we dat, girl)
Feels like true paradise to me (oh, na, na, na) (intimacy)
Baby boy, you stay on my mind
Fulfill my fantasies (come on, girl, tell me how you feel)
I think about you all the time
I see you in my dreams
(I see you in my dreams, you done know di love is real)
Baby boy, not a day goes by
Without my fantasies (come on, girl tell me what's the deal, bye, bye, bye)
I think about you all the time (oh)
I see you in my dreams
(I see you in my dreams, you done know di love is real)
Baby boy, you stay on my mind (yo, yo, B)
Baby boy, you are so damn fine (yeah, yeah, girl)
Baby boy, won't you be mine? (Yo, yo, B)
Baby boy, let's conceive an angel
Baby boy, you stay on my mind, oh (yo, yo, B)
Baby boy, you are so damn fine, oh (yeah, yeah, girl)
Baby boy, won't you be mine? (Yo, yo, B)
Baby boy, let's conceive an angel
You's a top, top girl
Me and you together is a wrap, dat girl
Drive 'round di town inna your drop top, girl
You nuh stop shop, girl
Likkle more di Dutty wan' rock dat world
You's a top, top girl
Me and you together is a wrap, dat girl
Drive 'round di town inna your drop top, girl
You nuh stop shop, girl
Likkle more di Dutty wan' rock dat world (oh, na, na, na)
Baby boy, you stay on my mind
Fulfill my fantasies (come on, girl, tell me how you feel)
I think about you all the time
I see you in my dreams
(I see you in my dreams, you done know di love is real, oh na, na, na)
Baby boy, not a day goes by
Without my fantasies (come on, girl tell me what's the deal, oh na, na, na)
I think about you all the time (oh)
I see you in my dreams
(I see you in my dreams, you done know di love is real)
We stepping out hotter this year (hotter, hotter under ya)
We stepping out hotter this year (hotter, hotter under ya)
I know you gon' like it
I know you gon' like it
I'm stepping out hotter this year (hotter, hotter under ya)
I'm stepping out hotter this year (hotter, hotter under ya)
So don't you fight it
So don't you fight it
Ah dat di gyal dem need and ah cry for every day without apology
Buck dem di right way, dat ah my policy (ya man, right way)
Sean de Paul 'longside Beyoncé (uh-huh), now hear di man say
Dis ah dutty yeah (a big tune), dutty yo (yo, yo)
Dutty yeah (yo, yo), dutty yo (yo, yeah)
Beyoncé sing it now, girl
Baby boy, you stay on my mind
Fulfill my fantasies (come on, girl, tell me how you feel)
I think about you all the time
I see you in my dreams
(I see you in my dreams, you done know di love is real)
Baby boy, not a day goes by
Without my fantasies (come on, girl tell me what's the deal)
I think about you all the time
I see you in my dreams
(I see you in my dreams, you done know di love is real)
Ah, oh, my baby's fly, baby, oh (oh, na, na, na)
Yes, no, hurt me so good, baby, oh (this hot, oh, na, na, na)
I'm so wrapped up in your love, let me go (yo, oh, na, na, na)
Let me breathe, stay out my fantasies (yo, yo, yo, alright)
Well, woman ah ready fi gimme da ting, they ready fi really get it live
Tellin' me all about di tings weh you ah fantasize
I know you dig di way me step, di way me mek mi stride
Follow your feelings, baby girl becah they cannot be denied
Come check me inna di night and mek we get it amplified
Me nuh quick fi run da ship, me nah go slip, me nah go slide
In other words the love I got to give is certified
Fi give you di toughest, longest type ah ride, girl
Baby boy, you stay on my mind
Fulfill my fantasies (come on, girl, tell me how you feel)
I think about you all the time
I see you in my dreams
(I see you in my dreams, you done know di love is real)
Baby boy, not a day goes by
Without my fantasies (come on, girl tell me what's the deal, bye, bye, bye)
I think about you all the time
I see you in my dreams
(I see you in my dreams, you done know di love is real)
Picture us dancin' real close
In a dark, dark corner of a basement party (oh, na, na, na)
Every time I close my eyes
It's like everyone left but you and me (oh, na, na, na)
In our own little world
The music is the sun
The dance floor becomes the sea (oh, na, na, na) (ah we dat, girl)
Feels like true paradise to me (oh, na, na, na) (intimacy)
Baby boy, you stay on my mind
Fulfill my fantasies (come on, girl, tell me how you feel)
I think about you all the time
I see you in my dreams
(I see you in my dreams, you done know di love is real)
Baby boy, not a day goes by
Without my fantasies (come on, girl tell me what's the deal, bye, bye, bye)
I think about you all the time (oh)
I see you in my dreams
(I see you in my dreams, you done know di love is real)
Baby boy, you stay on my mind (yo, yo, B)
Baby boy, you are so damn fine (yeah, yeah, girl)
Baby boy, won't you be mine? (Yo, yo, B)
Baby boy, let's conceive an angel
Baby boy, you stay on my mind, oh (yo, yo, B)
Baby boy, you are so damn fine, oh (yeah, yeah, girl)
Baby boy, won't you be mine? (Yo, yo, B)
Baby boy, let's conceive an angel
You's a top, top girl
Me and you together is a wrap, dat girl
Drive 'round di town inna your drop top, girl
You nuh stop shop, girl
Likkle more di Dutty wan' rock dat world
You's a top, top girl
Me and you together is a wrap, dat girl
Drive 'round di town inna your drop top, girl
You nuh stop shop, girl
Likkle more di Dutty wan' rock dat world (oh, na, na, na)
Baby boy, you stay on my mind
Fulfill my fantasies (come on, girl, tell me how you feel)
I think about you all the time
I see you in my dreams
(I see you in my dreams, you done know di love is real, oh na, na, na)
Baby boy, not a day goes by
Without my fantasies (come on, girl tell me what's the deal, oh na, na, na)
I think about you all the time (oh)
I see you in my dreams
(I see you in my dreams, you done know di love is real)
We stepping out hotter this year (hotter, hotter under ya)
We stepping out hotter this year (hotter, hotter under ya)
I know you gon' like it
I know you gon' like it
I'm stepping out hotter this year (hotter, hotter under ya)
I'm stepping out hotter this year (hotter, hotter under ya)
So don't you fight it
So don't you fight it
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