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"
It all started late on a Saturday night
Say who got the spliffs and who's got the pint
Looked out the window said to my surprise
Here comes a man in blue with his flashin' lights
He said "you know your party's fuckin' over with
Because your smokin' blunts and your rollin'
Spliffs
And what you think I ought a think of this
Why don't you pull out your sack or you'll be missed
Say now mr. officer come charge me all the time
You got me for possession but I swear that it's not mine
No matter what you do or say its bound to come right back this way so if you want a moments please say this is what you'll say comon'an'
Let's get this party started until the break of
Dawn'an
Lets get this party movin until there's no one
Home an'
Lets get this party started until the break of dawn an'
Lets get this party movin
All you've got to do is sing
(CHORUS)
Can't take the pressure for long
All we want to do is rock till after 2
Gettin high when they singin this song
Snap another be then drink another Brew
(x2)
Common'
And at the road block me so sorry mr. cop
I bet you anything me gonna get stopped
And at the road block me so sorry mr. cop
I bet you anyting me gonna get stopped
And I say "hey mr. officer why you stoppin me nana
I wasn't driven the car badly
Don't' lock me up cause I smoke sensei
Yes, this is the ghetto but me live cross the sea
Hey mr. officer come charge me all the time
You got me for possession but I swear that it's not mine
No matter what you do or say I bound to come right back this way
And if you want a moments please this is what you'll say come on an'
Let's get this party started until the break of dawn an'
Let's get this party movin until there's no one home an'
Let's get this party started until the break of dawn an'
Let's get this party movin'
All you got to do is sing
Can't take the pressure for long
All we want to do is rock till after 2
Gettin high when the singin' this song
Snap another be then drink another Brew
(x4)
(SONG FADES OUT TO END)
Say who got the spliffs and who's got the pint
Looked out the window said to my surprise
Here comes a man in blue with his flashin' lights
He said "you know your party's fuckin' over with
Because your smokin' blunts and your rollin'
Spliffs
And what you think I ought a think of this
Why don't you pull out your sack or you'll be missed
Say now mr. officer come charge me all the time
You got me for possession but I swear that it's not mine
No matter what you do or say its bound to come right back this way so if you want a moments please say this is what you'll say comon'an'
Let's get this party started until the break of
Dawn'an
Lets get this party movin until there's no one
Home an'
Lets get this party started until the break of dawn an'
Lets get this party movin
All you've got to do is sing
(CHORUS)
Can't take the pressure for long
All we want to do is rock till after 2
Gettin high when they singin this song
Snap another be then drink another Brew
(x2)
Common'
And at the road block me so sorry mr. cop
I bet you anything me gonna get stopped
And at the road block me so sorry mr. cop
I bet you anyting me gonna get stopped
And I say "hey mr. officer why you stoppin me nana
I wasn't driven the car badly
Don't' lock me up cause I smoke sensei
Yes, this is the ghetto but me live cross the sea
Hey mr. officer come charge me all the time
You got me for possession but I swear that it's not mine
No matter what you do or say I bound to come right back this way
And if you want a moments please this is what you'll say come on an'
Let's get this party started until the break of dawn an'
Let's get this party movin until there's no one home an'
Let's get this party started until the break of dawn an'
Let's get this party movin'
All you got to do is sing
Can't take the pressure for long
All we want to do is rock till after 2
Gettin high when the singin' this song
Snap another be then drink another Brew
(x4)
(SONG FADES OUT TO END)
Lyrics submitted by xchristinax77
Officer Lyrics as written by Miles Doughty Kyle Alexander Mcdonald
Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing
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