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"
Throw your fears into the ocean, and mek dem sink right to the bottom yo
Cause I got no desire to live like this anymore — no no no no
I got a new meditation unto Jah Jah when mi give mi dedication yow
Now my dimensions are higher, I’m thinking more spiritual now
I’m movin on, just groovin on hear mi now
I’m movin on, just groovin on watch ya now
Cause I’ve been to the four corners of the earth
And I see my people in distress yes
And I see how my forefathers have been hurt
And it adds to mi daily stress, but Lord,
Give mi some peace of mind so I can think about the here and now,
I’m leaving all my fears behind
I don’t need them any how
Follow mi and say
Throw your fears into the ocean, and mek dem sink right to the bottom yo
Cause I got no desire to live like this anymore — no no no no
I got a new meditation unto Jah Jah when mi give mi dedication now
Now my dimensions are higher, I’m thinking more spiritual now
The path that I know that I was on before
I had to detour, detour, detour
All mi hear in a mi head a just a voice just a tell mi
Think more think more think more
So me set me mental straight, unno fi understand,
My Lord mi nah go fear no man
Mi a walk with faith as mi new weapon
Dash way all satan clan, so follow me and say
Throw your fears into the ocean, and mek dem sink to the bottom yo,
Cause I got no desire to live like this anymore — no no no no
I got a new meditation unto Jah Jah when mi give mi dedication now
Now my dimensions are higher, I’m thinking more spiritual now
In a the ocean mi fears mi throw, all of the people wheh in a the front row
Listen up — dem yah kinda ting which you fi know
Yo, you fi let you light show, mi go so den, tell them fi read mi mind
Go tell dem say we fully incline
All the people dem unno come join di line, yo we go shout it out one more time
Gusso!
Throw your fears into the ocean, and mek dem sink right to the bottom you,
Cause I got no desire to live like this anymore — no no no no
I got a new meditation unto Jah Jah when mi give mi dedication you
Now my dimensions are higher, I’m thinking more spiritual now
Throw your fears into the ocean…
Cause I got no desire to live like this anymore — no no no no
I got a new meditation unto Jah Jah when mi give mi dedication yow
Now my dimensions are higher, I’m thinking more spiritual now
I’m movin on, just groovin on hear mi now
I’m movin on, just groovin on watch ya now
Cause I’ve been to the four corners of the earth
And I see my people in distress yes
And I see how my forefathers have been hurt
And it adds to mi daily stress, but Lord,
Give mi some peace of mind so I can think about the here and now,
I’m leaving all my fears behind
I don’t need them any how
Follow mi and say
Throw your fears into the ocean, and mek dem sink right to the bottom yo
Cause I got no desire to live like this anymore — no no no no
I got a new meditation unto Jah Jah when mi give mi dedication now
Now my dimensions are higher, I’m thinking more spiritual now
The path that I know that I was on before
I had to detour, detour, detour
All mi hear in a mi head a just a voice just a tell mi
Think more think more think more
So me set me mental straight, unno fi understand,
My Lord mi nah go fear no man
Mi a walk with faith as mi new weapon
Dash way all satan clan, so follow me and say
Throw your fears into the ocean, and mek dem sink to the bottom yo,
Cause I got no desire to live like this anymore — no no no no
I got a new meditation unto Jah Jah when mi give mi dedication now
Now my dimensions are higher, I’m thinking more spiritual now
In a the ocean mi fears mi throw, all of the people wheh in a the front row
Listen up — dem yah kinda ting which you fi know
Yo, you fi let you light show, mi go so den, tell them fi read mi mind
Go tell dem say we fully incline
All the people dem unno come join di line, yo we go shout it out one more time
Gusso!
Throw your fears into the ocean, and mek dem sink right to the bottom you,
Cause I got no desire to live like this anymore — no no no no
I got a new meditation unto Jah Jah when mi give mi dedication you
Now my dimensions are higher, I’m thinking more spiritual now
Throw your fears into the ocean…
Lyrics submitted by ZDLR my idol!
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