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"
Got to build our love on one foundation
Got to build our love on one foundation
Got to build our love on one foundation
There will never be, yeah! No love at all
There will never be no love at all
Got to put aside them segregation, yeah!
Got to put aside them organization
Got to put aside them denomination
There will, there will never be no love at all
I mean there will never be no love at all
(Got to build our love) so build our love
(On one foundation) on one foundation
(Got to build our love) come, let us build our love
(On one foundation) on one solid foundation
(Got to build our love) got to build our love
(On one) on one foundation (foundation)
Or there will never be a single drop of love
You won't have no freedom now, yeah!
Got to come together
We are birds of a feather
We got to come together
'Cause we are birds of a feather
Got to come together
Cause we are birds of a feather
Or there will never be (Lord, have mercy!) no love at all
There will never be, yeah, yeah! No love at all
We also got to realize we are one people, yeah!
Got to realize that we are one people, yeah!
We got to realize we are one people
Or there will never be no love at all
There will never, never, never be no love at all
Got to build our love on one foundation
Got to build our love on one foundation
Got to build our love on one foundation
Got to build our love on one foundation
Got to build our love on one foundation
Got to build our love on one foundation
Got to build our love on one foundation
There will never be, yeah! No love at all
There will never be no love at all
Got to put aside them segregation, yeah!
Got to put aside them organization
Got to put aside them denomination
There will, there will never be no love at all
I mean there will never be no love at all
(Got to build our love) so build our love
(On one foundation) on one foundation
(Got to build our love) come, let us build our love
(On one foundation) on one solid foundation
(Got to build our love) got to build our love
(On one) on one foundation (foundation)
Or there will never be a single drop of love
You won't have no freedom now, yeah!
Got to come together
We are birds of a feather
We got to come together
'Cause we are birds of a feather
Got to come together
Cause we are birds of a feather
Or there will never be (Lord, have mercy!) no love at all
There will never be, yeah, yeah! No love at all
We also got to realize we are one people, yeah!
Got to realize that we are one people, yeah!
We got to realize we are one people
Or there will never be no love at all
There will never, never, never be no love at all
Got to build our love on one foundation
Got to build our love on one foundation
Got to build our love on one foundation
Got to build our love on one foundation
Got to build our love on one foundation
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One Foundation Lyrics as written by Peter Tosh
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