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"
Hey, hey hey
Well yuh done know seh bad man nah watch nuh stripe
No matter the color or the type
From wah day mi some boy a move hype
But yuh know weh mi tell dem
Weh Frisco Kid tell them
When we bus wi things wi nuh run weh
Police nuh come deh
Worse when mi under mi chalice
Nuff radio car wi mek drive weh
Helicopter fly weh
Poor likkle Sergeant Wallace
When we bus wi things wi nuh run weh
Sunday to Sunday
Worse when mi under mi chalice
Nuff radio car wi mek drive weh
All Easter Friday
Poor likkle Sergeant Wallace
Hey
A weh police a guh and dem nuh know bout di war
Some likkle soldier boy with them old SLR
Dem hear "raaarhhhh" and di whole a dem run guh far
Guh hide underneath Mr. Ruddy ole car
Bad man in di street lay flat pon di tar
A lick it up and bus it like some ole movie star
And if di queen come dem will bus it up pon her
Cause dem under dem ganja cigar
Tivoli bus it up and nuh run weh
Police nuh come deh
Worse when dem unda dem chalice
Nuff radio car dem mek drive weh
Helicopter fly weh
Poor likkle Sergeant Wallace
Spanglers bus them tings and nuh run weh
Sunday to Sunday
Worse when dem unda dem Chalice
A nuff radio car dem mek drive weh
All Easter Friday
Poor likkle Sergeant Wallace
Di man dem bus shot by di bucket and a nuff dog a bark
No man nuh fraida man a just di bigger gun talk
Di introtek di Calico di Eagle and di Hawk
Yuh tink man only bad a New York...
Junglist bus dem tings and nuh run weh
Police nuh come deh
Worse when dem unda dem chalice
Nuff radio car dem mek FLY weh
Helicopter DRIVE weh
Poor likkle Sergeant Wallace
When wi bus wi tings wi nuh run weh
Sunday to Sunday
Worse when wi unda wi chalice
Nuff radio car wi mek drive weh
All Easter Friday
Poor likkle Sergeant Wallace
A pure Juvenile a run di place warm
Some likkle likkle youth weh just ina first form
A flex with them machine under them arm
Cause none a dem nuh fraida police uniform
Di MP a beg dem fi please keep di calm
A pure guerilla works di likkle youth dem perform
Police have fi run when dem start turn it on
Government nuh know what a gwaan
'Kirk man bus dem tings and nuh run weh
Police nuh come deh
Worse when dem unda dem chalice
Nuff radio car dem mek FLY weh
Helicopter DRIVE weh
Poor likkle Sergeant Wallace
When wi bus wi tings wi nuh run weh
Sunday to Sunday
Worse when wi unda wi chalice
Nuff radio car wi mek drive weh
All Easter Friday
Poor likkle Sergeant Wallace
Well yuh done know seh bad man nah watch nuh stripe
No matter the color or the type
From wah day mi some boy a move hype
But yuh know weh mi tell dem
Weh Frisco Kid tell them
When we bus wi things wi nuh run weh
Police nuh come deh
Worse when mi under mi chalice
Nuff radio car wi mek drive weh
Helicopter fly weh
Poor likkle Sergeant Wallace
When we bus wi things wi nuh run weh
Sunday to Sunday
Worse when mi under mi chalice
Nuff radio car wi mek drive weh
All Easter Friday
Poor likkle Sergeant Wallace
Hey
A weh police a guh and dem nuh know bout di war
Some likkle soldier boy with them old SLR
Dem hear "raaarhhhh" and di whole a dem run guh far
Guh hide underneath Mr. Ruddy ole car
Bad man in di street lay flat pon di tar
A lick it up and bus it like some ole movie star
And if di queen come dem will bus it up pon her
Cause dem under dem ganja cigar
Tivoli bus it up and nuh run weh
Police nuh come deh
Worse when dem unda dem chalice
Nuff radio car dem mek drive weh
Helicopter fly weh
Poor likkle Sergeant Wallace
Spanglers bus them tings and nuh run weh
Sunday to Sunday
Worse when dem unda dem Chalice
A nuff radio car dem mek drive weh
All Easter Friday
Poor likkle Sergeant Wallace
Di man dem bus shot by di bucket and a nuff dog a bark
No man nuh fraida man a just di bigger gun talk
Di introtek di Calico di Eagle and di Hawk
Yuh tink man only bad a New York...
Junglist bus dem tings and nuh run weh
Police nuh come deh
Worse when dem unda dem chalice
Nuff radio car dem mek FLY weh
Helicopter DRIVE weh
Poor likkle Sergeant Wallace
When wi bus wi tings wi nuh run weh
Sunday to Sunday
Worse when wi unda wi chalice
Nuff radio car wi mek drive weh
All Easter Friday
Poor likkle Sergeant Wallace
A pure Juvenile a run di place warm
Some likkle likkle youth weh just ina first form
A flex with them machine under them arm
Cause none a dem nuh fraida police uniform
Di MP a beg dem fi please keep di calm
A pure guerilla works di likkle youth dem perform
Police have fi run when dem start turn it on
Government nuh know what a gwaan
'Kirk man bus dem tings and nuh run weh
Police nuh come deh
Worse when dem unda dem chalice
Nuff radio car dem mek FLY weh
Helicopter DRIVE weh
Poor likkle Sergeant Wallace
When wi bus wi tings wi nuh run weh
Sunday to Sunday
Worse when wi unda wi chalice
Nuff radio car wi mek drive weh
All Easter Friday
Poor likkle Sergeant Wallace
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Sergeant Wallace Lyrics as written by Dave Kelly
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