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"
Christ all de girls dem
Love dem like a Jesus (love all)
For the girls dem we bug
Night and Day!
Hear Buju Banton song now
(Sing along)
I would like to be the only
In your life
I want to be the only man
Real quality time and affection
One man cyaan run her locked combination
All she a look
She no see di mista man
Tear up resume
Burn up application
One look she took
An me fit di position
No matter who inna di way
Run away di likkle man
Buju have di slam
Fi rock you all night long
Woman I see trouble
To how mi heart a bubble
Something must be wrong
Now true now me no have nothin
Juggle me a juggle
Still cyaan hold my hand
Girl, I would like to be your only
In your life
I want to be the only man
Real quality time, affection
One man cyaan run her locked combination
How she a look
She no see di mista man
Whole heap a dem a come but
Dem no ready
Check dem out, dem is a mess
Don't want no bag a problem and stress
Love in excess, kill ya wit happiness
Stick to di ragga and yuh wouldn't want left
Dis is no poppy show
Tell your boy him get a blow
Rude Bwoy visit yard no tip-toe
Like to be your only
In your life
I want to be the only man
Real quality time and affection
One man cyaan run her locked combination
How she a look
She no see di mista man
Why yuh refuse to humble your ears to my cry
Feel me only want you through the needle eye
Wrote many notes and yuh don't reply
Walk off mi boot heel to show I am a nice guy
Woman di likkle love me cyaan wait fi pacify
I cry and bawl til mi water well dry
Anytime me see yuh me a rail up high
Temprature rise an me not stop cry
I'd like to be the only
In your life
I want to be the only man
Real quality time an affection
One man cyann run her locked combination
How she a look
She no see the (Cho!)
Tear up resume
Burn up application
One look she take
An mi fit di position
No matter who inna di way
Run away di likkle man
Mi have the slam
Fi rock yuh all night long
Gal I see trouble
To how mi heart a bubble
Something must be wrong
Now true now me no have nothin
Juggle me a juggle
Still cyaan hold my hand
Honey, I would like to be the only man
Real quality time and affection
One man cyaan run her locked combination
How she a look
She no see di mista man
Whole heap a dem come but
Dem no ready
Check dem out dem is a mess
Don't want no bag a problem and stress
Love in excess, kill yuh wit happiness
Stick to the ragga and yuh wouldn't waan left
Dis is no poppy show
Gwaan yuh man him get a blow
Half
Love dem like a Jesus (love all)
For the girls dem we bug
Night and Day!
Hear Buju Banton song now
(Sing along)
I would like to be the only
In your life
I want to be the only man
Real quality time and affection
One man cyaan run her locked combination
All she a look
She no see di mista man
Tear up resume
Burn up application
One look she took
An me fit di position
No matter who inna di way
Run away di likkle man
Buju have di slam
Fi rock you all night long
Woman I see trouble
To how mi heart a bubble
Something must be wrong
Now true now me no have nothin
Juggle me a juggle
Still cyaan hold my hand
Girl, I would like to be your only
In your life
I want to be the only man
Real quality time, affection
One man cyaan run her locked combination
How she a look
She no see di mista man
Whole heap a dem a come but
Dem no ready
Check dem out, dem is a mess
Don't want no bag a problem and stress
Love in excess, kill ya wit happiness
Stick to di ragga and yuh wouldn't want left
Dis is no poppy show
Tell your boy him get a blow
Rude Bwoy visit yard no tip-toe
Like to be your only
In your life
I want to be the only man
Real quality time and affection
One man cyaan run her locked combination
How she a look
She no see di mista man
Why yuh refuse to humble your ears to my cry
Feel me only want you through the needle eye
Wrote many notes and yuh don't reply
Walk off mi boot heel to show I am a nice guy
Woman di likkle love me cyaan wait fi pacify
I cry and bawl til mi water well dry
Anytime me see yuh me a rail up high
Temprature rise an me not stop cry
I'd like to be the only
In your life
I want to be the only man
Real quality time an affection
One man cyann run her locked combination
How she a look
She no see the (Cho!)
Tear up resume
Burn up application
One look she take
An mi fit di position
No matter who inna di way
Run away di likkle man
Mi have the slam
Fi rock yuh all night long
Gal I see trouble
To how mi heart a bubble
Something must be wrong
Now true now me no have nothin
Juggle me a juggle
Still cyaan hold my hand
Honey, I would like to be the only man
Real quality time and affection
One man cyaan run her locked combination
How she a look
She no see di mista man
Whole heap a dem come but
Dem no ready
Check dem out dem is a mess
Don't want no bag a problem and stress
Love in excess, kill yuh wit happiness
Stick to the ragga and yuh wouldn't waan left
Dis is no poppy show
Gwaan yuh man him get a blow
Half
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Only Man Lyrics as written by Mark Anthony(bantonbuju) Myrie Dave Kelly
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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