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"
Ya mon I just a nyabingi, ya know
Blow t'under pon dem
Red ah zonal
well, I'n I say give unto the King, Holy, Mighty
give unto Emperor Selassie I glory and strength
see it ya know
woy, watch the gunners dem
dem no stop from jump all over dem fence
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Selassie never yet let me down
Prime minister no care when police
Done have up dem gun
Love and guidance
Jah Jah never yet let me down
The youths nah hear dem black brother dem
Come yah ah shot down
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Emmanuel never yet let me down
Pon dem see me turban
Babylon know seh a just their fire burn
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Jah Jah never yet let we down
Eh, look black man, me seh
Stop shot down all you black son
?
Just try know you space
Cannot be looking out of yourself
That is why you come and imitate
You crave fi the money so you take all the gun
And go put pon you waist
Living dead, you belong to the grave
Rastaman nah stop chant earthquake
What you doing, you evil
?
Killing so many people
Nobody sleep, afraid to nah go wake
What is the talk in town
Rasta love and praise
Yow me nah stop say ah bow
Onu stop crucial ?
'member this
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Jah Jah never yet let we down
Wha mek the youths nah hear
Dem black breddah dem come and ah shot down
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Emmanuel never yet let we down
Fi dem see me turban dem know
Seh ah just more fire burn
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Jah Jah never yet let we down
Hey you, black man
Stop shot down you black son
Where there is Rastafari
There is never yet any calamity
The youths dem ah cry
Fi too much police brutality
Mommy never stop try
She haffi feed all ah who hungry
Gunman broke and come in
And kill off the whole family
Oh, oh, what a world, what a world
Of stupidity
Mankind cyan' control themself
Everybody gone crazy me haffi holla out
Love and guidance
Selassie never yet let me down
Babylon nah bend
From police done have dem gun
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Emmanuel never yet let we down
The youths nah hear dem black breddah
Dem come and ah shot down
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Marcus never yet let we down
Black man, stop from shot down all you black son
Me holla out
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Jah Jah never yet let we down
Everybody get burned
Everybody done have up all dem big gun
Love we need some more
Love we need some more
Love we need some more
To clean out all a dem trouble
Love we want some more
Love we need some more
Love we need some more
Or else nah go have enough shovel
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Jah Jah never yet let me down
Babylon dem no bend
From dem police done have up dem gun
More guidance
Emmanuel never yet let we down
Wha mek the youths nah hear dem black breddah dem
Come yah ah shot down
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Blackness never yet let me down
Me ah beg all the ghetto youths dem
Fi come and put down dem gun
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Jah Jah never yet let we down
Police they better dash weh all your 16 and come
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Blackness don't yet let me down
Soldier man ya better left all out pon camp and come
Blow t'under pon dem
Red ah zonal
well, I'n I say give unto the King, Holy, Mighty
give unto Emperor Selassie I glory and strength
see it ya know
woy, watch the gunners dem
dem no stop from jump all over dem fence
More guidance
Selassie never yet let me down
Prime minister no care when police
Done have up dem gun
Love and guidance
Jah Jah never yet let me down
The youths nah hear dem black brother dem
Come yah ah shot down
More guidance
Emmanuel never yet let me down
Pon dem see me turban
Babylon know seh a just their fire burn
More guidance
Jah Jah never yet let we down
Eh, look black man, me seh
Stop shot down all you black son
?
Just try know you space
Cannot be looking out of yourself
That is why you come and imitate
You crave fi the money so you take all the gun
And go put pon you waist
Living dead, you belong to the grave
Rastaman nah stop chant earthquake
What you doing, you evil
?
Killing so many people
Nobody sleep, afraid to nah go wake
What is the talk in town
Rasta love and praise
Yow me nah stop say ah bow
Onu stop crucial ?
'member this
More guidance
Jah Jah never yet let we down
Wha mek the youths nah hear
Dem black breddah dem come and ah shot down
More guidance
Emmanuel never yet let we down
Fi dem see me turban dem know
Seh ah just more fire burn
More guidance
Jah Jah never yet let we down
Hey you, black man
Stop shot down you black son
Where there is Rastafari
There is never yet any calamity
The youths dem ah cry
Fi too much police brutality
Mommy never stop try
She haffi feed all ah who hungry
Gunman broke and come in
And kill off the whole family
Oh, oh, what a world, what a world
Of stupidity
Mankind cyan' control themself
Everybody gone crazy me haffi holla out
Love and guidance
Selassie never yet let me down
Babylon nah bend
From police done have dem gun
More guidance
Emmanuel never yet let we down
The youths nah hear dem black breddah
Dem come and ah shot down
More guidance
Marcus never yet let we down
Black man, stop from shot down all you black son
Me holla out
More guidance
Jah Jah never yet let we down
Everybody get burned
Everybody done have up all dem big gun
Love we need some more
Love we need some more
Love we need some more
To clean out all a dem trouble
Love we want some more
Love we need some more
Love we need some more
Or else nah go have enough shovel
More guidance
Jah Jah never yet let me down
Babylon dem no bend
From dem police done have up dem gun
More guidance
Emmanuel never yet let we down
Wha mek the youths nah hear dem black breddah dem
Come yah ah shot down
More guidance
Blackness never yet let me down
Me ah beg all the ghetto youths dem
Fi come and put down dem gun
More guidance
Jah Jah never yet let we down
Police they better dash weh all your 16 and come
More guidance
Blackness don't yet let me down
Soldier man ya better left all out pon camp and come
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