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"
Intro:
BountyKiller: You know it's Warlord and Wayne Marshall
Wayne Marshall: true true true, Wooo ooooh oooh
BountyKiller: Together you know we caan pass yo!!
We get reason and cause dat's substancial huh, weh yuh seh Wayne????
Wayne Marshall: True true true
BountyKiller: Da musical is natural
Chorus:
Wayne Marshall:
When di smoke clears, and di battle has been won
True true true Warlord still a stand
Di smoke clears, and da war is gone
True true true a new star is born
Di smoke clears, and di body count dun
True true true Marshall a see yuh come
Di smoke clears, and it's over at last
Do Warlord buss di dance?
Verse 1:
BountyKiller:
Yo!, A war is goin on...in di land
Over who a di big man,in Jam One
Mek sure when inna gun jam, unno have a plan
Cause when di smoke clears only di strong will stand
A wuk man a wuk under nuh big man ting
It's like some bwoy get sad when man ting start...
( Wayne Marshall: Bling!!!)
Look under mi shirt and yuh see di gat bling
If a war or a lyrical ting?, uh huh
Chorus:
Wayne Marshall:
When di smoke clears, and di battle has been won
True true true Warlord is number one
Di smoke clears, and da war is gone
True true true a new star is born
Di smoke clears, and di body count dun
True true true King Jammys see yuh come
Di smoke clears, and it's over at last
Do Warlord buss di dance?
Verse 2:
BountyKiller:
Anyway, see dem a come and hide but mi know a just fi know
Seh dem true, know check dem a go
Cause when di smoke clear fi see who lay below???
Hey dem caan come near we flow nor we dough
A nuh fi defeat but a who caan endore it
Contender come and a first one we floor it
Push up your face inna mel and mek we bore it
Pon di ice man dem store it
Chorus:
Wayne Marshall:
When di smoke clears, and di battle has been won
True true true Marshall a see yuh stand
Di smoke clears, and da war is dun
True true true a new star is born
Di smoke clears, and di body count dun
True true true Madd Family a come
Di smoke clears, and it's over at last
Do Warlord buss di dance?
Repeat Verse 1 and chorus till end
BountyKiller: You know it's Warlord and Wayne Marshall
Wayne Marshall: true true true, Wooo ooooh oooh
BountyKiller: Together you know we caan pass yo!!
We get reason and cause dat's substancial huh, weh yuh seh Wayne????
Wayne Marshall: True true true
BountyKiller: Da musical is natural
Chorus:
Wayne Marshall:
When di smoke clears, and di battle has been won
True true true Warlord still a stand
Di smoke clears, and da war is gone
True true true a new star is born
Di smoke clears, and di body count dun
True true true Marshall a see yuh come
Di smoke clears, and it's over at last
Do Warlord buss di dance?
Verse 1:
BountyKiller:
Yo!, A war is goin on...in di land
Over who a di big man,in Jam One
Mek sure when inna gun jam, unno have a plan
Cause when di smoke clears only di strong will stand
A wuk man a wuk under nuh big man ting
It's like some bwoy get sad when man ting start...
( Wayne Marshall: Bling!!!)
Look under mi shirt and yuh see di gat bling
If a war or a lyrical ting?, uh huh
Chorus:
Wayne Marshall:
When di smoke clears, and di battle has been won
True true true Warlord is number one
Di smoke clears, and da war is gone
True true true a new star is born
Di smoke clears, and di body count dun
True true true King Jammys see yuh come
Di smoke clears, and it's over at last
Do Warlord buss di dance?
Verse 2:
BountyKiller:
Anyway, see dem a come and hide but mi know a just fi know
Seh dem true, know check dem a go
Cause when di smoke clear fi see who lay below???
Hey dem caan come near we flow nor we dough
A nuh fi defeat but a who caan endore it
Contender come and a first one we floor it
Push up your face inna mel and mek we bore it
Pon di ice man dem store it
Chorus:
Wayne Marshall:
When di smoke clears, and di battle has been won
True true true Marshall a see yuh stand
Di smoke clears, and da war is dun
True true true a new star is born
Di smoke clears, and di body count dun
True true true Madd Family a come
Di smoke clears, and it's over at last
Do Warlord buss di dance?
Repeat Verse 1 and chorus till end
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