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"
Eeh, zagga zow
Zagga now now now now now
Ziggy, yo, let's do this
Pon bed pon floor against wall
We sex dem all 'til dem call me (what?)
I'm di girls dem sugar dats all (zagga)
Welcome di king of di dancehall (send off)
Pon bed pon floor against wall (what?)
We sex dem all 'til dem call me (uh-huh)
I'm di girls dem sugar dats all (cool)
Welcome di king of di dancehall
(Hello meet buddy gal) Play wid dem hair
(Catch it now gimme nuh hickey gal)
Don't yuh dare (Titty stiff eeh?)
Remove yuh underwear
And mek me fi ram it in, stick it in, jam it in widout
(Gyal fi get sex, don't?)
Who dat ah ask me why?
Gallis me ask me question nuh funky guy
(Sum'n fat eeh?)
So how you act so shy?
Me nuh beg kitty but me'd ah like a bligh
Why? just to rise yuh foot up high
'Cause I, yes I, I believe you can, fly, straight to di sky
Betweenie mi name, me between yuh thighs
(Me nuh Batman)
Afta me nuh Robin guy
If you and I ever knot to tie
Nuh shy, when me stab it then yuh reply
Bite yuh lips and cross yuh eyes, 'cause
Pon bed pon floor against wall
We sex dem all 'til dem call me (what?)
I'm di girls dem sugar dats all (zagga)
Welcome di king of di dancehall (send off)
Pon bed pon floor against wall (what?)
We sex dem all 'til dem call me (uh-huh)
I'm di girls dem sugar dats all (cool)
Welcome di king of di dancehall
(Come here pretty girl)
Yuh body shape so good
Let me introduce you to a piece a wood
(Beenie can I be your girl?)
I tink yuh should but I, don't wanna be misunderstood
(Nuh mistake)
Me nuh wan no gal wid only pretty face
Me wan di thick inna di waist and di body wid di shape
And di treble wid di bass mek di sound ah di place
Me ah di lawyer pon di case fi di murda pon yuh bass
(This face)
This is no sitting place
Me stand up and dweet nuh bow dung and taste
Me nuh run dung nani no chicken chase
She fi know di sex limits stop at sixty eight
(Me deh ah airport ah wait)
fi some gyal wid air freight
Cah di wul ah dem deh fish ah run dung mi buddy bait
Natural baby juice ah nuh concentrate
You neva know ah so di love doctor great, come on
Pon bed pon floor against wall
We sex dem all 'til dem call me (what?)
I'm di girls dem sugar dats all (zagga)
Welcome di king of di dancehall (send off)
Pon bed pon floor against wall (what?)
We sex dem all 'til dem call me (uh-huh)
I'm di girls dem sugar dats all (cool)
Welcome di king of di dancehall
(Mi belly full ah food)
Me go pon a gyal feast
Cah me go deh so fi sex me nuh go deh so fi eat
(Miss Know how fi dweet)
Some people watch cheat
Deh inna car mi seat but she six inch deep
(When me unleash)
And she see di one feet
(You mean one foot?)
No me mean one feet
Cool baby love yuh too hard to discrete
So she tell everybody how she tear up di sheet
(Yuh tink a toenail?)
Ah di sittin' weh go skeet
Sticky sticky skeet skeet skeet skeet skeet
(An' when we me start beat di drum)
She tink ah down beat
Me nuh deal wid down so baby don't meet
Me want a gyal weh petite (uh) nice and look sweet (true)
When she see di third leg she run like track meet
From me know how fi dweet nah back nah retreat
Me know dat song 'ya complete, so when me go so
Pon bed pon floor against wall
We sex dem all 'til dem call me (what?)
I'm di girls dem sugar dats all (zagga)
Welcome di king of di dancehall (send off)
Pon bed pon floor against wall (what?)
We sex dem all 'til dem call me (uh-huh)
I'm di girls dem sugar dats all (cool)
Welcome di king of di dancehall
Pon bed pon floor against wall
We sex dem all 'til dem call me (what?)
I'm di girls dem sugar dats all (zagga)
Welcome di king of di dancehall (send off)
Pon bed pon floor against wall (what?)
We sex dem all 'til dem call me (uh-huh)
I'm di girls dem sugar dats all (cool)
Welcome di king of di dancehall
Zagga now now now now now
Ziggy, yo, let's do this
Pon bed pon floor against wall
We sex dem all 'til dem call me (what?)
I'm di girls dem sugar dats all (zagga)
Welcome di king of di dancehall (send off)
Pon bed pon floor against wall (what?)
We sex dem all 'til dem call me (uh-huh)
I'm di girls dem sugar dats all (cool)
Welcome di king of di dancehall
(Hello meet buddy gal) Play wid dem hair
(Catch it now gimme nuh hickey gal)
Don't yuh dare (Titty stiff eeh?)
Remove yuh underwear
And mek me fi ram it in, stick it in, jam it in widout
(Gyal fi get sex, don't?)
Who dat ah ask me why?
Gallis me ask me question nuh funky guy
(Sum'n fat eeh?)
So how you act so shy?
Me nuh beg kitty but me'd ah like a bligh
Why? just to rise yuh foot up high
'Cause I, yes I, I believe you can, fly, straight to di sky
Betweenie mi name, me between yuh thighs
(Me nuh Batman)
Afta me nuh Robin guy
If you and I ever knot to tie
Nuh shy, when me stab it then yuh reply
Bite yuh lips and cross yuh eyes, 'cause
Pon bed pon floor against wall
We sex dem all 'til dem call me (what?)
I'm di girls dem sugar dats all (zagga)
Welcome di king of di dancehall (send off)
Pon bed pon floor against wall (what?)
We sex dem all 'til dem call me (uh-huh)
I'm di girls dem sugar dats all (cool)
Welcome di king of di dancehall
(Come here pretty girl)
Yuh body shape so good
Let me introduce you to a piece a wood
(Beenie can I be your girl?)
I tink yuh should but I, don't wanna be misunderstood
(Nuh mistake)
Me nuh wan no gal wid only pretty face
Me wan di thick inna di waist and di body wid di shape
And di treble wid di bass mek di sound ah di place
Me ah di lawyer pon di case fi di murda pon yuh bass
(This face)
This is no sitting place
Me stand up and dweet nuh bow dung and taste
Me nuh run dung nani no chicken chase
She fi know di sex limits stop at sixty eight
(Me deh ah airport ah wait)
fi some gyal wid air freight
Cah di wul ah dem deh fish ah run dung mi buddy bait
Natural baby juice ah nuh concentrate
You neva know ah so di love doctor great, come on
Pon bed pon floor against wall
We sex dem all 'til dem call me (what?)
I'm di girls dem sugar dats all (zagga)
Welcome di king of di dancehall (send off)
Pon bed pon floor against wall (what?)
We sex dem all 'til dem call me (uh-huh)
I'm di girls dem sugar dats all (cool)
Welcome di king of di dancehall
(Mi belly full ah food)
Me go pon a gyal feast
Cah me go deh so fi sex me nuh go deh so fi eat
(Miss Know how fi dweet)
Some people watch cheat
Deh inna car mi seat but she six inch deep
(When me unleash)
And she see di one feet
(You mean one foot?)
No me mean one feet
Cool baby love yuh too hard to discrete
So she tell everybody how she tear up di sheet
(Yuh tink a toenail?)
Ah di sittin' weh go skeet
Sticky sticky skeet skeet skeet skeet skeet
(An' when we me start beat di drum)
She tink ah down beat
Me nuh deal wid down so baby don't meet
Me want a gyal weh petite (uh) nice and look sweet (true)
When she see di third leg she run like track meet
From me know how fi dweet nah back nah retreat
Me know dat song 'ya complete, so when me go so
Pon bed pon floor against wall
We sex dem all 'til dem call me (what?)
I'm di girls dem sugar dats all (zagga)
Welcome di king of di dancehall (send off)
Pon bed pon floor against wall (what?)
We sex dem all 'til dem call me (uh-huh)
I'm di girls dem sugar dats all (cool)
Welcome di king of di dancehall
Pon bed pon floor against wall
We sex dem all 'til dem call me (what?)
I'm di girls dem sugar dats all (zagga)
Welcome di king of di dancehall (send off)
Pon bed pon floor against wall (what?)
We sex dem all 'til dem call me (uh-huh)
I'm di girls dem sugar dats all (cool)
Welcome di king of di dancehall
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King of the Dancehall Lyrics as written by Maurice Gregory Kelly Anthony
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