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"
[Sean Paul]
Bwoy Ce'cile, I see it clear yuh know, mi need ya yuh know
[Ce'cile]
Please! I got a man ok
[Sean Paul]
Yeah but mi neva hear yuh seh nuttin bout him, mi talk bout mi and you now
[Ce'cile]
Well he's there so I gotta let ya know yuh know
[Sean Paul]
Well let's go kick it then we can chill
[Ce'cile]
Anyway yuh caan do nuttin
[Chorus]
[Ce'cile]
Mi know yuh kinda cute bwoy can yuh do di wuk
I'm lookin' for a rudebwoy betta arms up
And a if yuh rubber suitbwoy I will play ruff
'Cause we play ruff, cau we play ruff
[Sean Paul]
Well woman it's a long time mi see yuh and a lust
Mi well waan fi show yuh how mi wicked and tuff
Hand behind your back mi lock it to mi hand cuff
Wuk yuh ago get a strictly A one plus
[Ce'cile]
Yuh a talk bout dutty yeah
when yuh come inna mi house yuh betta don't play
Just land di big jet pon di runway
Can yuh give it to mi all night all day
[Sean Paul]
Fi real now Ce'cile yuh a talk bout see what I've been goin through
List one bag a man like yuh deh pon mi few
But wait till di Dutty get a hold of yuh ([Ce'cile:] Whateva)
Inna di bedroom yuh start call mi Shaka Zulu
[Chorus]
[Ce'cile]
Mi know yuh kinda cute bwoy can yuh do di wuk
I'm lookin for a rudebwoy betta arms up
And a if yuh rubber suitbwoy I will play ruff
Cau we play ruff, cau we play ruff
[Sean Paul]
Ce'cile now a long time mi see yuh and a lust
Mi well waan fi show yuh how mi wicked and tuff
Hand behind your back mi lock it to mi hand cuff
Wuk yuh ago get a strictly A one plus
[Ce'cile]
Well Sean Paul get wid it badgal nuh waan nuh one minute
Or when tire punch out we rim it
Bruk every state limit, don't waan nuh joke or nuh gimmick
Got fi know how fi shock and fi sting it
[Sean Paul]
Girl, well I'm most talented, betta than wah di doctor recommended
So when di time mi touch yuh it is time well spended
So when did, yuh ever see a yute so demented?
A yuh start it off now a my time fi end it
[Chorus]
[Ce'cile]
Yuh know yuh kinda cute bwoy can yuh do di wuk
I'm lookin for a rudebwoy betta arms up
And a if yuh rubber suitbwoy I will play ruff
Cau we play ruff, cau we play ruff
[Sean Paul]
Well woman it's a long time mi see yuh and a lust
Mi well waan fi show yuh how mi wicked and tuff
Hand behind your back mi lock it to mi hand cuff
Wuk yuh ago get a strictly A one plus
[Ce'cile]
Well if yuh waan di nanny nanny yo gotta mek mi holla gotta mek mi go
(Oh...yeah) Baby gimme some mo', ride it like a rodeo
[Sean Paul]
Well well well through di lightning thundastorm Sean Paul nuh stall
Mek yuh leff di wall pon a di wall yuh a crawl
Nah go ease up off di saddle none at all
Start wuk yuh inna di winter when mi dun a next fall
[Chorus]
[Ce'cile]
Mi know yuh kinda cute bwoy can yuh do di wuk
I'm lookin for a rudebwoy betta arms up
And a if yuh rubber suitbwoy I will play ruff
'Cause we play ruff, cau we play ruff
[Sean Paul:]
Well woman it's a long time mi see yuh and a lust
Mi well waan fi show yuh how mi wicked and tuff
Hand behind your back mi lock it to mi hand cuff
Wuk yuh ago get a strictly A one plus
Bwoy Ce'cile, I see it clear yuh know, mi need ya yuh know
[Ce'cile]
Please! I got a man ok
[Sean Paul]
Yeah but mi neva hear yuh seh nuttin bout him, mi talk bout mi and you now
[Ce'cile]
Well he's there so I gotta let ya know yuh know
[Sean Paul]
Well let's go kick it then we can chill
[Ce'cile]
Anyway yuh caan do nuttin
[Chorus]
[Ce'cile]
Mi know yuh kinda cute bwoy can yuh do di wuk
I'm lookin' for a rudebwoy betta arms up
And a if yuh rubber suitbwoy I will play ruff
'Cause we play ruff, cau we play ruff
[Sean Paul]
Well woman it's a long time mi see yuh and a lust
Mi well waan fi show yuh how mi wicked and tuff
Hand behind your back mi lock it to mi hand cuff
Wuk yuh ago get a strictly A one plus
[Ce'cile]
Yuh a talk bout dutty yeah
when yuh come inna mi house yuh betta don't play
Just land di big jet pon di runway
Can yuh give it to mi all night all day
[Sean Paul]
Fi real now Ce'cile yuh a talk bout see what I've been goin through
List one bag a man like yuh deh pon mi few
But wait till di Dutty get a hold of yuh ([Ce'cile:] Whateva)
Inna di bedroom yuh start call mi Shaka Zulu
[Chorus]
[Ce'cile]
Mi know yuh kinda cute bwoy can yuh do di wuk
I'm lookin for a rudebwoy betta arms up
And a if yuh rubber suitbwoy I will play ruff
Cau we play ruff, cau we play ruff
[Sean Paul]
Ce'cile now a long time mi see yuh and a lust
Mi well waan fi show yuh how mi wicked and tuff
Hand behind your back mi lock it to mi hand cuff
Wuk yuh ago get a strictly A one plus
[Ce'cile]
Well Sean Paul get wid it badgal nuh waan nuh one minute
Or when tire punch out we rim it
Bruk every state limit, don't waan nuh joke or nuh gimmick
Got fi know how fi shock and fi sting it
[Sean Paul]
Girl, well I'm most talented, betta than wah di doctor recommended
So when di time mi touch yuh it is time well spended
So when did, yuh ever see a yute so demented?
A yuh start it off now a my time fi end it
[Chorus]
[Ce'cile]
Yuh know yuh kinda cute bwoy can yuh do di wuk
I'm lookin for a rudebwoy betta arms up
And a if yuh rubber suitbwoy I will play ruff
Cau we play ruff, cau we play ruff
[Sean Paul]
Well woman it's a long time mi see yuh and a lust
Mi well waan fi show yuh how mi wicked and tuff
Hand behind your back mi lock it to mi hand cuff
Wuk yuh ago get a strictly A one plus
[Ce'cile]
Well if yuh waan di nanny nanny yo gotta mek mi holla gotta mek mi go
(Oh...yeah) Baby gimme some mo', ride it like a rodeo
[Sean Paul]
Well well well through di lightning thundastorm Sean Paul nuh stall
Mek yuh leff di wall pon a di wall yuh a crawl
Nah go ease up off di saddle none at all
Start wuk yuh inna di winter when mi dun a next fall
[Chorus]
[Ce'cile]
Mi know yuh kinda cute bwoy can yuh do di wuk
I'm lookin for a rudebwoy betta arms up
And a if yuh rubber suitbwoy I will play ruff
'Cause we play ruff, cau we play ruff
[Sean Paul:]
Well woman it's a long time mi see yuh and a lust
Mi well waan fi show yuh how mi wicked and tuff
Hand behind your back mi lock it to mi hand cuff
Wuk yuh ago get a strictly A one plus
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