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"
Bounce, Bounce, Bounce, Bounce
Repeat
But a mi got the bang wid di billie bang skeng
A mi got the bang wid di Shocking Vibes deng
Repeat
[Chorus 1]
Everybody's talking all the crap about me
Why they just don't let me live
Tell me why
(He's the girls dem sugar)
It's my decision and that's my paragative
They say I'm crazy and they even said I'm (beep)
While I'm living on the girls dem way
So move wid yuh nasty question
You try to destroy my life
Ooh, just llow a man
Mek him deejay him tune and try to survive
[Chorus 2:]
Bad mind is active (ah)
Den a watch nex people business
Bad mind is active (ah, ah, ah, ah)
And its the way the they want to live
Bad mind is active (ah, ah)
Dem neva stop and think positive
Bad mind is active (ah, ah) But all pon dem mind is negative
Everybody asking me what's the dealio
How mi naah throw nuh wud, I'm just chillio
Number one mi meking part two oh no
How yuh fi dis mi when I'm no zero
Listen how mi voice clean through di stereo
How yuh fi slam mi I'm no mono
How yuh fi dis mi, I'm the star of the show
I'm a movie star and the world done know
I'm the king rapper dancehall disco
I'm not a groupie, well I'm just solo
Pull it mi selector waan yuh tek it down low
Come all my fans let mi tell yuh what mi know
Why the girls really love Beenie Man (Beenie)
Mi and mi girls a flex through Ontario
Drinking Alozane, driving the limo
Ohh, gee, ahh, let's go
How yuh fi dis mi when I'm no jigalo
Mi and mi friend Future Troubles flexing hi-pro
Mi hear a knock pon mi door
When mi look out nuh Suzanne and Flo
Whem mi si weh dem a carry well mi interest grow
Like a cupid a so mi fire mi arrow
Bup she get it down inna de burrow
Oh cho, a so di punch line go
[Chorus 1]
[Chorus 2]
But hear sey hey some bwoy a ketcher
Some bwoy a tekka, dem a wrecker
Don't trust dem, dem a penny ketcher
How yuh fi dis mi when yuh ever lesser, never better
Listen to the Brother Proper
Some bwoy dem all a style man as fella
When mi dome have Angella, Anabella
Mi use to date all Cinderella
When she run lef di silver slipper
Ah, ah, ah, ah some bwoy a flex like liar liar
Now mi friend this is a girls roll call
Nuff shot fall beat nuff ball, woman a stall
Repeat
But a mi got the bang wid di billie bang skeng
A mi got the bang wid di Shocking Vibes deng
Repeat
[Chorus 1]
Everybody's talking all the crap about me
Why they just don't let me live
Tell me why
(He's the girls dem sugar)
It's my decision and that's my paragative
They say I'm crazy and they even said I'm (beep)
While I'm living on the girls dem way
So move wid yuh nasty question
You try to destroy my life
Ooh, just llow a man
Mek him deejay him tune and try to survive
[Chorus 2:]
Bad mind is active (ah)
Den a watch nex people business
Bad mind is active (ah, ah, ah, ah)
And its the way the they want to live
Bad mind is active (ah, ah)
Dem neva stop and think positive
Bad mind is active (ah, ah) But all pon dem mind is negative
Everybody asking me what's the dealio
How mi naah throw nuh wud, I'm just chillio
Number one mi meking part two oh no
How yuh fi dis mi when I'm no zero
Listen how mi voice clean through di stereo
How yuh fi slam mi I'm no mono
How yuh fi dis mi, I'm the star of the show
I'm a movie star and the world done know
I'm the king rapper dancehall disco
I'm not a groupie, well I'm just solo
Pull it mi selector waan yuh tek it down low
Come all my fans let mi tell yuh what mi know
Why the girls really love Beenie Man (Beenie)
Mi and mi girls a flex through Ontario
Drinking Alozane, driving the limo
Ohh, gee, ahh, let's go
How yuh fi dis mi when I'm no jigalo
Mi and mi friend Future Troubles flexing hi-pro
Mi hear a knock pon mi door
When mi look out nuh Suzanne and Flo
Whem mi si weh dem a carry well mi interest grow
Like a cupid a so mi fire mi arrow
Bup she get it down inna de burrow
Oh cho, a so di punch line go
[Chorus 1]
[Chorus 2]
But hear sey hey some bwoy a ketcher
Some bwoy a tekka, dem a wrecker
Don't trust dem, dem a penny ketcher
How yuh fi dis mi when yuh ever lesser, never better
Listen to the Brother Proper
Some bwoy dem all a style man as fella
When mi dome have Angella, Anabella
Mi use to date all Cinderella
When she run lef di silver slipper
Ah, ah, ah, ah some bwoy a flex like liar liar
Now mi friend this is a girls roll call
Nuff shot fall beat nuff ball, woman a stall
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