Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Go so yo yo yo .mi nuh walla walla
Weh dem a talk bout mi yuh know mi never
Yuh know how dat started? Anyway now!
[Chorus]
Woman! Nuh artist at all nuh fi counteract
Cecile sing a song yuh know fi laugh and drop
Instead a dj waan launch attack
Mi ah di girls dem sugar mi haffi defend dat
Cecile seh mi weak ask har if mi flop
She a callin' out to meet mi wife and mate nuh chat
Well this a tune yah ago gone pon top
Nuh turning back
Alright, look pon General B eh him a tek tings too personal
Him a talk bout inna di business bout how rasta box man
So weh mi talk bout how yuh get robbed
Your van crashed your warmer, yuh tink a we nuh feel glad
Wipe your face man yuh feel sad
Bounty Killer a mi artist wuk hard fi get your fame
Mi know yuh feel your way like how Cecile go call your name
But all di image weh yuh portrait a dat she fail to see
She nuh picture Rodney Price she only picture Bounty
But woman! Now artist at all now fi counteract
Cecile sing a song yuh know fi laugh and drop
Instead a dj waan launch attack
Mi a di girls dem sugar mi haffi defend dat
Cecile seh mi weak ask har if mi flop
She a callin out to meet mi wife and mate nuh chat
Well this a tune yah seh it gone pon top
Nuh turning back
Cool hear mi now!
Well sometimes mi haffi wonder if some dj degrade
For instance some batty bwoy bredda dem so brave
See a man a wuk and all jump up on stage
Him lucky never get a small shot and all a graze
Baby Cham and Ristil Benji, mi know where dat a come from
But mi and dem nuh grounds man look how dem a frowns man
Fat woman brownin man but Benji is a brown man
Dat's why dem counteract this song
But listen to dat one because
Woman! Nuh artist at all now fi counteract
Cecile sing a song yuh know fi laugh and drop
Insatead a dj waan launch attack
Mi a di girls dem sugar mi haffi defend dat
Cecile seh mi weak ask har if mi flop
She a callin out to meet mi wife and mate nuh chat
Well this a tune yah seh it gone pon top
Nuh turning back
Woman! Nuh artist at all now fi counteract
Cecile sing a song yuh know fi laugh and drop
Instead a dj waan launch attack
Mi a di girls dem sugar mi haffi defend dat
Cecile seh mi weak ask har if mi flat
She a callin out to meet mi wife and mate nuh chat
Well this a tune yah seh it gone pon top
Nuh turning back
And Elephant Man then, ugly like a ape
And come a pass dem remarks dem
Seh mi foot maaga and favor drumstick dem
And mi locks curl up like some old cerosse bush dem
He hear it from my fans dem well alright then
Weh mi do mi get mad and mi groom up mi locks then
Drink some fork fast and mi put di lotion dem
So dem nuh scaly scale and dem nuh have nuh daughter problem
Seen! Alright then
Barkley a mi bredren but a dead yuh dead
Never know a my tool a slam your woman inna di bed
Which woman mi a talk?? ask di one name Mildred
Seen! Alright
[Chorus]
Weh dem a talk bout mi yuh know mi never
Yuh know how dat started? Anyway now!
[Chorus]
Woman! Nuh artist at all nuh fi counteract
Cecile sing a song yuh know fi laugh and drop
Instead a dj waan launch attack
Mi ah di girls dem sugar mi haffi defend dat
Cecile seh mi weak ask har if mi flop
She a callin' out to meet mi wife and mate nuh chat
Well this a tune yah ago gone pon top
Nuh turning back
Alright, look pon General B eh him a tek tings too personal
Him a talk bout inna di business bout how rasta box man
So weh mi talk bout how yuh get robbed
Your van crashed your warmer, yuh tink a we nuh feel glad
Wipe your face man yuh feel sad
Bounty Killer a mi artist wuk hard fi get your fame
Mi know yuh feel your way like how Cecile go call your name
But all di image weh yuh portrait a dat she fail to see
She nuh picture Rodney Price she only picture Bounty
But woman! Now artist at all now fi counteract
Cecile sing a song yuh know fi laugh and drop
Instead a dj waan launch attack
Mi a di girls dem sugar mi haffi defend dat
Cecile seh mi weak ask har if mi flop
She a callin out to meet mi wife and mate nuh chat
Well this a tune yah seh it gone pon top
Nuh turning back
Cool hear mi now!
Well sometimes mi haffi wonder if some dj degrade
For instance some batty bwoy bredda dem so brave
See a man a wuk and all jump up on stage
Him lucky never get a small shot and all a graze
Baby Cham and Ristil Benji, mi know where dat a come from
But mi and dem nuh grounds man look how dem a frowns man
Fat woman brownin man but Benji is a brown man
Dat's why dem counteract this song
But listen to dat one because
Woman! Nuh artist at all now fi counteract
Cecile sing a song yuh know fi laugh and drop
Insatead a dj waan launch attack
Mi a di girls dem sugar mi haffi defend dat
Cecile seh mi weak ask har if mi flop
She a callin out to meet mi wife and mate nuh chat
Well this a tune yah seh it gone pon top
Nuh turning back
Woman! Nuh artist at all now fi counteract
Cecile sing a song yuh know fi laugh and drop
Instead a dj waan launch attack
Mi a di girls dem sugar mi haffi defend dat
Cecile seh mi weak ask har if mi flat
She a callin out to meet mi wife and mate nuh chat
Well this a tune yah seh it gone pon top
Nuh turning back
And Elephant Man then, ugly like a ape
And come a pass dem remarks dem
Seh mi foot maaga and favor drumstick dem
And mi locks curl up like some old cerosse bush dem
He hear it from my fans dem well alright then
Weh mi do mi get mad and mi groom up mi locks then
Drink some fork fast and mi put di lotion dem
So dem nuh scaly scale and dem nuh have nuh daughter problem
Seen! Alright then
Barkley a mi bredren but a dead yuh dead
Never know a my tool a slam your woman inna di bed
Which woman mi a talk?? ask di one name Mildred
Seen! Alright
[Chorus]
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Original Tune Lyrics as written by Lowell Dunbar Steven Michael Marsden
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