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"
All of the DJ's surely have taken a lesson
Start talking trash and I'll come with my Smith and Wesson
A little competition comes my way (billy bye)
But it always winds up the same
But the stone that the builder refused
Shall be the head corner stone
Ah, but there ain't nothin' wrong
Ain't nothin' right
And still I sit and lie awake all night
Oh, all of the DJ's surely have taken a lesson
Try talkin' trash and I'll come with my Smith and Wesson
(Enough DJs come with) enough, enough style
(But when I bust my lyrics we all know it's) wicked and wiley
'Cause there
Ain't nothin' wrong
Ain't nothin' right
And still I sit and lie awake all night
Oh, You better strapped with your gat if you wan' walk with me
I bound to come down with the new style
Rockin' rubadub known as reggae music
Gonna come down with the new lyrics
'Cause it just ain't no thing
Oh, I said it's been a real long time
Oh, but there
Ain't nothin' wrong
Ain't nothin' right
And still I sit and lie awake all night
Oh yeah
Rubadub blender a new mixer, go
I am the one DJ with enough flava
It go here I go, here I'm come, heara the dubbed down DJ
Lord have his grilled cheese
I mean ah, I am Jamaican but I ain't no freak
I caught the man Eno with a ten pound bag o' tweak (eazy, "damn")
And we called him ghost rider
Every time you see him he fulfill the danger
Ain't nothin' wrong
Ain't nothin' right
And still I sit and lie awake all night
Oh, oh
Dreddy got a job to do
And we might fulfill the mision
To see his pain would be his greatest ambition
But ah, we will survive in this world of competition
Shooting guns and our ammunition
Bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go
I won't wait so long, mmm
I said I won't wait so long for you
Oh, oh, yeah mmm mmm ooh oh
Hard to get so much
Stop your messin' around, ah ah ah
Better think of your future, ah ah ah
Time you straighten right out, ah ah
Or you'll wind up in jail
Start talking trash and I'll come with my Smith and Wesson
A little competition comes my way (billy bye)
But it always winds up the same
But the stone that the builder refused
Shall be the head corner stone
Ah, but there ain't nothin' wrong
Ain't nothin' right
And still I sit and lie awake all night
Oh, all of the DJ's surely have taken a lesson
Try talkin' trash and I'll come with my Smith and Wesson
(Enough DJs come with) enough, enough style
(But when I bust my lyrics we all know it's) wicked and wiley
'Cause there
Ain't nothin' wrong
Ain't nothin' right
And still I sit and lie awake all night
Oh, You better strapped with your gat if you wan' walk with me
I bound to come down with the new style
Rockin' rubadub known as reggae music
Gonna come down with the new lyrics
'Cause it just ain't no thing
Oh, I said it's been a real long time
Oh, but there
Ain't nothin' wrong
Ain't nothin' right
And still I sit and lie awake all night
Oh yeah
Rubadub blender a new mixer, go
I am the one DJ with enough flava
It go here I go, here I'm come, heara the dubbed down DJ
Lord have his grilled cheese
I mean ah, I am Jamaican but I ain't no freak
I caught the man Eno with a ten pound bag o' tweak (eazy, "damn")
And we called him ghost rider
Every time you see him he fulfill the danger
Ain't nothin' wrong
Ain't nothin' right
And still I sit and lie awake all night
Oh, oh
Dreddy got a job to do
And we might fulfill the mision
To see his pain would be his greatest ambition
But ah, we will survive in this world of competition
Shooting guns and our ammunition
Bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go
I won't wait so long, mmm
I said I won't wait so long for you
Oh, oh, yeah mmm mmm ooh oh
Hard to get so much
Stop your messin' around, ah ah ah
Better think of your future, ah ah ah
Time you straighten right out, ah ah
Or you'll wind up in jail
Lyrics submitted by The Big Andowski
D.J.'s Lyrics as written by Bradley James Nowell
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Royalty Network
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