I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
Yes, mi friend, mi friend
Dem set me free again
Yes, mi friend, mi friend
Me deh pon street again
The bars could not hold me
Force could not control me now
They try to keep me down
But God put me around
Yes, I've been accused
Wrongly abused now
But through the powers of the Most High
They've got to turn me loose, mh
Don't try to cold me up on this bridge, now
I've got to reach Mount Zion
The highest region
If you a bull-bucka
Let me tell you that
I'm a duppy conqueror, conqueror
Yes, mi friend, mi good friend
Dem set me free again, mh
Yes, mi friend
Dem turn me loose again
Don't try to cold me up on this bridge, now
I've got to reach Mount Zion
The highest region
If you a bull-bucka
Let me tell you
I'm a duppy conqueror, conqueror
Yes, mi friend, mi friend, mi friend, mi friend
We deh a street again
Yes, mi friend, mi friend, mi friend
Dem set me free again
Don't try to show off
Fi make yuh friend dem laugh, what a la-la
For I will cut you off
And I will take the last laugh
I'm crying
Yes, mi friend
Me deh a street again, yeah
Yes mi friend, mi friend, mi friend
Dem set me free again, ooh, yeah, mmh
Bars could not hold me
Force could not control now
Dem set me free again
Yes, mi friend, mi friend
Me deh pon street again
The bars could not hold me
Force could not control me now
They try to keep me down
But God put me around
Yes, I've been accused
Wrongly abused now
But through the powers of the Most High
They've got to turn me loose, mh
Don't try to cold me up on this bridge, now
I've got to reach Mount Zion
The highest region
If you a bull-bucka
Let me tell you that
I'm a duppy conqueror, conqueror
Yes, mi friend, mi good friend
Dem set me free again, mh
Yes, mi friend
Dem turn me loose again
Don't try to cold me up on this bridge, now
I've got to reach Mount Zion
The highest region
If you a bull-bucka
Let me tell you
I'm a duppy conqueror, conqueror
Yes, mi friend, mi friend, mi friend, mi friend
We deh a street again
Yes, mi friend, mi friend, mi friend
Dem set me free again
Don't try to show off
Fi make yuh friend dem laugh, what a la-la
For I will cut you off
And I will take the last laugh
I'm crying
Yes, mi friend
Me deh a street again, yeah
Yes mi friend, mi friend, mi friend
Dem set me free again, ooh, yeah, mmh
Bars could not hold me
Force could not control now
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Actually it was Lee Scratch Perry who wrote this song. because Bob was down and tiered and Scratch believed it was an evil spirit. But to tell Bob that he was strong enough to conquer his duppy.(see dgtty's comment) he wrote him this song.