Creativity Quote by Bob Marley

Reincarnation, migration, relapse, fame: Marley folds all of it into a line that sounds calm but lands like a verdict. "I've been here before and will come again" sketches a cycle, not a timeline. It’s the voice of someone who’s watched history repeat in the same streets and the same bodies, especially for Black people living under poverty, police pressure, and the afterlife of colonial rule. The spirituality is unmistakably Rastafarian in its ease with return and endurance, but the mood isn’t dreamy. It’s pragmatic: life reruns its tapes.

Then he snaps the loop. "But I'm not going this trip through" is refusal disguised as prophecy. "Trip" is doing double duty: a journey, a tour, a high, an episode of suffering you can almost laugh off if you don’t look too hard. Marley lets it sound casual so the defiance hits harder. He’s not asking permission to change; he’s stating he won’t participate in the same pattern again. That could mean leaving destructive habits, dodging industry exploitation, rejecting political violence, or simply refusing to be consumed by the role of prophet for everyone else’s revolution.

The line also reads like the private thought behind the public icon. By the late 1970s, Marley had survived an assassination attempt, carried the burdens of global celebrity, and preached liberation to audiences who sometimes treated reggae as vibe instead of message. The intent feels less like mysticism than boundary-setting: yes, the world cycles; no, I won’t be its volunteer martyr every time.