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* LYRICS *
Same thing weh happen a yaad, it gwaan abraad
Same thing weh happen a yaad, it gwaan abraad
Oh lord! I say
Same thing weh happen a yaad gwaan abraad
Same thing weh happen a yaad gwaan abraad
Well we no mix up, we no mingle with no guy we no know
Straight family man par wid so watch your approach
I nah tun off from the mission
King Selassie is I gold
I’m begging every ghetto youths no sell out your soul
and repatriate your mind
Africa is the goal
Straight like an arrow, Rasta never lean - oh no!
I nuh want not a spliff from a guy me no know - watch it!
Nuh go hear Dre Island drunk or parrow
Live inna glass house, them say you no fi throw stone
So I know we haffi trod out a Rome and know the road code
CHORUS
Light bill, water bill, everybody cry
Gas rate, land tax gone sky high
Corruption, destruction, political cry
More guns than shelters for the homeless child
Diseases have yuh wheezing and yuh don’t know why
Coughing till yuh throat sore, no cure in sight
Oppression, depression make gunshot fly
Worst when pickney want food and that cyaan find
Blood still a flow just like the River Nile
Daytime colder than the nighttime
Policemen a roam street say them a fight crime
Still no truth cyaan read pan the primetime
So physically mentally you affi strong
Can’t weak heart when you out inna Babylon
Got to stay focus and know your direction
'Cause outta Rome full up a nuff demon
CHORUS
I hear youths crying for justice, for justice
Yet you give them religion injustice
Just justice, just justice, just justice
Yet you bring I division, not justice
Same thing weh happen a yaad gwaan abraad
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Cold City (feat. 5 Star)
04:03
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* LYRICS *
This one goes out to yard and abraad
Guns import from abroad to the yard,
Dog a eat dog, yet a bere mawga dog,
The system is a fraud - memba dat!
CHORUS
So why down inna the city so cold?
Only Ras Tafari know
And man a reap, what dem never did sow
And dem a say a true no money nah flow
Why down inna the city so cold?
Only Ras Tafari know
Politician walk with them ego
And rude bwoy war 'gainst the 5 – O.
Swoop in, blue light that a flash up & down
Kick off the door, fi go snatch a man gun,
Rude bwoys and police dem a clash a Jamdung,
Youth squeeze the trigger and him catch a phantom
Corn start to beat like dem bang a one drum
You better jump fence when the banger dem come,
Politician dem hear say that the quarrel just done
Start distribute gun, a fresher barrel just come
And Johnny say that him a hold the strap
Chest puff up and a chat, him control the block
But when him take a stack, is a soldier that
Him get flat, and fire shot, clap! The soldier drop
Boof! Him say him cold and him nuh feel sorrow
Trod it on the road side that real narrow
Phone start to ring then him feel paro
Friend lef him pon the ground like a wheelbarrow.
CHORUS
The juvenile dem a run dem gang
The thugs dem short but the gun dem long
And likkle man, you might be number 1,
But if you playing this ya game you better understand something
Or a better mi say overstand
Shotta a move like some soldier man
Bigger dog start fi bark like a doberman
Likkle dog have to run go to obeah man then
Him gone a shop go buy a cold dragon
Pow! Hear something pop like a soda can, and
Him run up inna a colder man
Weh a go lef him in the dirt like a pound a yam, damn!
Full clip it nah go hold no blank
Man a buss it til dem shoulder cramp
Dem a play domino and as him pose the blank
Him hear clank! Life couldn't save a Scotia Bank.
CHORUS
Bim! This one goes out to yard and abroad
Gun import from abroad to mi yard
So how politician don't get hold pon nuh charge?
The system is a fraud
Yard and Abroad
Who nah walk with the 'matic, walking with a standard
You step inna the street then you better stand guard
The system is a fraud, check the track record
Mi nah stop record. - Selassie I; Empress Menen I.
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* LYRICS *
Yes! Oh we've been waiting for very long time
I see that many people still have been lost in their minds.
CHORUS
Come out now, show me you nuh fraid
Come we bun dutty Babylon cause fire affi blaze
Come out now, show me weh yuh want
Yuh nuh see Babylon sky and dem a lark
VERSE 1
I've got a Gideon-a-boot
and yes mi ready fi go kick dutty Babylon red now
And this yah message weh wi send up inna Parliament a buss-up all dem head now
When we speak of equal rights and justice revolution dem can't confront this
The truth just a rip through dutty heart just like a cutlass
If your meditation don't clean and pure, you’re gonna be in hell zone
Oh what a day when my people realize and open up their eyes
and find a way fi nuh beg Babylon bread now!
CHORUS
Come out now, show me you nuh fraid
Come we bun dutty Babylon cause fire affi blaze
Come out now, show me weh yuh want
Yuh nuh see Babylon sky and dem a lark
VERSE 2
Yes! I got a vision
Say everything will soon have to change like,
Yes who want to fight and who want to show strife
Just live in love, I tell you know secrets of life
Out of million one, we are few
We should should grow wheat and the Tares too,
The struggle is! The struggles on ...
Tell Babylon we affi carry on, because it’s so dark in earth, and it’s so clear that youth in the ghetto fish the worst.
VERSE 3
I've got a Gideon-a-boot
and yes mi ready fi go kick dutty Babylon red now
And this yah message weh wi send up inna Parliament a buss-up all dem head now
When we speak of equal rights and justice revolution dem can't confront this
The truth just a rip through dutty heart just like a cutlass
If your meditation don't clean and pure, you’re gonna be in hell zone
Oh what a day when my people realize and open up their eyes
and find a way fi nuh beg Babylon bread now!
CHORUS
Come out now, show me you nuh fraid
Come we bun dutty Babylon cause fire affi blaze
Come out now, show me weh yuh want
Yuh nuh see Babylon sky and dem a lark
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4. |
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* LYRICS *
CHORUS
Di youths dem stocking up di paper
Babylon run in and try to be a viper
So we tell dem ease off
Good songs we squeeze off
Di youths dem affi rize, dem affi prosper
They make it so hard for us, we remain conscious
They make it so hard for us, we a still focus
I say they make it so hard for us
We travel Babylon by bus
They make it so hard for us
Still overcoming is a must
CHORUS
No, me nuh like hungry face
Nine year old’s nine pon waist
No me nuh like it, no me nuh like it
Greatness me a embrace
Don't run away from yourself
Endure cause you have the strength
Burn disappointment, meet your anointment
Forward step, get it straight.
CHORUS
Same ting a yaad gwaan abroad
Stick to di original, nuh bother wid di fraud
Life can be easy, some a try fi mek it hard
You heart, mind, soul right now you affi guard
Me rather play fool and mek dem say me soft
We ago pick di lock or we ago kick it off
Special livication to di ones weh have it hard
Survival is a must, I say we have to trod on.
CHORUS
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* LYRICS *
I see the day dawning
This is to be that day
Don't worry ‘bout nothing.
Revolution will take you up.
More love is the plan.
Emperor Selassie I, the King of Kings
Fly ova dem
Fly ova dem
Living in the joy Rastafari brings
Sing with me
Sing with me
We are the people
And we goin' live that life true and right.
As we climb to the top, the top
They can't even wonder
Instantly asunder.
Emperor Selassie I, the King of Kings
We're living in the joy Rastafari brings
One step, juggle, then you rock and come een
Sing with me
Sing with me
We know the value
And are learning day by day
That we are beyond value
Don't give up
Be love and patience
Emperor Selassie I, the King of Kings
So we're living in the joy inspiration brings
One step, juggle then you rock and come een
Sing with me
Sing with me
Jamaica, waking up
Australia, waking up
Mama Africa, waking up
From Asia trodding straight through to Europe
And England, waking up
Turtle Island, waking up
All di island dem, waking up!
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6. |
Yaad N Abraad Version
03:47
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