| So they want to burn up Zion — Gate, the entrance to my home
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| Look us inna foreign country — inna modern day ghetto
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| And it’s we dem a rob — upon our heads them a
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| Oh if them need a pot at rain time — it’s you them utilize
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| you them criticize, you dem scandalize
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| you dem use again, you de man call friend
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| And if that man should fall — upon the ocean they will call
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| All Jah musician’s — in Irration
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| To all those heroes dem cannot enter into the gardens of life
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| No thou shall not enter into the garden of life
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| So they want to teach young lions — yeah, with them bag of lies
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| They’ve take my heart and soul — they trade a moutain of gold
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| Inna a dis a feeling home — All a dem man, dem haffe go, uh-oh
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| uh-oh, man haffe go — oh my Idren should have known
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| Who a dem a dep up in I yard? |
| — who may take my soul
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| And who a left a dem a gate open — go on in, what I say
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| All of dem may take my yard — and all that they take they owe
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| But still they want to be angels — so man say
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| To all those heroes no them cannot enter into the gardens of life
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| No them cannot enter into the garden of
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| Life… Well is there a hero among ya?
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| No, not today, and not by tomorrow
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| They’ve servicing the highest kingdom of Babylon
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| No man seems to know… For this is a silent war
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| How could they know?
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| So they want to burn up Zion — Gate — panya de man
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| So block headed they don’t know and if so they
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| Can’t see Jah mount Zion, Iron sharpen Iron
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| And they build a road block in I man town
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| Hold dem up in country — Hold them up in Tivoli — I man say
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| We a de, chant a de, Iya call! |
| Jah-Jah will answer
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| We a de, chant a de, dem a call! |
| Jah-Jah will answer
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| We a de, never gwan, pass away! |
| Jah-Jah shall guide you
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| And to all those heroes them cannot enter into the valley of life
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| No thou shall not enter into the garden of life
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| Gonna rock dem rock dem all, Gonna beat dem beat dem all
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| Now the war is over children, ans we shall go onto
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| Now the war is over people, and we shall live on, give on (3x)
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| Inna a dis, a dis a jungle Idren, inna dis a, dis a foreign land yall
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| Across the oceans we shall stand
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| United, undivided, undivided, still united
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| Oh lord we shall, we shall trot on, we shall trot on yes
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| On, and on, and on yes we shall, we shall, we shall… |