| It’s been a long time coming
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| Too long, too long
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| It’s been in the making a quarter century
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| But it’s here now, it’s here now
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| If by time you hear this album, I’m not here you know why
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| Tell ya
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| So mi say
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| Too many suffering too many tears
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| To see a youth die I’m a know him for years
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| When me look around nobody care
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| The people dem a live inna fear
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| The system need to change right now
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| To much you do could a inna grieve right now
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| I know si the bigger is a give right now
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| After ghetto people A no steep right now (Woo ooh! oi!)
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| The system need to change right now
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| To much you do could a inna grieve right now
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| I know si the bigger is a give right now
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| After ghetto people A no steep right now (yeah yeah!)
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| My music Is my natural resource, now I want it back
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| 'Til I sever every single chain I will not relax
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| Just constant attack, 'til my world looks like Montserrat
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| Contact my comrades, for combat, what’s conscious rap
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| When you say the truth, they attack like a Sabre-tooth
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| Thinking clear they make you disappear like you hate the fruit
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| We don’t need more Boeings, we don’t need more Rebors, weed or Lyor Cohens
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| They tell us about terrorism and tell us about terrorists
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| Look up the definition and tell us what terror is
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| Only know the definition if the television tells us it
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| Public Enemy #1 they treat me like Professor Griff
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| This album has been in the making a quarter century
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| Born to bless the beat and rap over recorded melody
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| I knew the truth since I was a small little boy
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| I am a product of the system I was born to destroy
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| Mi can’t believe a suh dem treat people
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| Dem deh ya fi protect and dem a beat people
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| And mi nuh see nuh system fi de street people
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| Can’t believe dem a de lead people
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| The system need fi change right now
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| Too much youth a go down inna grave right now
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| On the news, they glorify their own henchmen
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| Support the troops, but won’t mention Joe Glenton
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| It’s funny 'cos the rappers are posing as the gangsters
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| While the government taking money as bonuses for bankers
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| In life you learn, to close your eyes and hold your tongue
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| But together we will overcome, there’s never been a chosen one
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| Still tryina understand, the land I stand on
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| I’ll probably die from cancerous anger like Frantz Fanon
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| I will never give up, I will never just quit
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| I will never give in, I will never submit
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| The reason that I came, Is bleeding from the veins
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| Of the people 'cause we’re equal, only freedom is the aim
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| This album has been in the making a quarter century
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| Born to bless the beat and rap over recorded melody
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| I knew the truth since I was a small little boy
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| I am a product of the system I was born to destroy
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| If you’re subordinate to corporate guys supplying your orders
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| You’re fighting fire with fire, I’m fighting fire with water
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| When they kill me, I know I’ll die with a focused mind
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| Plus there will be millions of me, ready to multiply
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| Don’t just mention, acknowledge me, remember to honour me
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| My pen and this honesty, defended equality
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| Declared a republic, and ended your monarchy
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| Your corporate dictatorship, pretends it’s democracy
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| I hold your bloodline, accountable for every crime
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| Adam Smith to Rothschild, It’s all been a clever lie
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| Two choices now, revolution or genocide
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| But thanks to Rupert Murdoch neither one will be televised
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| This album has been in the making a quarter century
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| Born to bless the beat and rap over recorded melody
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| I knew the truth since I was a small little boy
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| I am a product of the system I was born to destroy |