| Yuh no e a seh, every body cyah not be a gangsta
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| An' that live is not for I
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| That live is not for I
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| Am only healin' of the most I
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| I-I
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| Am Macka B — oneness!
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| (Jah!)
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| I don' wanna be a gangsta
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| I don' wanna kill no one!
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| I & I head up Rastafarai
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| I’m only fighting for liberation
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| I don' wanna be a gangsta
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| I don' wanna kill no one!
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| But if a b’woy violate
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| Me tell a nuh — strain
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| Things could a bad dung dung dung
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| From a yuth man I didn’t wanna be that
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| No me a big man, I could a neva pree that
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| But just because yuh see that
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| Yuh cyah tek a worry off a idea
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| Beca' if I war
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| It must be fi a cause
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| Cyah kill a man just because
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| Eh' might a step pon yuh toe
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| O look o’pon yuh hearth
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| Tired of unnecessary wars
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| I leave that alone
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| Me n’inna dat a' zone!
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| I seh Marcus Garvey
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| An' not Al Capone
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| Marcus gimme the worry
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| Then, the power an' the sound
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| Look to Africa
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| ReggKing will be crowned
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| Like a stone!
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| No more will I — my r’own
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| Nah follow nah body
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| Advise me follow but me own
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| I & I are trampel babylon
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| Dem man underground
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| From Washington right dung to Rome
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| I don' wanna be a gangsta
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| I don' wanna kill no one!
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| I&I head up Rastafarai
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| I’m only fighting for liberation
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| I don' wanna be a gangsta
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| I don' wanna kill no one!
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| But if a b’woy violate
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| Me tell a nuh — strain
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| Things could a bad dung dung dung/
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| Seh babylon gwan like they criticize it
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| But di truth is they love to glamourise it
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| And instead of despise it
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| Dem encouraging di youths dem fi rise it
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| It a in a dem movies it aso in a dem music
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| Some time its hard fi di youths dem fi refuse it
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| But I man nah excus’in
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| Cause a everybody’s own choice fi choosing
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| Cause ina life yuh got two roads to choose
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| One yuh a gan a win, an' di other one yuh loose
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| Seh Babylon a try fi get dem youth dem confused
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| Put dem face pon di headline news
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| I don' wanna be a gangsta
|
| I don' wanna kill no one!
|
| I&I head up Rastafarai
|
| I’m only fighting for liberation
|
| I don' wanna be a gangsta
|
| I don' wanna kill no one!
|
| But if a b’woy violate
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| Me tell a nuh — strain
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| Things could a bad dung dung dung/
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| ‘Nough a di youth dem
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| Who a go dung di gangsta path
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| Deep dung they really have a good good heart
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| ‘nough a dem wish they neva did start
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| But circumstance set dem off
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| ‘nough a di youth dem
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| Intellegent an dem smart
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| A inna anything that could mek dem hurt
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| Dem have powers da dem don’t even realise
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| Coming from dem ancient past
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| Yah!
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| Everybody cyah badda nuh di gangsta walk
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| Everybody cyah badda nuh di gangsta talk
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| But that deh not means that yuh soft
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| Nah means you stupid and daf
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| Yuh know seh money could a neva be me boss
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| Haile Selassie a me Chief of Star
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| Too much likkle young lives get lost
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| Dem Babylon line dem across
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| I don' wanna be a gangsta
|
| I don' wanna kill no one!
|
| I&I head up Rastafarai
|
| I’m only fighting for liberation
|
| I don' wanna be a gangsta
|
| I don' wanna kill no one!
|
| But if a b’woy violate
|
| Me tell a nuh — strain
|
| Things could a bad dung dung dung/
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| From me a yuth man I didn’t wanna be that
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| No me a big man, I could a neva pree that
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| An' just beco yuh see that
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| Yuh cyah tek a worry off a idea
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| Because if I war
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| It must be fi a cause
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| Cyah kill a man just because
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| Him only a step pon yuh toe
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| Or him look pon your hearth
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| Tired of unnecessary wars
|
| I leave that alone
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| Me nuh inna dat a' zone!
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| I sehh Marcus Garvey
|
| An' not Al Capone
|
| Marcus gimme the worry
|
| Then, the power an' the sound
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| Look to Africa
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| ReggKing will be crowned
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| Like a stone! |