| Caught up on the wrong side of the law
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| Got caught, got caught, got caught
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| Caught up on the wrong side of the law
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| I got caught on the wrong side of the law
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| Say they charging me for marijuana
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| Like I don’t need to reach home 'til tomorrow’s
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| Sun goes up
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| Actually they the wrong side of the law
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| Can’t be charging me for marijuana
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| Like I don’t need to reach home till tomorrow’s
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| Sun goes up
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| Sometimes the dragon and the beast
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| Manifests itself inna the form of the police
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| Spot check deh pon the streets, «Out the car, «A so dem greet me
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| «Pass the Rasta colour bag deh make we see it deh.»
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| Me make them know say the ragga ragga hair match the Macka wah appear
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| In the back of wah me steering
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| No, a no even no weight, a hundred dollar worth
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| But the chalice in the bag did make the matter worse
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| Them say «Book him… felony possession.»
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| What kind o' law this?
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| Hold on, no Yard this?
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| Dem gimme court date just fi frustrate me
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| That amuse me, mi say «Make sure is a Tuesday… "
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| I got caught on the wrong side of the law
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| Say they charging me for marijuana
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| Like I don’t need to reach home 'til tomorrow’s
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| Sun goes up
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| Actually they the wrong side of the law
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| Can’t be charging me for marijuana
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| Like I don’t need to reach home till tomorrow’s
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| Sun goes up
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| «…Cause I’m busy on Wednesday morning. |
| Thursday morning too.»
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| Plus a Good Friday, that mean if dem hold I fi the weekend
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| All 'til Monday night me a sleep in deh
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| Then Dutty pree to me it come in like a resurrection
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| So me switch the rhetoric in another direction
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| Me never know the officer name, 11 747 a the number wah them give him
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| Tell me fi sign and go pon me way
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| Inspector walk in like him have sup’n fi say
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| Him say «You want back you weed? |
| «Then I say no but truthfully I think my chalice is due to me
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| I got caught on the wrong side of the law
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| Say they charging me for marijuana
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| Like I don’t need to reach home 'til tomorrow’s
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| Sun goes up
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| Actually they the wrong side of the law
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| Can’t be charging me for marijuana
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| Like I don’t need to reach home till tomorrow’s
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| Sun goes up
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| Him kiss him teeth and run me out o’the station
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| Mi walk out a feel a different elation, no
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| Jubilation is the word that I mean
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| Because him think him achieve
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| Think say that grieve me
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| Go back in the car, you know what greet me
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| The one pound under the seat beneath me, believe me
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| Him think him catch me off guard the whole night
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| Him never know Diggy en garde! |
| Sword fight
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| Cause I will give up a hundred dollar bag and a chalice any day
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| Fi a pound wah mi save
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| Dutty say him have a story fi tell
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| Me have a story fi sell, fi sell, fi sell
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| I got caught on the wrong side of the law
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| Say they charging me for marijuana
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| Like I don’t need to reach home 'til tomorrow’s
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| Sun goes up
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| Actually they the wrong side of the law
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| Can’t be charging me for marijuana
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| Like I don’t need to reach home till tomorrow’s
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| Sun goes up
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| Dub style, dub style, dub style! |