| be not so ignorant
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| blacker reverence
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| time fi di youth dem hail Haile Selassie
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| Too much sufferation mi cyaan bear no more
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| Brutalization them don’t love the poor so me
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| Play the music every night and day because
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| Bad company will lead you astray
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| Yow mi cook mi food
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| Poor people get some out of it
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| dem shot the innocent
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| still nothing come out of it hmm…
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| Speak the truth ah that me promote ah it
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| yuh cut the people flesh
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| yes blood run out of it, now
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| your duty is wuk fi everyone
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| police and dey gun yes they get out of hand
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| judge, you should take it out their hand
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| yuh hurt black people and yuh don’t care a damn
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| black people royal
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| and dem regal all the guns in the world are illegal
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| even a knife or a pen it is lethal
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| they use it to kill for what they can achieve and
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| selectah' play the music boost up di place
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| why should police come shoot up di place?
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| Prove dem ah prove dem nah hold no faith
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| corruption cyaan guh through Mount Zion gate
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| And still slavery ah gwaan
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| nutten' nuh change
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| betta get brave
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| nutten nuh strange
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| dem ah shoot dung' di people like dem tink' seh ah range
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| brimstone ah fall like rain
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| should’nt shot di people ah LaRoose
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| dat nuh mek it dat lose
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| hey yuh nah set nuh example fi di youth hey
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| ah just di truth ah just di truth
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| Plant di food poor people get some out of it
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| yuh cut di people flesh blood will run out of it
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| yuh shot di innocent nutten come out of it
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| I got to speak the truth what me promote ah it
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| your duty is wuk fi everyone
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| police and their gun they get out of hand
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| judge, you should take it out their hand
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| dey kill di ghetto youth and they don’t care a damn |