Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Diamond & Pearl , by - Sizzla Kalonji. Song from the album Be I Strong, in the genre РеггиRelease date: 10.12.2007
Record label: VP
Song language: English
Diamond & Pearl |
| As you know yea yea |
| Bless dem now Kalonji |
| We say hail to the high one of iration |
| Emperor Hailie Sellasie I you know |
| The black king of Etiopia… |
| Black nation rise… ey |
| If it’s diamond and pearl dem pon your mind |
| It’s gonna fade away then whoa oh |
| the people is the earth so be not unkind |
| How it look from when you dey pretend whoa oh |
| For there is only one way to go |
| and I can only do the good that I know |
| Oh yeah for sure oh for sure |
| I’ve got to tear the wicked man down |
| no matter where them rise from |
| True love is only what the children know |
| Dem could never know me |
| cause them a heads too low |
| Oh yeah for sure oh for sure |
| got to take the ghetto youths |
| Over on the Ethiopian shore |
| Babylon get scared |
| From them sight rastaman them sight them worst nightmare |
| Yo and now them come and chat but look from when we here |
| Say dem greedy like a rat with the youths them no share |
| so I’ve got to go and make a home and bless prepare |
| Repatriate the ghetto youths them from this hemisphere |
| Well you no bother scorn we true we dutty and tear |
| True me tent out spread out pun the ground like a spear |
| Babylon sight the natty Congo dem no mock and a jeer |
| Dem go dis King Selassie get splash out like pear |
| How the bongo man fi friend yuh, you sit down inna dem chair |
| Swear dem go swear |
| For there is only Rasta way to go |
| and I can only do the good that I know |
| Oh yeah for sure oh for sure |
| I’ve got to tear the Babylon down tear dem down |
| And there is only one way to go |
| and I can only do the good that I know |
| Oh yes for sure oh for sure |
| I’ve got to touch that African shore |
| Hey no now. |
| Oh well I’ve seen some many faces… |
| gone so many places ahhh Rastaman ah go through |
| Oy, I know of their disgraces |
| bun them out inna every cases yah |
| tell them nothing nah new |
| Ay, the woman upon her traces |
| want I drop them laces fi dem children 1 or 2 |
| Rasta foundation cyar break it, well you better take it |
| Yah nah reek and nah screw |
| Check the road dem go tek, dem go read the wrong code |
| and them end up over next and true dem love fi call |
| nuff ah dem ah get test yo and dem mix up inna too much filthiness |
| When Rastaman ah chant them neva waa bless |
| And Rastaman ah talk them say them neva hear it yet |
| But now mi say Rome fi bun you see the bugga dem vex |
| You no bother come here with no bad concept |
| listen the words from yuh tongue yo chek your dutty flex |
| Neva waa show the ghetto youth the fullness so ah trap dem go set |
| But there is only one ah way to go |
| True love is only the good the youths dem know |
| Oh yeah for sure oh for sure |
| I’ve got to tear the hethen down bring dem down |
| True love is only what the youths dem know |
| and I can only show the ghetto youths the way to go |
| Oh yea for sure oh for sure |
| I’ve got to tear the wicked man down |
| no matter where them rise… |
| If it’s diamond and pearl there pon your mind |
| It’s gonna fade away then oh oh |
| Jah Jah children is the earth so be not unkind |
| Babylon me straighten you out cuz you jus go round the bend |
| If ah diamond and pearl there pon your mind |
| It’s gonna fade away then oh oh oy |
| Search ghetto youths find when mi done bun the fire Babylon blind |
| But there is only one way to go |
| and I will only show the youth the truth let dem fi know |
| Oh yeah for sure oh for sure |
| Pharoh nah like that when Jah Jah kick you straight out tha door |
| There is only one way to go |
| and I can only do the good that I know |
| Gwan now black people study study |
| Mi say yo yo yo yo whatch this |