| Rude boys, be wise
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| War mongers…
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| Cool down with all the war and strife
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| Oneness. |
| Unity
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| Take heed…
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| Honour you, we a trod
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| You get that?
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| Cry tears! |
| Why?
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| (Tribal war
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| We don’t want no more of that
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| Tell them like it is
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| Tribal war
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| I know that be a debase
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| Tell them like it is)
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| Remove the blindfold
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| Primitive days end
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| We have done it already and
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| We won’t do it again
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| Just to hurt your own brother
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| And your life was spent
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| Turning the wheels of evil
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| Put an end to the trend
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| What is done cannot be undone
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| Amen, Amen
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| Blood a run, mother dying
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| Starving children
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| What you say when me out star
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| When me leave gate
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| Some a bawl, some a holler
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| For me nah kill dem
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| Because of tribal war
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| See the fifty-fifty dem
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| War and oppression
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| Tear can’t reach dem
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| What’s the solution for the matter
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| All war have fi end
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| Remember that
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| Buju Banton say so
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| Hear dat
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| (Tell them like it is)
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| Why can’t we say peace?
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| And no bother wit de war?
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| Too much blood a run
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| We can’t take it none at all
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| Politicians, showing dominion
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| No form an example fi the people cope on
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| Influencing the youth
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| With money and dem weapon
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| Why so greedy and blind to the situation
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| On election there comes politics fiction
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| And man a rival, and I see it’s tribal
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| See a come, see a holla
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| It like a cannonball
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| Our voice of the earth throughout the dancehall
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| And we must educate the youth, tell them truth
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| Stop fight and loot, it cause too much dispute
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| So much things to say, let’s celebrate today
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| I tell you this, watch this, have mercy
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| Election or not, we no haffi fire shot
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| Cause remember that the most of us colour is black
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| Like sardine pon the slave ship the whole of we did pack
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| And till the whole of we end up on Jamrock
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| You better promote life and demote death
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| Yuh can’t big up the killing and yuh can’t blow breath
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| Honour these words and no disrespect,
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| Cause anything you work for man a that you goin' get
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| (Tribal war…)
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| Man say put it to a pause until your ready to fight for a cause
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| That’s not needed my friend
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| Put that to an end
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| Let love abide
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| (Tell them like it is)
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| Say from the day that me born, me never see me need for strike
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| If me need to do that man it with my voice
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| So mash up the gun and dash up the bomb and dance through the night
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| Full time now we start to unite
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| Cause this is something that we must practice
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| Fight for equal rights and justice
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| Right now we need to try set some new trend
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| Cause the tribalism it must come to an end
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| Listen…
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| Take heed my brother, take heed
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| Don’t follow that greed
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| Fight for your wants and fight for your need
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| And remember to sow good seed
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| 'Cause what you sow is that you reap
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| A no bother set up whole leap a fire pon ya head, hear sah
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| Tell them like it is
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| Tell them like it is
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| Tell them like it is |