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Ah more time you done know say |
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Holy Mount Zion that's where the foundation build |
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Well traditionally you know say |
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Everything got to full before it spill |
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Selasie I, oh Lord |
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Well, make dem know Babylon while you spread you spill |
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What we don't have every ghetto youth will |
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Can't take our own uno better be still |
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And lef' and go 'cause you gonna draw nil |
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Eh, ey, yo while you spread you spill |
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What we don't have every ghetto youth will |
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Can't take our own uno better be still |
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And lef' and go 'cause you gonna draw nil |
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Judgment |
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Babylon a use dem brain |
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True dem waan da ghetto youth dem fi go down the drain |
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Babylon a use dem brain |
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The mark of da beast the whole ah dem a proclaim |
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Babylon a use dem brain |
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Dem only fight against herb and dem a shipping cocaine |
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Babylon a use dem brain |
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Well dem you know say bad mind dem ah go burn in tha flame |
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Oh, what a agony and oh what a shame |
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To see my black brother goin? all down the drain |
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Man made to suffer and woman to feel pain |
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Dey rape mi mommy mi sister I say oh what a shame |
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Brother and mi father afi chop sugar cane |
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Pon the plantation under stress and shame |
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Pon dem hand, pon dem foot I just see shackles and chains |
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Now dem take it off and put it pon dem brain |
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Through dem ah mi nation fi go down the drain |
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Now the youths dem realize and shout the hailie hailie name |
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Man no pet lion dat mean we can't tame |
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One thing is our desire one thing is our aim |
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Me say wicked Babylon and dem ah go down the drain |
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Babylon while you spread you spill |
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What we don't have every ghetto youth will |
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Can't take our own uno better be still |
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And lef' and go 'cause you gonna get nil |
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Judgement |
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Oh, what a crisis you would cry facing this |
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Could dem ah come with dem kit jus to take every bit |
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Don't tink me doh know you are the boss fi your kit |
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But our share you won't be living wit |
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I tell dem how could dem cadet go down practice |
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Now I see dem own face and dem own wanna vomit |
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Ey ey ey you've not been kind |
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I've put you up and now you leave us behind |
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Now something drop from your back |
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Nothing ah touch it ?cause ah mine |
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What's due onto us uno fi give we every time |
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Babylon |
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Babylon a use dem brain |
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True dem waan da ghetto youth dem fi go down the drain |
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Babylon a use dem brain |
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The mark of da beast the whole ah dem a proclaim |
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Babylon a use dem brain |
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Dem only fight against herb and dem a shipping cocaine |
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Babylon a use dem brain |
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Well, dem you know say bad mind dem ah go burn in tha flame |
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Well, this is one thing I cannot over stand |
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Dem nah teach me nothin' 'bout mi Asian plan |
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Inna the school and the college and the institution |
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The curriculum that I get is European |
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Ah teach me bout Marco Polo and Napoleon |
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Nah teach me nothin' 'bout the river Nile bank |
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Where civilization it began |
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You say thou shall not steal and should not kill no one |
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Still you steal treacheries and then you teach wrong |
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Yea, yea slave and you murder all mi dad and mi mom |
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But wicked Babylonian and you will love to burn |
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Babylon ah |
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Tell dem come down, fire bun all politician |
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Ah causin' dispute makin' us their plan |
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Oh your dishonesty and war is their illustration |
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Competin' this is more than competition |
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Could that dem fightin' just to enslave black man |
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And now dem parties just ah cause bear partition |
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And who is you no one takes any instruction |