Gentleman Album

(Send me a prayer for my mama)
To JaJa I say,
Hear the words of his son lifting up voice today,
(Send me a prayer)
I know and I pray,
Never will I go astray,

Me send a prayer to my mama today,
(Mama)
On my knees to the father I pray,
(Send me this way)
Guidance, protection everyday,
(Oooh)

Send a prayer for my mama today,
(Mama)
On my knees to the father I pray,
(Send me this way)
Guidance, protection everyday,
(Oooh)

Ina me ganga lee boots and ina me khaki suit,
Yes I am a soldier and me seekin' da truth,
Tramplin' the peagon ca' man hafi revolute,
They try ta kick me from da plane,
But cha' is ma parachute,

I am, I a stone that da builda refuse,
Na gon walk dem walk, na step ina dem shoes,
Nuttin' lef ta win and there is nuttin lef ta lose,
Down in Babylon, da whole a dem confuse,

Me goesa den,

Me send a prayer to my mama today,
(Mama)
On my knees to the father I pray,
(Send me this way)
Guidance, protection everyday,
(Oooh)

Send a prayer for my mama today,
(Mama)
On my knees to the father I pray,
(Send me this way)
Guidance, protection everyday,
(Oooh)

If-elieve* in disa worda one ding you shoulda know,
What you gonna reap is exactly what you sow,
Trodding Mount Zion only one way to go,
Life it a no tea ta toe,

(*If ya believe)

So me now gon' sit down, na gon' waste no time,
Na gon' make dem brainwash control my mind,
As far as I man know, man a king from ancient, long time,
Ya can't pop we off from de vine,

Me goesa den,

Me send a prayer to my mama today,
(Mama)
On my knees to the father I pray,
(Send me this way)
Guidance, protection everyday,
(Oooh)

Send a prayer for my mama today,
(Mama)
On my knees to the father I pray,
(Send me this way)
Guidance, protection everyday,
(Oooh)

One step, come we hold a meddy (melody) now,
Two step, bald head and dready now,
Three step, high grade ina we heady now,
It keep we steady now, if you na ready now

One step, come we hold a meddy (melody) now,
Two step, bald head and dready now,
Three step, high grade ina we heady now,
It keep we steady now, if you na ready now

Oh yes now,
(Send me a prayer)
High grade ina we heady now,
Oh yes now,
(Send me a prayer)
Even the bald head and dready now,

Me send a prayer to my mama today,
(Mama)
On my knees to the father I pray,
(Send me this way)
Guidance, protection everyday,
(Oooh)

Send a prayer for my mama today,
(Mama)
On my knees to the father I pray,
(Send me this way)
Guidance, protection everyday,
(Oooh)

Again, again, again, again, again

Me send a prayer to my mama today,
(Mama)
On my knees to the father I pray,
(Send me this way)
Guidance, protection everyday,
(Oooh)

Send a prayer for my mama today

Intro:
yuh remember wha garnet a sing?
If yuh know not god yuh know not
love, no no
If yuh know not jah, coz god is love

chorus:
i know jah love it is superior
your devil complex inferior oh yes
worshipping material
bowing to your silver and gold
(repeat)

1.verse:
somebody tell me
coz i really got to know oh oh
i read a lot of history
but tings nuh really show no no
why dem drop the bombs ina arabia
why the children bawl and suffer ina
africa
leaders of the world just fighting for
superpower
but judgement ago fall upon dem
head like rain shower
mi go so then

chorus (repeat)

2.verse:
so yuh betta love the likkle youths
nuh terrorize dem oh no no no
teach the youths the truth nuh
criticize dem oh no no no
open up your eyes and realize then
yuh hafi keep yuh hafi care you hafi
guide dem
dont yuh know
war and crime will divide dem
now yuh betta show the youths your
fears and don't yuh hide dem
and then equality and justice will
unite dem
lift up your voice and yuh got to sing
the anthem
we go so then

chorus (repeat)

3.verse
long time we fed up a your promises
and lies
your illusion and religion just
covering our eyes yo
frustration a starvation multiply
depression until the well a run dry
can't yuh show the love man and not
the animosity
can't yuh live a life how it is said in
duteronemy
me coulda be your friend
why
yuh want to be my enemy
yuh can't tek dem speed jah over jah
so so come follow we come follow we
come follow me

chorus (repeat)

Intro:
(Daddy Rings)
This one is real
Yo, a Daddy Rings, Gentleman and
Barrington Levy

Gentleman:
Babylon a watch we round the clock
Wondering when we gonna launch
and attack

Chorus:
No powers gonna hold us down
Not even dem peagon sound
No powers gonna hold us down
Youґll never see we wearing a frown
(repeat)

Verse 1
(Gentleman)
I've been chanting Jah powers from
morning
Truths and rights I man keep
performing
I hear the Babylon bell how it
alarming
Dem see a righteous ghetto youth
and ready fi swarm him

Verse 1
(Daddy Rings)
Dem shoulda overstand the power
wha Jah storm bring
When it blow the whole a dem hafi
go calm king
Long time we did a issue ґbout the
warning
We ago hold Lucifer and disarm him

Verse 1
(Barrington Levy)
I know Jah will always be there
And i know he is everywhere
Without Jah where would i be
And he is the one for me, you see

Chorus(repeat)

Verse 2
(Daddy Rings)
Dem think we fool but we tell dem
seh we not
Caan make no wulf come invate the
flag
Nuh get caught ina no buubie trap
I and i royal natty dreadlock

Verse 2
(Barrington Levy)
Well as the sun shine and the wind
blow
Thatґs how i know, Thatґs how i
know
I take a look through my window
Thatґs how i know, Thatґs how i
know

Verse 2
(Gentleman)
If you nuh know the truth yourself
you are decieving
Trumpet a sound
And i man is leaving
Higher ground that is where i am
going
Too bless to stress canґt stop me
from growing

Chorus(repeat)

Intro:
yes empress devine
anytime me look ina your face
you make my world a brighter place
and your majesty and grace
a help me through the rat race

Chorus:
joy ina your eyes me nuh see no
tears
love is what you giving me
throughout the years
every time you need me i will be
there my dear i swear

Verse 1:
there is no faking no heartbreaking
like a volcano this ya true love is
shaking
in tender caring we are partaking
woman me feel seh big things ina the
making
intoxication of a certain kind
i will admit that you suit my mind
pulpitation of another kind
donґt fast forward baby just rewind

Chorus(repeat)..

Verse 2:
no mistaking in every thing you do,
and i will always be a part of you,
jah jah made us and he will see us
through
always and forever babygirl this love
is true
iґve been searching for the longest
time
almost givinґ up never thought I
would find
seen many roses die on the vine
but a hidden tressure in you i man
find

Chorus(repeat)..

Verse 3:
on the magic carpet we a ride
venus jupiter to the other side
fi we togetherness nuh need no
guide
there is nothing to be shame nothing
fi go hide
a whole new world awaits
brighter than the pearly gates
where love is as strong as fate
and life is about to give and to take

Chorus(repeat)..

Intro:
You got to hold your fate now
Fi reach mount zion gate now
And you better keep it real no baddy with the fake now
No time fi stand wait now
Galong and get things straight now
Better to be earl righteous people than to be late now

Things in life a tek time
Can't get lost from you a follow the signs
Fire pon dem durgs and dem guns and dem convicious mind
And I and I step pon crime
Right ya now me bun badman and badmind
Nuff a dem can't even walk a straight line
Your sister need love and your borther need love
And it took like you left that behind
Words and sound combine
Hafi give thanks fi the power of devine
Lost in search of the big goldmine
And ina darkness blind man e lead blind
With no limitaion I man feel fine
Living on the edge cause Jah love it is mine
And as they blasphem and plat and scheme
I man still see Jah wonders and signs

Chorus:
Rise up with the day
I do things in my own way
And me nuh ina your hear say
Cause dis ya speappard nuh go astray
Now me gone pon the highway
Cause man a clear like x-ray
And me nuh ina your leh leh
And joy when dis ya tune a play

Can't lek things what you nuh know
Got to find out first which way to go
And you can't exercize no form of genocide
Ina the last lane that you a go
If a Jah Jah man you want overthrow
Ina siknking ship you a row
Cause he will cut you down and he will mash you down
Like the tide that ebb and flow
Weed and tears must grow
Until the time of harvest we know
Many a call but the chosen a few
And the almighty god a say so
Man hafi go meditate and tek it slow
Riding high when you should deh pon the low
And you can't flop fast if you stick to your task
And the flowers ina your garden will grow

Chorus

Stop play the fool and attend your classes
Nothing you a see you must want glasses
Sit down and complain and then you perplex fi flex
So your tribulation never passes
We living ina wolrd full jackasses
Every day dem get up and a ball bout dem crosses
And dem standing at the gate and the whole a dem a wait
But the fate is seems like dem last it

Intro again

Chorus

Intro:

You got to be yourself
And no one else
Yes you got to be yourself

Every man got intention
And every man got his own potential
A cool head is essential
Cause babylon will put on a sentece
You got what it takes
Inside, that's where your true self abides
Put on your brakes
Never hide, why you always living outside

Chorus 1:

A no time deh
Fi go join dem
Jah rastafari say fi seek and you shall find then
No time deh
Fi we go join dem
You follow babylon you end up ina problem

Well nuff a dem out deh sell dem soul because of vanity
Me see dem a search but can not find fi dem identity
Cause their identity is coming from the nozzle of dem gun
But I and I identity is coming from the nyabingi drum

Chorus 2:

If a who you are
You think seh dad nuh good enough
Then you find the life seh outta road it well rough
And if a what you are
You think deh dad nuh good enough
Member fi go meditate in god you hafi trust

Left the devil works man a nuh you fi dad
Six foot under ground fi all who want to go pennie that
Tears I cry fi da one ya who want follow that
Children of the almighty god dem a no idiot

Chorus 1

In this world full of fake and fraud
Got to deh pon your toes
You can't drop your guard
And if you ever let dem ina your yard
You hafi bawl out oh lord

Seh the time gets ruggy and the going gets steep
As you stand up as a soldier man you can't get weak
Your duty is to provide for the week
We trodding down Selassie-I-Street

Never get a weak when you back against the wall
You know seh kingdom rise and you know seh kingdom fall
Member how we push down the Jericho Wall
Listen to Jah words no badda sit down and a stall

Chorus 1

Chorus 2

Chorus:
If you did prepare for those rainy
days
You wouldn't be sweeped away by
the storm
If you would listen what the wise
man say
All that you had wouldn't be gone
If you would trust into the father
And fine a few minutes to pray
Now life seems so much harder
I know Jah will show you the way

Rise up and your heart it must be
clean
But if you mingle ina corruption Jah
Jah nuh let you in
I trust ina the highest supreme
Jah make I a pure as a stream
Never will I trade my love for vanity
Never will I be a victim of dem
insanity
All I have is love for humantiy
Come help me sing da song ya if you
agree with me

Chorus

Bridge:
Don't burn your bridges
Don't you ever turn back and close
the door
Cause it just might be
That you wanna use that same
bridge once more
The sun sets in the west
Representing a new dawn
Continue do your best and life goes
on and on

Chorus

Nuh go be no part of dem
controversy
I know who I am and who I
supposed to be
Moving on with Jah Jah and keep him
close to me
Life over all means the most to me
Together now - one ever now
We can make it through any kind of
weather
Forever now - life is the treasure
now
So tell me what you prefer now

Chorus

Intro:

A who do yuh man
Bun grudge and jealosy
Don't try fi rob me off my dignity
Won't let you destroy my definity
Shame and pride things of humanity
But the soul is infinity

In dis ya human experience
I see you putting up a fence
But a nuh so the journey is meant
Mankind that's an offense
Enlightened souls seeking a better way
We smokin' marihuana
We think of thoughts just like the buddha say
We head to nirvana

Chorus
Not wood not stone
Not flesh not bone
Not teeth noch tongue
Life takes more than that

All dem words it is just hypocricy
Personality that is just psychology
Shame and pride things of humanity
But the soul is infinity
What is good for you is terrible for me
Don't want to live the mental slavery
I am a piece in reality
I come to liberate and set the captives free

Chorus

Trying to get a head at my expense
Hoping that I will get bitter
You keep on doing it with all your relent
I ask of you what is the matter
You throw the line and see every day, lord
Frying the snapper
You better hurry up get concsience today
Before your head get lick by the shotter

Chorus

Intro:
too much backbyting, too much senseless fighting
yuh nuh see seh a waste a energy?, purge out your animosity
stay away stay away stay away with your rumours my brother
stay away stay away stay away with your rumours my sister

chorus:
your rumors, that your spreading all over town
your rumors, yuh a try to fight i down
your rumors, i will never wear no frown
your rumors

room full all full and yuh can't get a spoon full
lipservice from morning back to moonfull
yuh want your youths and your seeds to be fruitful
can't be deceiving and your life it hafi truthfull
calling up me name only mek me get stronger
dem never woulda know that me a go last longer
fly through the gate and then me left dem a wonder
dem and dem propaganda

chorus (repeat)

what dem talk about i don't really care
i don't give much about the things that i hear
rise and i shine and i take my share
movin with jah and i have no fear
when the eden dem a com eme just shift me gear
show dem a sign and tell dem can't drawn here
ina me business dem want interfere
nuh badda come compare

chorus (repeat)

the one bagga lipservice we nuh ina it
babylon me hope yuh heard dis we nuh ina it
none aunno can curve dis we nuh ina it
we nuh deh pon your third list is a winner dis
and what dat yuh confirming
yuh can't twist jah jah neither can yuh turn him
and yuh will never stop the fire what is burning
wee seek jah jah for a higher learning

chorus (repeat)

Intro:

Free yourself from pain and misery
Look at the sheer majesty of the mountain scenery
Just look around and tek some time
Open up your eyes and don't be blind
And you will see that Jah Jah love is so devine

Yuh think about the problems wha surround yuh
Then yuh sit down wonder what yuh gonna do
Think about Jah Jah him yuh fi ask fa
And yuh will prosper
Yuh think about the journey that you've been through
And the prosperity around you
Leave it up to Jah oh mighty Jah Jah

Chorus:

When Jah Jah is calling
Cause your teardrops keep falling
Answer his call, you will weary no more

In each and every way
We must watch and pray
Giving thanks for such a lovely day

But there are those who play
In some corrupted ways
Forgetting that for sin we pay

Like Jesus fast
And Moses cross
The red sea protected by the boss

Let tribulation pass
Injustice never last
You Mr. Jury don't you judge too fast

Without Jah it nuh make sense you depend upon your jinx-sing
Never ago make it if you worship your bling bling
Forget about Jah and a gwaan like you kingpin
And nuh know seh that your ship is sinking
Look how you burning but you soon hafi go cool
Every day you drinking from the bloody pool
Concience is the different between wise and fool
You never heard about dis ya golden rule

Chorus

Weary likkle one
Dry your tears erase your fears
Jah is knocking on your door
They may let you down
Throw you pon the ground
Better tomorrow will come for sure

You've got to remember
Jah Jah love will never get you down
So don't you surrender
Live your life on a higher ground

Chorus

Intro:

When Jah ist at the ship
We smile at the storm

Life hard and this a road might be ruggy
but Jah would never send you there
from you nuh ready no
listen to his voice and hold on steady
we moving on and on

Chorus:

After a storm there must be a calm
You shoulda never go resign
Remember seh Jah love already there before you born
His love is so pure and devine

Just keep that smile on your face make it an easy day
Never let dem get you down cause you will make it anyway
With Jah love ina your heart I'm sure you will never go astray
And while the sunshine you got to make hay
Jah Jah a the water to my root the only truth
Me nuh go stop work and try until me reap the fruit
And as long as there is no justice man hafi go revolute
Just tell the children the truth

Chorus

Box and kick me and treat me like a toy
Try your very best to take away me joy
you no ago see me ina babylon employ
cus i have know jah love from ever since i was a boy

Woman wipe those tears out of your eyes
This love is unconditional
This love is exceptional
Woman wipe those tears out of your eyes
You feel a bit emotional
Just come and get personal

Woman I'll make it fine for you
Time after time for you
I will read and translate the very signs fi you
I'm gonna turn your very water into wine for you
Polish down your little heart and keep that shine for you
Tomorrow is too late for a love that is true
I can wipe away your sorrow and make your life brand new
Every man needs a woman fi cut and go through
And Gentleman a needs you

Chorus

You say you have been hurt before
You're crying cause you nuh want to get hurt no more
I am not like the rest I'll make you feel secure
So much love in store
Baby you are the one that I adore
Nothing in this whole wide world that coulda get us down
There is no one in this world who coulda wear your crown
Always want you around
Just make a joyful sound

Chorus

My world is ma warranty
Make you know seh that my love is my guarantee
And babygirl apparently
You never imagine what it is life if you par with me
I'm gonna take you to a place where the moon shines brighter
Love is in the air so let us hold on tighter
Take you away from those vandals and fighters
You are the one that I would always try fa

Chorus

Intro:
fire-starter blaze it
what me seh we fi do put down put down the gun deh
yes this is gentleman and anthony b
this is not a story this is reality

chorus:
You nuh have no time fis dis no time fi dat nu time fi listen just a chat face off-always wearing a mask
no time fi love no time fi joy squeze your trigger like a toy ease off-before you come to past...

dutty works dutty pay just like a candle you will melt away
if you could hear waht you say me think you never woulda act this way

you tell me you a gunman
you nuh care who you turn your gun pon any guy
disrespect you dun one hey mr. badman the fire nuh stop bun pon

You nuh have no time fis dis no time fi dat nu time fi listen just a chat face off-always wearing a mask
no time fi love no time fi joy squeze your trigger like a toy ease off-before you come to past

hey stop the killin' killin' killin' you nuh hear seh me nuh want no blood spillin' spillin' spillin'
you go murder your brother for a shillin' shillin' shillin' hey bloodsucker try fi escape me take the firebun

tell you stop the ism and you tell me seh you caan tell you fi do better and you tell me seh you nuh
like a sirene you just a waan waan waan better you go left the dutty glock outta your draw
haga your muma and a doga your pa like a wild animal you njam tings raw badder than the riddim wha dem call catpaw anthony b come school the outlaw

You nuh have no time fis dis no time fi dat nu time fi listen just a chat face off-always wearing a mask
no time fi love no time fi joy squeze your trigger like a toy ease off-before you come to past

too much blood runnin' me nuh dem spend no time pon lovin'
woman ball seh dem every man seh dem a badman hafi deh pon the street out dem turing

right ya know you buring and you soon a burn out take a left turn and you gone the wrong road
sucking out the food outa the suckeling mouth man you doing wrong and there is no dought abouot

chorus:
You nuh have no time fis dis no time fi dat nu time fi listen just a chat face off-always wearing a mask
no time fi love no time fi joy squeze your trigger like a toy ease off-before you come to past

put down put down put down put down the gun deh
stop stop stop stop stop spoil the youths dem fun deh

dutty works dutty pay just like a candle you will melt away
if you could hear waht you say me think you woulda never act dis way

so make me warn dem make we teach dem make we show dem how believe
nuh go down 'cause we always positive yo-hail rastafari burn the dirty bridge

ell you stop the ism and you tell me seh you caan tell you fi do better and you tell me seh you nuh
like a sirene you just a waan waan waan better you go left the dutty glock outta your draw
haga your muma and a doga your pa like a wild animal you njam tings raw badder than the riddim wha dem call catpaw anthony b come school the outlaw

Intro:
I'd rather be saved bye Jah Jah
Yeah yeah yeah
Than to have mankind as my savior

Chorus:
Dem never sees to amaze me
Strange things they bring to us
And only Jah Jah can save we
Now who else can we trust

Babylon dem words ya dem a tuff like iron
Trodding through the hills now with the powers of a lion
No looking back we pon the highway to zion
No doubt about it Jah love we a relay on
From you see me pon the subway
Everything you see me do me do it love way
I see dem going down grudge way
Iniquity can't touch we

Chorus

Babylon now what me see you try to tek away Jah star
Left me to wonder who really are
For a stick a marihuana we get lock behind a bar
Jah children reputation you a scar
Smoking kills that you mark on your cigar
Dangerous like a bullet from an s-sellar
But tell me how much innocent life you tek so far
And all those victims of your wars

Chorus

Question me ask so why you don't answer dis
How comes you have the youths dem turn and a twist
Have dem ina the jungle like a tarzan pon a wist
Still dem awaiting Jah wonderful bliss
Ask dem already so what left to come
We already see the destruction from your gun
Babylon upholding a falling kingdom
Still we chant down rome and beat the kette drum

Chorus

Babylon dem words ya dem a tuff like iron
Trodding through the hills now with the powers of a lion
No looking back we pon the highway to zion
No doubt about it Jah love we a relay on
From you see me pon the subway
Everything you see me do me do it love way
I see dem going down grudge way
Iniquity can't touch we

My eyes behold the blessings of Jah
I've told the message oh Jah
To set Jah children free from captivity
My eyes behold the blessings of Jah
I've told the message oh Jah
To set Jah children free

Shiloh:

Why is it so hard for us
We find it hard to trust
The system is so unkind
Always subjecting what is mine

Gentleman:

No colonial mind - no mankind
Don't want to be led by the blind
Tell dem fi go seek and find
We will rise and shine before we run outta time
We hear bout dem world order and dem bombing
Wonder who can take it and stand up inna di famine
What the united nations and world police planning
Cause ritheous people dem keep banning

My eyes behold the blessings of Jah
I've told the message oh Jah
To set the captivity free
My eyes behold the blessings of Jah
I've told the message oh Jah
To set Jah children free

Right now you betta know
That love it a the order
No bad mind cross over the border
Wickedness so narrow righteousness much broader
So tell me wha you rellae rather
Da one ya hotta the ten fire side and ten lava
No babylon ship can come dock up inna we harbour
And then we know seh Jah would neva let we starve ya
Hungry cook up banana and some greater casava

My eyes behold the blessings of Jah
I've told the message oh Jah
To set Jah children free
My eyes behold the blessings of Jah
I've told the message oh Jah
To set Jah children free from captivity

No colonial mind - no mankind
Don't want to be led by the blind
Tell dem fo go seek and find
We will rise and shine before we run outta time

Shiloh:

There's no need for segregation
Let us all uplift the nation
I know and you know that Jah is for everyone

Gentleman:

Tell me where is the love that Jah Jah has granted
Fo so long you've been taking advantage
Never will you have Jah Jah children a ramp with
We bun down your killing spree and bun down your rampage

My eyes behold the blessings of Jah
I've told the message oh Jah
To set Jah children free from captivity
My eyes behold the blessings of Jah
I've told the message oh Jah
To set Jah children free

Chorus:

Devilstation they intensify
Church and state they can't satisfy
While the children still a multiply
I see babymothers cry
While the babyfathers die

Break my backbone while you sit down on your throne
You must living ina twylight zone
It's a good thing I man tuff like a rock stone
Never gonna hear me weap you'll never gonna hear me mone
Creating all the circumstance
Still you're claiming that a you the one who nuh response
When the revolutionary man a take his stand
You Mr. Jacket and tie it nuh make sense you run

Chorus

Promises and lies is what a gwaan
These are the things righteous people a scorn
Prophets a ring the alarm
Tell the heads of government fi cool and fi calm
And if you live by what you should
And you doing what you could
There'll be no bad but good, no no
Living out in Hollywood
Buh care about no flesh and blood
You sink ina the mod

Chorus

You only govern with your weapon
But dem ya things seh we nuh pon
Man a no stool fu you fi step pon
We age trample duppy and the demon
Nuh join dem gang and me nuh ku-klux dem clan
Listen to the words of a living man
This oppression me don't understand
Are you a creature, beast are you human

Chorus

Break my backbone while you sit down on your throne
You must living ina twylight zone
It's a good thing I man tuff like a rock stone
Never gonna hear me weap you'll never gonna hear me mone
Creating all the circumstance
Still you're claiming that a you the one who nuh response
When the revolutionary man a take his stand
You Mr. Jacket and tie it nuh make sense you run

Chorus

Intro:

Yes me bredda
Badmind we pass
And the righteous ago last
And stick to your task
Nuh badda live too fast

Chorus:

The righteous Jah defend
Like how him rescue daniel from the lion's den
A lot of blessings he send
Enough for me my enemies and all my friends

Flesh is vanity and takes uh round the ben
But my soul can't be pulluted by the hands of men
And tha longer that we live her in this ya ......?
Profets haffi speak and people overstand
Practice what you preach and keeper of my brother
Can't say one ting and then you do the other
Be beware of your speech one language or another
Genuine the love like a baby to a mother

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Zion train nuh wait so yuh betta be early
When you reach the gate majestic and pearly
All cleanhearted from round the worlly
Conscience is your ticket make sure seh yuh can earny
No shiny armour will never take yuh there
Your heart and your thoughts yuh must prepare
Of wolfs and leaopards we must be aware
But the trust ina the almighty god knows no fear

Chorus

Open your eyes and see
You got the will to be
Will yuh chose controversy
Or fulfill your destiny
Tell me humanity
What it is gonna be
Joy in the century
Or bones in the cemetery

Chorus

Chorus:

We floating ina the mystic wind
While dem gloating ina destructive sin
Approaching ina the name of the king
Obstacles down with you keep on moving

Bridge:
The road to mount zion is ragged and nuff
To reach mount zion
You got to be made of the stuff

Some a dem convicious and red eyed - red eyed deh
Grabilious man dem a go die - go die deh
Some of wuk fi babywrong a spy - a spy deh
Why don't you give Jah love a try - a try deh

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Bridge:
It's like a neva turning ever burning fire
Ina the enemies eyes - enemies eyes
Rise above your standarts and behave as if ya did try
As if you don't even try

Terrible crises the people of the world a face
Leaders a journey inna outta dem own self place
Gentleman rebel a represent anotha case
To see how much negativity we can now erase

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Bridge:
The double standarts
Of your way of life
Devouring flesh
Through the day and night

Oh since the birth of man
Destruction on the land
Chosen will understand
That we fi live the masterplan
The weak will soon be strong
The right will show the wrong
Why can't weg get along
Like melodies in dis here song

Chorus

It's like a neva turning ever burning fire
Ina the enemies eyes - enemies eyes
Rise above your standarts and behave as if ya did try
As if you don't even try

Some a dem convicious and red eyed - red eyed deh
Grabilious man dem a go die - go die deh
Some of wuk fi babywrong a spy - a spy deh
Why don't you give Jah love a try - a try deh

Intro:
come let us sing a song for the children
cause babylon nuh care about the children

Chorus 1:
i see dem doing in dem doing all dem doing
dem nuh care about the children - children
dem only sit down and mash up the society
and nothing for the children - children - the children
righteousness and love we hafi give it to the children - the children
a no hatred a no grudge could never give it to the children - the children

Verse 1:
come let us pave a way for the children
so that they all can live
tired fi see dem outa road deh ya a juggle
and me see you teach dem peer negative
now tell me what have you done to protect dem
i'm talking you mr. big investment
instead a you bring dem to the top of the mountain
a peer pit you a dig

Chorus 2:
i see dem doing in dem doing all dem doing
dem nuh care about the children - children
dem only sit down and mash up the society
and nothing for the children - children - the children

Bridge:
i know that they depending on you
open your heart and let jah through

Verse 2:
to every mother and every father i and i say bless up
i know the feeling what it bring to see your children dress up
teach dem the right nuh make dem mind get mess up
every ting it will be fine you don't have to stress up
tell your son put down the gun him a tek up
counsel him show him the gun ting a nuh something fi pet up
babylon a nuff a jah jah children unno set up
but dis ya generation you never ever go wreck up

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Bridge

Verse 3:
help fi bring dem education gi dem all what dem want
gi dem the mind fi handle the matter and teach dem how fi chant
become a musician like i and even ram a few dance
i know that they can no badda tell me dem can't
i wish that they would never feel lonely
just gi dem a home and let the children feel homely
one for little john, claudette and one for tony
yes dem a the future and jah jah have shown me

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Chorus:
No time like present
There is no time like now
Feel the spirit of Jahoviah
Moving inside you now
No time like present
There is no time like now
Feel the power of almighty
Living inside you wow

Jack Radics:
And then life it is like a river
Sometimes it takes me to places
there Im warm and all
And then it's cold till I shiver
Well, now, but thats just the way it goes

Gentleman:
Sometimes it rapid
Sometimes it steep
Sometimes it bitter sometimes sweet
Sometimes it calm to put we to sleep
Sometimes we hafi cross a bridge that is weak
Sometimes we slip
Sometimes we slide
Sometimes it takes us to the other side
Sometimes it narrow sometimes it wide
Always knowing the most high gonna guide

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Gentleman:
Dem bury us but like flowers now we grow
Planted by the waters of wisdom you know
Marvel not of things look because it shows
Yesterday becomes today tomorrow goes
If what you seeking is a peace of mind
Blind can't be deaf and the deaf left behind
I beg you open up your eyes mankind
Can't you see we living ina perilous time

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