Mr. president, delegates,
Since the beginning of civilization Generations witnessed and inherited the only conflicts of world wars But behold the supper of the lamb and the bridegroom onto his bride Then the earth's children know the true expression of one love mother earth shall honeymoon in peace. Forever eliminating the aspirations, and anguish of wars and rumors of wars, Selah!
See it deh know the innocent up in vapors And propaganda spreading the Sunday papers not even superman coulda save you him cape cause Red-a judgement a blaze, ya And a gamble the youth dem life like racehorse And gi dem a uniform and a shave dem head with And now the clock a strike war, don't be 'cause Inna dem churches to save, saviors
Can we do it? we can do it, we do it!
Boom! Tell dem fe uh draw mi out when the government inna falling out Only few men crawling out Run him colleagues dem sprawling out, nearly dead! Medic haffi him out And him two tranquilizer fi stall him out, deh pon base! Can't get no calling out when him hear from the last week Him mistress find a new Wife can't get no news and she starting to doubt, she still searching! And the youth dem out Working hard not to let it all out Well it's not safe to go about A slaughterhouse from to water house She to arouse sometime she want a spouse She start go out, start beat a darker stout, come out! Working funds run out Keep a last week and no one come out, bombs come out! Mi gas tank run out, bombo clatt! The scotch tape just run out, run out! Yuh senses must out, mi have a pound round a back deh a gwan sun out Nah out! 'Til the chalice bun out, Nah out! 'Til the malice bun out, a war!
Zimbabwe to wall like a burnin' ball, loose ball, dat no work, in war Sleeping, dat no work..in war Can't jheri curl, in war No and pearl, in war Can't weh a serve, in bar Gas wi up yuh nerves, in war wi blood up yuh shirt, in war Can't go up no skirt, in war Now and germs, in war go release your sperms, in war Stamina preserve, in war Fire burn, in war Red, it red, it red, it red, it red!
If you do it, if you are not prepared to do it, then you will die. You race of cowards, you race of imbeciles, you race of good for If you do what other men have done What other nations have done, what other races done Then you yourself die.
See it deh know the innocent going up in And propaganda inna the Sunday papers not superman coulda save you with him cape cause Red-a judgement a blaze, ya And Babylon a gamble the youth dem life like And gi dem a uniform and a shave dem head razors And now the clock a strike war, don't be amazed Inna dem churches tryin' to save,
Hey, now wi fore parents enough Dem blood sweat and tears run like Any day a revolution might erupt, and the sky's over lighting up For the new generation rising up, of youths now a days weh dem up And reasoning dem biding up, for the sign and the sign is us, Searching for the all you find is us, Searching for the troops behind is us, The almighty we recruit and we from the root We build like roach boot Weh just done, Rastafari' design me tuff If a the fight for freedom me up you tell-lie-vision can't blind me up Soldiers and police dem wising up, realizing no more right than us Realizing no use fighting us Realizing opening their eyes to see the same demoralizing life as us So we nah tek talk nor up Cause the temper tantrum boiling up, And who alling the and nah bust none the mind of the young, bring down
Bear famine, no nah fall from London to Dadeland mall All the son of the bawl, institute of the church in war and researching war Practice and war Teaching and dem war and urging war Always alert in war Cause man will jump out a car Now and birds in war And the freaks and in war And the straight and in war and reverse in war Red, it red, it red, it red, it red
If you cannot do it, if you are not prepared to do it, then you die. You of cowards, you race of imbeciles, you race of good for nothings If you cannot do what men have done What other nations have done, what other races have Then you yourself die.