Mr. president, delegates,
Since the of modern civilization Generations have witnessed and inherited the conflicts of world wars But behold the marriage supper of the lamb and the bridegroom his bride Then shall the earth's children know the expression of one love Then mother earth shall in peace. eliminating the aspirations, lust and anguish of wars and rumors of wars, Selah!
See it deh know the going up in vapors 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 dem life like racehorse And gi dem a uniform and a shave dem with razors And now the clock a strike war, don't be amazed dem churches tryin' to save, saviors
Can we do it? we can do it, we do it!
Boom! Tell dem fe uh draw mi out when the world government inna out Only few men crawling out Run left him colleagues dem out, nearly dead! haffi haul him out And him two tranquilizer fi stall him out, deh pon base! Can't get no calling out when him hear from the shout week Him mistress a new shoes Wife get no news and lately she starting to doubt, she still searching! And the youth dem out Working not to let it all come out Well it's not safe to go about A slaughterhouse from Baghdad to water She start to sometime she want a spouse She start go out, start beat a stout, guns come out! Working funds run out Keep a show week and no one come out, bombs come out! Mi gas just run out, bombo clatt! The scotch tape run out, weed run out! Yuh senses must dumb out, mi have a pound 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 drink weh a serve, in bar Gas wi up yuh nerves, in war Shot wi up yuh shirt, in war Can't go up no skirt, in war Now and germs, in war Can't go your sperms, in war must preserve, in war Fire burn, 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 race of cowards, you of imbeciles, you race of good for nothings If you cannot do other men have done What other nations done, what other races have done Then you yourself die.
See it deh know the innocent up in vapors And propaganda spreading inna the papers not even superman coulda save you with him cape Red-a a blaze, blaze ya And Babylon a gamble the youth dem life racehorse And gi dem a uniform and a shave dem head razors And now the clock a strike war, don't be 'cause dem churches tryin' to save, saviors
Hey, now wi fore parents sacrifice Dem sweat and tears run like syrup Any day a revolution might erupt, and the sky's over Kingston up For the new generation rising up, of youths now a days weh dem up And through reasoning dem up, for the sign and the sign is us, Searching for the truth all you is us, Searching for the still behind is us, The almighty we recruit and we come the root We build like roach boot Weh just done, Rastafari' design me tuff If a the fight for sign me up Cause you tell-lie-vision can't me up Soldiers and police dem wising up, realizing they're no more than us there's no use fighting us Realizing their opening their to see the same demoralizing life as us So we nah tek talk nor up the word temper tantrum boiling up, And who alling the shots and nah none the mind of the young, bring down
Bear famine, no rain nah from London to Dadeland mall All the son of the virgin bawl, of the church in war Preaching and war and rehearsing war Teaching and dem war Instigating and war Always keep in war man will jump out a swerving car Now bees and in war And the freaks and in war And the and curves in war Forward and 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 race of cowards, you race of imbeciles, you race of good for If you cannot do other men have done other nations have done, what other races have done Then you shall die.