Selassie is the I Look at me my My meditation like a dove
Stop alla keep To fulfill the people words, hey King I me hailing dem go trouble poor people first
Anytime now dem a go get a red 'Fraid, a get 'fraid now di prisoners dem a go escape Slave master a go blaze
Anytime now dem a go get a red 'Fraid, a get 'fraid now Babylon, yuh must get a red Nuff cutchi man nuff a dem run go
Woi, I'd to be with the people I lead Give dem my strength and showing dem my daily need And I'd to see more love than grief the only way di ghetto youths a go achieve
And I rather to be the people in need Babylon only come yah so fi deceive I rather to a nah to word receive Dem a go cut di woman and bust di man dem seed
perish, long time me see it Black people up an yard inna di east Tell di Indian say fi go fi dem chief Tell di white man a Europe, go island seek
Hey, no got no secret a keep There will be a an a wailing an a gnashing of teeth Come out inna di clear, wall dem a peep
Nothing fi di white man, man nah do it Black woman, stop sweep di white woman Di ghetto youths go study Babylon A so me see say get defeat
Anytime now dem a go get a red 'Fraid, a get 'fraid Anytime now yah, fire deh go blaze Stop treat people like
Anytime now di prisoners dem a go Too dem deh in deh yah bake Anytime now dem a go get a red Man haffi go
Dem make dem satellite and dem it a space Mash up di o-zone layer a fake Sun a burn and it a strip dem face Could deh dem look like all weh dey bake
Watch a di Rastaman deal wid dem case Ask dem dis question before it too Babylon, a why yuh your toxic waste? You no see say dat yuh make a big
Now me who end up like bait Dem hold down people To send white people through di Woi, Rastaman a Revolution, caw we must
now Babylon dem a go get a red 'Fraid di a get 'fraid now Babylon dem a go get a red Dem separate we and wan' enslave
Anytime now dem a go get a red And Babylon, you nah save Anytime now dem a go get a red di prisoners dem a go escape
Di whole a dem a dis di of days Got inna di Atlantic gone fire dem lace Fi make di iceburg, fi di ice age Di west a go sink when di water raise
you stink, an yuh wan bad Yo no badda di youth a tell you dis brave I black nah be your maid Work me black father and dem get paid
Oh, Babylon so a we a come a enslave I build di building, di dem we pave See dem now, see dem now, see dem now From yuh dis your own a judgement you
now Babylon dem a go get a red 'Fraid, a get 'fraid now di prisoners dem a go escape Slave master place a go
now police dem a go get a red 'Fraid, a get 'fraid now Babylon, yuh must get a red