Selassie is the I Look at me my My going like a dove
Stop keep failing To fulfill the people words, hey King I me hailing Anna dem go poor people first
now Babylon dem a go get a red 'Fraid, a get 'fraid now di prisoners dem a go escape Slave master a go blaze
now police dem a go get a red 'Fraid, a get 'fraid Anytime now Babylon, yuh get a red cutchi man nuff a dem run go shave
Woi, I'd rather to be with the I lead Give dem my daily strength and showing dem my daily And I'd rather to see more love than That's the only way di ghetto youths a go
And I rather to be the people in need Babylon system come yah so fi deceive I to listen a nah to word receive Dem a go cut di woman breast and di man dem seed
Mussa perish, long me see it Black people back up an yard di east di Indian say fi go look fi dem chief Tell di white man from a Europe, go island
Hey, Rastaman no got no secret a There will be a weeping an a wailing an a gnashing of Come out inna di clear, behind wall dem a
Nothing fi di man, black man nah do it Black woman, stop sweep di white street Di ghetto youths go study technique A so me see say get defeat
Anytime now dem a go get a red 'Fraid, a get 'fraid Anytime now yah, redder deh go blaze treat people like slave
Anytime now di dem a go escape Too long dem deh in deh yah Anytime now dem a go get a red Man haffi go
Dem make dem satellite and dem it a space Mash up di layer Babylon a fake Sun a burn redder and it a strip dem deh dem look like all [Incomprehensible] weh dey bake
Watch a make di Rastaman wid dem case Ask dem dis before it too late Babylon, a why yuh your toxic waste? You no see say dat yuh a big mistake
Now me who end up like bait Dem hold down people To send white people di gate Woi, a agitate Revolution, caw we repatriate
Anytime now dem a go get a red di government a get 'fraid Anytime now dem a go get a red Dem separate we and wan' enslave
Anytime now dem a go get a red And Mister Babylon, you nah Anytime now dem a go get a red Because di dem a go escape
Di a dem a dis di I-ncient of days Got inna di ocean gone fire dem lace Fi di iceburg, fi return di ice age Di west a go sink di water table raise
you stink, an yuh wan bad Yo no badda think di a tell you dis brave I black mother nah be maid Work me father and dem never get paid
Oh, Babylon so much a we a a enslave I di building, di road dem we pave See dem now, see dem now, see dem now From yuh dis own a judgement you made
Anytime now dem a go get a red 'Fraid, a get 'fraid Anytime now di prisoners dem a go master place a go blaze
Anytime now dem a go get a red 'Fraid, government a get Anytime now Babylon, yuh get a red