Selassie is the I at me my love My meditation going like a
Stop keep failing To the black people words, hey Selassie I me hailing Anna dem go trouble poor first
now Babylon dem a go get a red 'Fraid, a get 'fraid Anytime now di dem a go escape Slave place 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 a dem run go shave
Woi, I'd rather to be with the people I Give dem my strength and showing dem my daily need And I'd rather to see more than grief That's the only way di ghetto youths a go
And I rather to be with the in need system only 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
perish, long time me see it Black people back up an yard di east Tell di Indian say fi go fi dem chief di white man from a Europe, go island seek
Hey, Rastaman no got no a keep There will be a weeping an a wailing an a gnashing of Come out inna di clear, wall dem a peep
Nothing fi di man, black man nah do it Black woman, stop di white woman street Di ghetto youths go study Babylon A so me see say Vatican get
now Babylon dem a go get a red 'Fraid, Babylon a get Anytime now yah, redder fire deh go Stop treat people like
Anytime now di prisoners dem a go Too dem deh in deh yah bake now Babylon dem a go get a red Man haffi go
Dem make dem satellite and dem it a space up di o-zone layer Babylon a fake Sun a burn redder and it a strip dem Could deh dem look all [Incomprehensible] weh dey bake
Watch a di Rastaman deal wid dem case Ask dem dis before it too late Babylon, a why yuh dump toxic waste? You no see say dat yuh a big mistake
Now tell me who end up bait Dem down black people To send white through di gate Woi, Rastaman a 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 still wan'
Anytime now dem a go get a red And Babylon, you nah save Anytime now dem a go get a red Because di prisoners dem a go
Di whole a dem a dis di of days Got inna di Atlantic ocean 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 mother nah be your maid Work me father and dem never get paid
Oh, Babylon so a we a come a enslave I di building, di road dem we pave See dem now, see dem now, see dem now From yuh dis your own a judgement you
Anytime now dem a go get a red 'Fraid, a get 'fraid Anytime now di dem a go escape Slave master place a go
Anytime now dem a go get a red 'Fraid, a get 'fraid Anytime now Babylon, yuh get a red