Selassie is the I at me my love My meditation like a dove
alla keep failing To the black people words, hey King I me hailing Anna dem go trouble poor first
Anytime now dem a go get a red 'Fraid, a get 'fraid Anytime now di dem a go escape master place a go blaze
Anytime now dem a go get a red 'Fraid, government a get Anytime now Babylon, yuh get a red Nuff man nuff a dem run go shave
Woi, I'd to be with the people I lead 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 a go achieve
And I rather to be with the people in Babylon system only yah so fi deceive I rather to listen a nah to receive Dem a go cut di woman and bust di man dem seed
perish, long time me see it Black back up an yard inna di east Tell di say fi go look fi dem chief Tell di white man a Europe, go island seek
Hey, Rastaman no got no secret a will be a weeping an a wailing an a gnashing of teeth Come out inna di clear, behind wall dem a
fi di white man, black man nah do it Black woman, stop sweep di woman street Di ghetto go study Babylon technique A so me see say Vatican get
now Babylon dem a go get a red 'Fraid, Babylon a get Anytime now yah, redder deh go blaze Stop 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 dem satellite and dem launch it a space Mash up di layer Babylon a fake Sun a burn redder and it a dem face Could deh dem look all [Incomprehensible] weh dey bake
a make di Rastaman deal wid dem case Ask dem dis before it too late Babylon, a why yuh dump your waste? You no see say dat yuh a big mistake
Now me who end up like bait Dem down black people To send people through di gate Woi, a agitate Revolution, caw we repatriate
now Babylon dem a go get a red 'Fraid di government a get Anytime now dem a go get a red Dem we and still wan' enslave
now Babylon dem a go get a red And Babylon, you nah save 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 Atlantic gone fire dem lace Fi di iceburg, fi return di ice age Di west a go sink when di water table
you stink, an yuh wan bad Yo no badda think di a tell you dis brave I black nah be your maid Work me black father and dem never get
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 own a judgement you made
now Babylon dem a go get a red 'Fraid, a get 'fraid Anytime now di prisoners dem a go Slave place a go blaze
now police dem a go get a red 'Fraid, a get 'fraid Anytime now Babylon, yuh get a red