Mr. president, delegates,
Since the of modern civilization Generations witnessed and inherited the only conflicts of world wars But the marriage supper of the lamb and the bridegroom onto his bride Then shall the earth's children the true expression of one love Then mother shall honeymoon in peace. Forever the aspirations, lust and anguish of wars and rumors of wars, Selah!
See it deh know the innocent going up in And propaganda spreading inna the Sunday not even coulda save you with him cape cause Red-a judgement a blaze, ya And Babylon a the youth dem life like racehorse And gi dem a uniform and a shave dem head with And now the clock a strike war, don't be amazed Inna dem churches to save, saviors
Can we do it? we can do it, we do it!
Boom! dem fe uh draw mi out when the world government inna falling out Only few men crawling out Run left him colleagues dem out, nearly dead! Medic haul him out And him two tranquilizer fi stall him out, deh pon base! Can't get no calling out when him hear the shout last week Him find a new shoes Wife can't get no news and she starting to doubt, she still searching! And the dem bawling out hard not to let it all come out Well it's not safe to go walk A from Baghdad to water house She start to arouse sometime she a spouse She start go out, start beat a stout, guns come out! Working people run out Keep a show last and no one come out, bombs come out! Mi gas just run out, bombo clatt! The tape just run out, weed run out! Yuh senses must dumb out, mi have a pound round a deh a gwan sun out Nah out! 'Til the chalice bun out, Nah come out! the malice bun out, a war!
Zimbabwe to berlin Blazin' like a ball, loose ball, dat no work, in war Sleeping, dat no work..in war Can't wear curl, in war No and pearl, in war Can't weh a serve, in bar Gas wi up yuh nerves, in war Shot wi up yuh shirt, in war go lift up no skirt, in war Now and germs, in war Can't go release sperms, in war Stamina 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 of cowards, you race of imbeciles, you race of good for nothings If you cannot do other men have done What other have done, what other races have done you yourself shall die.
See it deh know the innocent up in vapors And propaganda spreading inna the Sunday not superman coulda save you with him cape cause Red-a judgement a blaze, ya And a gamble the youth dem life like racehorse And gi dem a uniform and a dem head with razors And now the clock a strike war, don't be amazed dem churches tryin' to save, saviors
Hey, now wi fore sacrifice enough Dem blood sweat and run like syrup Any day a revolution might erupt, and the sky's over lighting up For the new generation up, of youths now a days weh dem sighting up And through dem biding up, Searching for the sign and the is us, Searching for the all you find is us, Searching for the troops behind is us, The we recruit and we come from the root We build like building boot Weh can't done, Rastafari' design me tuff If a the fight for freedom me up Cause you can't blind me up Soldiers and police dem up, realizing they're no more right than us Realizing no use fighting us Realizing opening their eyes to see the same demoralizing life as us So we nah tek nor smiling up Cause the word temper boiling up, And who alling the shots and nah bust the mind of the young, bring down
Bear famine, no rain nah fall from London to mall All the son of the bawl, institute of the church in war and researching war Practice and war Teaching and dem war Instigating and war Always keep in war Cause man will jump out a car Now bees and in war And the freaks and in war And the and curves in war and reverse in war Red, it red, it red, it red, it red
If you cannot do it, if you are not to do it, then you will die. You race of cowards, you race of imbeciles, you race of for nothings If you cannot do what other men done What other have done, what other races have done Then you yourself die.