Mr. president, delegates,
Since the beginning of civilization Generations have witnessed and inherited the only conflicts of world But behold the marriage supper of the lamb and the bridegroom onto his Then the earth's children know the true expression of one love Then earth shall honeymoon in peace. Forever eliminating the aspirations, lust and of wars and rumors of wars, Selah!
See it deh know the innocent up in vapors And spreading inna the Sunday papers not even coulda save you with him cape cause Red-a a blaze, blaze ya And Babylon a the youth dem life like racehorse And gi dem a and a shave dem head with razors And now the clock a strike war, be amazed 'cause 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 few men survive crawling out Run left him dem sprawling out, nearly dead! haffi haul him out And him two tranquilizer fi stall him out, deh pon base! Can't get no calling out when him from the shout last week Him find a new shoes Wife can't get no news and lately she to doubt, she still searching! And the dem bawling out Working not to let it all come out Well it's not safe to go about A slaughterhouse from Baghdad to house She to arouse sometime she want a spouse She go out, start beat a darker stout, guns come out! Working people run out Keep a show week and no one come out, bombs come out! Mi gas tank run out, bombo clatt! The scotch just run out, weed run out! Yuh must dumb out, mi have a pound round a back deh a gwan sun out Nah come out! the chalice bun out, Nah come out! the malice bun out, a war!
Zimbabwe to berlin Blazin' a burnin' ball, loose ball, dat no work, in war Sleeping, dat no work..in war Can't jheri 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 Can't go up no skirt, in war Now and germs, in war Can't go your sperms, in war must 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 to do it, then you will die. You race of cowards, you race of imbeciles, you race of for nothings If you do what other men have done What other nations have done, what other have done Then you shall die.
See it deh the innocent going up in vapors And propaganda inna the Sunday papers not superman coulda save you with him cape cause judgement a blaze, blaze ya And Babylon a gamble the youth dem life like And gi dem a and a shave dem head with razors And now the clock a strike war, don't be 'cause Inna dem churches to save, saviors
Hey, now wi fore parents sacrifice Dem blood sweat and tears run like Any day a revolution might erupt, and the sky's over Kingston up For the new generation up, of youths now a days weh dem sighting up And through reasoning dem up, Searching for the and the sign is us, Searching for the all you find is us, for the troops still behind is us, The almighty we recruit and we come from the We build like roach building Weh just can't done, Rastafari' design me If a the fight for freedom me up Cause you tell-lie-vision blind me up Soldiers and police dem wising up, realizing they're no more right us Realizing no use fighting us their opening their eyes to see the same demoralizing life as us So we nah tek nor smiling up the word temper tantrum boiling up, And who alling the shots and nah bust the mind of the young, bring down
Bear famine, no nah fall from London to Dadeland mall All the son of the virgin bawl, of the church in war and researching war Practice and war Teaching and dem war and urging war Always alert in war man will jump out a swerving car Now bees and in war And the freaks and in war And the straight and in war and reverse in war Red, it red, it red, it red, it red
If you cannot do it, if you are not prepared to do it, you will die. You race of cowards, you of imbeciles, you race of good for nothings If you cannot do other men have done What other nations have done, what races have done Then you yourself die.