After A Storm

Intro:

When Jah ist at the ship
We smile at the storm

Life hard and this a road might be ruggy
but Jah would never send you there
from you nuh ready no
listen to his voice and hold on steady
we moving on and on

Chorus:

After a storm there must be a calm
You shoulda never go resign
Remember seh Jah love already there before you born
His love is so pure and devine

Just keep that smile on your face make it an easy day
Never let dem get you down cause you will make it anyway
With Jah love ina your heart I'm sure you will never go astray
And while the sunshine you got to make hay
Jah Jah a the water to my root the only truth
Me nuh go stop work and try until me reap the fruit
And as long as there is no justice man hafi go revolute
Just tell the children the truth

Chorus

Box and kick me and treat me like a toy
Try your very best to take away me joy
you no ago see me ina babylon employ
cus i have know jah love from ever since i was a boy

All That You Had

Chorus:
If you did prepare for those rainy days
You wouldn't be sweeped away by the storm
If you would listen what the wise man say
All that you had wouldn't be gone
If you would trust into the father
And fine a few minutes to pray
Now life seems so much harder
I know Jah will show you the way

Rise up and your heart it must be clean
But if you mingle ina corruption Jah Jah nuh let you in
I trust ina the highest supreme
Jah make I a pure as a stream
Never will I trade my love for vanity
Never will I be a victim of dem insanity
All I have is love for humantiy
Come help me sing da song ya if you agree with me

Chorus

Bridge:
Don't burn your bridges
Don't you ever turn back and close the door
Cause it just might be
That you wanna use that same bridge once more
The sun sets in the west
Representing a new dawn
Continue do your best and life goes on and on

Chorus

Nuh go be no part of dem controversy
I know who I am and who I supposed to be
Moving on with Jah Jah and keep him close to me
Life over all means the most to me
Together now - one ever now
We can make it through any kind of weather
Forever now - life is the treasure now
So tell me what you prefer now

Chorus

Be Yourself

Intro:

You got to be yourself
And no one else
Yes you got to be yourself

Every man got intention
And every man got his own potential
A cool head is essential
Cause babylon will put on a sentece
You got what it takes
Inside, that's where your true self abides
Put on your brakes
Never hide, why you always living outside

Chorus 1:

A no time deh
Fi go join dem
Jah rastafari say fi seek and you shall find then
No time deh
Fi we go join dem
You follow babylon you end up ina problem

Well nuff a dem out deh sell dem soul because of vanity
Me see dem a search but can not find fi dem identity
Cause their identity is coming from the nozzle of dem gun
But I and I identity is coming from the nyabingi drum

Chorus 2:

If a who you are
You think seh dad nuh good enough
Then you find the life seh outta road it well rough
And if a what you are
You think deh dad nuh good enough
Member fi go meditate in god you hafi trust

Left the devil works man a nuh you fi dad
Six foot under ground fi all who want to go pennie that
Tears I cry fi da one ya who want follow that
Children of the almighty god dem a no idiot

Chorus 1

In this world full of fake and fraud
Got to deh pon your toes
You can't drop your guard
And if you ever let dem ina your yard
You hafi bawl out oh lord

Seh the time gets ruggy and the going gets steep
As you stand up as a soldier man you can't get weak
Your duty is to provide for the week
We trodding down Selassie-I-Street

Never get a weak when you back against the wall
You know seh kingdom rise and you know seh kingdom fall
Member how we push down the Jericho Wall
Listen to Jah words no badda sit down and a stall

Chorus 1

Chorus 2

Blessing Of Jah

My eyes behold the blessings of Jah
I've told the message oh Jah
To set Jah children free from captivity
My eyes behold the blessings of Jah
I've told the message oh Jah
To set Jah children free

Shiloh:

Why is it so hard for us
We find it hard to trust
The system is so unkind
Always subjecting what is mine

Gentleman:

No colonial mind - no mankind
Don't want to be led by the blind
Tell dem fi go seek and find
We will rise and shine before we run outta time
We hear bout dem world order and dem bombing
Wonder who can take it and stand up inna di famine
What the united nations and world police planning
Cause ritheous people dem keep banning

My eyes behold the blessings of Jah
I've told the message oh Jah
To set the captivity free
My eyes behold the blessings of Jah
I've told the message oh Jah
To set Jah children free

Right now you betta know
That love it a the order
No bad mind cross over the border
Wickedness so narrow righteousness much broader
So tell me wha you rellae rather
Da one ya hotta the ten fire side and ten lava
No babylon ship can come dock up inna we harbour
And then we know seh Jah would neva let we starve ya
Hungry cook up banana and some greater casava

My eyes behold the blessings of Jah
I've told the message oh Jah
To set Jah children free
My eyes behold the blessings of Jah
I've told the message oh Jah
To set Jah children free from captivity

No colonial mind - no mankind
Don't want to be led by the blind
Tell dem fo go seek and find
We will rise and shine before we run outta time

Shiloh:

There's no need for segregation
Let us all uplift the nation
I know and you know that Jah is for everyone

Gentleman:

Tell me where is the love that Jah Jah has granted
Fo so long you've been taking advantage
Never will you have Jah Jah children a ramp with
We bun down your killing spree and bun down your rampage

My eyes behold the blessings of Jah
I've told the message oh Jah
To set Jah children free from captivity
My eyes behold the blessings of Jah
I've told the message oh Jah
To set Jah children free

Caan Hold Us Down

Intro:
(Daddy Rings)
This one is real
Yo, a Daddy Rings, Gentleman and Barrington Levy

Gentleman:
Babylon a watch we round the clock
Wondering when we gonna launch and attack

Chorus:
No powers gonna hold us down
Not even dem peagon sound
No powers gonna hold us down
You'll never see we wearing a frown (repeat)

Verse 1
(Gentleman)
I've been chanting Jah powers from morning
Truths and rights I man keep performing
I hear the Babylon bell how it alarming
Dem see a righteous ghetto youth and ready fi swarm him

Verse 1
(Daddy Rings)
Dem shoulda overstand the power wha Jah storm bring
When it blow the whole a dem hafi go calm king
Long time we did a issue 'bout the warning
We ago hold Lucifer and disarm him

Verse 1
(Barrington Levy)
I know Jah will always be there
And i know he is everywhere
Without Jah where would i be
And he is the one for me, you see

Chorus(repeat)

Verse 2
(Daddy Rings)
Dem think we fool but we tell dem seh we not
Caan make no wulf come invate the flag
Nuh get caught ina no buubie trap
I and i royal natty dreadlock

Verse 2
(Barrington Levy)
Well as the sun shine and the wind blow
That's how i know, That's how i know
I take a look through my window
That's how i know, That's how i know

Verse 2
(Gentleman)
If you nuh know the truth yourself you are decieving
Trumpet a sound
And i man is leaving
Higher ground that is where i am going
Too bless to stress can't stop me from growing

Chorus(repeat)

Children Of Tomorrow (Live)

chorus:
what you really bargain for
yoh nuh think about the chlidren of tomorrow
tell me what you searching for
We got to stay humble and babylon it a crumble
(repeat)

verse:
i live my life as a humble man
nuh try fi do no wrong
but all the good that i can
i’m inspired by the higher one
the only one
and that is my tradition
gunshot round the corner it a echo a echo
the rootsman over ya deh so nuh go leggo nuh leggo
the cowboy over ya so with him a lasso a lasso
know see that him life it couldn’t go so

chorus (repeat)

verse:
i trod daily pon the frontline
and i still see lines of memories left behind
keep my faith and i meditate
i penetrate mount zion gate
no matter what dem do no matter what dem say
me haffi keep moving on pon the righteous way
no matter how dem try a spy
i no matter how me keep moving on
and bun dem system every day

chorus:
(repeat)

Church And State

Chorus:

Devilstation they intensify
Church and state they can't satisfy
While the children still a multiply
I see babymothers cry
While the babyfathers die

Break my backbone while you sit down on your throne
You must living ina twylight zone
It's a good thing I man tuff like a rock stone
Never gonna hear me weap you'll never gonna hear me mone
Creating all the circumstance
Still you're claiming that a you the one who nuh response
When the revolutionary man a take his stand
You Mr. Jacket and tie it nuh make sense you run

Chorus

Promises and lies is what a gwaan
These are the things righteous people a scorn
Prophets a ring the alarm
Tell the heads of government fi cool and fi calm
And if you live by what you should
And you doing what you could
There'll be no bad but good, no no
Living out in Hollywood
Buh care about no flesh and blood
You sink ina the mod

Chorus

You only govern with your weapon
But dem ya things seh we nuh pon
Man a no stool fu you fi step pon
We age trample duppy and the demon
Nuh join dem gang and me nuh ku-klux dem clan
Listen to the words of a living man
This oppression me don't understand
Are you a creature, beast are you human

Chorus

Break my backbone while you sit down on your throne
You must living ina twylight zone
It's a good thing I man tuff like a rock stone
Never gonna hear me weap you'll never gonna hear me mone
Creating all the circumstance
Still you're claiming that a you the one who nuh response
When the revolutionary man a take his stand
You Mr. Jacket and tie it nuh make sense you run

Chorus

Dangerzone

Chorus:
Dem living ina dangerous zone
Oh what a place to call home
This is not a place for me
That’s not where I wann a be (repeat)

I wanna be ina the hills where the birds dem singing
Not ina the city where the bells keep ringing
Too much gunshot and senseless killing
The colour of the dollar and the shaking of the shilling
As you say go buss a head certain man willing
Third class fight the struggle and first class chilling
Sit down ina dem tower and champagne spilling
A who dem want devoyer oh what a sin ting

Chorus (repeat)

Dis is a gunman city a gunman town
I man nuh see no employement around
Mama she a frown daddy him a frown
And the youths dem a buss dem gun from twelve to…
Down y me say a life nuh worth nothin’
Happy trigger lucky you mr press button
Let me tell something jah will bun you out to nothin’
From you bun out the youths

Chorus (repeat)

HaN

Dem Gone

Jah Jah is real! Jah Jah is real!

Chorus:

Dem gone. so far away

Dem gone. the hole a dem ago regret it one day

(Repeat)

Every day you get up and wish to have a meal

now you get a cut and wish to have it heal

and still you can not accept that Jah Jah is real

Tell me Mr.Man whats the deal

You say you have everything sign and seel

Thought you won the case but nox you a appeal

You are the one who couldnt hear now you the one to feel

evidently clear we choppindown your shield

Dem aint going nowhere no time soon

Dem corrupt the east and now dem turn it to the moon

Plantain your garden and wish that it will bloom but still youre singing satan tunes

Chorus:

Dem gone. so far away

Dem gone. the hole a dem ago regret it one day

(Repeat)

Mother earth was meant for man and woman to stay

me find out nuff a dem drifting away

Children cant even find a place fi play birds cant find no seeds horses no hay

I see the weavers weaving but dem income delay

still me see dem searching for a brighter day

and now me come fi give it to you right away

Do you hear what I say

Chorus:

Dem gone. so far away

Dem gone. the hole a dem ago regret it one day

(Repeat)

whapen`them?

Give me the mic deh for a moment make me talk to dem

and watch the eden dem a scatter when we walk to dem

and if you know you are not guilty stand up and dont you run

to all my foes and friends

You may live to see today but you nuh know the end

Just read the writings on the wall its a message we send

And Babylon will never live to stop the rising of Jah son

Chorus:

Dem gone. so far away

Dem gone. the hole a dem ago regret it one day

(Repeat)

Fave Off

Intro:
fire-starter blaze it
what me seh we fi do put down put down the gun deh
yes this is gentleman and anthony b
this is not a story this is reality

chorus:
You nuh have no time fis dis no time fi dat nu time fi listen just a chat face off-always wearing a mask
no time fi love no time fi joy squeze your trigger like a toy ease off-before you come to past...

dutty works dutty pay just like a candle you will melt away
if you could hear waht you say me think you never woulda act this way

you tell me you a gunman
you nuh care who you turn your gun pon any guy
disrespect you dun one hey mr. badman the fire nuh stop bun pon

You nuh have no time fis dis no time fi dat nu time fi listen just a chat face off-always wearing a mask
no time fi love no time fi joy squeze your trigger like a toy ease off-before you come to past

hey stop the killin' killin' killin' you nuh hear seh me nuh want no blood spillin' spillin' spillin'
you go murder your brother for a shillin' shillin' shillin' hey bloodsucker try fi escape me take the firebun

tell you stop the ism and you tell me seh you caan tell you fi do better and you tell me seh you nuh
like a sirene you just a waan waan waan better you go left the dutty glock outta your draw
haga your muma and a doga your pa like a wild animal you njam tings raw badder than the riddim wha dem call catpaw anthony b come school the outlaw

You nuh have no time fis dis no time fi dat nu time fi listen just a chat face off-always wearing a mask
no time fi love no time fi joy squeze your trigger like a toy ease off-before you come to past

too much blood runnin' me nuh dem spend no time pon lovin'
woman ball seh dem every man seh dem a badman hafi deh pon the street out dem turing

right ya know you buring and you soon a burn out take a left turn and you gone the wrong road
sucking out the food outa the suckeling mouth man you doing wrong and there is no dought abouot

chorus:
You nuh have no time fis dis no time fi dat nu time fi listen just a chat face off-always wearing a mask
no time fi love no time fi joy squeze your trigger like a toy ease off-before you come to past

put down put down put down put down the gun deh
stop stop stop stop stop spoil the youths dem fun deh

dutty works dutty pay just like a candle you will melt away
if you could hear waht you say me think you woulda never act dis way

so make me warn dem make we teach dem make we show dem how believe
nuh go down 'cause we always positive yo-hail rastafari burn the dirty bridge

ell you stop the ism and you tell me seh you caan tell you fi do better and you tell me seh you nuh
like a sirene you just a waan waan waan better you go left the dutty glock outta your draw
haga your muma and a doga your pa like a wild animal you njam tings raw badder than the riddim wha dem call catpaw anthony b come school the outlaw