Music: Jonathan Holness/Jeremie Clergue
Intro:
How long
We ago take this from Babylon
Hold on
We don't need no war and confusion
1. Verse:
When you see man, don't dis man
when you see man, man a great man
my thing so fresh and clean and
the empress love my style unique
on a clarks man a beat 'pon di feet and
just thru dem caan come beat man
tell dem don't try come do it
Dem surely get defeat
trample dem under my feet, yeah
so man a deal widde beast, yeah
dem come and call man friend
dem come and call man bredda
behind my back dem want me dead ya
dem want fi see me fly way with old bad weather but watch ya
Hook:
InI nah come ya so fi fail (nah come fi fail)
InI is here to prevail (to prevail)
Zion ship a sail
Something they could never take away
Jah Jah, Jah Jah
guiding us everyday
Jah Jah, Jah Jah
give us wings and we will fly away
2. Verse:
Welcome the mitochondrion,
A me same one Arawak Indian
orthodox Bobo Shanti Binghi man
let's sing one song, redemption song
Marcus say our leaders shall be stoned to death If dem want lead us to wreck
Poor people don't forget
500 years of blood sweat and tears
And yet still dem don't care
Dem want fi see we despair
but the fire when me blaze can't cool round here man a real nine heater
just check out me here
so tell dem im a survivor
surviving from only I saliva
I walk on water, Im not a diver
I gots to know the tricks more than MacGyver well well, so tell dem im surviving
king Selassie I the king of all kings
up on the wall I see the writings
beat the kete drum and keep on chanting
Binghi I, I
Hook
3. Verse
a true, dem see me pon da side of de street
and a white squall weh dem sip on me lips
dem are pointing and on a skin dem teeth
cuz dem no say de life I a live it nah sweet
aint nothing bout it is unique
hail Rastafari and strengthen I feet
the journey is long but I know I gotta reach
and me no response who a preach
a this dem fi know, Rasta Rasta I grow Hook
Outro:
I want to fly away,
man a fly Jah way