AFRICA UNITE How good and pleasant it would be before God and man To see the unification of all Africans So Africa unite 'cause the children wanna come home Africa unite, 'cause we are moving out of Babylon, And we are going to our father's land So Africa unite for the benefit of your people Africa you are my forefather cornerstone, Unite for Africans abroad, unite for Africans a yard ONE DROP They made the world so hard, everyday we got to keep on fighting Everyday the people are dying from hunger and starvation, lamentation But read it in revelation, you will find your redemption give us the teaching of His Majesty, for we no want no devil's philosophy RIDE NATTY RIDE But the stone that the builder refuse, shall become the head cornerstone And no matter what they play, there is something they can never take away you should know and not believe AMBUSH IN THE NIGHT Through political strategy they keep us hungry When you go to get some food, your brother got to be your enemy We are not ignorant I mean it, Through the powers of the most high we keep on surviving. WAKE UP AND LIVE Life is one big road with lots of signs So when you riding through the ruts, Don't complicate your mind Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy Don't bury your thoughts, Put your vision to reality Rise mighty people there's work to be done So lets do it little by little Rise from your sleeping slumber What's the use you live big today Tomorrow you are buried in a casket Wake up and live CONCRETE JUNGLE No chains around my feet, but I'm not free life must be somewhere to be found Instead of a concrete jungle where the living is the hardest illusion, confusion EXODUS Men and people will fight you down when you see Jah (GOD) light Open your eyes and look within Are you satisfied with the life you are living? We know where we are going, and we know where we are from. POSITIVE VIBRATION If you get down and you quarrel everyday You are saying prayers to the devil, I say Why not help another on the way Make way for the positive day |
ADMONITIONS OF WISDOM AND PROPHECIES OF HOPE; Remembering Bob Marley RECENTLY, the world marked the 21St anniversary of the the transition of Robert Nester Marley (Bob Marley), the Jamaican born reggae artist whose music did and continues to transcend most races, culture, and even religion. Many regard Bob Marley as a legend, yet there are those who barely knew him. Many simply think he was just another reggae artist without realizing how strongly he felt and how influential he was about the principles of equal rights and justice, as well as African unity. A brief look at some of his lyrics and words might aid one's comprehension of what this universal artist stood for. |
STIFF NECKED FOOLS The lips of the righteous, teach many But fools die for want of wisdom. The rich man's wealth is in his city The righteous' wealth is in His Holy Place. Destruction of the poor is in their poverty Destruction of the Soul is vanity. - SO MUCH TROUBLE The way earthly things are going, Anything can happen. You see men sailing on their ego trips Blast off on their space ship Million miles from reality No care for you, no care for me. So you think you found another solution But it's just another illusion. ZIMBABWE Every man got the right to decide his own destiny And in this judgment, there is no partiality No more internal power struggle To divide and rule could only tear us apart In everyman chest, there beats a heart So soon we will find out who is the real revolutionary And I don't want my people to be tricked by mercenaries TOP RANKIN They don't want to see us come together All they want us to do is keep on killing one another to keep on fusing and fighting Are you fooling one another When you say you wanna come together SURVIVAL How can you be sitting there telling me that you care, When every time I look around, the people suffer in everyway In this age of technological inhumanity Scientific atrocityatomic mis-philosophynuclear mis-energy It is a world that forces lifelong insecuritywe got to survive. BABYLON SYSTEM We refuse to be what they wanted us to be We are what we are, that's the way it's going to be You can't educate I for no equal opportunity, talking about freedom Deceiving the people continuallygraduating thieves and murderers Tell the children the truth right now we have been taken for granted much too long From the day we left the shores of our fatherland, we have been trampled upon Now we know everything |
COMING IN FROM THE COLD Why do you look so sad and forsaken? When one door is closed, don't you know another is open Would you let the system make you kill your brother man? Would you make the system get upon your head again? The biggest man you ever did see was once a baby. SMALL AXE Why boasteth thyself, oh evil men, Playing smart and not being clever? If you are the big tree, we are the small axe, And whosoever diggeth a pit shall fall in it. NO WOMAN NO CRY My feet is my only carriage, so I've got to push on through But while I'm gone, everything's gonna be all right. WAR (Quoting Emperor Haile Selassie's speech to U.N.) Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior Is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war And until that day, the African continent will not know peace, We Africans will fight, we find it necessary, and we know we shall win As we are confident in the victory of good over evil. NO MORE TROUBLE We don't need no more trouble What we need is love, To guide and protect us all EASY SKANKING In this song, Bob Marley sings about the help of 'ganja' as it is popularly called. Excuse me while I light my spliff Oh lord I got to take a lift From reality I just can't drift That's why am staying with this riff KEEP ON MOVING Push on through, Lord I got to keep on moving, Lord I got to get on downwhere I can't be found Lord, they are coming after me I know someday The war will soon be over, and Africa will unite, The children who liveth in darkness, have seen the great light FAREWELL NOTE: Bob Marley was an ardent Rastafarian. Even those who do not believe in Rastafarianism cannot in fairness deny the wisdom and truth contained in his messages. The fact is that many people are grateful for the inspiration he gave and continues to give by his legacy. |
FOREVER LOVING JAH No matter what rages changesthey put us through We will never be blue, we will be forever loving Jah (God) Cause only a fool lean upon his own misunderstanding And what has been hidden from the wise and the prudent, (Have) Been revealed to the babe and the suckling Everything in life has got its purpose Find its reason in every season COULD YOU BE LOVED Don't let them fool you, or even try to school you We have got a mind of our own Love would not leave us alone Out of the darkness there must come out the light The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you Don't let them change you, or even rearrange you We've got a life to live, Only the fittest of the fittest shall survive, stay alive REDEMPTION SONG Emancipate yourself from mental slavery For none but ourselves can free our minds Have no fear for atomic energy Cause none of them can stop the time. CRAZY BALDHEADS Didn't my people before me slave for this country Now you look me with a scorn then you eat up all my corn Brainwash education to make us the fools Hate is your reward for our love, telling us of your God above. RAT RACE When you think it is peace and security A sudden destruction, collective security for surety Don't forget your history, know your destiny For in the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty It's a disgrace to see the human race in a rat race. TIME WILL TELL Think you are in heaven but you are living in hell Time alone, oh time will tell. NATURAL MYSTIC There's a natural mystic blowing through the air If you listen carefully now you will hear This could be the first trumpet, might as well be the last Many more will have to suffer, many more will have to die Don't ask me why. Things are not the way they use to be I won't tell no lie, one and all got to face reality now ONE LOVE Let's get together and feel all right Let them all pass all their dirty remarks There's only one question I'd really love to ask Is there a place for the hopeless sinner? Who has hurt all mankind just to save his own? As it was in the beginning, so shall it be in the end. |
