Artist/Band:
Damian "junior Gong" Marley
Lyrics for Song: Confrontation
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Damian "junior Gong" Marley
Mr. President, Distinguished Delegates...
H.I.M Haile Selassie: (SPEAKS IN ETHIOPIAN LANGUAGE)
Bunny Wailer Dialogue:
Since the beginning of modern civilization/ generations
have witnessed and inherited the only conflicts of
world wars/ but behold the marriage supper of the lamb
and the bridegroom onto his bride/ then shall the earth's
children know the true epression of ONE LOVE,
then mother earth shall honeymoon in peace.
Forever eliminating the aspirations,
lust and anguish of wars and rumors of wars...SELAH!
VERS:
See it deh know the innocent going up in vapors and/
propoganda spreading inna the sunday papers not even
superman coulda save you with him cape cause/ Red-a
judgement a blaze, blaze, ya/ and Babylon a gamble
the youth dem life like racehourse/ and gi dem a uniform
and shave dem head with razors/ and now the clock a
strike war, don't be amazed cause/ inna dem churches
tryin to save...saviours/
Garvey Dialogue:
Can we do it? We can do it, we shall do it!/
Damian Marley:
Boom, tell dem fe uh draw mi out when the world government
inna falling out/ only few men survive crawling out/
run lef him collegues dem sprawling out/ NEARLY DEAD!/
medic haffi haul him out/ and give him two tranquilizer
fi stall him out/ DEH PON BASE!
/ can't get no calling out when him hearfrom the shout
last week/ him mistress find a new shoes/ wife can't
get no news and lately she starting to doubt/ SHE STILL
SEARCHING!/ and the youth dem bawling out/ working
hard not to let it all come out/ well it's not safe
to go walk about/ a slaughter house from Bagdad to
Waterhouse/ she start arouse/ sometime she want a spouse/
she start go out/ start beat a darker stout/ GUNS COME
OUT!/ working people funds run out/ keep a show last
week and no one come out/ BOMBS COME OUT!
/ mi gas tank just run out/ BOMBO CLAATT!
/ the scotch tape just run out/ WEED RUN OUT!
/ yuh senses must dumb out/ mi have a pound round a
back deh a gwan sun out/ NAH COME OUT!
/ till the chalice bun out/ NAH COME OUT!
/till the malice bun out/ A WAR!
Zimbabwe to Berlin wall, blazin like a burningball/loose
ball....dat no work...IN WAR,
sleepin...dat now work...IN WAR/ can't wear jheri curl...IN
WAR, no diamond and pearl.
..IN WAR/ can't drink weh a serve.
..IN BAR, gas we fuck up yuh nerves.
..IN WAR/ shot wi' blood up yuh shirt.
..IN WAR, can't go lift up no skirt.
..IN WAR/ now disease and germs.
..IN WAR, can't go release your sperms.
..IN WAR/ stamina must preserve.
..IN WAR, fire constantly burn.
..IN WAR/ RED...IT RED...IT RED...IT RED...IT RED.
Garvey:
if you cannot do it, if you are not prepared to do it...then you will die.
You race of cowards, you race of imbosiles,
you race of good for nothings,
if you cannot do what other men have done,
what other nations have done,
what other races have done, then you yourself shall die.
Repeat Verse:
See it deh know the innocent going up in vapors and/
propoganda spreading inna the sunday papers not even
superman coulda save you with him cape cause/ Red-a
judgement a blaze, blaze, ya/ and Babylon a gamble
the youth dem life like racehourse/ and gi dem a uniform
and shave dem head with razors/ and now the clock a
strike war, don't be amazed cause/ inna dem churches
tryin to save...saviours/
Damian Marley:
Hey! now wi fore parents sacrifice enough/ dem blood
sweat and tears run like syrup/ any dany a revolution
might erupt/ and they skys over kingston lighting up/
for the new generation rising up/ of youths now a days
weh dem sighting up/ and through reasoning dem biding
up/ searchign for the sign and the sign is us/ searching
for the truth all you find is us/ searching for the
troops still behind it's us/ the almighty we recruit
and we come from the root/ we build like roach killing
boot/ weh just can't done/ Rastafari design we tuff/
if a the fight for freedom,
sign me up/ cause you Tell-Lie-Vision can't blind me
up/ Soldiers and police dem wising up/ realizing they're
no more right than us/ realizing there's no use fighting
us,/ realizing their opening their eyes to see the
same demoralizing life as us/ so we nah tek talk nor
smiling up/ cause the word temper tantrum boiling up/
and who.../ calling the shots and nah buss none/ controlling
the mind of the young/ Bring Down.
../ bear famine, no rain nah fall/ from London to Dadeland
mall all the son of the virgin bawl/ institute of the
church IN WAR/ preaching and researching WAR/ practice
and rehearsing WAR/ teaching and dem learing WAR/ instigating
and urging WAR/ always keep alert in WAR/ cause man
wi jump out a swerving car/ now bees and birds IN WAR/
and the freeks and nerds IN WAR/ and the straight and
curves IN WAR/ forward and reverse IN WAR/ RED.
..IT RED...IT RED...IT RED...IT RED
Garvey:
if you cannot do it, if you are not prepared to do it...then you will die.
You race of cowards, you race of imbosiles,
you race of good for nothings,
if you cannot do what other men have done,
what other nations have done,
what other races have done, then you yourself shall die.
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