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Description
Producer: Winta James
Composer Lyricist: Oje Ollivierre
Composer Lyricist: Phillip James
Composer Lyricist: Donnell Spaulding
Composer Lyricist: Delyno Brown
Lyrics and translation
Original
Rastafari teach I how to forgive. I been learning how to live and let live.
Not gon' seek revenge as sweet as it is.
I would rather spend some time with my king.
Lazy gossip is a waste of my time. Costs me nothing, so I pay it no mind.
All in search of fifteen minutes of fame.
Digging deep to throw some dirt on your name. I'm not playing that game.
'Cause the last time I checked, Jah love, guide, and protect, and that's forever the same.
What the fuck is you saying?
Keep your head up. No lose the focus.
Rasta will protect you from the locust.
Some no grow with love, so them no show none.
How much time Jah make you know you're chosen?
When you're fed up, remember Tiny.
Caution when you're stepping through the minefield.
Anything can happen in a heartbeat.
Power's in a prayer, so me draw near. What?
Garvey tell we nation building, soldiers ready, willing. Protect women, children.
Beg you tell me where some man a praying.
Have I lost the plot?
Am I supposed to not aspire to acquire financial and spiritual gain? Selassie's words I'm saying. Heard it in the speeches. Went to dis a barber,
Dolly Bella speechless. Oh, I'm in agreement. Neutralize the leeches.
Not the type to go on interviews and air a grievance.
My only allegiance, Rastafari children. Try attack me heathen. I and poor beseech them.
All the troops retreating. D-Day upon the beach then. Mussolini weeping.
Keep your head up. No lose the focus.
Rasta will protect you from the locust.
Some no grow with love, so them no show none.
How much time Jah make you know you're chosen?
When you're fed up, remember Tiny.
Caution when you're stepping through the minefield.
Anything can happen in a heartbeat.
Power's in a prayer, so me draw near.
The conquering lion never fail.
The children of Zion must prevail.
My life was bought, not sold. Most High Jah in full control.
Mountains and valleys under me.
The Earth is the Lord and Father me.
It's amazing how we keep this fire blazing. Yeah.
Unapologetic, never disrespecting.
What are you reflecting? What you retrospecting?
I'm so calm and so collected with a firm objective. Rasta youth, them haffi go make it.
Simple, alphabetic. His Majesty self-elected, guided, and protected.
Black people well-connected, link up like a necklace.
Babylon will get you headless quicker than a death list.
Tear your cities down like Tetris, nothing else no exist. We are the chosen. Why not unified? System is so broken.
How can you decide? Sell your self for token. Where's your fucking pride?
Once you've been awoken, hard to close your eyes. How long we gonna let them conquer and divide?
Brainwashing of my nation happening for a while.
Those who work the cotton fields only for a smile. Joy come in the morning, the pain is for a night.
Holocaust of the people was a homicide. All because of the evil and the parasite.
Never you give up, black people. Stand upright. Them can't dim we lights out.
English translation
Rastafari teach I how to forgive. I been learning how to live and let live.
Not gon' seek revenge as sweet as it is.
I would rather spend some time with my king.
Lazy gossip is a waste of my time. Costs me nothing, so I pay it no mind.
All in search of fifteen minutes of fame.
Digging deep to throw some dirt on your name. I'm not playing that game.
'Cause the last time I checked, Jah love, guide, and protect, and that's forever the same.
What the fuck is you saying?
Keep your head up. No lose the focus.
Rasta will protect you from the locust.
Some no grow with love, so them no show none.
How much time Jah make you know you're chosen?
When you're fed up, remember Tiny.
Caution when you're stepping through the minefield.
Anything can happen in a heartbeat.
Power's in a prayer, so me draw near. What?
Garvey tell we nation building, soldiers ready, willing. Protect women, children.
Beg you tell me where some man a praying.
Have I lost the plot?
Am I supposed to not aspire to acquire financial and spiritual gain? Selassie's words I'm saying. Heard it in the speeches. Went to dis a barber,
Dolly Bella speechless. Oh, I'm in agreement. Neutralize the leeches.
Not the type to go on interviews and air a grievance.
My only allegiance, Rastafari children. Try attack me heathen. I and poor beseech them.
All the troops retreating. D-Day upon the beach then. Mussolini weeping.
Keep your head up. No lose the focus.
Rasta will protect you from the locust.
Some no grow with love, so them no show none.
How much time Jah make you know you're chosen?
When you're fed up, remember Tiny.
Caution when you're stepping through the minefield.
Anything can happen in a heartbeat.
Power's in a prayer, so me draw near.
The conquering lion never fail.
The children of Zion must prevail.
My life was bought, not sold. Most High Jah in full control.
Mountains and valleys under me.
The Earth is the Lord and Father me.
It's amazing how we keep this fire blazing. Yeah.
Unapologetic, never disrespecting.
What are you reflecting? What you retrospecting?
I'm so calm and so collected with a firm objective. Rasta youth, them haffi go make it.
Simple, alphabetic. His Majesty self-elected, guided, and protected.
Black people well-connected, link up like a necklace.
Babylon will get you headless quicker than a death list.
Tear your cities down like Tetris, nothing else no exist. We are the chosen. Why not unified? System is so broken.
How can you decide? Sell your self for token. Where's your fucking pride?
Once you've been awoken, hard to close your eyes. How long we gonna let them conquer and divide?
Brainwashing of my nation happening for a while.
Those who work the cotton fields only for a smile. Joy come in the morning, the pain is for a night.
Holocaust of the people was a homicide. All because of the evil and the parasite.
Never you give up, black people. Stand upright. Them can't dim we lights out.