Rat Race
Ah! Ya too rude
Oh what a rat race
Oh what a rat race
This is the rat race
Some a lawful, some a (some are good)
bastard, some a jacket (some are not good, some are 'suits')
Oh what a rat race, rat race
Some a gorgan, some (?)
a hooligan, some a (Lumpen extremists, wrong path, eg K,K,K,
guine-gog (?)
In this rat race, yeah!
Rat race
I'm singing
When the cats away
The mice will play
Political voilence fill ya city
Yea-ah!
Don't involve Rasta in your say say
Rasta don't work for no C.I.A. (good)
Rat race, rat race, rat race
When you think is peace and safety
A sudden destruction
Collective security for surety (strategy of tension, permanent war on anything, terror, drugs, heathens. (The state is a body of armed men - Engels))
Yeah!
Don't forget your history (good advice)
Know your destiny
In the abundance of water
The fool is thirsty (think outside the square, there are no problems, only solutions (JL))
Rat race, rat race, rat race
Oh it's a disgrace to see the
Human-race in a rat race, rat race
You got the horse race
You got the dog race
You got the human-race
But this is a rat race, rat race (rampging capitalism)
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Sun is Shining
Sun is shining, the weather is sweet
Make you want to move your dancing feet
To the rescue, here I am
Want you to know ya, where I stand
When the morning gathers the rainbow
Want you to know I'm a rainbow too
So, to the rescue here I am
Want you to know just if you can
Where I stand, know, know, know, know, know
We'll lift our heads and give JAH praises
We'll lift our heads and give JAH praises, yeah
So to the rescue, to the rescue, to the rescue
Awake from your sleep and slumber (the 'Internationale' : 'Arise ye workers from your slumbers, servile masses arise, arise... , "I Have a Dream..." - MLK*)
Today could be your lucky number
Sun is shining and the weather is sweet
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So much Troube in the World
So much trouble in the world now
So much trouble in the world now
Bless my eyes this morning
JAH sun is on the rise once again
The way earthly things are going
Anything can happen
You see men sailing on their ego trips
Blast off on their spaceships
Million miles from reality
No care for you, no care for me
So much trouble in the world now
So much trouble in the world now
All you've got to do is give a little
Give a little, give a little
One more time ye-a-h! ye-ah!
So you think you have found the solution
But it's just another illusion
So before you check out your tide
Don't leave another cornerstone
standing there behind
We have got to face the day, ooh we come what may
We the street people talking, we
the people struggling
Now they are sitting on a time bomb
Now I now the time has come
What goes up must come down
Goes around comes around (the cycle of violence : if all said NO, that's enough, NO, I won't do that, NO, I will not be meat in your grinder, NO, I will noot feed your greed, NO, you're not the Boss of me : my morality, my ethics, my conscience is.)
So much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world
There is so much trouble, there is so much trouble
There is so much trouble
There is so much trouble in the world
There is so much trouble in the world
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Three little birds
Rise up this mornin',
Smiled with the risin' sun,
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singin' sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true,
Sayin', "This is my message to you-ou-ou:"...
ROBERT NESTA MARLEY
* MLK epitaph :
http://www.aberdeenfoundation.org/images/king2.jpg