Mr. President, Distinguished delegates...
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[H.I.M. Haile Selassie I dialect]
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[Bunny Wailer dialogue]
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Since the beginning of modern civilization
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Generations have witnessed and inherited the only conflicts of world wars
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But behold the marriage supper of the lamb and the bridegroom onto his bride
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Then shall the earth's children know the true expression of ONE LOVE
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Then mother earth shall honeymoon in peace.
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Forever eliminating the aspirations, lust and anguish of wars and rumors of wars...SELAH!
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[Verse 1]
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See it deh know the innocent going up in vapors
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And propoganda spreading inna the sunday papers not even superman coulda save you with him cape cause
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Red-a Judgement a blaze, blaze ya
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And Babylon a gamble the youth dem life like racehorse
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And gi dem a uniform and a shave dem head with razors
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And now the clock a strike war, don't be amazed cause
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inna dem churches tryin to save...saviours
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[Marcus Garvey dialogue 1]
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Can we do it? We can do it, we shall do it!
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[Verse 2]
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Boom!
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Tell dem fe uh draw mi out when the world government inna falling out
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Only few men survive crawling out
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Run left him collegues dem sprawling out
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NEARLY DEAD!
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Medic haffi haul him out
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And give him two tranquilizer fi stall him out
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DEH PON BASE!
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Can't get no calling out when him hear from the shout last week
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Him mistress find a new shoes
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Wife can't get no news and lately she starting to doubt
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SHE STILL SEARCHING!
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And the youth dem bawling out
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Working hard not to let it all come out
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Well it's not safe to go walk about
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A slaughterhouse from Bagdad to Waterhouse
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She start to arouse sometime she want a spouse
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She start go out, start beat a darker stout
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GUNS COME OUT!
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Working people funds run out
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Keep a show last week and no one come out
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BOMBS COME OUT!
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Mi gas tank just run out
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BOMBO CLATT!
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The scotch tape just run out
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WEED RUN OUT!
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Yuh senses must dumb out, Mi have a pound round a back deh a gwan sun out
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NAH COME OUT!
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Till the chalice bun out,
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NAH COME OUT!
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Till the malice bun out, A WAR!
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Zimbabwe to Berlin Wall
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Blazin' like a burnin' ball, loose ball...dat no work...IN WAR
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Sleeping...dat no work..IN WAR
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Can't wear jheri curl...IN WAR
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No diamond and pearl...IN WAR
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Can't drink weh a serve...IN BAR
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Gas wi fuck up yuh nerves...IN WAR
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Shot wi blood up yuh shirt...IN WAR
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Can't go lift up no skirt...IN WAR
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Now disease and germs...IN WAR
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Can't go release your sperms...IN WAR
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Stamina must preserve...IN WAR
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Fire constantly burn...IN WAR
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RED...IT RED...IT RED...IT RED...IT RED!
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[Marcus Garvey dialogue 2]
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If you cannot do it, if you are not prepared to do it...then you will die.
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You race of cowards, you race of imbosiles, you race of good for nothings
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If you cannot do what other men have done
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What other nations have done, what other races have done
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Then you yourself shall die.
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[Repeat Verse 1]
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[Verse 3]
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SEE IT DEH NOW...Hey!
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Now wi fore parents sacrifice enough
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Dem blood sweat and tears run like syrup
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Any day a revolution might erupt, and the skys over Kingston lighting up
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For the new generation rising up, of youths now a days weh dem sighting up
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And through reasoning dem biding up,
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Searching for the sign and the sign is us,
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Searching for the truth all you find is us,
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Searching for the troops still behind is us,
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The almighty we recruit and we come from the root
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We build like roach building boot
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Weh just can't done, Rastafari we design tuff
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If a the fight for freedom sign me up
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Cause you Tell-Lie-Vision can't blind me up
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Soldiers and police dem wising up, realizing they're no more right than us
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Realizing there's no use fighting us
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Realizing their opening their eyes to see the same demoralizing life as us
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So we nah tek talk nor smiling up
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Cause the word temper tantrum boiling up,and who...
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Calling the shots and nah bust none
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Controlling the mind of the young, bring down...
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Bear famine, no rain nah fall from London to Dadeland mall
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All the son of the virgin bawl, institute of the church IN WAR
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Preaching and researching WAR
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Practice and rehearsing WAR
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