[Intro:]
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Blessed
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Emperor Seassie I surely have done ey
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About the welfare and prosperity of I and I people
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But know yourself black people
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Judgement
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Don't do on pretending to be someone you can not
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yea yea yea ey ey
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Live according and you'll know as to what
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rugu rue rue rue
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Love and inity is the only thing we've got
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rigididu yea yea
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Jah prepare us to meet all your onslaught
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yea ea ea ey ey
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Have you heard of Ethiopia the purest land thereof, thereof ?
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Children, Babylon will be burning with flames from the sun
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Unnuh might think a fun, nah badder run
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Mi hail Selassie I and their coward tongue rah ah ah
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Them war and strive and blood feast
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Soon your time to preach
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Give Selassie I the praise
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Or else you're punish as the beast
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Black people trod up inna the East
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[CHORUS:]
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Babylon your mental chains break
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yea yea yea yay yay
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For Ethiopia's progress ourself we educate
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Well a lightning hotta earthquake
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Babylon your mental chains break
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yea ea ea ey ey
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Black people go home for righteousness sake
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oh rugu rue rue rue
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The preaching is over, what's your actions to this ?
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So long up inna them land, nothing you have accomplished
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Them inna them computer age, children beware of it
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Because everything, everything becomes cybernetic
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Repatriation, we endeavour, we'll all make it
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Too much inna Babylon, that is too much for your kit
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Computer is them world, them number is 666
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That's the mark of the beast, look out for micro-chip
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[CHORUS:]
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Babylon your mental chains break
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yea yea yea yo oh
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For Ethiopia's progress ourself we educate
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Ghetto youths them afi know them place
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Lizibeth dem mental chains dey break
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rogo ro oh oh
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Black people go home righteousness sake
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Ah lava and ah earthquake
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Rasta is the head needless to be afraid
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Ah nuff a them cuss the Rastaman and run gone shave
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Ah nuff them Babylon program as them slave
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Them run Emmanuel sey a Selassie I the youths fi praise
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[CHORUS:]
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Babylon your mental chains break
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yea yea yea yay ey
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For Ethiopia progress ourself we educate
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rugu rue rue rue
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Babylon them mental chains they break
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yea yea yea yay ey
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For Ethiopia's progress chant righteousness sake yo
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Nyabhingi done there inna the place
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Don't do on pretending to be someone you can not
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yea yea yea yo oh
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Live according and you'll know as to what
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rugu rue rue rue
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Jah make us prepare... [fading]
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Mental Chains
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