Music and Lyrics by Stevie Wonder
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Jobless people starving babies spreading
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over the land
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More oppression to the have nots is how you
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play your hand
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More world fighting is the writing from those
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say they know
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And if that's true we know just who
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you'll be picking to go
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But the beat you are playing to what Jah is
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saying is wrong
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And we do recommend that you stop before
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it's too far gone
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And I just got to say
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You're playing us too close
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We in the ghettos
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You're playing us too close
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The jobless and the hungry
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You're playing us too close
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Filling up more and more with Frustration
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You're playing us too close
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We're losing our patience
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So take heed and do let it be known that
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I've told you today
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You're playing us much too close yea
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All the teaching of JAH bible you don't
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want to obey
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But you're writing your own ticket to the price
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you will pay
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Us you hold hock but the drawback is not
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to us alone
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Time will make you too a victim before you
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see the wrong
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And the melody that you are playing is
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in the wrong key
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For Jah's choirs that sings out to all live
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in world harmony
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And I just got to say
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You're playing us too close
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We in the ghettos
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You're playing us too close
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Red black white brown and yellow poor people
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You're playing us too close
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The babies are crying
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You're playing us too close
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Good people are dying
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So take heed and do let it be known that
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I've told you today
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Jah say you're playing us much too close
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Now when I was just a little boy my grandfather
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use to say to me, "Brother B, trust no shadow
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after dark... "It's not till I grew to be a man that
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I understand what the old brother was talking
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about. You see some people take the liberty to
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treat you any way they want to, they feel
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some times that you don't have no dignity. But
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brother fire de ah mus mus tail him think ah
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cool breeze, better watch out easy squeeze
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makes no riot my brethren
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You're playing us much too close, so why the
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Don't you people out there all get up off your
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backsides and do something for the worlds for
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every living boy, woman, man and girl. There's
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hungry people all over starving, have no place
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to lay their heads Huh Don't play us so close
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Don't play us so close Don't play us so close
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(Chorus during rap)
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Some a dem rap, none a dem a holler
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'Cause Jah say all the musicians shall be there
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The players on instruments shall gather
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at His feet
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You need to raise your conscious high
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So Jah Jah Love can rule the world
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We need to raise our conscious high
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So Jah Jah Love can rule the world
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You need to raise your conscious high
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So Jah Jah Love can rule the world
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(Percussion)
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We're gonna raise our conscious high
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So Jah Jah Love can rule the world
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I'm gonna raise my conscious high
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So Jah Jah Love can rule the world
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We're gonna raise our conscious high
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So Jah Jah Love can rule the world
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You've gotta raise your conscious high
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So Jab Jah Love can rule the world
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I'm gonna raise my conscious high
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So Jah Jah Love can rule the world
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You're Playing Us Too Close
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