Ft. Capleton, Sizzla
|
|
(Verse)
|
Rock stone was my builder couldn't find place fi sleep
|
Pop dem head wi haffi find food fi eat
|
Everyday wi terrorize by soldier and police
|
When the thing dem a drum and thing dem a beat
|
From dem a play cow boy, and Indian, and Chief
|
From the first, to the third, straight up to seven street
|
One thing in a wi mind a fi jump wid the beat
|
And meck it in a life, and inherit, and delete
|
|
Better the stone dem deh yah
|
Self employ, cannot get lay off
|
Mount a work mi have cant even get a day off
|
Who did waan fi stop mi now dem find out seh dem way off
|
Alright and mi seh one by one, one by one
|
One by one wi stepping outta Babylon
|
Then one by one, one by one
|
Hail King Selassie High the cankering lion
|
|
(Chorus)
|
Rock stone was my builder
|
Rock stone was my builder
|
Rock stone was my builder
|
(Seas a colondgion)
|
Rock stone was my builder
|
|
(Verse 2)
|
Help us now, take us from the slum
|
Never keep a bottle while strictly fire burn
|
Tare us down, take us from the slum
|
Never keep on matter while king Selassie High blessing come
|
Sufferation is thing could be no harder time
|
Got to wise in your views caw they broader your mind
|
Watch the vice in the ghetto now where else can you find
|
Hunger, poverty, a teach dem so unkind
|
As a matter a fact, there is an after shock
|
When the ground was my bed and my pillow was a rock
|
Try to make it through the system all the doors were lock
|
Yea nothing beat a trier so I ain't gon stop
|
Mount a time they write a Book on yo
|
Or set another crock they would a put on yuh
|
Yet when yuh in to dept they wouldn't look on yuh
|
They would only stand and wanna wipe the foot on yuh
|
Botsiah!
|
|
(Interlude)
|
Mi nah lie, true mi hail King Selassie High dem waan fi war I
|
Read mi bible through the week and praise the fari
|
Goodbye Babylon good bye, good bye
|
Open door, zion door
|
Mount zion Ethiopia for sure
|
Children of Israel, children of Israel
|
|
(Chorus)
|
Rock stone was my builder
|
Rock stone was my builder
|
Rock stone was my builder
|
Rock stone was my builder
|
|
(Dub verses)
|
|
(Chorus)
|
Rock stone was my builder
|
Rock stone was my builder
|
Rock stone was my builder
|
Rock stone was my builder
|
|
-----------------
|
Rock Stone
|
Stephen Marley |