How long shall they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look : Bob Marley - acrylic on canvas, 40×50 cm.

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 space ship
Million miles from reality
No care for you, no care for me
So much trouble in the world
All you got to do is give a little, take a little, give a little
So you think you found the solution
But it's just another illusion
So before you check out this time
Don't leave another cornerstone standing there behind
We've got to face the day
Come what may
We the street people talking
We the people struggling
Now they're sitting on a time bomb
Now I know the time has come
What goes on up is coming on down
Goes around and comes around
So much trouble in the world
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Every man got a right to decide his own destiny
And in this judgement there is no partiality
So arms in arms, with arms we'll fight this little struggle
'Cause that's the only way we can, overcome a little trouble
You're right, your rights, you're right, your right, you're so right
We goin' fight, we'll have to fight, fight for our rights
No more internal power struggle;
We come together to overcome the little trouble.
Soon we'll find out who is the real revolutionary,
'Cause I don't want my people to be contrary.
To divide and rule could only tear us apart;
In everyone's chest, there beats a heart.
So soon we'll find out who is the real revolutionaries;
And I don't want my people to be tricked by mercenaries.
Everyone got a right to decide their own destiny.
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They don't want to see unite
All they want us to do is
Keep on fussing and fighting
They don't want to see us live together
All they want us to do is
Keep on killin' one another
Top rankin', Are you skankin'
Top rankin' Did you mean what you say now?
They say the blood runs
And it runs thru our lion
And our hearts
Heart of hearts divine
And John saw them coming
With the truth
From an ancient time
The brotherly love
The sisterly love
I feel this morning.
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We refuse to be
What you wanted us to be
We are what we are
That's the way it's going to be, if you don't know
You can't educate I
For no equal opportunity
Talking about my freedom
People freedom and liberty
We've been trodding on
The winepress much too long
Rebel, Rebel
Babylon System is the Vampire
Sucking the children day by day
The Babylon System is the Vampire, falling empire
Sucking the blood of the sufferers
Building church and university
Deceiving the people continually
Them graduating thieves and murderers
Look out now
They sucking the blood of the sufferers
Tell the children the truth right now
Come on and tell the children the truth
'Cause we've been trodding on your winepress much too long
Got to Rebel, Got to Rebel Now
We've been taken for granted
Much too long, Rebel
From the very day we left the shores
Of our father's land
We've been trampled on, oh now, we've been taken for granted
Now we know everything we got to rebel, Rebel
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How can you be sitting there
Telling me that you care
When everytime I look around
The people suffer in suffering
In everyway, in everywhere
We're the survivors
I tell you what
Some people got everything
Some poeple got nothing
Some people got hopes and dreams
Some people got ways and means
Yes we're the survivors like
Daniel out of the lions' den, survivors
So I brethren, I sisthren
Which way will we choose
We better hurry
'Cause we got no time to lose
Some people got facts and claims
Some peole got pride and shame
Some people got the plots and schemes
Some people got no aim it seems
We're the survivors like shadrach, meshach and abednego
Thrown in the fire but never get burn
So I brethren, I sisthren
The preaching and talking is done
We gotta live up
'Cause the father's time has come
Some people put the best outside
Some people keep the best inside
Some people can't stand up strong
Some people won't wait for long
We're the survivers
In this age of technological inhumanity
Scientific atrocity
Atomic mis-philosophy
Nuclear mis-energy
It's a world that forces lifelong insecurity
All together now we're the survivors
Nothing change, nothing strange
We got to survive
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Africa, Unite
'Cause we're moving right out of Babylon
And we're going to our father's land
How good and how pleasant it would be
Before GOD and man
To see the unification of all Africans
As it's been said already let it be done
I tell you who we are and where we're from
We are the children of the Rastaman
We are the children of the Higher Man
Africa, unite 'cause the children wanna come home
So, Africa, unite
Unite for the benefit of your people
Unite for it's later than you think
Africa awaits its creators
Africa, you're my forefather cornerstone
Unite for the Africans abroad
Unite for the Africans a yard
Africa, United.
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Feel it in the one drop;
And we'll still find time to rap;
We're makin' the one stop,
Fill the generation gap;
Now feel this drumbeat
As it beats within,
Playin' a riddim,
Resisting against the system
I know Jah's never let us down;
Pull your rights from wrong
They made their world so hard
Every day we got to keep on fighting
They made their world so hard
Every day the people are dyin'
For hunger and starvation
Lamentation
But read it in Revelation
You'll find your redemption
And then you give us the teachings of His Majesty,
For we no want no devil philosophy;.
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Dready got a job to do
And he's got to fulfill that mission
To see his hurt will be their greatest ambition
But we will survive in this world of competition,
'Cause no matter what they do
Natty keep on comin' through,
And no matter what they say
Dredy be there every day
Natty Dread rides again,
Through the mystics of tomorrow,
Natty Dread rides again:
Have no fear, have no sorrow
All and all you see agwan
Is to fight against Rastaman.
So they build their world in great confusion
To force on us the devil's illusion.
But the stone that the builder refuse
Shall be the head cornerstone,
And no matter what game they play,
We got something they could never take away;
And it's the fire
That's burning down everything:
Feel that fire
Only the birds have their wings
No time to be deceived.
Oh, you should know and not believe:
Jah say this judgement it could never be with water,
No water could put out this fire
'Cause now the fire is out of control,
Panic in the city, wicked weeping for their gold!
Everywhere this fire is burning,
Destroying and melting their gold,
Destroying and waisting their souls.
Tell you what: now the people gather on the beach
And the leader try to make a speech,
But the Dreadies understandin' that it's too late:
Fire is burning;
Man, pull your own weight!
Ridin' through the storm,
Riding through the calm
Oh ride, Natty, ride!
Natty dread rides again
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See them fighting for power
But they know not the hour
So they bribing with their guns, spare-parts and money
Trying to belittle our integrity
They say what we know
Is just what they teach us
And we're so ignorant coz every time they can reach us
Through political strategy
They keep us hungry
And when you gonna get some food
Your brother gotta be your enemy
Ambush in the night
All guns aiming at me
Ambush in the night
They opened fire on me
Ambush in the night
Protected by His Majesty
Well what we know
Is not what they tell us
We're not ignorant, I mean it
And they just can not touch us
Through the powers of the most high
We keep on surfacing
Through the powers of the most high
We keep on surviving in this
Ambush in the night
Planned by society
Ambush in the night
They trying to conquer me
Ambush in the night
Anything money can bring
Ambush in the night
Planned by society
Ambush in the night
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Wake Up and Live, Wake Up and Live
Wake Up and Live Now, wake up and live
Life is one big road with lots of signs
So when you riding thru the ruts
Don't you complicate your mind
Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy
Don't bury your thoughts
Put your vision to reality
All together now
Wake Up and Live, Wake Up and Live
Rise, a mighty people
There's work to be done so lets do it little by little
Rise, from your sleepless slumber
We're more than sand and the sea shore
We're more than numbers
You see one, one cocoa full a basket
What the use you live big today
Tomorrow you bury ina casket
One one cocoa full the basket
What's the use you live big today
Tomorrow you bury ina casket

All together now
Wake Up and Live Now
Wake Up and Live
Wake Up and Live Now
Wake Up and Live Keep on Playing
Wake Up and Live Now
Wake Up and Live Wake Up and Live Now
Wake Up and Live
Break It Down
Life is one big road with lots of signs
So when you riding thru the ruts
Don't complicate your mind
Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy
Don't bury your thoughts
Put your dream to reality
Wake Up and Live
Wake Up, Wake Up, Wake Up, Wake Up
And live.
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