"Babylon A Use Dem Brain" lyrics

(Well you, you know your responsibility to keep your precepts dilligent)

Well, more time yuh done know seh
Holy Mount Zion that's where the foundation build
Well, traditionally yuh know seh everyting would have to full before it spill
Selassie I, oh Lord

Well, mek dem know, Babylon while yuh scrape you spill
What yuh don't have, every ghetto yute will
Cyaan tek our own, unnu betta be still
An lef from bou yah cah yuh gonna draw nil
Aye, aye
Yow, while yuh scrape you spill
What yuh don't have, every ghetto yute will
Cyaan tek our own, unnu betta be still
An lef from bou yah cah yuh gonna draw nil, oh yeah

Judgement
Babylon a use dem brain
(Mi nuh know a wah do dem enuh)
Chu dem waan di ghetto yute dem fi go down di drain
(Yeah, aye)
Babylon a use dem brain
Di mark a di beast di whole a dem a proclaim
Babylon a use dem brain
Dem only fight genst Jah herb an dem a shippin cocaine
(Maintain the herbs enuh)
Babylon a use dem brain
(Selassie I)
Well dem should know seh badmind, dem a go burn inna flame
(Whoi-oi)

Oh, what a agony and oh what a shame
To see my black brothers goin' right down di drain
Man made to suffa and homan to feel pain
Dem rape mi mommy
Mi sister, I seh, oh what a shame
Bredda an mi fada affi chop sugar cane
Pon di plantation unda stress an shame
Pon dem han, pon dem foot a jus di shackles and chain
Now dem tek it off an put it pon dem brain
(Babylon)
Chu dem waan mi nation fi go dung di drain
Now di yute dem realize to shout the Haile Haile name
Man a pet lion, dat mean wi cyaan tame
(Come on lion)
One ting is our desire, one ting is our aim
Fi si wickid Babylonian dem a go dung di drain

Babylon while yuh scrape you spill
What yuh don't have, every ghetto yute will
Cyaan tek our own, unnu betta be still
An lef from bou yah cah yuh gonna get ill
Whoi-oi
Judgement

Oi, what a crisis yuh would cry facin dis
Kuh dem a come wid dem kit, jus to take every bit
Nuh tink mi nuh know, you are di boss fi yuh kit
But our share, yuh won't be leavin wit
I tell dem now
Kuh dem, kuh deh, a dat di bwoy dem practise
Now a see dem owna face inna dem owna vomit
Aye, aye, aye
You're not being kind
How much yuh rob and now yuh leave us behind
Now sumting drop from yuh bag
Nuhting, nuh touch it caz a mine
What's due onto us unnu fi gi wi everytime
Babylon

Babylon a use dem brain
Chu dem waan di ghetto yute dem fi go down di drain
Babylon a use dem brain
Di mark a di beast di whole a dem a proclaim
Babylon a use dem brain
Dem only fight genst Jah herb an dem a shippin cocaine
Babylon a use dem brain
(Bless him inuh, Selassie I)
Well dem should know seh badmind, dem a go burn inna flame
(Gimmi more)

But dis is one ting I cannot ovastan
(Gimmi more)
Dem nuh teach mi nut'n bout mi ancient plan
Inna di school an di college an di institution
Di carriculum dat I get is, European
A teach mi bout Marco Polo and Napoleon
(Gimmi more)
Nah teach mi nut'n about di river Nile bank
Where civilization it began
Yuh seh "Thou shall not steal and should not kill no one"
Still yuh steal, treasurize and den yuh teach wrong
Yeah, yeah
Slave an yuh murda all mi dad and mi mom
But wicked Babylonian yuh will love to burn
Babylon a

Tell dem, tun dung
Fyah bun all politician
A causing dispute, making us their plan
Whoi-oi, dishonesty and war is their illustration
Competing, this is more than competition
Kuh deh, dem fighting just to enslave black man
And now dem parties just a cause bare partition
And who is you, no one takes any instruction