SURVIVAL

So Much Trouble In The World
Zimbabve
Top Rankin'
Babylon System
Survival
Africa Unite
One Drop
Ride Natty Ride
Ambush In The Night
Wake Up And Live

SO MUCH TROUBLE IN THE WORLD

So much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world

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 spaceship
Million miles from reality
No care for you, no care for me

So much trouble in the world now
So much trouble in the world now
All you got to do is give a little
Give a little, give a little
one more time ye-a-h! ye-a-h!

So you think you have found the solution
But it's just another illusion
So before you check out your tide
Don't leave another cornerstone
Standing there behind
We've got to face the day
Ooh we come what we may
We the street people talking
We the people struggling

Now they are 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
So much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world
There is so much trouble
There is so much trouble
There is so much trouble
There is so much trouble in the world
There is so much trouble in the world

ZIMBABWE

Every man gotta right
To decide his own destiny
And in this judgement
There is no partiality
So arm in arms, with arms
We will fight this little struggle
'Cause that's the only way
We can overcome our little trouble

Brothers you're right, you're right
You're right, you're right, you're so right
We gonna fight, we'll have to fight
We gonna fight, fight for our rights

Natty Dread it ina Zimbabwe
Set it up ina Zimbabwe
Mash it up ina Zimbabwe
Africans a liberate Zimbabwe

No more international power struggle
We come together, to overcome
The little trouble
Soon we will find out
Who is the real revolutionary
'Cause I don't want my people
To be contrary

Brothers you're right, you're right
You're right, you're right, you're so right
We'll have to fight, we gonna fight
We'll have to fight, fighting for our rights

Mash it up ina Zimbabwe
Natty trash it ina Zimbabwe
Africans a liberate Zimbabwe
I&I a liberate Zimbabwe

Brothers you're right, you're right
You're right, you're right, you're so right
We gonna fight, we'll have to fight
We gonna fight, fighting for our rights

To divide and rule
Could only tear us apart
In everyman chest
There beats a heart
So soon we'll find out
Who is the real revolutionary
And I don't want my people
To be trucked by mercenaries

Brothers you're right, you're right
You're right, you're right, you're so right
We gonna fight, we'll have to fight
We gonna fight, fighting for our rights

Natty trash it ina Zimbabwe
Mash it up ina Zimbabwe
Set it up ina Zimbabwe
Africans a liberate Zimbabwe
Africans a liberate Zimbabwe
Natty dub it ina Zimbabwe
Set it up ina Zimbabwe
Africans a liberate Zimbabwe
Every man got a right 
To decide his own destiny
Let us fight and rebuild
Zimbabwe

They don't want to see us unite
'Cause all they want us to do is
Keep on fussing and fighting
They don't want to see us live
Together, I'll tell you what
All they want us to do is
Keep on killing one another

Top rankin', top ranking
Are you skankin', are you skankin'
Top rankin', top ranking
Are you fooling one another
When you say you wanna come together
They say the blood runs
And it runs through our lineage
And our hearts, heart of hearts divine

John sey them coming' with the truth
From an ancient time

Brotherly love, sisterly love
I feel this morning
I feel this morning
Brotherly love, sisterly love
I feel this morning

They don't want to see us unite
'Cause all they want us to do is
Keep on fussing and fighting
They don't want to see us come
Together
All they want us to do is
Keep on killing one another

Top rankin', top ranking
Are you skankin', are you skankin'
Top rankin', top ranking
Are you skankin', are you skankin'
Top rankin', did you mean what you say now
Are you skankin', are you skankin'
Top rankin', top ranking
Are you skankin', skankin'

We refuse to be
What you wanted us to be
We are what we are
That's the way it's going to be
You can't educate I
For no equal opportunity
Talking about my freedom
People freedom and liberty

Yeah, we've been trodding on
The winepress much too long
Rebel, rebel
We've been trodding on the
Winepress much too long, rebel

Babylon system is the vampire
Sucking the children day by day
Babylon system is the vampire
Sucking the blood of the sufferers
Building church and universuty
Deceiving the people continually
Me say them graduating thieves
And murderers look out now
sucking the blood of the sufferers

Tell the children the truth
Tell the children the truth
Tell the children the truth right now
Come on and tell the the children the truth
(repeat)

'Cause we've been trodding on
The 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
Now we know everything we got to rebel
Somebody got to pay for the work
We've done, rebel

How can you be sitting there
Telling me that you care
That you care
When every time I look around
The people suffer in suffering
In everywhere, in everywhere

Na-na-na-na-na
We're the survivors, yes, the black survival

I tell you what
Some people got everything
Some people got nothing
Some people got hopes and dreams
Some people got no aim it seems

Na-na-na-na-na
We're the survivors, yes, the black survival

Yes, we're the survivors like
Daniel out of the lions' den survivors

So my brethren, my sisthren
Which way will we choose
We better hurry, oh, hurry woe now
'Cause we got no time to lose
Some people got plots and schemes
Some people got ways and means
Some people got the facts and claims
Some people got the pride and shzme

Na-na-na-na-na
We're the survivors, yes, the black survival
We're the survivors, yes, the black survival
We're the survivors like Shadrach, Meshach
And Abednego
Thrown in the fire but never get burn

So my brethren, my sisthren
The preaching and talking is done
We gotta live up woe now, woe now
'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

Na-na-na-na-na
We're the survivors,a black survival
In this age of technological inhumanity
We're the survivors, black survival
Scientific atrocity, we're the survivors
Atomic misphilosophy, we're the survivors
It's a world that forces lifelong insecurity
All together now we're the survivors
Yes, the black survival
A good man is never honoured in his own
Country, black survival
Nothing change, nothing strange
Nothing change, nothing strange
We got to survive, we got to survive
But to live as one equal in the eyes
Of the Almighty

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 right now
We are the children of the Rastaman
We are the children of the Higher Man

So Africa unite, Africa unite, yeah
Africa unite
'Cause we're moving right out of Babylon
And we're grooving 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 let it be done
I tell you who we are under the sun
We are the children of the Rastaman
We are the children of the Higher Man

So Africa unite, Africa unite, yeah
Africa unite 'cause the children want
To come home, Africa unite, Africa unite
It's later, later than you think
It's later, later than you think
Unite for the benefit of your people
Unite for the Africans abroad
Unite for the Africans a yard

Feel it in the one drop
Well, I still find time to rap
We're making the one stop
The generation gap
So feel this drumbeat
As it beats within playing a rhythm
Resisting against the system

Ooh-we I know Jah would never let us down
Pull your rights from wrong
I know Jah would never let us down
Oh no! Oh no!

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 dying
It dread, dread for hunger and
starvation dread dread, dread on dread
Lamentation dread dread
But read it in Revelation dread dread
You'll find your redemption

And then you
Give us the teachings of His Majesty
For we no want no devil philosophy
A you fe give us the teaching of His Majesty
For we no want no devil philosophy

Feel it in the one drop
And we still find time to rap
We're making the one stop
And we filling the gap
So feel this drubeat
As it beats within playing a rhythm
Fighting against ism and skism

Singing I know Jah would never let us down
Pull your rights from wrong
I know Jah would never let us down
Oh no! Oh no!

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 dying

It dread, it dread, it dread
Dread dread, what can I say, it dread
It dread on dread, dread, dread
It dread, it dread dread

Give us the teachings of His Majesty
For we no want no devil philosophy
Can you hear
Give us the teachings of His Majesty
For we no want no devil philosophy

We feel it in the one drop
For we still got the time to rap
And we're making the one stop
Let me tell you this generation gap
So feel this drumbeat
I tell you what, it's beating within
Feel you heart playing a rhythm
And you know it's resisting against ism and skism
Singing I know Jah would never let us down

Dready got a job to do
And he's got to fulfill that mission
To see his hurt is their
Greatest ambition
But we'll survive
In this world of competition
'Cause no matter what they do
Natty keep on comin thru
And no matter what they say
Natty de deh every day

Natty Dread rides again
Thru the mystics of tomorrow
Natty Dread rides again
Having no fear, having no sorrow

All and all you see a Gwan
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 games they play
There is something they could never take away
Something they could never take away
It's the fire, it's the fire, fire
Burning down everything
Feel that fire, fire, the fire, the fire
Only the birds have wings
No time to be deceived
You should know and not believe
Jah says this judgement
Could never be with water
So no water could put out this fire
This this fire, this this fire
This this fire ride Natty ride
Go deh dready, go deh dready, go de

Now the fire is burning
Out of control panic in the city
Wicked weeping for their gold
Everywhere the fire is burning
Destroying and melting their gold
Destroying and waisting their souls

Ride Natty ride
Go deh dready, go deh dready
Go deh dready go de

Now the people gather on the beach
And the leader try to make a speach
But Dread again tell them it's too late
Fire is burning
Man pull your own weight
Fire is burning
Man pull your own weight

Natty dread rides again
Go deh Dready, go deh Dready, go deh
Oh ride Natty ride
Natty dread rides again
Go deh Dready, go deh, go deh Dready, go deh
Riding thru the storm
And we riding thru the calm
Go deh, go deh
We riding thru the thick
We riding thru the thin Ride Natty, ride Natty

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
We're so ignorant
Every time they can reach us
Thru political strategy
They keep us hungry
When you gonna get some food
Your brother got to 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

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
Well what we know
Is not what they tell us
We're not ignorant, I mean it
And they just could not touch us
Thru the powers of the most high
We keep on surviving

Ambush in the night
Planned by society
Ambush in the night
They are trying to conquer me
Ambush in the night
Anything money can bring
Ambush in the night
Planned by society
Ambush in the night

Wake up and live ya 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 complicate your mind
Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy
Don't bury your thoughts
Put your vision to reality, yeah!

All together now
Wake up and live, wake up and live
wake up and wake up and live
Wake up and live now
Wake up and live

Rise ye mighty people
There is work to be done
So lets do it little by little
Rise frome your sleepless slumber
We're more than the sand on the
Seashore we're more than numbers

All together now
Wake up and live now
Wake up and live
Wake up and live now
Wake up and live

You see one, one cocoa full a basket
Whey they use you live big today
Tomorrow you bury ina casket
One one cocoa full a basket
Whey they 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

How is it feeling over there
Wake up feeling wake up
Wake up, wake up
Wake up, wake up, come on man
you got to wake up and live
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up