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This Revolution
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This revolution
This revolution
This revolution won’t be televised
They’ll be no lock dressers on hand
To keep your natty looking bonified
With jojoba and shea butter blends
No make up artists running at your side
To make you look hot, fresh, in demand
No stylist providing one of a kind
Crocheted ice, gold, green crowns and tams
No kente cloth - Itiopia inspired designer ware straight from motherland
You won’t need that custom-made bling, Iya
No iced-out ankhs or 14-carat gold bands
Dem vanities gon burn up in the fyah
And all that’s left will be your righteous stand
This revolution
This revolution
This revolution won’t be civilized
Intellectualizing while you’re sipping fine wine (hmmm)
Sitting back, legs crossed while you proselytize
Over gourmet meals dining by candlelight (mmmmm)
This revolution won’t Irie vibes (Irie I…One love)
Smoking that kush while you chant pon the mic (no, no, no)
No sound system 8 speaker boxes high
No laptop DJ saving your life
This revolution won’t be publicized
Calling all rebels busy behind the scenes, yeah (righteous)
No red carpet or afterparty vibes
The taste of revolution is bittersweet
Won’t be announced on air or streaming live
This ain’t no contest for popularity
This revolution
This revolution
We have to know just what we’re fighting for
We have to know just what we’re working towards
We have to know just where we’re coming from
We have to know exactly who we are
If we gon win this battle, I say
If we gon make this world a better place
If we gon stand up to hypocrisy
If we gon make our people free-ee
This revolution
This revolution
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2. |
Why
03:30
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Why…why is that those who aren’t Rastafari,
Why, always have something to say about INI?
I Rastafari, I’m a dawta of His Majesty
I don’t negotiate, debate about I livity,
and if you don’t agree…well it nah bother me
You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink
Rasta don’t convert ah one… or impose Zion
Who feels it, knows it,… it’s INI philosophy
For some the vision comes……as revelation, inna dream
Rastafari’s not for da blind,… it’s for the ones who want fi see
The more you fight against the Rastaman and Rasta Wombman….
It only makes I stronger and walk more militant.
I never overstand, dem talk love but in their actions
They hate the rastaman and yet dey love everything bout him
They love the image, love the music, love the ganja
Love the Rasta wombmen, love the dreadlocks, love the patios
They love the one love rhetoric, they love the rebellion
They love the island that the rasta movement originally come from
They love the red, gold and the green paraphernalia
Dem love fi act like rastaman, straight imitation
But before you turn ya back,…dem already ah talkin’
Love Rastaman so much come like dem jealous they can’t be one
And all the while, the Rastaman hold ah meditation
chant dem psalms and plant dem herbs inna dem garden
Study ourstory.. while we grow our vegetation
Honor Sellassie, Empress Menen, balance and creation
Love Afrika and reason bout repatriation
Have faith one day victory is onna the horizon
We light the chalice and we burn out wicked Babylon
Every now and then,… we sing a likkle song
And oh, I say…
Why…why is that those who aren’t Rastafari,
Why…always have something to say about INI
King Sellassie say that Misguided people…
H.I.M. say sometimes they create misguided ideas….
Like when selecta say dem spinning Roots and Kulcha…
Some think that it’s just music and not a lived experience
Or like the fool …who forgets the roots he comes from
And of the tree, he only praises fruit that fall down
Detach the body and the mind, from the spirit
You can’t detach the livity from those who really live it
Many.. don’t overstand the true origins of
Of what this movement stands for and what it upholds
Rastafari’s more than peace and love,… more than a religion
It’s Afrikan Liberation,… it’s Black Man Redemption
Why, why is that those who aren’t Rastafari,
Why, always have something fi say about INI
Why, INI humble, we don’t force or proselytize, no-oh-oh
Why…INI just Rastafari live I lives
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3. |
Giving Thanks
03:47
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Giving thanks and praises to the Most High Qedamawi Haile Sellassie, Empress Menen I praise Rastafari
Every chant, every song, that I sing, I give thanks for this life and blessings it brings. I’m giving thanks for everything, for everything
Chorus
Everyday, Everyday, Everyday with Sellassie as I guide
Everyday, Everyday, Everyday with Sellassie as I guide
Everyday, Everyday, Everyday with Sellassie as I guide
Everyday, Everyday, Everyday with Sellassie as I guide
Every mornin’ I open my eyes
And see clouds up above and blue skies
And on days when rains
And lightnin’ strikes
Every time I’m giving thanks for life
Every day that I am healthy and able
Every day there is food on the table,
Every day that I work for I living
And I’ve enough to be sharin’ and givin’
Every breath that I breathe it reminds me
There’s a heart that is beating inside me
I’m connected to all that’s around me
To the air, to the trees to the sea
To the folks I don’t know passing by me
To the stars in some far off galaxy
Every day with Sellassie as I guide
Every time I’m giving thanks for life
Everyday, Everyday, Everyday with Sellassie as I guide
Everyday, Everyday, Everyday with Sellassie as I guide
Everyday, Everyday, Everyday with Sellassie as I guide
Everyday, Everyday, Everyday with Sellassie as I guide
Giving thanks for the good, it’s a blessing
And for the bad, cause I learn from the lessons
Hills and valleys
In the dark there is always light
Every time I’m giving thanks for life
Good over evil will prevail so Jah say
And though life’s full of pleasure and pain
There’s a reason for it all, this I pray
Time don’t stop, so I’m ready for change
Try fi stand up inna love, me nah fall
When I rise, I know peace in I heart
If I fight, it’s for right, and not fi wrong
Help the weak, bless the poor, keep dem strong
In this world do Jah will, not no harm
Like every note, every rhyme, in every song
Let your spirit and your heart be aligned
With every thought and every word, keep in mind
That a man is what he thinketh, manifests
Feed the spirit with a psalm, lest we forget
Every day with Sellassie as I guide
Every time I’m giving thanks for life
Everyday, Everyday, Everyday with Sellassie as I guide
Everyday, Everyday, Everyday with Sellassie as I guide
Everyday, Everyday, Everyday with Sellassie as I guide
Everyday, Everyday, Everyday with Sellassie as I guide
Giving thanks and praises to the Most High Qedamawi Haile Sellassie, Empress Menen I praise Rastafari
Every chant, every yant, every song I sing, I give thanks for this life and blessings it brings
For the sun, the stars and the moon and the sky
For da youth who see the world inna different eyes
For a family that extends beyond the blood
For a livity that was built in the name of love
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Balance
03:15
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Knowledge and wisdom
Man and woman
Alpha and Omega
Balance, balance
Jah Jah say “Behold her”,
wisedome...she is feminine
And she must embrace him,
knowledge...he is masculine
One without the other,
there’s no innerstanding
Knowledge without wisdom
Is like water in the sand
Ababa Jahnoy,
Qadamawe Haile Sellassie
Was Crowned with Empress Menen Asfaw 1st,
Queen of Kings
True balance displayed
pon the world stage for all to see
INI must follow
the righteous example in this livity
Knowledge and wisdom
Man and woman
Alpha and Omega
Balance, balance
When a king have a queen
This is righteous complemetarity
If a man have a dream
A wombman can make it reality
From two comes three
From creation comes family
And without Him and Her
There’s no Rastafari livity
Knowledge and wisdom
Man and woman
Alpha and Omega
Balance, balance
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5. |
This World
04:06
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This World that we're living in
This war that we're fighting
This World....
Wicked Babylon is on fire
Haffi run for our lives
Unno stay behind the fire burn yah
Tell me where do I go
That dem wicked wont know
They been tryna put their shackles around my soul
I go dis way and dat
Can't shake dem off my back
Don't get weary gotta keep I eyes open
I won't stop til I'm free
No they'll never catch me
Fyah bun dis Babylon Shitsdem
CHORUS
This World that we're living in
This war that we're fighting
This World....
Like a thief in that nite
Like these thirsty vampires
Coming in from every direction
Using tricknology yeah they following me
It's like dem tryna put dem shackles around my feet
Who dis stranger
I see taking pictures of me
(UP) Privacy today (UP) is a luxury
Don't matter where I roam
cause they tracking my phone
But King Sellassie break the chains so I don't walk alone
This World that we're living in
This war that we're fighting
This World....
Rasta elders said go live in the da hills
With your kingman and build
Leave behind the wretched and the wordly
Said be fruitful be kind
Donchu pay dem no mind
Followin' n da footprints of his and her majesty (in the path of INI King and Queen)
This is spiritual war comin' straight to your door
Be sure to keep ur hands and ur heart clean
what dem wicked don't know
like the head cornerstone
I'm protected by the ones who came before me
This World that we're living in
This war that we're fighting
This World....
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Oh gosh! Alpha & Omega!!!!!
So many fighting
With what they want to be
Instead of facing INI reality
Like love and hate
Like peace and war
For balance to exist
There must be opposites
I don’t wear rose-colored glasses
No I don’t want to be colorblind
For I love the skin I’m in
Accept that which is different
I must clear vision
I must good sight
I must have real vision
I must real eyes
I must true sight
So I can realize
Real Eyes Realize
Real Eyes Realize
I won’t sing a song of one love and unity
And forget Afrika and Afrikans aren’t free yet
Black is the bass, white is the echo
Shades of gray resonate
The spectrum only elevates
I won’t participate in fantasy and lies
I third eye won’t allow it
Too many fought and died
Speaking truth to power
I use I voice, can’t waste no time
If we’re to liberate with freedom chants
And bring the light
Oh, we must have clear vision
we must good sight
we must real vision
we must have real eyes
We must have true sight
So we can realize
Real Eyes Realize
Real Eyes Realize
We’ve come to liberate
with freedom chants
Rhythm and dance
INI elevate when we stand up
For truth and rights
We eliminate hate
When we honor the past, ourstory
We don’t want to repeat
The hypocrisy of history
Steppin’ into future
With intelligence and memory
Living what is real
And not delusion, lies and trickery
Freedom isn’t comfortable
And freedom isn’t nice
Liberty is won
With fortitude and sacrifice
Those who speak the truth
Don’t have no company and friends
No love for false modesty
No time to pretend
Once you face reality
Now you can make amends
Forgiveness may follow
But we’ll never forget, no
When you close your eyes to sleep
Blackness is all you see
As vivid as a blue sky
Blinding as a white light
Faithful as His Majesty
As right as Rasta livity
If INI want to be free
Then INI must choose to see
With Clear Eyes, Realize
Real Eyes Realize
Real Eyes Realize
Real Eyes Realize
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In the city
The concrete jungle
Iron City
A constant hustle
Ruthless city (go up)
Where does a lion run free?
In the city
It’s a constant hustle
Iron City
In a concrete jungle
Ruthless city (go up)
Ah charge you ah go charge man fe breathe?
Nuff confusion
All this illu-shu-un
They use and abusing
Was nevah InI choosing
Oh, what a pollution!
So much filth and corruption
Flood the streets with deception
Rasta bettah know your direction
In the city
The concrete jungle
Iron City
A constant hustle
Ruthless city (go up)
Where does a lion run free?
In the city
It’s a constant hustle
Iron City
In a concrete jungle
Ruthless city (go up)
Ah charge you ah go charge man fe breathe?
Never-ending construction
It’s a mask to destruction
Deliberate distractions
And all the baseless attractions
Leave out of the city
Cah’life ain’t no pretty
For the youth dem I pity
Born into the den of iniquity
In the city
The concrete jungle
Iron City
A constant hustle
Ruthless city (go up)
Where does a lion run free?
In the city
It’s a constant hustle
Iron City
In a concrete jungle
Ruthless city (go up)
Ah charge you ah go charge man fe breathe
Say you’re looking for freedom
Revolution, rebellion
Get up, rise up and fight on
You haffi stand up pon your own land
Grow your food, be efficient
And righteously self-sufficient
Learn to be interdependent
On your bredren and your sistren
In the city
The concrete jungle
Iron City
A constant hustle
Ruthless city (go up)
Where does a lion run free?
In the city
It’s a constant hustle
Iron City
In a concrete jungle
Ruthless city (go up)
Ah charge you ah go charge man fe breathe
Where does a lion run free?
How can a lion run free?
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8. |
Ganja Tune
03:29
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They say a chalice a day keep the doctah away
Well u can’t prove it?
We haffi tell the whole story about the herb
If INI endorse it
The ganja is a blessing from di earth
Don’t forsake it or abuse it
I said I wanna sing a different kinda ganja tune
kinda song that u never knew
I want to sing a different kinda ganja tune
Every song the same, nothing new under the sun and moon
I wanna talk about how we must build the nation
And how the ganja gonna fund the education
Of our youth that we sending to failed institutions
An how we gonna use the ganga for bettah solutions
For Uplifting the community and the resurrection
Of a people who ah suffer poverty, indoctrination
For my people, this system don’t have no good intentions
And I know say that the herb is the healing of the nation
But INI nah get nowhere smoking away our problems
While the profits go to government and greedy corporations
Ah me nah wanna hear the same ole ganga tune
Or how much the ganja smoke ah make the man dem swoon
Sounding like you love the ganja more than you love your people
Ganja is for liberation not for sedating the sheeple
A chalice a day keep the doctah away
Well u can’t prove it?
I said We haffi be the herb connoisseur, yeah
If INI ah use it
I say the ganja is a blessing from above
Don’t forsake it or abuse it
I said I wanna sing a different kinda ganja tune
Kinda song that you never knew
Don’t wanna hear another song about the high grade makka
Unless we talking ‘bout how high we gonna trade stock options
I say, put down the spliff and lift up level, brick and mortar
And set the foundation for Sellassie I sons and dawtas
Decriminalization, yes, we need fi legalize it
And keep the poor from unjustly being penalized still
Ganja-smokin’ ain’t for ev-er-y man or every woman
How can INI use the sacred herb from top to bottom?
The stem, the stalk, the branches and leaves make healthful tonic
Not just the Flowers and the buds which some callin’ da chronic
Medicinal healing, boom economy it offer
But yet routine rolling can cause unfavorable outcomes
I beg ur pardon but me nah jump on the weed bandwagon
Rastafari is ah movement so we nah gonna stay stagnant
And if we use it wisely, enough philosophizing
Time fi Rasta mansions come together and start Organizing
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Black wombman civilization
Black wombman civilization
Black wombman civilized nations
Black wombman
Mother of creation
Opening to outer dimensions
She is a vessel of life
Bringing forth INI precious design
When you sight a wombman
She is more than flesh and bone (more than flesh and bones)
When you sight Black Wombman
You must search Iritical (search Iritical)
Go beyond the physical
Tell me, can’t you see her spirit?
Shining bright before you
I know you feel it, ay-yeah
Black wombman civilization
Black wombman Civilization
Black wombman civilized nations
Black Wombman
Mother of a nation
From one wombman
A million more come
The feminine vibration
Perfect compliment to masculine
One third of the trinity
Trinity of man, wombman, child
She’s something like divinity
She is the air that you can’t breathe without
Keeper of the family
Jah know, her work is never easy
She is the root of a living tree
The fruit that she bares is a blessing
Black wombman civilization
Black wombman civilization
Black wombman civilized nations
Black wombman
Lionness of Black Afrika
Nana is a fierce warrior
Black earth she is the foundation
Mama is the root of creation
Sacred energy that she possess
She is wisdom manifest in flesh
From the very depths of her dark soul
Are the mysteries of life untold
Black wombman civilization
Black wombman root of creation
Black wombman Afrikan nation
Black wombman emancipation
Black wombman illumination
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10. |
You
03:04
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You, You, Oh You
You’re gonna make me love you
If you keep doing what you do
Just be yourself and not no one else eh
You are enough, hey!
you’re movin’ I heavens
You’re gonna make me choose you
You got me breakin’ all my rules
Seems like this time they,
just don’t apply and
Why draw the line if INI could fly?
You’re gonna make me want you
I’ve already had a dream or two
Of INI climbing
Heights so divine and
Can you imagine what that’d be like?
I don’t mind takin’ time to know you
Movin’ too fast is how we lose
I wanna get it right ‘cause
we only know this life
so if’s you, I won’t deny
It’s the way you be
puts me at ease
And though you giving I fever
U comin’ like a cool summer breeze
You, oh you…I like you
Oh I do…yes, I do
I like you just the way you are
So don’t change
Please stay… the same
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Vanity is Wickedness
Vanity is Sorrow
Vanity is emptiness
And leaves no hope for tomorrow
In their House of Vanity
Bet Awen
In your House of Vanity
Bet Awen
Most of their churches are houses of Idols
Preachers ranting dem Falsehoods to sheeple
Congregation don’t praise The Almighty
But Worship poor-traits by Michelangelo
In my heart, if I cherish sin
then I know, Jah Jah won’t listen
In the Bible it is written
That the church is not a building, no
It say that the temple of the living God,
the temple of the living God, Selassie I is within
In their House of Vanity
Bet Awen
In your House of Vanity
Bet Awen
Rastafari lead I far from those who will claim
That they are the only righteous ones
Oh Jah Jah, please don’t let I be vain
In the way that I glorify H.I.M. name
In my heart, if I cherish sin
then I know, Jah Jah I won’t listen
Vanity is Wickedness
Vanity is Sorrow
Vanity is emptiness
And leaves no hope for tomorrow
Wendemoche Hoy
Imnet Al-legn Yemeel
Serra gin Yeleil-lew sew bee nor
Min YiTeq-mewwal?
Inmet-tus, leeyad-dinew …Yichilalin???
In their House of Vanity
Bet Awen
In your House of Vanity
Bet Awen
In their House of Vanity
Bet Awen
In your House of Vanity
Bet Awen
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12. |
Like Dew
03:09
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“You are like dew
Even before it rains.” (Ethiopian proverb)
Wet with anticipation
Of future happenings
Whispered temptations
Condensing then overflowing
Precipitating love’s creation
From possible things
I have no proof
That we once met
Just a sensation
A fleeting moment
Remembered
An ever-knowing
As time stood still
Gravity pulled
Caused an explosion
And INI came into being
Fate testifying
And I’m so happy that
I willed you into my life
Yes, I’m so happy that
You willed I into your life
Never imagined I
Could feel an energy like this
Oh, I’m so grateful
For life, eh
For life/love, eh
A promise is a cloud;
Fulfillment is rain (Afrikan proverb)
Sweet whispers of “could be”, fall softly
But yield abundant gains
natural attraction
Reciprocal embrace
Releasing river of desire
There’s no escaping
And I’m so happy that
I willed you into my life
Yes, I’m so happy that
You willed I into your life
Never imagined I
Could feel an energy like this
Oh, I’m so grateful
For life, eh
For life/love, eh
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13. |
This (Dub) Revolution
06:11
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14. |
Why Dub
03:30
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15. |
Giving Thanks Dub
03:47
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16. |
Balance Dub
03:05
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17. |
This World Dub
04:06
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Ganja Tune Dub
03:29
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You Dub
03:04
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24. |
Like Dew Dub
03:08
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