Afrikan Children

[00:12.41] Woo-hoo
[00:13.63] African children, from the old and new generation
[00:17.81] You better get yourself together
[00:20.47] This is the 2020 revelation
[00:23.59] Remember now what's your purpose
[00:25.99] And Jah Rastafari nuh desert us, never
[00:28.99] Get caught up inna di circus
[00:31.52] One more century full of work to do
[00:34.03] So, nothing is holding you back
[00:39.29] Brother, come mek we chat about my Africa
[00:44.15] I tell ya, nothing, nothing is holding you back
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[00:54.74] Notes of a native son who's always been the most hated one
[00:58.20] And learned too young to never turn away and run
[01:00.89] And how whichever see these souls just never grows
[01:03.42] He's waiting on a hero to come who never shows
[01:06.09] A soaking rag with an hourglass broke in half
[01:08.85] Black snowflakes from ash of a smoking flag
[01:11.42] That dance in the wind like bodega bags
[01:13.51] How much longer he has, man, I'm afraid to ask, listen
[01:16.72] To reach twenty exceeds expectations
[01:19.09] Where kids catch bullets and Jake don't catch cases
[01:21.67] Where lives cut short on a back-to-back basis
[01:24.25] It's the same expression attached to black faces
[01:26.84] They taught us to question everything, believe nothing
[01:29.51] The D's hunting for the ones who achieve something
[01:32.25] I heard another undergrad didn't come to class
[01:34.80] Damn, black body found below the underpass, wow
[01:38.28] African children, from the old and new generation
[01:42.26] You better get yourself together
[01:44.98] This is the 2020 revelation
[01:47.94] Remember now what's your purpose
[01:50.38] And Jah Rastafari nuh desert us, never
[01:53.32] Get caught up inna di circus
[01:56.05] One more century full of work to do
[01:58.46] So, nothing is holding you back
[02:03.71] Brother, come mek we chat about my Africa
[02:08.55] I tell ya, nothing, nothing is holding you back
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[02:18.85] God dem cyaan hold wi (Cyaan hold wi, cyaan hold wi)
[02:23.74] And Babylon cyaan hold wi (Cyaan hold wi, cyaan hold wi)
[02:28.68] None of dem cyaan hold wi, wi (Cyaan hold wi, cyaan hold wi)
[02:37.14] And Babylon cyaan hold wi (Cyaan hold wi)
[02:40.39] Cyaan hold wi (Cyaan hold wi)
[02:42.42] Babylon cyaan hold wi down (Cyaan hold wi)
[02:45.74] Cyaan hold wi nuh longer (Cyaan hold wi)
[02:48.38] Cyaan hold wi nuh longer (Cyaan hold wi)
[02:51.05] Cyaan hold wi nuh longer (Cyaan hold wi)
[02:53.63] Cyaan hold wi nuh longer (Cyaan hold wi)
[02:55.23] Cyaan hold wi nuh longer (Cyaan hold wi)
[02:56.38] Cyaan hold wi in the morning (Cyaan hold wi)
[02:58.95] Cyaan hold wi in the evening, no (Cyaan hold wi)
[03:02.05] Cyaan hold wi in the sun (Cyaan hold wi)
[03:04.27] Ayy, cyaan hold wi in the sunrise (Cyaan hold wi)
[03:06.62] Dem cyaan (Cyaan hold wi)
[03:10.81] Cyaan (Cyaan hold wi)
[03:11.01] Cyaan hold wi nuh longer (Cyaan hold wi)
[03:14.54] You better let go of me (Cyaan hold wi)
[03:17.26] You better let me go (Cyaan hold wi)
[03:19.82] You better let me go (Cyaan hold wi)
[03:22.52] Dem cyaan hold wi nuh longer (Cyaan hold wi)
[03:25.13] Dem cyaan hold wi nuh longer (Cyaan hold wi)
[03:27.71] Dem a sit around mi hand (Cyaan hold wi)
[03:30.47] You better let me go (Cyaan hold wi)
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