The Message

[00:07.60] I've heard and I've listened
[00:09.30] They've said and they've repeated
[00:10.47] Told me their truth and lies
[00:12.47] And tried to make me eat it
[00:13.84] Learn it and then eventually repeat it
[00:17.62] Like I'm a machine
[00:18.78] A vessel for the message
[00:21.41] I speak my mind
[00:22.52] I use my words like a weapon
[00:24.75] Dem can't test cause I'm solid like a lion
[00:29.74] You hear that revolution sound
[00:33.22] It goes a little bit something like this now
[00:36.85] Bum de dum dum dum
[00:38.09] To the beat of the drum
[00:38.83] Bum de dum dum dum
[00:40.57] Goes the war drum
[00:42.26] You think you're teaching me violence
[00:46.39] Jah guide with love
[00:49.73] You think you fill me with malice
[00:53.37] Jah guide with love
[00:57.17] Bum de dum dum dum
[00:58.85] To the beat of the drum
[01:00.27] Bum de dum dum dum
[01:01.30] Goes the war drum
[01:03.67] Bum de dum dum dum
[01:05.13] To the beat of the drum
[01:07.11] Bum de dum dum dum
[01:08.37] Goes the war drum
[01:13.26] As soon as the little yout dem come out di womb
[01:16.83] Labeled a threat so dem deh inna di war too
[01:19.80] Indoctrination, state education
[01:23.55] Incarceration paid for by corporations
[01:26.81] I speak my mind
[01:28.47] I use my words like a weapon
[01:30.41] Dem can't test cause I'm solid like a lion
[01:34.17] You hear that revolution sound
[01:39.89] It goes a little bit something like this now
[01:42.09] You think you're teaching me violence
[01:44.58] Jah guide with love
[01:48.50] You think you fill me with malice
[01:51.83] Jah guide with love
[01:55.21] Bum de dum dum dum
[01:56.92] To the beat of the drum
[01:58.78] Bum de dum dum dum
[02:00.10] Goes the war drum
[02:02.25] Bum de dum dum dum
[02:03.66] Goes the beat of the drum
[02:06.45] Bum de dum dum dum
[02:08.15] Goes the war drum
[02:12.38] We have to tell them again
[02:15.03] We have to tell them again
[02:20.62] I do defy
[02:25.23] You'll never deny
[02:26.08] My time to rise
[02:27.14] Shine a light
[02:28.31] I swear this on my life
[02:29.82] Your resistance to love is useless and futile
[02:34.43] We'll tear down the walls of the wicked and vile
[02:38.18] Dis a one goes out to the real people dem
[02:40.78] Keep that fist high in the air, change is coming
[02:43.15] From London to Berlin
[02:44.90] New York to Accra
[02:46.84] Johannesburg to Kingston, Jamaica
[02:49.48] ATX stand up
[02:50.76] You think you're teaching me violence
[02:55.66] Jah guide with love
[02:59.34] You think you fill me with malice
[03:03.06] Jah guide with love
[03:06.44] Bum de dum dum dum
[03:08.21] To the beat of the drum
[03:09.96] Bum de dum dum dum
[03:11.67] Goes the war drum
[03:13.42] Bum de dum dum dum
[03:15.38] Goes the beat of the drum
[03:16.96] Bum de dum dum dum
[03:18.91] Goes the war drum
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