Answer to Your Name

[00:01.51] Like to tell you a story about a girl I know
[00:05.15] Or should I say a girl I used to know
[00:07.88] 1971 inna England
[00:09.63] Fresh off the plane to my dame inna Brixton
[00:12.36] No, she never ask 'bout flight
[00:14.15] Two month now no telegram write
[00:15.99] Hey, she send taxi fi I
[00:17.72] She gone a some house party tonight
[00:19.66] So call me artical like
[00:21.47] Make a few call get a couple invite
[00:24.15] Inna the place me gone
[00:25.96] Never left yard from the day me born
[00:27.70] Right up front who me staring pon
[00:29.57] You can tell say a she by the way she gwaan
[00:32.23] Christine, Christina, Crystal
[00:34.00] Try all a dem and she still never respond
[00:35.87] Understand, catch a pree from a distance
[00:37.65] Man hand gone inna pants fi a six pance
[00:40.52] Whoa, tuff guys beside her
[00:41.30] She naa reply when I say hi to her
[00:44.05] So dem go try bring violence in the parr
[00:45.81] Need I remind these kind that I nuh war
[00:48.57] So me turn fi walk away
[00:49.41] But a likkle voice in my head start talk to me
[00:52.16] Tell me walk right pass her
[00:53.98] To the sound, take the mic and ask her
[00:55.79] Girl, why don't you answer to your name?
[01:03.97] Girl, why don't you answer to your name?
[01:11.10] And girl I know you see me
[01:12.93] And you know I see you too
[01:14.71] So what is it gonna be
[01:17.41] Tell me what you wanna do
[01:19.38] What's with this great mystery?
[01:21.10] After all that we been through
[01:22.95] Now you're refusing to look my way, eh
[01:27.45] My little darling
[01:28.35] Know she stay so from morning
[01:31.05] Where she grew was appalling
[01:32.88] Want fi make it right so she take the flight
[01:34.82] Heard the city lights calling
[01:36.22] From the day she been crawling
[01:38.33] All she hear 'bout is foreign
[01:41.08] Say we a keep the link
[01:41.93] Now wah me fi think see the plans dem sinking deep
[01:44.71] New year reach
[01:45.52] Accent gone pon all part a you speech
[01:47.33] Don Gorgon dem u waa fi go meet
[01:49.18] Like she be the real topanaris a street
[01:51.87] Please, watch how me calmness a do it
[01:53.65] Naa bat a lid, as a morning I leave
[01:56.49] But how me fi walk right pass you miss
[01:58.23] Haffi look inna you eye and ask you this
[02:00.18] Girl, why don't you answer to your name?
[02:08.17] Girl, why don't you answer to your name?
[02:15.26] And girl I know you see me
[02:17.74] And you know I see you too
[02:19.16] So what is it gonna be
[02:21.55] Tell me what you wanna do
[02:23.11] What's with this great mystery?
[02:25.67] After all that we been through
[02:26.87] Now you're refusing to look my way, eh
[02:33.12] And I know you know what I'm talking about
[02:35.98] Girl see you in the crowd and act like she don't know
[02:39.85] But me naa take no stylin', no punkin' or no joke
[02:43.41] Tryna keep 'em on a low, huh
[02:47.04] Girl why you do it? (Girl why you do it?)
[02:49.32] Girl why you do it? (Girl why you do it?)
[02:50.77] No it no sweet (No it no sweet)
[02:53.49] No it no sweet (No it no sweet)
[02:55.40] Girl why you do it? (Girl why you do it?)
[02:57.40] No it no sweet (No it no sweet)
[02:58.92] Girl why you do it? (No you shouldn't do it)
[03:02.53] Say, what make you do it? (Girl why you do it?)
[03:05.09] What make you do it? (Girl why you do it?)
[03:06.96] No that no sweet (No it no sweet)
[03:09.04] No that no sweet (No it no sweet)
[03:11.00] What make you do it? (Girl why you do it?)
[03:12.99] You should not do it (No it no sweet)
[03:14.83] Girl why you do it? (No you shouldn't do it)
[03:19.78] Girl, why don't you answer to your name?
[03:27.45] Girl, why don't you answer to your name?
[03:37.43] This girl wanna know if I'm tiny (If I'm tiny, tiny, tiny)
[03:41.62] Acting like she was mine (You know you were mine)
[03:46.62] Unkind
[03:48.99] You say yo (Yo)
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