BACK AWAY

Back away, back away

Back away, back away

Everything negative, back away

Everything decadent, back away

Back away, back away

Back away, back away

Everything desolate, back away

Everything pessimist, back away

I never want to wear a frown

I never want to be held down 

Haile Selassie I hold my crown

Haile Selassie I defend my sound

When I was young, you were around

When I was lost, you made me found

Haile Selassie I hold my crown

Haile Selassie I word power and sound

Back away, back away

Back away, back away

Everything negative, back away

Everything decadent, back away

Back away, back away

Back away, back away

Everything desolate, back away

Everything pessimist, back away

No negative thoughts in meditation

Positive words, thoughts and inner action

I and I wont stop til dem give reparations

I and wont stop until we reach mama land

We don't want anything inna Babylon

We don't want anything inna Sodom

We don't want anything inna Vatican

I and I have everything we want so... 

.

Back away, back away

Back away, back away

Everything negative, back away

Everything decadent, back away

Back away, back away

Back away, back away

Everything desolate, back away

Everything pessimist, back away

Back, back, back, back...away

I never want to wear a frown

I never want to be held down 

Haile Selassie I hold my crown

Haile Selassie I defend my sound

When I was young, you were around

When I was lost, you made me found

Haile Selassie I hold my crown

Haile Selassie I word power and sound

Back away, back away

Back away, back away

Everything negative, back away

Everything decadent, back away

Back away, back away

Back away, back away

Everything desolate, back away

Everything pessimist, back away

EASTERN STAR

Are you a lion of the Eastern star?

I and I have seen this star in the east

For what have you come?

I and I have come to worship He

Yes, I and I have come

Will you give it to I and I?

YES I

Rays of the eastern star, rays of the eastern star

I'll follow you wherever you are, yeah

Follow you wherever you are

Rays of the eastern star, rays of the eastern star

I'll follow you wherever you are, yeah

Follow you wherever you are

You shine so bright in the darkest night I'm thinking of you tonight

Oh eastern star shine bright, bright 

You are the guiding light that leads I and I to Selassie I the First

Qedamawi tentawi 

Rays of the eastern star, rays of the eastern star

I'll follow you wherever you are, yeah

Follow you wherever you are

Rays of the eastern star, rays of the eastern star

Oh eastern star, eastern star

Slowly you awaken from within ice season

Moving forward pushing against reason

You bring the dawn from the East like a candle burning bright

And set the bitter winter to right

Like a star in the sky you shine forth

Slide into April, everything reborn

Stringing springtime along playfully

You melt away the snow and evoke a new time and season

Rays of the eastern star, rays of the eastern star

I'll follow you wherever you are, yeah

Follow you wherever you are

Rays of the eastern star, rays of the eastern star

I'll follow you wherever you are, yeah

Follow you wherever you are

You refill us with vital energy to awaken and grow

Give I and I the seeds for I and I to sow

Bless I and I with untold riches of love

You hand us the cup that will for ever overflow

From the top crown chakra to the foundation down below

Brilliant light, brilliant light

Many come thru and go

With out a glimpse of the glorious 

Ark of the covenant

Inna Ethiopia I belong

Rays of the eastern star, rays of the eastern star

I'll follow you wherever you are, yeah

Follow you wherever you are

Rays of the eastern star, rays of the eastern star

I'll follow you wherever you are, yeah

Follow you wherever you are

MURDERER

I got a phone call, from my bredda

Another gone down, he was a soldier

Him did ah hail Jah, as the Emperor

Thats why him get an ambush, by lucifer

Murderer, the blood spiller

Murderer, dem blood spiller

I dont wanna see another person

Left for dead upon the cold concrete

I dont wanna hear another sermon

All dressed in black and hear mama cry, yeah

Tomorrow comes, today goes

Whatever comes, nobody knows

Whatever grudge, just let it go

No use in killing cause Jah Jah tell we so

Murderer, the blood spiller

Murderer, the blood spiller

Blood spiller, yeah

If you take a life yours will be given

That's why you should be forgiving

Instead of disturbing with your killing

I say repent, only Jah willing

To see past your past

Make unstable stable

So fasten your mast

And rise up out the stable

Life's more than cash

Don't shed blood cause its fatal

Don't be like cain and abel

Murderer, the blood spiller

Murderer, dem blood spiller

Blood spiller, yeah

Another gun down

Another shoot out

Another funeral

Another burial

Another fatherless

Another motherless

Too much antagonist

Cut out the sacrilege

Murderer, the blood spiller

Murderer, dem blood spiller

Blood spiller, yeah

frontline rasta

Frontline rasta

There pon the frontline again

Frontline rasta

There pon the frontline again

Frontline rasta

There pon the frontline again

Frontline again, again

I’m raising up my family

Fighting for my liberty

Heathen dem rage

They never could never get to me

Heathen dem a frenemy

Empty words they’re telling me

Anywhere we go, yeah

Rastafari blessing we

They could never get the best of me

Ethiopian energy

Ready to reveal, yeah

Ancient past and memories

Won’t find me in a cemetery

Cause death is not a part of me

I may be wounded 

But onward to the victory

Frontline rasta

There pon the frontline again

Frontline rasta

There pon the frontline again

Frontline rasta

There pon the frontline again

Frontline again, again

Warriors defend it, anywhere we go

Warriors reveal it, what was hidden from the old

Warriors can feel it, all the innocent soul

Brought down to destruction, Selassie I know

Warriors conceal it, til the soldiers come home

And the shifta dem repeal it, all temptations of old

Warriors come seal it to the frontline I go

To the frontline we go

To the frontline Iyah

Frontline rasta

There pon the frontline again

Frontline rasta

There pon the frontline again

Frontline rasta

There pon the frontline again

Frontline again, again

To the frontline Iyah go

To the victory we go

Til the warriors come home

We’ll be dashing weh the comb

Dreadlock inna that zone

Warrior could not stay home

To the frontline iyah go

To the frontline I go

Til the poverty is gone

And the mental slavery done

There will be weeping and ah gnashing of the teeth inna the town

Til the sunrise never down

Til the people break the bonds

I and I will be  victorious cause good things never done

To the frontline I go...

Frontline rasta

There pon the frontline again

Frontline rasta

There pon the frontline again

Frontline rasta

There pon the frontline again

Frontline again, again

NO FEAR

Mi nuh really, mi nuh really fear no one

Mi nuh fear no witch and magician

Mi nuh fear no apparition, ahhh

Mi nuh really, mi nuh really fear no one

Mi nuh fear assassin ambition

Mi nuh fear no 44 magnum

Mi nuh really, mi nuh really fear no one

Mi nuh fear no ghost and phantasm

Mi nuh fear no apparition, ahhh

Mi nuh really, mi nuh really fear no one

Mi nuh fear cause we ah Habesha

Mi nuh fear cause we a warrior

No fear, cause the wicked yo got to disappear

No fear, no fear

They know my words now see me with my spear

Stand clear, stand clear

I'll fight the battle til the justice reappears

I'll fight the struggle gone internal Jah reveals

I'll take the sorrow turn to joy Jah mek it heal

Jah heals, Jah heals

When they cut me now, see how I heal

When they hurt me now, see how I heal

When they turn to war, see how I heal, yeah

Mi nuh really, mi nuh really fear no one

Mi nuh fear no witch and magician

Mi nuh fear no apparition, ahhh

Mi nuh really, mi nuh really fear no one

Mi nuh fear assassin ambition

Mi nuh fear no 44 magnum

Mi nuh really, mi nuh really fear no one

Mi nuh fear no ghost and phantasm

Mi nuh fear no apparition, ahhh

Mi nuh really, mi nuh really fear no one

Mi nuh fear cause we ah Habesha

Mi nuh fear cause we a warrior

No fear, no fear, no fear...

We go where you're afraid to go

We see what you're afraid to see

We do what you're afraid to do, ahhh

Be with I Jah the night is dark

The night is cold my little spark

The night is long, be with I Jah

And make me strong, make me strong

Make me strong Jah make me strong

Make me strong, Jah make me strong

Mi nuh really, mi nuh really fear no one

Mi nuh fear no witch and magician

Mi nuh fear no apparition, ahhh

Mi nuh really, mi nuh really fear no one

Mi nuh fear assassin ambition

Mi nuh fear no 44 magnum

Mi nuh really, mi nuh really fear no one

Mi nuh fear no ghost and phantasm

Mi nuh fear no apparition, ahhh

Mi nuh really, mi nuh really fear no one

Mi nuh fear cause we ah Habesha

Mi nuh fear cause we a warrior

No fear, no fear, no fear...

FOREVER JAH

As surely as the sun will rise

I will praise Jah forever

As surely as the wind it blows

I will praise Jah forever

Praise Jah forever

Hail Jah forever

Love Jah forever

Praise Jah Forever

Forever Jah…

I owe my everything to Jah

Don't watch the clothes on my body

Watch the thoughts from my mind

Don’t check the things that I have

Listen what I recite

Don’t watch the movements I be making

Check the works that are mine

Come check the works that are mine

Come and check the thoughts from my mind

I know to where I’m going cause I know where I’m from 

Been through so much tribulation

I should have given up

Bit I went through a transformation

Like phoenix from the ash 

Mastering the science of cash 

Come to win hundred meter dash 

Forever Jah…

I owe my everything to Jah

Don’t watch the shoes that I wear

Watch the things I have done

Don’t watch the cars that I drive

Watch the joy of my son

Don’t watch the people I may know

See now who I’ve become 

Come see now what I’ve become

Come and see the things I have done

Don’t watch the errors of my youth

Watch how I have grown up

Don’t watch the things that I said

Look how I have come up

Don’t listen to the naysayers

I will always love Jah

Yes I will always hail Jah

I and I we love Jah

Forever Jah…

I owe my everything to Jah

As surely as the sun will rise

I will praise Jah forever

As surely as the wind it blows

I will praise Jah forever

Praise Jah forever

Hail Jah forever

Love Jah forever

Praise Jah Forever

Forever Jah…

I owe my everything to Jah

new song

Tired of the repetition, regurgitation, imitation…

Got to sing a new song, new song

New song, new song

Don’t give me tired words and those old time lyrics

Give me something fresh on some natural mystic

Got to sing a new song, new song

New song, new song

Tired of the fraud and the old time gimmicks

Give me something real

What I speak I live it

Give me something new

Give me something different 

This Rastafari life is not for the weak

Its not about looks and how you speak

It’s an honest expression of His Majesty

Lean not on your understanding

Lean not on the rhetoric and thought

Lean not on the past cause it is past

Lean on the words from your mouth 

And the meditation from your heart

Got to sing a new song, new song

New song, new song

Don’t give me tired words and those old time lyrics

Give me something fresh on some natural mystic

Got to sing a new song, new song

New song, new song

Tired of the fraud and the old time gimmicks

Give me something real

What I speak I live it

Give me something new

Give me something different 

Rastaman is not the same as yesterday

We went through so much pain

We went through so much pain

So I adapt to the changing times

I do it every day

It happens every day

Everything’s not irie

Bablyon confusion

Is at an all time high

So we fight if off with the word and sound

See the people dem live up and want a righteous sound 

Got to sing a new song, new song

New song, new song

Don’t give me tired words and those old time lyrics

Give me something fresh on some natural mystic

Got to sing a new song, new song

New song, new song

Tired of the fraud and the old time gimmicks

Give me something real

What I speak I live it

Give me something new

Give me something different

Back to the basics the foundation must be love

His Majesty example it is excellence, oh yeah

Meshaf Qidus Igziabaher Yemesgen

Beseme Ab Wolde Menfes Qidus Adu Amlak 

no mercy

Hold on to your culture now

Hold on to your tradition

No mercy for the merciless

Woe be unto them yeah

No mercy for the merciless

Judgment be unto them yeah

Cause they have done wrong

And won't clean up their ways

They have done wrong

And won't hear what Jah seh, yeah

And on that day

Jah will say 

I know you not, get away get away

No mercy for the merciless

No way, no way

No mercy for dem, ahhh

I have done wrong

But I seek Jah face

Seek Jah face, seek Jah face

I have done wrong

I accept my mistakes

I'll do better one day

Try to do better

So to Jah I will pray

Try to do better

So now hear what I say 

And on that day

You'll get your pay

It won't matter any way

No mercy for dem, ahhh

No man is perfect

So Jah is grace

No man is perfect

So to Jah I will pray

Hold on to your culture

Be your brothers' keeper

Walk in uprightness

Woe be unto them

No mercy for dem, ahhh

No mercy for the merciless...

Cause they have done wrong

And won't clean up their ways

They have done wrong

And won't hear what Jah seh, yeah

On that day

Jah will say 

I know you not get away get away

No mercy for the merciless

No way, no way

africa I call

Hear me Africa hear me

Hear me when I call

Hear me Africa hear me

Hear me when I call

Africa I call…

From Burundi and Malawi

Cameroon, Benin and Mali

Zimbabwe and Ghana

Togo and Nigeria

Gambia and Liberia

Mauritania and Tunisia

Burkina Faso, Congo

Kenya and Morocco 

Rwanda and Libya

Ethiopia, Nigeria

Chad and Zambia

Sudan and Uganda

Guinea and Namibia 

Angola and Eritrea 

Black is the light

Up ye mighty race

Hear me Africa hear me

Hear me when I call

Hear me Africa hear me

Hear me when I call

Africa I call…

From the east to the west

From the north to the south

Those at home and abroad

Remember our story

Not false histories 

I and I story

From great Kings and Queens

To the first libraries 

And the first universities 

We were the first astronomers

And the first time travelers 

First warriors and spiritual masters 

Hear me Africa hear me

Hear me when I call

Hear me Africa hear me

Hear me when I call

Africa I call…

WARN DEM

Warn dem

I see the cliff ahead 

So I have to warn dem

So there’s no blood up on my hands

Iman ah warn dem

I see me people falling down

So I warn dem

I and I warn dem

Warn dem

I see the cliff ahead 

So I have to warn dem

So there’s no blood up on my hands

Iman ah warn dem

I see my people falling down

So I warn dem

I and I warn dem

Warn dem…

Ghetto youths they condemn

Bablyon con dem

Crooks are now the lawmen

Rasta wear the diadem 

Killers now patrolmen

Actors now ah anchormen

Liars now ah penmen

Rasta now ah businessmen

Warn dem

I see the cliff ahead 

So I have to warn dem

So there’s no blood up on my hands

Iman ah warn dem

I see my people falling down

So I warn dem

I and I warn dem

Warn dem

I see the cliff ahead 

So I have to warn dem

So there’s no blood up on my hands

Iman ah warn dem

I see me people falling down

So I warn dem

I and I warn dem

Warn dem…

It’s like a season of survivor

Down here in the city with hyena and tiger

Season of Survivor

Bablyon get crush cause they are the hooded viper

Lyrical we’re snipers

Lost in my words they wont decipher

We’re staying calm they’re getting hyper 

Warn dem

I see the cliff ahead 

So I have to warn dem

So there’s no blood up on my hands

Iman ah warn dem

I see my people falling down

So I warn dem

I and I warn dem

Warn dem

I see the cliff ahead 

So I have to warn dem

So there’s no blood up on my hands

Iman ah warn dem

I see me people falling down

So I warn dem

I and I warn dem

Warn dem…

kingdom at the end

Your kingdom’s at the end, end

Babylon kingdom at the end, end

Your kingdom’s at the end, end, end, end

There is a shout of victory yeah

Echoing thru Mt Zion, yeah

Peace unto Jerusalem

Salam unto Jerusalem

The time has come for Babylon to fall

Do you remember, do you recall?

We are the apple of His eye

Oh Mighty Most High is standing by our side

Your kingdom’s at the end, end

Babylon kingdom at the end, end

Your kingdom’s at the end, end, end, end

So let your victory shout out

To the west, east, north and south

Throughout the heavens and the earth

A joyful noise it will be heard

There will be peace in Jerusalem

Young and old will dance

And just like King David

We will dance before Jah Jah

Your kingdom’s at the end, end

Babylon kingdom at the end, end

Your kingdom’s at the end, end, end, end

doyen

Fire pon rococo 

See dem in imbroglio

Feel she we ah bozo

When we vibes dem inna Entoto

Sipping on hot cocoa

Plenty joy mi nah loco

Rastafari music circulate

Iman promote

Fire pon rococo 

See dem in imbroglio

Feel she we ah bozo

When we vibes dem inna Entoto

Sipping on hot cocoa

Plenty joy mi nah loco

Rastafari circulate

Another roadshow 

Sometime lion move solo

Anywhere we deh majordomo

Feel the Haile power

Dem get shook and ah shout mafioso

Mi nuh really eat, risotto 

Injera and a fresh coco

Ital stew where the veggies go

I and I ah doyen, champion

Stars from the 7th heaven

I ah doyen, champion, champion

bravery

Jah give wi bravery

Bravery

Jah give wi bravery

Bravery

Brave in it ah

We ah go brave in it ah

We ah go safe through the fire like

Hiroshima 

Brave in it ah

We ah go honor inna

Honor inna inna

Honor inna

We nah go fail from it

We ah go build from it

We nah go fraid from the Babylon

Get a panic

We nah go stray from Jah

We never leaving our culture

Brave in it ah

Come mek we brave in it ah

Brave in it ah

Come we go brave in it ah

Brave in it ah

Come mek we brave in it ah

Circle round them with Ark of the Covenant 

Jericho wall gone down inna moment 

Brave in it ah

Come we go brave in it ah

Brave in it ah

Come we go brave in it ah

Circle round them with Ark of the Covenant 

Babylon city gone down inna moment, yeah

Jah ah the ultimate

Jah ah the ultimate 

Jah ah the ultimate 

Rastafari give wi bravery

Bravery

Jah give wi bravery

Bravery

Jah give wi bravery

Bravery

Jah give wi bravery

Bravery

We ah go brave in it ah

We ah go safe in it ah

We ah go safe through the fire like 

I am Mesach

We nah go jail from it 

We ah go sail from it

We go strong from Mama

We go rise Iyah

We nah go down inna the war

We nah go down inna the war

Nuff Rastaman gone down inna the war

We ah great in it

We ah go straighten it 

Jah give wi bravery

Bravery

Jah give wi bravery

Bravery

Jah give wi bravery

Bravery

Jah give wi bravery

Bravery

don't sleep

Don't sleep in this time

Don’t sleep

Don’t sleep in this time

Don’t sleep

Rest your eyes at night and

Close your eyes but

Deep in your mind don't sleep

Don’t sleep, no

Don’t sleep

Don't sleep and sleep until the sunrise gone

Until the evening come and you ain't got nothing done

Don't sleep and sleep until you're

All digged and buried

And your vision hazy

Babylon lazy

So much to do so little time

So many things inna mi mind

So many things, fallen behind.

Fallen behind

Can't waste time

Don't waste time...

Don't sleep in this time

Don’t sleep

Don’t sleep in this time

Don’t Sleep

Rest your eyes at night and

Close your eyes but

Deep in your mind don't sleep

Don’t sleep, no

Don’t sleep

Don't sleep and sleep until the right time come

Sleep and sleep until your body broke down

I and I up in the morning 3 o'clock prayer done

Fari livity is a disciplined one

Rastafari livity is not a lazy one

Say, raise the banner and the bar up

Every time I say Selassie I have to stay up

Stay up, stay up, stay up, stay up

Stay up and don't sleep in this gideon time

Stay up and don’t sleep if you waan save your life

Stay up inna the time

Up inna the time, yeah

Don't sleep in this time

Don’t sleep

Don’t sleep in this time

Don’t Sleep

Rest your eyes at night and

Close your eyes but

Deep in your mind don't sleep

Don’t sleep, no

Don’t sleep