Babylon Is Falling - Jonathan Emile, Maxi Priest

Babylon Is Falling

Babylon Is Falling

Babylon Falling

Babylon Falling (this year/my dear)

Babylon a babylon a fall

Babylon’s Falling

Babylon’s Falling

Seen?

(Verse 1)

Most of us can’t realize

Our worth, pon this earth

Downpressorman a Capitalize

He give you piece of the pie

To close ounu eyes, seen?

This cant maintain some things are too strange

We need our seed

To grow against the grain, hey

Empires will crumble and fade away,

Or we’ll all

Have to change

Either way Jah

(Verse 2)

The challenges of today are the problems of tomorrow

I am the pain that insists when the people feel no sorrow

F**k the punch lines, I skip in the cut and get the juice myself;

I’m writing what’s necessary not exactly what you felt.

Yo I’m blacker than the stealth.

Am I way over your Head?

I guess I’m flyer in the darkness, you ain’t catching what I said,

Like you, hearing impaired I rhyme in dialectics,

Some brothers they ain’t feeling my style like anesthetics.

Yo I’m sharp up in the cut I dull down the blade why?

So like liquor stores in the ghetto I’m easy to come by,

But the message never weaken like the cell phone when you speaking,

In the tunnel funnel issues through grooves to my peeps and

I savour the moment cause the present is delicious

The penalty that is paid is a cycle that is so vicious

We salute the people dying in fields showing their bravery

And neglect that fact that all democracies are built on slavery.

(Bridge)

People working every day… eh eh Who you a work for?

What you work toward?

People buying things away… eh eh Who you buy from, What are the outcomes?

People always run away… Dem a fi run, Dem a fi run, Why dem a run away?

When will my brethren fight and stay?

When will the people say?