Don't Wanna Be A Memory - Mavado

Selassie I

Ah Jah alone

Woah, no

So

I don’t want to be at the wayside

For the hypocrites come cry at my graveside

I don’t want to be

Don’t want to be a memory

Please Jah protect me from my enemies

So

I don’t want to be at the wayside

You no see them want come cry at your graveside

I don’t want to be

Don’t want to be a memory

Please Jah protect me from my enemies

Them say the brave don’t live forever

But the cautious don’t live at all

Be careful of the ones

Who want fi see you fall

Me still stand up pon mi foot dem

All know me haffi know where fi put them, yeah

The man stand in the sky

Them want fi see me die

But me overlook them

Me them wan fi blow like paper

Mi nuh no what me do dutty nigga

Ah true me dress clean every day

Them ah watch me make cream every day

As the star in the sky

Them can’t see me die

Nah go inna no grave

So

I don’t want to be at the wayside

For the hypocrites come cry at my graveside

I don’t want to be

Don’t want to be a memory

Please Jah protect me from my enemies

So

I don’t want to be at the wayside

You no see them want come cry at your graveside

I don’t want to be

Don’t want to be a memory

Please Jah protect me from my enemies

Me eyeball ah the sharpest weapon

Look, fi soul dem deh pon

Yeah, some of them sell you out

Fi police shell you out

No trust them fi a second

Me know really know what them reckon

Me music ah kick them like Beckham

Damn, nah want me start glow

Nah wan me cash flow

Give them something fi check on

Them can’t stop mi shine

Definitely can’t stop me time

Work so hard, give me what’s mine

Them can’t stop me star from shine

So

I don’t want to be at the wayside

For the hypocrites come cry at my graveside

I don’t want to be

Don’t want to be a memory

Please Jah protect me from my enemies

So

I don’t want to be at the wayside

You no see them want come cry at your graveside

I don’t want to be

Don’t want to be

Don’t want to be

(Please Jah protect me from my enemies)

Yeah

(I don’t want to be at the wayside) Gully god

(Cry at my graveside) Ah just the road weh me trod

(Don't wanna be a memory)

Man a stop hustle for the paper… no, no, no

(I don’t want to be at the wayside)

No, no, no

(Cry at my graveside)

(Don't wanna be a memory)

(Please Jah protect me from my enemies.)