Yaad N Abraad - Monkey Marc, Dre Island

Yea yea yea yea yea, Rastafari know

Same thing weh happen a yaad, it gwaan abraad

Same thing weh happen a yaad, it gwaan abraad

Oh lord!

I say

Same thing weh happen a yaad gwaan abraad

Same thing weh happen a yaad gwaan abraad

Well we no mix up, we no mingle with no guy we no know

Straight family man par wid so watch your approach

I nah tun off from the mission

King Selassie is I gold

I’m begging every ghetto youths no sell out your soul

And repatriate your mind

Africa is the goal

Straight like an arrow, Rasta never lean — oh no!

I nuh want not a spliff from a guy me no know — watch it!

Nuh go hear Dre Island drunk or parrow

Live inna glass house, them say you no fi throw stone

So I know we haffi trod out a Rome and know the road code

I man say

Same thing weh happen a yaad, it gwaan abraad

Same thing weh happen a yaad, it gwaan abraad

Oh Lord!

I say

Same thing weh happen a yaad gwaan abraad

Same thing weh happen a yaad gwaan abraad

Light bill, water bill, everybody cry

Gas rate, land tax gone sky high

Corruption, destruction, political cry

More guns than shelters for the homeless child

Diseases have yuh wheezing and yuh don’t know why

Coughing till yuh throat sore, no cure in sight

Oppression, depression make gunshot fly

Worst when pickney want food and that cyaan find

Blood still a flow just like the River Nile

Daytime colder than the nighttime

Policemen a roam street say them a fight crime

Still no truth cyaan read pan the primetime

So physically mentally you affi strong

Can’t weak heart when you out inna Babylon

Got to stay focus and know your direction

'Cause outta Rome full up a nuff demon

Same thing weh happen a yaad, it gwaan abraad

Same thing weh happen a yaad, it gwaan abraad

Oh Lord!

I say

Same thing weh happen a yaad, gwaan abraad

Same thing weh happen a yaad, gwaan abraad

I hear youths crying for justice, for justice

Yet you give them religion injustice

Just justice, just justice, just justice

Yet you bring I division, not justice

Same thing weh happen a yaad, gwaan abraad