Soo Tall - Zion I

Gotta get up, gotta go to work

Work so hard that your back all hurt

Hurt so bad cause you work so hard

Pick that cotton, work that yard

Yard is hard cause the sun beat down

Down beatin sun makes shoulders brown

Shoulders brown and they might get burnt

Masses whip if your back all hurt

Hurts my family to live like dirt

Like dirt live in the streets for show

Winch your mast, I need that dough

That dough needs so my kids can grow

Grown kids can don’t stand like me

Be real tall for the world to see

See my world is world be free but my free world is conspiracy

Young and black and proud like me

Black and proud, stop crowding me

Crowding got clouds over me

One day you’ll be soo tall

Move back, move back that morning sun

Shine this light for everyone

That light gon' shine, them clouds is done

One day you’ll be soo tall

Gotta fight back and I’m pressed all up

Against that wall and my life is stuck

Stuck like this, I’mma stay fucked up

Fucked up state when the beat don’t bump

Don’t beat bump when you feel that thump

In your chest cause you’re blessed with funk

Funk with blessings ain’t it pumped

Momma raised ya’ll for days

For days ya’ll wanna hold me down

Fit to clown up out to town

Town about the world to struggle

Struggle made me, stronger bubble

Bubble’s stronger, lasted longer

Pray to God, gotta make me calmer

Calmer make me, take me higher

Babies need they pacifier

Father made me better rhymer

Rhymin better, living kinder

Kinder living for the city

Sinning with them tig ole bitties

How’s it diddy, lookin' pretty

Pretty lookin got me shookin

Make some lovin', keep it cookin

Cookin keep it, come on peep it

Love’s the reason, we all need it

Needed are we, Robert Marley

Said one love now it’s time to party

Get on down like Gras de Mardi

Love to each and everybody

Everybody love to each

Try to hear you with that speech

Cause life is harder than a peach

When you’re young and black and proud like me

Black and proud, stop crowding me

Crowding got clouds over me

One day you’ll be soo tall

Move back, move back that morning sun

Shine this light for everyone

That light gon' shine, them clouds is done

One day you’ll be soo tall