Red eye!
Blaze up di fire, yow
Anyway, yow yow yow yeh
Da one yah name
A bare war inna Babylon, yo
And dem nah provide no food fi di people dem nyam
A bare war inna Babylon, yo
Everyday dem get up and a blam, blam, blam
A bare war inna Babylon, yo
Mi nuh see seh dem a try cause starvation
A bare war inna Babylon, down yah inna Babylon
Da one yah name
Nuh pretty inna Babylon at all
Bare ugly face and a bare white squall
Well, and it nuh pretty inna Babylon at all
Everywhere mi go, mi hear di whole a di ghetto yute dem a bawl
Nuh pretty inna Babylon at all
Bare ugly face and a bare white squall
Well, and it nuh pretty inna Babylon at all
Not at all, not at all, not at all, not at all
It name man bruk
Waan work, paper short, a di talk
From Halfway Tree go straight back to Glengarf
Man bruk
Waan work, paper short, a di talk
London, Toronto, straight back to New York
Man bruk
Waan work, paper short, a di talk
Everywhere mi go, a just di same paper short
Man bruk
Waan work, paper short, a di talk
A di talk, a di talk, a di talk, a di talk, a di talk
Everywhere mi go, mi see a di same paper short, trick
Man waan it a pop it out of bus cartridge
Babylon, mi see seh dat yuh goin' dead to rahtid
'Cause a your fault mek dem paper haunted
Work 9 to 5 and can't achieve a rahtid
Going to work, all dem lunch dem haffi walk wid
Just show di paper mek nuff man get wanted
Babylon, weh di money tree planted? Yo
Man bruk
Waan work, paper short, a di talk
From Halfway Tree go straight back to Glengarf
Man bruk
Waan work, paper short, a di talk
London, Toronto, straight back to New York
Man bruk
Waan work, paper short, a di talk
Everywhere mi go, a just di same paper talk
Man bruk
Waan work, paper short, a di talk
A di talk, a di talk, a di talk, a di talk, a di talk
Babylon a tell mi 'bout say, "things get scanty"
Oh, and check di yute dem cup and plate empty
Cyan even find a 10, much less a 20
Babylon a tell mi seh di food, it nuh plenty
'Bout di food, chuck it all down over accidentally
Wuk di people dem from decade back to century
Now is millennium and you bring in elementary
From dem buy di house and now di house empty
Reggae now a plan dem, a plan fi go rent it, yo
Man bruk
Waan work, paper short, a di talk
From Halfway Tree go straight back to Glengarf
Man bruk
Waan work, paper short, a di talk
London, Toronto, straight back to New York
Man bruk
Waan work, paper short, a di talk
Everywhere mi go, a just di same paper talk
Man bruk
Waan work, paper short, a di talk
Everywhere mi go, a just di same paper talk
Nuh pretty inna Babylon at all
Bare ugly face and a bare white squall
Yo, and it nuh pretty inna Babylon at all
Everywhere mi go, mi hear di whole of di ghetto yute dem a bawl
Pretty inna Babylon at all
Bare ugly face and a bare white squall
Yo, and it nuh pretty inna Babylon at all
Not at all, not at all, not at all, not at all
Everywhere mi trod inna di London Town
Everywhere mi go, a just di same paper sound
Every ghetto yute dem waan some Sterling Pound
Ghetto yute tell mi how mi sound
Yo, when mi trod through Queens and Brooklyn
Everywhere mi walk, a just di same paper ting
Hear dem all a chant, hear dem all a sing
Every ghetto yute dem waan earn some Franklin
Dutchy carry mi and everything start to cry
Whole of dem a tell mi seh dem waan some C.I
Mi tell dem fi go hail Emperor Selassie I
Yo, and dry up di tears from dem eye
Da one yah name man bruk
Waan work, paper short, a di talk
From Halfway Tree go straight back to Glengarf
Man bruk
Waan work, paper short, a di talk
London, Toronto, straight back to New York
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