Bob Marley was one of us!
Submitted by Cicero23 on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 21:44
Was cruising in the car, listening to this timeless classic when the lyrics hit me like a lightning bolt...
Old pirates, yes, they rob I;
Sold I to the merchant ships,
Minutes after they took I
From the bottomless pit.
But my hand was made strong
By the hand of the Almighty.
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly.
Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
'Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look? Ooh!
Some say it's just a part of it:
We've got to fulfill the book.
Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
'Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our mind.
Wo! Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them-a can-a stop-a the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look?
Yes, some say it's just a part of it:
We've got to fulfill the book.
Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
'Cause all I ever had:
Redemption songs -
All I ever had:
Redemption songs:
These songs of freedom,
Songs of freedom.
Get up! Stand up!
That was the first thing on the local radio the morning me and my buddies hopped in the car to go and vote. About the only thing getting me pumped to vote for Chuck Baldwin, being as the ballot was sans Ron Paul.
"You never speak so I have to guess you're not free" - The Raconteurs
"Bob Marley created political change through music" - Ron Paul
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/87087
(Amy) Allen considers herself a paleo-Libertarian and composed a theme song for the Ron Paul movement.
"I felt like I had to do something, and I didn't know what to do, so I wrote a song. When I met Ron Paul he said, 'You've done more for the revolution in a short period than years of me giving speeches. Bob Marley created political change through music. Music is very powerful; never forget that.' I thought - shit! - that's awesome. I was just frustrated with the overall trend to have the government take care of us from cradle to grave, the overall trend of us losing our civil liberties, and I had no choice in it to just write a song." http://www.nuvo.net/music/article/aimee-allen-takes-refuge-c...
I did like what Ron Paul told her about Bob Marley!
Fibonacci Farm
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Woy-Yoy!!! Woy-yoy-yoy-yoy!!!
I could spend all day on this thread! :) Bob Marley was Ethiopian Orthodox (not denying his Rastafarianism). Selassie was a Christian. Do I really have to go into the historical wars between Ethiopia and the Vatican? Wake up and Live!!
Wake Up and Live
One, two, three, four!
Wake up and live, yall,
Wake up and live!
Wake up and live now!
Wake up and live!
Life is one big road with lots of signs,
So when you riding through the ruts, dont you complicate your mind:
Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy!
Dont bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality, yeah!
All together now:
Wake up and live (wake up and live, yall),
Wake up and live (wake up and live),
Wake up and wake up and live, yeah! (wake up and live now),
Wake up and (wake up and live) - wake up and live!
Rise ye mighty people, ye-ah!
There's work to be done,
So lets do it-a little by little:
Rise from your sleepless slumber! yes, yeah! yes, yeah!
Were more than sand on the seashore,
Were more than numbers.
Wall together now:
Wake up and live now, yall!
(wake up and live) wake up and live!
Wake up and live, yall!
(wake up and live) wake up and live now!
You see, one - one cocoa full a basket,
Whey they use you live big today: tomorrow you buried in-a casket.
One - one cocoa full a basket, yeah, yes!
Whey they use you live big today: tomorrow you bury in-a casket.
Wall together now:
(wake up and live now!) wake up and live! oh! yeah-eah!
(wake up and live!) uh!
(wake up and live now!) wake up and live!
(wake up and live) keep on playin!
(wake up and live, yall) uh! yeah! yeah!
(wake up and live!)
(wake up and live now!)
(wake up and live!) break it down!
Come on, man!
How is it feelin over there?
(wake up and live now) all right!
(wake up and live!) yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Uh!
Come on, man!
You gotta wake up and live!
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Life is one big road with lots of signs, yes!
So when you riding through the ruts, dont you complicate your mind:
Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy!
Dont bury your thoughts; put your dream to reality, yeah!
Wall together now:
(wake up and live, yall)
(wake up and live!) wake up and live, yea-eah!
(wake up and live now!)
(wake up and live!)
Wake up and live now!
(wake up and live) wo-oh!
Wake up and live now!
Wake up and live
Let's Get Marleyfied
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I'd rather be a free man in my grave,
than livin' as a puppet or a slave. ~ Jimmy Cliff
Freedom is not: doing everything you want to.
Freedom is: not having to do what you don't want to do.
~ Joyce Meyer
since you just found this out
Please listen to the entirety of these albums:
Rastaman Vibration
Catch a Fire
Uprising
Kaya
Check out the real situation
nation war against nation
where did it all begin
when will it end?
Well it seem like total destruction the only solution
and there aint no use, no one can stop them now
aint no use, nobody can stop them now
Uprising- Real Situation
When the cat's away, The
When the cat's away,
The mice will play.
Political voilence fill ya city, ye-ah!
Don't involve Rasta in your say say;
Rasta don't work for no C.I.A.
Rat race, rat race, rat race! Rat race, I'm sayin':
When you think is peace and safety:
A sudden destruction.
Collective security for surety, ye-ah!
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"God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk."
Meister Eckhart
"I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I just let them try to understand me!"
Snoopy
"Marley was one of us"
you're just finding this out now?
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Per
Bump
I Love Bob Marley, read some good books about him, also had the chance to visit the house he grew up in.
"How long shall they kill
"How long shall they kill our prophets"
Cooper, Russo, Lennon, Marley,Zappa..............etc
to name a few
Peace
Jah Rastafari, Hallie Selassie, King of Kings
Bob Marley considered himself a Jew, as Rastafiarians consider themselves the "lost tribe", the 12th tribe, the decendents of Mary, Tribe of David, which, "The Urantia", lists the blood lines to Haile Selassie, THE King of Kings JAHOVAH, confirming Jesus is Black, Africa is Zion, and the revolution is elimination white babylon.
Rastafarians study and refeer to passages of the Urantia and King James Bible. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement
Of course white people LOVE exploiting black people and their movements for themselves. When I came to the revolution, Three Shoe Posse was the first RP song I ever heard. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naMtwqBzja0 I loved it, and I really thought we had the opportunity to become the first mixed race populist movement, truely a neo-populist movement. What happened the 3 shoe posse?
Rastafari is not apart
Rastafari is not apart of the jewish religion and Bob never claimed to be a jew. Rasta is a way of life. It takes into consideration allot of the old testament such as the nazarite vow and dietary recommendations. There are things that are taken from the Jews such as the lineage of Selassie I from King David. Selassie I was a devout Christian and head to the Etheopian Orthodox Church. I read over what you said and for the most part you have it right except for Babylon is not "white people" it is more the western church compared to the canon of the Etheopian Orthodox Church.
Babylon, translation: Confusion
Tribe of Dan... not David.. Tribe of Dan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Israel
Rastas don't cut their hair, don't shave, vegetarian diet, based on OLD testement They are "Jews for Jesus"., simular as LDS
In whose political circle would Bob Marley be comfortable?
I think the answer is Fidel Castro, Evo Morales, Cesar Chavez, and Nelson Mandela. He opposed the idea of white colonial rule of blacks or indigenous people, which I think Libertarians would also oppose, but Libertarians would not replace this rule with a socialist regime as these "revolutionaries" would.
I think you fellows are reading into Marley's lyrics your own views on what a revolution should be and misunderstanding his own Pan African socialist views.
I think the only legitimate identity with Bob Marley and some of the people on this site is that they are stoners.
I never heard Bob Marley Endorse the Politicians you've named.
Nor did he verbalize a "socialist" political philosophy, as you claim for him. In reality, he consistently argued against trusting government for anything. Why are you projecting upon him? It's condescending. Is it because he was a "stoner"?
Understanding Bob Marley>
On the positive side, he did oppose colonialism and the related enslavement, something all freedom loving people would do.
He was a Rastafarian, a group whose followers declared that the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie was the living God. Selassie's 40-year rule in Ethiopia was characterized by nepotism, personal cowardice and tyranny, so that tells you something about Marley's political views right there.
In 1980 he played at the celebrations marking the end of white supremacist rule in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.. His song 'Zimbabwe', celebrating the new black-led nation, features on the album Survival. This release, which carries the flags of all Africa's countries on the sleeve, is a clear and call for African unity. And this is who Bob Marley was; a black separatist, Pan Africanist. What has happened in Africa when black rule has replaced white, European colonialism has been oppression. Look at Zimbabwe today and the slaughter no only of white "Rhodesians" but the slaughter of the black political opposition; and don't forget the hyperinflation of the currency. Look at South Africa which has become a socialist nation where the government owned and operated electric system is about to collapse from the incompetence of government management. And let us not forget one of Bob Marley's fellow Pan Africanist, Idi Amin, Chairman of the Organization of African Unity and tyrannical President of Uganda.
I think an honest assessment of Marley was that he was rebelling against white colonial rule, he wanted black separatism along the lines of Marcus Garvey who inspired Leonard Howell to found the Rastafarian group, he was a good song writer, he was very deeply into escape through ganga, and endorsed at least two tyrannical rulers of African nations.
To the extent that Marley opposed slavery, he might be considered to have values similar to Ron Paul, but I think Marley shows that he was more interested in overthrowing the existing power structure he saw as oppressive to blacks, than he was in instituting freedom. I think what he wanted was black rule of blacks and separate white rule of whites.
I have no problem with people being stoners as I believe in freedom, but I do have a problem with people who complain about being enslaved by one race only to endorse enslavement by those of their own race.
And Look at What Has Become of the USA!
Using your logic, should one infer that proponents of overthrowing colonial rule here in the USA were actually seeking what we have wound up with today? That would not be an accurate assumption - as it isn't in Marley's case. Bob Marley was a spiritual person first - a mystic. He was not a proponent of government, but he was a very vocal proponent of freedom. And I agree, he did not express an interest in "instituting freedom." Can freedom be "instituted"? Freedom is. From what you have said it appears that you have read about Bob Marley and Rastafarianism. However, it seems to me you have not done a lot of listening to Bob Marley himself. You think he is just "good"! Which is fine! But why would you opine so profusely and authoritatively - and condescendingly?
Henry
"I think what he wanted was black rule of blacks and separate white rule of whites."
Bob Marley endorsed splitting himself in half?
Good gracious I suppose "Jr. Gong" is really troubled by this ambition then.
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Freedom is not: doing everything you want to.
Freedom is: not having to do what you don't want to do.
~ Joyce Meyer
Freedom is not: doing everything you want to.
Freedom is: not having to do what you don't want to do.
~ Joyce Meyer
I think most mixed race people see themselves as
one or the other. His identification with the downtrodden slaves of colonial oppression should tell you something about his own identity.
Are you at all considering a spiritual angle in your reasonings?
I identify with Bob Marley "spiritually".
Bob Marley fed over 3000 people A DAY in Jamaica.
He practiced what he preached, is that to be considered socialism or a self-made man who was thankful, gracious and willingly returned blessings? Isn't this the sort of character we espouse here? Bob Marley had a lot of "Ayn Rand moments" -- to "get his own" so that he might multiply his good fruit for the betterment of all men.
And perhaps you're correct that Marley would have "hung out" with Chavez or some other crackpot. However, "One Love" would be his message to all, not "One World". Perhaps you should take a listen to his children to see how Marley's message continues. I would recommend Stephen Marley - Mind Control for starters.
I don't know what to tell you about Selassie. I was shocked after much research to see him portrayed as a "despot" as all my prior research had found him to be "sought after" by his people. I guess it depends on who's telling the story. Consider Ethiopia's strongest opposition and ask yourself "what's going on here?"
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Freedom is not: doing everything you want to.
Freedom is: not having to do what you don't want to do.
~ Joyce Meyer
Freedom is not: doing everything you want to.
Freedom is: not having to do what you don't want to do.
~ Joyce Meyer
Yes, and I would like to add that
Bob Marley did not seek out political figures to hang out with at all! That whole premise that he would hang out with so-and-so is pure projection and deception. He did not place his trust in politicians - he did not campaign for them Selassie, he considered God, the second coming, the Lord - not a politician. Marley and his music are spiritual subjects, yes. And what an awe-inspiring spirit.
My opinion
I do not agree about Marley considering Selassie "God" but a highly reverenced spiritual ruler with super-mystical qualities.
Reference the kids again.
Damian Marley - It Was Written (Stephen's part is haunting.)
Selassie does come with the lineage of King David through Mary, was stigmatic and many "spiritual" things happened "around him". Obviously Selassie was not the "Second Coming" as his bones were buried and remain in the grave.
According to one of the I-Three's, on Marley's deathbed, "Selassie" was not spoken but "Jesus":
VICTOR: One of the things I’ve heard over the years, and I do not know that it’s true, is that just before Bob Marley died in 1981, he came to know Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior.
JUDY: That makes two of us. I’ve heard the same thing. His wife, Rita Marley, said to me when he was in so much excruciating pain that he said 'Jesus, take me.' He stretched out his hands and said 'Jesus, take me.' Now, I’m saying to myself, he could have said 'Selassie take me,' but he said 'Jesus, take me.'
VICTOR: What would you say to Rastafarians watching this program today, based on what you now know about Jesus Christ?
JUDY: Truth is a person: Jesus Christ. I have come to understand through listening to an interview with His Imperial Majesty – the interviewer asked His Majesty, 'Why do people all over the world say you are the returned Messiah?' His Imperial Majesty’s answer was, 'I am a mere man. I will be replaced by the oncoming generation, and a human being should not be emulated for a deity.' I have that cassette. I did not see anything about Haile Selassie in the Bible. I saw Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ lives. Tell the world that He is the conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, the King of kings and the Lord of lords.
http://www.cbn.com/700club/features/amazing/salvation_judy_m...
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Freedom is not: doing everything you want to.
Freedom is: not having to do what you don't want to do.
~ Joyce Meyer
Freedom is not: doing everything you want to.
Freedom is: not having to do what you don't want to do.
~ Joyce Meyer
Entertainers are censored in many ways
Marley only endorced Jah Rastafari Haile Selasie
The two men who establsihed the Rastafarian movement are more interesting, and one, was a mason.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Howell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Garvey
Shedding oppression is a primary political virtue
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"Blessed are the peacemakers, they shall be called the children of God." - Matthew 5:9
My liberty-minded home base of thought:
www.ponderthis.net
I agree, Henry
Redemption Song is about redemption FOR Africa.
Urantia is a facinating book... it confirms that humans today are the result of "alein" technology, which is why they kept family records.
To be honest Henry, I would rather live in a world of stoners.
He was indeed one of us
***Marley challenges police roadblocks as violations of the 4th Amendment in “Rebel Music”:
http://www.youtube.com/user/CounterRevolutionary#p/c/46EF8CD...
Why can't we roam this open country?
Oh, why can't we be what we want to be?
We want to be free.
3 o'clock roadblock - curfew,
And I've got to throw away -
Yes, I've got to throw away -
A yes-a, but I've got to throw away
My little herb stalk!
I (rebel music) - yeah, I'm telling you! -
I rebel music (rebel music).
Take my soul
And suss - and suss me out
Check my life,
If I am in doubt (I'm in doubt); I'm telling:
3 o'clock roadblock - roadblock - roadblock,
And "hey, Mr. cop! ain't got no -
Ain't got no birth certificate on me now."
***Marley addresses the divide and conquer techniques used by the elite in “Top Rankin”:
http://www.youtube.com/user/CounterRevolutionary#p/c/46EF8CD...
They don't want to see us unite:
All they want us to do is keep on fussing and fighting.
They don't want to see us live together:
All they want us to do is keep on killing one another.
They say the blood runs;
And it runs through our line,
And our hearts, heart of hearts divine, eh!
And John saw them comin', ooh! - a-with the truth
From an ancient time.
The brotherly love (brotherly love), the
sisterly love (sisterly love)
I feel this morning; I feel this morning:
Brotherly love (brotherly love), the
sisterly love (sisterly love)
I feel this morning, this morning. Hey!
They don't want us to unite:
All they want us to do is keep on fussing and fighting.
They don't want to see us live together;
All they want us to do is keep on killing one another.
***Marley decries our system of debt slavery in “Babylon System”:
http://www.youtube.com/user/CounterRevolutionary#p/c/46EF8CD...
We refuse to be
What you wanted us to be;
We are what we are:
That's the way it's going to be. If you don't know!
You can't educate I
For no equal opportunity:
Talkin' 'bout my freedom,
People freedom and liberty!
Yeah, we've been trodding on the winepress much too long:
Rebel, rebel!
Yes, we've been trodding on the winepress much too long:
Rebel, rebel!
Babylon system is the vampire, yea!
Suckin' the children day by day, yeah!
Me say: de Babylon system is the vampire, falling empire,
Suckin' the blood of the sufferers, yea-ea-ea-ea-e-ah!
Building church and university, wo-o-ooh, yeah! -
Deceiving the people continually, yea-ea!
Me say them graduatin' thieves and murderers;
Look out now: they suckin' the blood of the sufferers (sufferers).
Yea-ea-ea! (sufferers)
Tell the children the truth;
Come on and tell the children the truth.
From the very day we left the shores
Of our Father's land,
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he was indeed.
and a beautiful soul and heart. i've been listening to bob for many,
many years. saw him in concert in santa cruz, cal in the winter of 1979.
he was getting sick then but he gave it his all.
if you really like bob, get 'the bob marley story - caribbean nights'. it's got
some great history, interviews, music and the amazing funeral for him in jamaica in 1n 1981.
and check this out: http://www.7mac.com/academy/CIA_reggae1.htm.
there's 5 parts.
was there a connection with bob's death and the cia?
Ron Paul is my President
Ron Paul is My President
Good link Sunny
Yet I found no mention of the "cancer boot". Uh-oh, I'm turning this into a conspiracy thread... ;)
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Freedom is not: doing everything you want to.
Freedom is: not having to do what you don't want to do.
~ Joyce Meyer
Freedom is not: doing everything you want to.
Freedom is: not having to do what you don't want to do.
~ Joyce Meyer
Could be commie or libertarian: Jimmy Cliff
I work all day
To find my daily bread
Work so hard to get a roof over my head
But the one's I work with acts like their my masters
When what I refuse I'm more then equal partner
I can't get no justice
Under this system
I can't get no justice in this society
I work day and night to find my daily needs
But freedom is supressed by another one's greed
Why should serve the one's who control another one's needs?
It's rebellion these kind of actions breeds
I can't get no justice
Under this system
I can't get no justice
In this society
I can't get no justice
Under this system
I can't get no justice
In this society
Why should one be judged by the color of their skin?
Instead of the qualities they show from deep within
If they keep wanting to control what we earn
Run a press around because we're going to burn (going to burn)
I can't get no justice under this system
I can't get me no justice
In this society
I can't get me no justice
Under this system
I can't no justice in this society
I can't get me no justice
Under this system
I can't get no justice
In this society
Yeah -- yeah.
I can't get no justice under this system
I can't get no justice in this society
I can't get me no justice
Under this system
I Can't get no justice in this society
Free and Brave
or Cradle to Grave
You can't have both
Free and Brave
or Cradle to Grave
You can't have both
This is one of my faves by libertarian Cliff
I didn't think anyone else knew the song ;) Thank you.
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Freedom is not: doing everything you want to.
Freedom is: not having to do what you don't want to do.
~ Joyce Meyer
Freedom is not: doing everything you want to.
Freedom is: not having to do what you don't want to do.
~ Joyce Meyer
Plenty of people can identify slavery.
But how many can suggest the correct solution. I don't see anything in those lyrics that shows Marley to be a Libertarian. Martin Luther King complained about the lack of freedom and suggest more government plunder and control, hardly a solution to restore freedom.
I think you may have jumped to an unfounded conclusion.
Never Let a Politician
Never let a politician (aaa-aaah) grant you a favour;
(doo-doo-doo-doo)
They will always want (aaa-aaah) to control you forever, eh!
(forever, forever)
Did you read carefully?
You Can't Educate I for no Equal Opportunity...
(Talkin' 'bout my freedom) Talkin' 'bout my freedom,
People freedom (freedom) and liberty!
Yeah, we've been trodding on the winepress much too long:
Rebel, rebel!
Yes, we've been trodding on the winepress much too long:
Rebel, rebel!
Babylon system is the vampire, yea! (vampire)
Suckin' the children day by day, yeah!
Me say: de Babylon system is the vampire, falling empire,
Suckin' the blood of the sufferers, yea-ea-ea-ea-e-ah!
Building church and university, wo-o-ooh, yeah! -
Deceiving the people continually, yea-ea!
Me say them graduatin' thieves and murderers;
Look out now: they suckin' the blood of the sufferers (sufferers).
BABYLON SYSTEM
bump
for bob
My son has been
has been listening to Reggie (SP) and Bob Marley lately - smart kid.
Here's the link to the song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yXRGdZdonM
Movin to Montana soon ....... Yippy-I-O-ty-Yay
Gonna be a Dental Floss Tycoon - yes I am
it's 'reggae'.
Ron Paul is my President
Ron Paul is My President
hey finster
(SP) = Steel Pulse - right? I like Steel Pulse! esp. the older stuff... with Marley as well... that older stuff had so much feeling!
Fibonacci Farm
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No, I meant
spelling, but now I will have to check out Steel Pulse : ) .
Movin to Montana soon ....... Yippy-I-O-ty-Yay
Gonna be a Dental Floss Tycoon - yes I am
I checked
them out briefly and that was all I could take for now - they have an Obama song that started to make me sick. Musicly they sound very good.
Movin to Montana soon ....... Yippy-I-O-ty-Yay
Gonna be a Dental Floss Tycoon - yes I am
hmmm... didn't know - sorry
they must still be around then.
I have a best of from the 70's.... I like that.
Fibonacci Farm
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When the raggae starts a thump'n, I come a bumb'n!
(just chime'n in for Bob and all the Rastafarians)
bump for freedom*))
great post.
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BABYLON SYSTEM....
Song from the album SURVIVAL - this one is so sublime! If you haven't heard it, enjoy-
We refuse to be
What you wanted us to be;
We are what we are:
That's the way (way) it's going to be. You don't know!
You can't educate I
For no equal opportunity:
(Talkin' 'bout my freedom) Talkin' 'bout my freedom,
People freedom (freedom) and liberty!
Yeah, we've been trodding on the winepress much too long:
Rebel, rebel!
Yes, we've been trodding on the winepress much too long:
Rebel, rebel!
Babylon system is the vampire, yea! (vampire)
Suckin' the children day by day, yeah!
Me say: de Babylon system is the vampire, falling empire,
Suckin' the blood of the sufferers, yea-ea-ea-ea-e-ah!
Building church and university, wo-o-ooh, yeah! -
Deceiving the people continually, yea-ea!
Me say them graduatin' thieves and murderers;
Look out now: they suckin' the blood of the sufferers (sufferers).
Yea-ea-ea! (sufferers)
Tell the children the truth;
Tell the children the truth;
Tell the children the truth right now!
Come on and tell the children the truth;
Tell the children the truth;
Tell the children the truth;
Tell the children the truth;
Come on and tell the children the truth.
'Cause - 'cause we've been trodding on ya winepress much too long:
Rebel, rebel!
And we've been taken for granted much too long:
Rebel, rebel now!
(Trodding on the winepress) Trodding on the winepress (rebel):
got to rebel, y'all (rebel)!
We've been trodding on the winepress much too long - ye-e-ah! (rebel)
Yea-e-ah! (rebel) Yeah! Yeah!
From the very day we left the shores (trodding on the winepress)
Of our Father's land (rebel),
We've been trampled on (rebel),
Oh now! (we've been oppressed, yeah!) Lord, Lord, go to ...
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb-SjlhHCIM&feature=fvw
Tell the children the truth
I love this one
And he still is...
with every puff.
;)
Marley knew the truth.
Revolution lyrics
Revelation reveals the truth - revelation.
(revolution, revolution, revolution - oooo-doo-doo-doo-doo)
(revolution - oooo-doo-doo-doo-doo)
It takes a revolution (revolution) to make a solution;
(doo-doo-doo-doo)
Too much confusion (aaa-aaah), so much frustration, eh!
I don't wanna live in the park (live in the park);
Can't trust no shadows after dark (shadows after dark), yeah-eh!
So, my friend, I wish that you could see,
Like a bird in the tree, the prisoners must be free, yeah! (free)
Never make a politician (aaa-aaah) grant you a favour;
(doo-doo-doo-doo)
They will always want (aaa-aaah) to control you forever, eh!
(forever, forever)
So if a fire make it burn (make it burn, make it burn)
And if a blood make ya run (make ya run, run, run),
Rasta de 'pon top (aaa-aaah), can't you see? (doo-doo-doo-doo)
So you can't predict the flop. Eh-eh! (doo-doo-doo-doo)
We got lightning (lightning), thunder (thunder),
brimstone (brimstone) and fire - fire (fire, fire);
Lightning (lightning), thunder (thunder),
brr-brimstone (brimstone) and fire - fiyah - fire - fiyah!
(fire, fire)
Kill, cramp and paralyze all weak at conception;
(aaa-aaah, doo-doo-doo-doo)
Wipe them out of creation (creation), yeah-eah! (creation)
Wa-Jah, Jah, Jah! Wa-Jah, Jah, Jah! (creation)
Wa-Jah, Jah, Jah! (creation)
Oh! Let i'es is i'es (i'es), in i'es is black (i'es),
In i'es is red (i'es), in i'es is dread.
Let righteousness cover the earth
Like the water (aaa-aaah) cover the sea, yeah! Yeah!
Lightning (lightning), doo-doo-doo (thunder),
doo-doo-doo (brimstone), doo-doo-doo (fire, fire);
A lightning (lightning), thunder (thunder),
brimstone (brimstone) and fire.
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"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win!"
GANDHI
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win!"
GANDHI
Indeed he was.
And he was a major budhead, too.
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I like:Ambush in the
I like:
Ambush in the night
See them fighting for power (ooh-wee, ooh-wee, ooh-wa!),
But they know not the hour (ooh-wee, ooh-wee, ooh-wa!),;
So they bribing with their guns, spare-parts and money,
Trying to belittle our
Integrity now.
They say what we know
Is just what they teach us;
And we're so ignorant
'Cause every time they can reach us (shoobe, doo-wa)
Through political strategy (shoo-be, doo-wa);
They keep us hungry (shoobe, doo-wa),
And when you gonna get some food (shoobe, doo-wa),
Your brother got to be your enemy, we-e-ell!
Zimbabwe
Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny,
And in this judgement there is no partiality.
So arm in arms, with arms, we'll fight this little struggle,
'Cause that's the only way we can overcome our little trouble.
No more internal power struggle;
We come together to overcome the little trouble.
Soon we'll find out who is the real revolutionary,
'Cause I don't want my people to be contrary
If you can find it on youtube there is a video of Bob at one of his concerts were he gets both sides of the political parties in Jamaica to come on stage and shake hands and sing. Actually here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCckz9jFi9M
Another person I look up to when thinking about those that fight for freedom is Jean Leapold Dominique of Radio Haiti. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlB7Y7xDB6U&feature=related
If you like reggae check out Joseph Israel he did a free concert of two for Congressman Paul in NW Arkansas. www.myspace.com/josephisrael