Hey, Mr Politician, what's going on in your mind The people are crying out for help and you're just wasting our time Oh -- a mouthful of rhetoric All that lip just makes us sick Unbutton your collar,...
What happened to the trees The leaves are all dead Roots in parched ground dried and unfed What happened to the trees Just skeletons of the past Once they were green, the jungles large and vast What...
Come back to the land, I said, my people We've drifted so far away Come back to the land, I said, my people We're growing a little with every day Come back, come back, come back, come back Said, come...
Sometimes it's hard to find direction Especially when you don't live nine to five And those who do will always try to drag you down It's the only way they've learnt how to survive Fight the ones who...
I try to realise the pain of another man I try, but there's no way to understand Why must we fight, why must there be such pain And you look around, everyone's to blame, because Condition red, there's...

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We build upon the mountains and the valleys so low We're so busy building buildings, soon we'll have no place to go Just maximise the profits and no-one makes a sound Then try to shift the blame when...

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To travel life's highways the young and the old Which path to turn on at the forks in the road There's anger and heartache, depression and pain Things that we do to keep from going insane You got to...
Let me tell you 'bout a tale, my friends, the tale of an irie trip That started from this rasta port aboard this jammin' ship, I say Aboard this jammin' ship Jah mate was a mighty sailor man, the...

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You pour cement and call it a river You say it's an improvement Pocketing all the money While the water grows stagnant We pave more roads To widen the path of progress As we suffer in spirit We are...
Shades of green and blue Violent with life Colours of earth so vibrant and true Mist of the dense forest of rain Amazon people Bearing the global pain Brazil, Brazil Can you ever forgive us Brazil,...

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