| I see dem standing at dem border
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| While the struggle is getting harder
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| Keep on praying to the father
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| Every thing you try in a your life
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| Dem want to stop you
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| I don t know why but they think they got to
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| Hold on strong and never let dem flop you
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| Never let the wicked heart a trap you —
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| Oh no no no (repeat)
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| I’m on the move ya know
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| Must make it true somehow
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| I got to take it to the top and that’s my only vow
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| And when the heathen range
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| To me it s nothing strange
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| You’ve been trying it so long but still me nuh go change
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| I tell the youths to pray
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| Strive for a better days strive for a better way — strive
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| One day you’II get your pay
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| No matter what dem say
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| You got to stay alive
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| Every thing you try in a your life
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| Dem want to stop you
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| I don t know why but they think they got to
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| Hold on strong and never let dem flop you
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| Never let the wicked heart a trap you —
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| Oh no no no (repeat)
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| Jah jah say throw down your arms and come
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| Put away your gun
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| The righteous nuh promote none
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| Time to have some fun
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| Where you ago run run when the creator come
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| Now me know what you’re about
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| Don’t try to get me out
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| Cause a god alone make the sunshine
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| Unleash deception from your mouth
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| Or your fire a go out
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| Fix up your conscience nuh bad mind
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| Every thing you try in a your life
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| Dem want to stop you
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| I don t know why but they think they got to
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| Hold on strong and never let dem flop you
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| Never let the wicked heart a trap you —
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| Oh no no no (repeat)
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| I can see the way you living
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| Your ism and your skism
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| Show me that you walking on chalkliner
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| And the very ditch you digging
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| The games that you rigging
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| Your told me say you do it more than one time
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| One day we find our time and place
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| We doing it with grace
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| Doing it we own a leisure we nuh ina haze
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| Sometimes you need your space to trump um an ace
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| Just remember haze make ways
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| Every thing you try in a your life
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| Dem want to stop you
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| I don t know why but they think they got to
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| Hold on strong and never let dem flop you
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| Never let the wicked heart a trap you —
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| Oh no no no (repeat) |