| A who the hell do they think I am?
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| A give me food from dem pot bottom
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| A give me scrap from their table
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| I man no desperate or disable
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| In dis ya land we live where dog eat dog
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| And some a dem just a gwaan like hog
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| A simple ting fe mek jump and bark
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| A gravalicious like a harbour shark
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| Cry blood, (Cry Blood) I got to cry blood (Cry Blood)
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| Cry blood, (Cry Blood) I got to cry blood
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| For my people, yeah!
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| Cry blood, (Cry Blood) I got to cry blood (Got to Cry Blood)
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| Cry blood, (Cry Blood) I got to cry blood
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| Eh!
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| There’s just one thing I can’t overstand
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| What mek we love fe kill we own black man
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| Me feel so shame, me have run and hide
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| Me call it self-inflicted genocide
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| Me step aside and hav fe weep and moan
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| I feel the pressure right inside my bones
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| I man back against the wall
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| Woo, I hold my head and bawl
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| Cry blood, (Cry Blood) I got to cry blood (Cry Blood)
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| Cry blood, (Cry Blood) I got to cry blood
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| For my people, yeah!
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| Cry blood, (Cry Blood) I got to cry blood (Got to Cry Blood)
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| Cry blood, (Cry Blood) I got to cry blood (Cry!)
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| For my People Yeah, My People
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| For my People Yeah, My People
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| For my People Yeah!
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| Nyahbinghi Bobo Shanty I
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| In a dispute I says I don’t know why
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| Be careful of the flag now
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| Don’t put the lion on its back now
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| A dis ya plan to divide and rule
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| In a the end a we the people lose
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| So many martyrs try to put things right
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| Oh no I and I won’t give the fight
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| Cry blood, (Cry Blood) I got to cry blood (Cry Blood)
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| Cry blood, (Cry Blood) I got to cry blood
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| For my people, yeah!
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| Cry blood, (Cry Blood) I got to cry blood (Got to Cry Blood)
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| Cry blood, (Cry Blood) I got to cry blood (Cry!)
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| For my People Yeah, My People
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| For my People Yeah, My People
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| For my People Yeah!
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| When we gonna wake up?
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| Yes, we need a shake up
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| Let us kiss and make up
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| Or bare witness to this break up
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| The whole world’s taking advantage
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| While we stand aside and look
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| It was prophesied we’d rise again
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| Just take a second look
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| A cry, cry blood, yeah
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| Cry blood, cry blood (Cry Blood)
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| For my people, yeah, yeah
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| My people, people
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| My people |