'Til I'm Laid To Rest

All my days

Seem like they have been wasted, eh?

But ya know

Just goes out to show

Till I'm laid to rest, yes

Always be depressed there's no life in the West, uh

I know the East is the best

All di propaganda dem spread

Tongues will haffi confess

Oh, I'm in bondage living is a mess

An I've got to rise up alleviate the stress

No longer will I expose my weakness

He who seeks knowledge begins with humbleness

Work seven to seven yet me still penniless

For di food pon me table massa God bless

Allah feed the needy an shelterless

Ethiopia awaits all prince and princess, uh

Till I'm laid to rest, yes

Always be depressed there's no life in the West, uh

I know the East is the best, yes

Propaganda dem spread tongues will haffi confess

What could a bad so about di East

Everybody wants a piece

Africa fi Africans Marcus Mosiah speak

Unification outnumber defeat

What a day when we walkin down Redemption Street

Banner 'pon head, Bible inna hand

One and all make we trod di promised land

Buju go down a Congo, stop inna Sashamanne land

The city of Harare is where Selassie come from

In Addis-Abba den Botswana

Left Kenya, a end up inna Ghana

Oh what a beauty my eye sight behold

Only Ethiopia protect me from di cold

Till I'm laid to rest, yes

Always be depressed there's no life in the West, uh

I know the East is the best

All di propaganda dem spread

Tongues will haffi confess

Organize and centralize come as one

Our seeds shall be so many more den sand

Some new and replenish pure an clean heart

Far too long, we've been under this bond

Some a save a bag a riches an dem bend empty hand

Want say me stupid an laugh all yuh can

Easier for a gunman to enter through a needle eye

Than it is for a rich guy to enter inna Zion

Take it from I man so

Till I'm laid to rest, yes

Always be depressed there's no life in the West, uh

I know the East is the best

Lord, propaganda dem spread

Tongues will haffi confess

Oh, I'm in bondage living is a mess

An I've got to rise up alleviate the stress

No longer will I expose my weakness

He who seeks knowledge begins with humbleness

Work seven to seven yet me still penniless

For di food upon me table massa God bless

Allah feed the needy and shelterless

Ethiopia awaits all prince and princess, uh

Till I'm laid to rest, yes

Always be depressed there's no life in the West, uh

I know the East is the best

All di propaganda dem spread

Tongues will haffi confess

What could a bad so 'bout di East

Everybody wants a piece

Africa fi Africans, Marcus Mosiah speak

Unification outnumber defeat

What a day when we walkin down Redemption Street

Banner 'pon head, Bible inna hand

One and all make we trod di promised land

Buju go down a Congo stop inna Sashamanne land

The city of Harare is where Selassie come from

From Addis-Abba Inna Botswana

Left Kenya a end up inna Chana

Oh whatta beauty my eye sight behold

Only Ethiopia protect me from di cold

Till I'm laid to rest, yes

Always be depressed there's no life in the West, uh

I know the East is the best

All di propaganda dem spread

Tongues will haffi confess

Organize and centralize come as one