Devastation they intensify
Church and state they can't satisfy
While the children still a multiply
I see babymothers cry, while the babyfathers die.

Break my backbone, while you sit down on your throne
You must living ina twilight zone, yeah
It's a good thing I man tuff like a rock stone
Never gonna hear me weep, you'll never gonna hear me moan
Creating all the circumstance
Still you're claiming that a you the one who nuh response
When the revolutionary man a take his stand
You Mr. jacket and tie it nuh make sense you run, no, no.

Devastation they intensify
Church and state they can't satisfy
While the children still a multiply
I see babymothers cry, while the babyfathers die.

Devastation they intensify
Church and state they can't satisfy
While the children still a multiply
I see babymothers cry, while the babyfathers die.

Promises and lies is what a gwaan
These are the things righteous people a scorn
Prophet a ring the alarm
Tell the heads of government fi cool and fi calm
And if you live by what you should
And you're doing what you could
There'll be no bad but good, no-no,
Living out in Hollywood
Nuh care about no flesh and blood
You sink ina the mud, oh yes now!

Devastation they intensify
Church and state they can't satisfy
While the children still a multiply
I see babymothers cry, while the babyfathers die.

You only govern with your weapon
But dem ya things seh we nuh deh pon
Man a no stool fi you and fi step pon
Me say we ago trample duppy and the demon
Nuh join dem gang and me nuh Ku-Klux dem clan
Listen to the words of a living man
This oppression me don't understand
Are you a creature, beast are you human, yeah?

Devastation they intensify
Church and state they can't satisfy
While the children still a multiply
I see babymothers cry, while the babyfathers die.

Devastation they intensify
Church and state they can't satisfy
While the children still a multiply
I see babymothers cry, while the babyfathers die.

Break my backbone, while you sit down on your throne
You must living ina twilight zone, yeah
It's a good thing I man tuff like a rock stone
Never gonna hear me weep, you'll never gonna hear me moan
Creating all the circumstance
Still you're claiming that a you the one who nuh response
When the revolutionary man a take his stand
You Mr. jacket and tie it nuh make sense you run, no, no.

Devastation they intensify
Church and state they can't satisfy..