The System

It is a global crime Not just for you and I Not just by foreign and foreign I and I and I So rock the system Colonial system Imperial system Constantly make man a victim Oh no! The system Them racist system The oppressing system Constantly make man a victim Alright, you lock we inna the basement While you live up inna the attic Think you coulda escape while you rob the poor pockets Everyday basket, ah well one day me stop it Can't see you live, but you can't die automatic, yo Me plan me herb, you send your police to crop it Try escape the system, still you highjack it Gwan ship it off, and you road block it How the hell crime fi drop and the food you nah drop it? Hey! Over me, me say a long time me a mop it Rasta love Sharon while them a sleep with Patrick Everything me talk, F them haffi buck it And Tony B, nobody can't stop it Me a burn out the system Colonial system Imperial system Constantly make man a victim Burn! The system The racist system The oppressing system Constantly make man a victim Alright, bless up me black fellow, you can't call him no foreigner See me white Britney, don't call them Mariner Look how near Jamaica is to Florida Just like the hall to the room to the corridor So tell me why them a build up them barrier? Hey, police join inna black barrier You kill the ghetto youth, you nah say no sorry, yah A that them program for, a that them get paper If crime no gwan, children go hungry Me see them spend pon crime, so them build up them army I, me lawyer call me, said crime pay three milli And him get a Bentley System Colonial system Imperial system Constantly make man a victim Oh no! The system The racist system The oppressing system Constantly make man a victim Nation against nation through the system (the system) Man bow to Satan through the system (the system) Righteousness no get no reckon, see a sing him no mention Youth no get no participation, man Prepa have a weapon through the system (the system) Me no prepa waan them prepon through the system (the system) Man a run back a John, back a Tom, back a man And them nah run back a Sharon or Royden High school diploma (diploma) And still him deh a street side, look like Stevie Wonder (uh-huh) Get a degree master (master) And him no reach no further, coulda waan his father System Colonial system Imperial system Constantly make man a victim Oh no! The system This racist system This fascist system Constantly make man a victim Oh no, this system make people suffer inna the street This system make mama nah have no food fi eat This system make love you own a weep System make all the baby can't creep System, nah no freedom of speech This system, teacher can't teach what she waan teach This system, you can't reach where you waan reach Can't reach like you waan reach, just through the... System Colonial system Imperial system Constantly make man a victim Oh no! The system This racist system This fascist system This wicked system