[ti:Catch A Fire] [ar:Damian Marley] [al:Halfway Tree] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Catch A Fire (Album Version) - Damian Marley [00:01.12]Written by:Stephen Marley/Damian Marley [00:02.24]Every time I 'ear di crack of di whip [00:28.27]Every time I 'ear di crack of di whip [00:31.24]My blood runs cold [00:33.87]I remember on di slave ship [00:36.66]How dey brutalise your very soul [00:39.16]Today dey say that we are free [00:41.68]Only to be jailed in poverty [00:44.65]Good God I think it's a little are she [00:47.38]Only a machine then makes [00:49.03]Slave driver your table has turned [00:53.51]We will [00:54.73]Catch a fire your gonna get burned [01:00.28]Slave driver your table has turned oh [01:05.74]Catch a fire your gonna get burned [01:09.71]Bun dem out [01:11.37]Dem take up di ghetto youths and [01:12.65]Give dem pure magazine [01:14.45]An take up anotha set an give dem bare 16 [01:17.18]An play dem dirty game applaud [01:18.35]Di plots and schemes [01:19.90]An watch dem like a show of [01:21.20]A view big screen [01:22.75]How come we brother dem [01:23.52]Man go buy dem cream [01:25.22]Turn dem inna police an bring [01:26.78]Dem in 'pon dem team [01:27.97]Ah wha dis fodder [01:29.43]Him drive ten grand worth a government larder [01:32.12]An fight against di ones who have di same fore father [01:35.08]Him next door neighbour all ** we charge for [01:37.74]We children slaughter [01:39.16]An we dem wan murder [01:40.46]Jus read di observer [01:42.14]Right now di city can't get no obsurder [01:44.59]After 400 years a no leap wi brown sugar [01:47.46]We ambush we brother [01:48.69]An gwan like whenever [01:49.69]Use to plan slave revolt an [01:51.26]A dem push dem together [01:52.83]We change jus like di weather [01:56.12]Every time I ear di crack of di whip [01:59.22]My blood runs at me [02:00.54]It's runnin' cold [02:01.93]I remember on di slave ship how dey brutalise [02:05.52]Your very soul [02:07.16]Today dey say that we are free [02:09.69]Only to be jailed in poverty [02:12.33]Good god I think it's a little are she [02:15.31]Only a machine then makes [02:17.01]Slave driver your table has turned [02:21.37]Bun dem out [02:22.60]Catch a fire your gonna get burned [02:28.04]Slave driver your table has turned [02:32.29]Bun dem out oh [02:33.79]Catch a catch a fire bun dem out [02:36.20]So your gonna get burned [02:39.23]Son's of slaves child [02:40.17]Now son's of di slave driver [02:42.49]Nah space slave rider neither [02:44.41]An if dem could dem would tax you pon saliva [02:47.96]How much more must we die for [02:49.73]The ones in the cars when [02:51.30]We standing at da car minus [02:52.87]The government bogus they don't work for us [02:55.76]Instead dem chain and whip you with domestic fuss [02:58.52]And guns and aids and *** [03:00.89]'Cause most of di youths with [03:02.15]Di school in dey mouth [03:03.56]Can't get no money from legitimate jobs [03:06.27]Then you wonder [03:07.47]Why dem grab chain and bags [03:09.24]You influence di youth a turn dem gays and fags [03:11.65]And rest den can afford not even torn up rags [03:14.71]But table a turn a mi turntable spun [03:17.22]Di fiya we a catch up all a blaze and a burn [03:20.05]Dats why anytime you see rasta ya run [03:22.45]Eh yo [03:23.39]Slave driver your table has turned [03:27.69]Bun dem out [03:28.76]Catch a fire your gonna get burned [03:34.06]Slave driver your table has turned oh catch [03:40.72]Catch a fire your gonna get burned [03:44.31]Bun dem out [03:46.19]We no wan nah babylon government [03:47.81]Wey ya burn down *** man tent [03:50.49]And dem a come wit dem one bag [03:52.45]O tax argument when [03:53.74]We can't pay light bill and rent [03:55.97]Me side dem a leave ghetto youths every which part [03:58.49]Dem went dem a be round corner dem bent [04:01.33]So next time dem pass through you and [04:03.93]Ya crew don't give dem no encouragement [04:07.05]Eh yo just start run dem out and start [04:09.91]Bun dem out a ya environment [04:12.45]An yo we wan no 'bout da eva red cent [04:15.46]O di poor people money dem spent [04:17.92]An den we wan no down to who pay di bill [04:21.02]When di prime minister car dent [04:23.45]An yo we wan know when [04:25.32]Dem come repossess all these [04:27.13]Guns and jobs they've sent [04:31.50]Slave driver your table has turned [04:36.20]Catch a fire your gonna get burned [04:40.77]Slave driver your table has turned [04:44.51]Catch a fire your gonna get burned