Rock Stone-Stephen Marley

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[ar:Stephen Marley/Capleton/Sizzla]
[al:Revelation Pt. II:"The Fruit of Life"]
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[00:00.00]Rock Stone - Stephen Marley/Capleton/Sizzla
[00:00.48]Written by：Lowell Dunbar/Clifton Bailey/Stephen Marley/More
[00:00.96]Rock stone was my pillow
[00:06.79]Rock stone was my pillow
[00:12.63]Rock stone was my pillow
[00:17.34]I say rock stone was my pillow
[00:24.47]Rock stone was my pillow
[00:27.02]Hear the man say
[00:29.42]Rock stone was my pillow
[00:30.53]Could find place find sleep
[00:32.34]Pot dem empty we have find food fi eat
[00:35.22]Everyday we terrorize
[00:36.77]By soldier and police
[00:38.03]When the thing dem a strum
[00:39.31]And the thing dem a beat
[00:40.98]From dem a play cowboy
[00:42.08]And Indian and chief
[00:43.79]From the first to the third
[00:44.98]Straight up to seven street
[00:46.76]One thing in a we mind
[00:47.95]Haffe trample the beast
[00:49.74]And make it in a life
[00:50.98]And inherit as the meek
[00:53.78]Self employed cannot get lay off
[00:56.39]Mount a work mi have
[00:57.64]Can't even get a day off
[00:59.37]Who did waan fi stop mi now
[01:00.77]Dem find out seh dem way off
[01:02.44]Alright
[01:03.40]So mi seh one by one one by one
[01:06.56]One by one we stepping out ah Babylon
[01:09.16]And then one by one one by one
[01:12.46]Hail the king Selassie I the conquering lion
[01:14.99]Lion lion
[01:16.99]Rock stone was my pillow
[01:22.79]Rock stone was my pillow
[01:27.50]I say rock stone was my pillow
[01:34.68]Rock stone was my pillow
[01:38.91]Help us Jah
[01:40.54]Take us from the slum
[01:41.84]Neva give up Matta what
[01:43.16]Strictly fire burn
[01:44.85]Hail rasta take us from the slum
[01:47.73]Neva give up Matta what
[01:48.94]King Selassie I blessing come
[01:51.25]Sufferation is a thing
[01:52.22]Could be no harder time
[01:54.13]Got to widen your views
[01:55.25]Got to broaden your mind
[01:56.82]What we face in the ghetto
[01:58.16]Nowhere else can you find
[01:59.76]Hunger poverty a system so unkind
[02:02.65]As a matter of fact
[02:03.75]There is an aftershock
[02:05.47]When cold ground was my bed
[02:07.10]And my pillow was a rock
[02:08.53]Try to make it through the system
[02:09.89]All the doors were locked
[02:11.36]Yet nothing beats a try
[02:12.81]And so I ain't go stop
[02:14.35]Mount a time they write a book on you
[02:16.55]A set amount a crap
[02:17.90]They would a put on you
[02:19.42]Yet when you in the dirt
[02:20.91]They wouldn't look on you
[02:22.48]They would only scorn
[02:23.37]And wanna wipe they foot on you
[02:25.79]So open up zion door
[02:28.60]Ethiopia Africa for sure
[02:31.79]Liberate the poor the poor
[02:37.57]Mi nah lie true mi hail
[02:39.35]Selassie I dem waah fi war I
[02:41.55]Read mi bible
[02:42.30]Turn to peace
[02:42.97]And praise Tafari
[02:45.16]Goodbye Babylon goodbye goodbye
[02:49.30]Open up zion door
[02:52.04]Mount zion Ethiopia for sure
[02:55.09]Children of Israel children of Israel
[03:02.44]Rock stone was my pillow
[03:08.19]Rock stone was my pillow
[03:13.06]I say rock stone was my pillow
[03:20.04]Rock stone was my pillow
[03:23.51]Hear me now
[03:24.95]Jah man me cool nuh stumble like you
[03:26.54]Walk pon di street me nuh gwaan for fool
[03:28.08]Arrive at the dance di mic a my tool
[03:29.66]Eat pon table sit inna stool
[03:30.66]Me black me brown me brown no black
[03:32.04]Ribs an me chest me spine a me back
[03:33.60]Wait till you hear when dis riddim drop
[03:35.24]Head you toe you body a rock
[03:36.48]From mi pon di mic steve marley ah chat
[03:38.08]Firm and strong doh step pon the lot
[03:39.63]The peaceful righteous rastaman
[03:40.98]Rod of correction inna mi hand
[03:42.53]Preaching out to man and woman
[03:44.10]Give riches to king Solomon
[03:48.38]Now bass come out and treble a top
[03:49.96]Cap an no buck an nuh a no cap
[03:51.37]Sweetest singer was sugar minott
[03:52.77]Man a come in and ah give me a shot
[03:54.31]Dracula tun inna vampire bat
[03:55.73]When him see sun him cyah take that
[03:57.30]Eye dem dark fi use contact
[03:58.71]I pon the mic raggamuffin a chat
[04:00.03]Fi mi head dread me head it no plat
[04:01.28]Nuh fraid ah no mouse nuh fraid ah no rat
[04:03.05]Pray to jah me never will stop
[04:04.49]We hot no cold wah cold nuh hot
[04:06.05]Live in a house no live in a flat
[04:07.45]Up inna zion de righteous will top
[04:09.00]Jah blow breeze the devil cannot
[04:12.64]Rock stone was my pillow
[04:18.42]Rock stone was my pillow
[04:22.89]I say rock stone was my pillow
[04:30.28]Rock stone was my pillow