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[00:00.00]Letter to The Editor - Thievery Corporation/Racquel Jones
[00:04.95]Pocket full a promises
[00:06.12]Baby empty bellies
[00:07.32]Poverty and democracies
[00:08.44]And political rallies
[00:09.53]But who the rich a lobby for
[00:10.98]Using me for votes
[00:12.13]Pretend a mi yuh sorry for
[00:13.25]Then win and it's a joke
[00:14.45]I'm sick of trick or treaters in costumes
[00:16.09]Like dem as leaders
[00:16.95]Charismatic public speakers
[00:18.01]False prophets and fake healers
[00:19.48]Articulate perfect grammar scammer
[00:20.57]Scamming us for votes
[00:21.85]Infront of tv camera with an innocent approach
[00:23.80]Nuh mo lies and fallacies
[00:25.44]Bun apologies
[00:26.23]Try nuh ask please when a squeeze and yuh pan yuh knees
[00:29.10]Justice or else says the minister farakhan
[00:31.05]Suh me stand up a gordon house
[00:32.43]Wid my glock inna me hand
[00:33.73]If I take it literally f*ck it geez I'm kinda sorry
[00:36.44]But smaddy need fi answer what dem really do to pretty
[00:38.90]Gimmi di microphone and mek mi rep di innocent
[00:41.09]Paying recompense for money spent to feed the governments
[00:43.65]Yo gimmi di microphone get the people riled up
[00:45.92]Too much f*ckery piled up get di ting dem oiled up
[00:48.50]Parallel universes in the same ol' hemisphere
[00:50.69]Authorities they don't care with dem nose up in the air
[00:53.10]'Cause our bombs dem metaphoric
[00:54.78]We talk di truth and mek di youths dem better for it
[00:57.87]'Cause I'm a fighter yeah
[00:59.58]If you agree put up yuh lighter yeah
[01:02.60]'Cause our bombs dem metaphoric
[01:04.47]We talk di truth and mek di youths dem better for it
[01:07.50]'Cause I'm a fighter yeah
[01:09.38]If you agree put up yuh lighter yeah
[01:22.14]Mek the stench from ghetto fences permeate dem residences
[01:24.77]Extend up through the trenches
[01:25.90]Up to where the presidents is
[01:27.31]Karma pan di ones and twos yes it turn the tables
[01:29.79]Had enough a you with your parables and fables
[01:32.14]Jamaican bad gal queen and revolutionary
[01:34.23]Neva quick fi start a war but shoot whenever necessary
[01:36.71]Product of the inner city
[01:37.95]Where me come from it nuh pretty
[01:39.37]Survive the nitty gritty
[01:40.33]Ain't nobody taking pity
[01:41.82]Survival kinda sticky
[01:42.73]In New York cali and philly
[01:44.01]A di same ting a gwaan in a kingston seat to neat
[01:51.39]'Cause our bombs dem metaphoric
[01:52.86]We talk di truth and mek di youths dem better for it
[01:55.90]'Cause I'm a fighter yeah
[01:57.77]If you agree put up yuh lighter yeah
[02:00.75]'Cause our bombs dem metaphoric
[02:02.50]We talk di truth and mek di youths dem better for it
[02:05.67]'Cause I'm a fighter yeah
[02:07.44]If you agree put up yuh lighter yeah
[02:10.89]These are the days of the last page
[02:12.77]And the last page of di book of the dark age
[02:15.25]We a path ways wid oppressors
[02:16.91]Seek predecessors
[02:18.11]Wake up ancestors
[02:19.10]Den we team up together
[02:20.37]We will meet we will meet
[02:21.61]Pan di battle ground
[02:22.57]Trade mi microphone
[02:23.30]For a shottie and some copper stones
[02:24.89]Just be ready when di gavel sound
[02:26.45]Bun a folly ground fus
[02:27.83]Jah surround us
[02:28.92]So we never nervous
[02:29.96]Was a mental war now this sh*t turn physical
[02:32.70]From long time scar we a reap the residual
[02:34.97]From slavery to now now the ting get critical
[02:37.40]Dem cyah kill we soul
[02:38.55]'Cause dem sight sey we spiritual
[02:39.93]Sight we spiritual so they be like hey
[02:42.76]Prod the bull under sykes as subliminal get them mad
[02:45.82]Then chastise dem as criminal
[02:47.51]Give wi *** under guise sey it clinical
[02:49.51]'Cause our bombs dem metaphoric
[02:51.07]We talk di truth and mek di youths dem better for it
[02:54.17]'Cause I'm a fighter yeah
[02:55.95]If you agree put up yuh lighter yeah
[02:59.04]'Cause our bombs dem metaphoric
[03:00.80]We talk di truth and mek di youths dem better for it
[03:03.84]'Cause I'm a fighter yeah
[03:05.76]If you agree put up yuh lighter yeah
[ar:Thievery Corporation/Racquel Jones]
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[00:00.00]Letter to The Editor - Thievery Corporation/Racquel Jones
[00:04.95]Pocket full a promises
[00:06.12]Baby empty bellies
[00:07.32]Poverty and democracies
[00:08.44]And political rallies
[00:09.53]But who the rich a lobby for
[00:10.98]Using me for votes
[00:12.13]Pretend a mi yuh sorry for
[00:13.25]Then win and it's a joke
[00:14.45]I'm sick of trick or treaters in costumes
[00:16.09]Like dem as leaders
[00:16.95]Charismatic public speakers
[00:18.01]False prophets and fake healers
[00:19.48]Articulate perfect grammar scammer
[00:20.57]Scamming us for votes
[00:21.85]Infront of tv camera with an innocent approach
[00:23.80]Nuh mo lies and fallacies
[00:25.44]Bun apologies
[00:26.23]Try nuh ask please when a squeeze and yuh pan yuh knees
[00:29.10]Justice or else says the minister farakhan
[00:31.05]Suh me stand up a gordon house
[00:32.43]Wid my glock inna me hand
[00:33.73]If I take it literally f*ck it geez I'm kinda sorry
[00:36.44]But smaddy need fi answer what dem really do to pretty
[00:38.90]Gimmi di microphone and mek mi rep di innocent
[00:41.09]Paying recompense for money spent to feed the governments
[00:43.65]Yo gimmi di microphone get the people riled up
[00:45.92]Too much f*ckery piled up get di ting dem oiled up
[00:48.50]Parallel universes in the same ol' hemisphere
[00:50.69]Authorities they don't care with dem nose up in the air
[00:53.10]'Cause our bombs dem metaphoric
[00:54.78]We talk di truth and mek di youths dem better for it
[00:57.87]'Cause I'm a fighter yeah
[00:59.58]If you agree put up yuh lighter yeah
[01:02.60]'Cause our bombs dem metaphoric
[01:04.47]We talk di truth and mek di youths dem better for it
[01:07.50]'Cause I'm a fighter yeah
[01:09.38]If you agree put up yuh lighter yeah
[01:22.14]Mek the stench from ghetto fences permeate dem residences
[01:24.77]Extend up through the trenches
[01:25.90]Up to where the presidents is
[01:27.31]Karma pan di ones and twos yes it turn the tables
[01:29.79]Had enough a you with your parables and fables
[01:32.14]Jamaican bad gal queen and revolutionary
[01:34.23]Neva quick fi start a war but shoot whenever necessary
[01:36.71]Product of the inner city
[01:37.95]Where me come from it nuh pretty
[01:39.37]Survive the nitty gritty
[01:40.33]Ain't nobody taking pity
[01:41.82]Survival kinda sticky
[01:42.73]In New York cali and philly
[01:44.01]A di same ting a gwaan in a kingston seat to neat
[01:51.39]'Cause our bombs dem metaphoric
[01:52.86]We talk di truth and mek di youths dem better for it
[01:55.90]'Cause I'm a fighter yeah
[01:57.77]If you agree put up yuh lighter yeah
[02:00.75]'Cause our bombs dem metaphoric
[02:02.50]We talk di truth and mek di youths dem better for it
[02:05.67]'Cause I'm a fighter yeah
[02:07.44]If you agree put up yuh lighter yeah
[02:10.89]These are the days of the last page
[02:12.77]And the last page of di book of the dark age
[02:15.25]We a path ways wid oppressors
[02:16.91]Seek predecessors
[02:18.11]Wake up ancestors
[02:19.10]Den we team up together
[02:20.37]We will meet we will meet
[02:21.61]Pan di battle ground
[02:22.57]Trade mi microphone
[02:23.30]For a shottie and some copper stones
[02:24.89]Just be ready when di gavel sound
[02:26.45]Bun a folly ground fus
[02:27.83]Jah surround us
[02:28.92]So we never nervous
[02:29.96]Was a mental war now this sh*t turn physical
[02:32.70]From long time scar we a reap the residual
[02:34.97]From slavery to now now the ting get critical
[02:37.40]Dem cyah kill we soul
[02:38.55]'Cause dem sight sey we spiritual
[02:39.93]Sight we spiritual so they be like hey
[02:42.76]Prod the bull under sykes as subliminal get them mad
[02:45.82]Then chastise dem as criminal
[02:47.51]Give wi *** under guise sey it clinical
[02:49.51]'Cause our bombs dem metaphoric
[02:51.07]We talk di truth and mek di youths dem better for it
[02:54.17]'Cause I'm a fighter yeah
[02:55.95]If you agree put up yuh lighter yeah
[02:59.04]'Cause our bombs dem metaphoric
[03:00.80]We talk di truth and mek di youths dem better for it
[03:03.84]'Cause I'm a fighter yeah
[03:05.76]If you agree put up yuh lighter yeah
