The Message

I've heard and I've listened
They've said and they've repeated
Told me their truth and lies
And tried to make me eat it
Learn it and then eventually repeat it
Like I'm a machine
A vessel for the message

I speak my mind
I use my words like a weapon
Dem can't test cause I'm solid like a lion
You hear that revolution sound
It goes a little bit something like this now

Bum de dum dum dum
To the beat of the drum
Bum de dum dum dum
Goes the war drum

You think you're teaching me violence
Jah guide with love
You think you fill me with malice
Jah guide with love

Bum de dum dum dum
To the beat of the drum
Bum de dum dum dum
Goes the war drum

Bum de dum dum dum
To the beat of the drum
Bum de dum dum dum
Goes the war drum

As soon as the little yout dem come out di womb
Labeled a threat so dem deh inna di war too
Indoctrination, state education
Incarceration paid for by corporations

I speak my mind
I use my words like a weapon
Dem can't test cause I'm solid like a lion
You hear that revolution sound
It goes a little bit something like this now

You think you're teaching me violence
Jah guide with love
You think you fill me with malice
Jah guide with love

Bum de dum dum dum
To the beat of the drum
Bum de dum dum dum
Goes the war drum

Bum de dum dum dum
Goes the beat of the drum
Bum de dum dum dum
Goes the war drum

We have to tell them again
We have to tell them again

I do defy
You'll never deny
My time to rise
Shine a light
I swear this on my life
Your resistance to love is useless and futile
We'll tear down the walls of the wicked and vile

Dis a one goes out to the real people dem
Keep that fist high in the air, change is coming
From London to Berlin
New York to Accra
Johannesburg to Kingston, Jamaica
ATX stand up

You think you're teaching me violence
Jah guide with love
You think you fill me with malice
Jah guide with love

Bum de dum dum dum
To the beat of the drum
Bum de dum dum dum
Goes the war drum

Bum de dum dum dum
Goes the beat of the drum
Bum de dum dum dum
Goes the war drum