Yayayaya Selassie is the almighty I Wo yow, My meditation going like a dove
Wo, stop alla keep failing To fulfill black people words, hey King Selassie I me hailing Anna dem go trouble poor people first
Anytime now babylon dem a go ge a red 'Fraid, babylon a get 'fraid Anytime now di prisoners dem a go escape Slave master place a go blaze Anytime now Police dem a go get a red 'Fraid, government a get 'fraid Anytime now Babylon, yuh must get a red Nuff cutchi man nuff a dem run go shave
Woi, I'd rather to be With the people I lead Give dem my daily strength And showing dem a dearly need And I'd rather to see more love than grief That's the only way di ghetto youths a go achieve And I rather to be With the people in need Babylon system only come yah so fi deceive I rather to listen a nah to word receive Dem a go cut di woman breast and bust di man dem seed Mussa perish, long time me see it Black people back up an yard inna di east Tell di Indian say fi go look fi dem chief Tell di white man from a Europe, go island seek Hey, Rastaman no got no secret a keep There will be a weeping an a wailing an a gnashing of teeth ? Come out inna di clear, behind wall dem a peep Nothing fi di white man, black man nah do it Black woman, stop sweep di white woman street Di ghetto youths go study babylon technique A so me see say Vatican get defeat
Anytime now Babylon dem a go get a red 'Fraid, Babylon a get 'fraid Anytime now Yah, redder fire deh go blaze Stop treat people like slave Anytime now Di prisoners dem a go escape Too long dem deh in deh yah bake Anytime now Babylon dem a go get a red Man haffi go repatriate
Dem make dem sattelite and dem launch it a space Mash up di o-zone layer Babylon a fake Sun a burn redder, and it a strip dem face Could deh dem look like all (?) weh dey bake Watch a make di Rastaman deal wid dem case Ask dem dis question before it too late Babylon, a why yuh dump your toxic waste You no see say dat yuh make a big mistake Now tell me who end up like bait Dem hold down black people to send white people through di gate Woi, Rastaman a agitate Revolution, caw we must repatriate
Anytime now Babylon dem a go get a red 'Fraid di government get fraid Anytime now Babylon dem a go get a red Dem seperate we and still wan' enslave Anytime now Babylon dem a go get a red and Mister babylon, you nah save Anytime now Babylon dem a go get a red Because di prisoners dem a go escape
Di whole a dem a dis di I-ncient of days Got inna di Atlantic Ocean Gone fire dem lace Fi make di iceburg fi return di ice age Di west a go sink when di water table raise Babylon you stink, an yuh wan bad Yo no badda think di youth a tell you dis brave I black mother nah be your maid Work me black father, and dem never get paid Oh, babylon so much a we a come a enslave I build di building, di road dem we pave See dem now, see dem now, see dem now From yuh dis your own a judgement you made