CATASTROPHE (UPRISING OF DE PEOPLE) written by Sheldon Manoo (1997)

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What ah catastrophe cause you won’t set me people free

Look at de state of anarchy cause you won’t let my people be,   free,  weee

We wanna rise up

You gotta wise up

Or just watch de world we both love burn

They say you got to live and learn

But why cause stress

When all this mess

Could be avoided by just

Setting my people free

Free

Me say free

Free like de birds flying over de Caribbean sea

Free like the air of de fresh Californian breeze

Free like de lifeforms under the sea

Free Free Free like how we ‘posed to be

Cause you been trying to hold us back for too long

But the spirit of freedom fighters have motivated people on

Now they’re strong

And they won’t back down

And it’s your own ignorance

Has brought this turbulence

Now it’s a war against crimes of inhumanity

And all the oppressed are in this army

And we swear our allegiance to Jah our chief

And we stand together for we have one belief

That no man should have the power of superiority

Cause we all were born in equality

Oppressor you got to open that eye in your mind

And see what you done has been evil and unkind

And if you stand in our way with your big mighty gun

We will march on through no matter how many you shoot down

Oppression just can’t live on?

 

No we really didn’t want to come to this

A peaceful solution is what we tried to negotiate

But you, you never opened your mind to it

And all you ever reflected to us was hate

Lord Oh what ah catastrophe

Cause you won’t set us free

How many will be unhappy

Cause you won’t set my people free!