Can't Cool Can't Quench

(album: Good Ways - 1998)

Gonna show them, yea man
And ah Emperor Selassie I
Ah him we hail ow
The ancient of days never coil
Rastafari love prevail ey

Can't cool can't quench everlasting burning fire
Babylon yuh wrenk yah
Can't cool can't quench everlasting burning fire
Redder judgment ah tell yuh

Can't cool can't quench everlasting burning fire
Babylon get drench yah
Can't cool can't quench Ethiopia my true heart desire
Aw Babylon

Den how is it you get your food to eat
And yet you find it hard
To feed another youth that come up at your feet
Den how is it you always ah strive
And yet you find it hard

Fi show another ghetto youth how fi survive
That's why ah King Selassie I we'll praise
Run go tell Pharaoh him city dey go blaze
Me know ah King Rastafari dey pon he throne
Babylon we dey dash brimstone
Da one ya name

Can't cool can't quench everlasting burning fire
Babylon yuh wrenk yah
Can't cool can't quench Africa my true heart desire
Black parents ey

Can't cool can't quench everlasting burning fire
Babylon yuh wrenk ey
Can't cool can't quench Africa my true heart desire
Redder judgment

The ghetto you put down inna the pit
Dem judge and dem jury just ah grin and ah grit
And all dem police and them soldier say dem really unfit

The sniper dem bring say him nah shoot and miss
The Black rights kingdom stand for equal rights and justice
Eh true human rights well ah government no miss
Rastafari did know say PJ ah the false and hypocrites

And dem ah go bring Bruce Golding fi make ah big devil switch
Well Rasta drop Seaga inna the bottomless pit
Nah follow the evil mama gonna spank you real quick
Well dash another fire pon John public

Me tell uno cease from uno war and wickedness
Inna fornication ink dem gun finger dem go dip
And ah chat bout dem ah voter hot wine dem ah sip

Me say red gold and green inna every district
And Ethiopia bear the witness
This ah wha da name

Can't cool can't quench everlasting burning fire
Babylon yuh wrenk yah
Can't cool can't quench everlasting burning fire
Redder judgment ah tell yuh

Can't cool can't quench everlasting burning fire
Babylon get drench yah
Can't cool can't quench Ethiopia my true heart desire
Aww aw

Yea man and Black people should know that it is slavery
Why we are here in Jamaica the western world you know
See me ah show you say yea man

It is written in the book of Britain and America
That it was only I n I the Black Ethiopian
That were taken out of Black Africa, you know
Illegal yes captives, you know slave children
And brought us down here in Jamaica

And all small islands of the British, West Indies into slavery
Onto this day say the most high Selassie I Jah Rastafari
Rastafari know

Me tell dem say ah innocent blood ah spill
Fi the arc of the covenant Babylon ah kill
They want Rasta thrown them no got no power nor will
They want dada crown mama pearl and jewel

I tell you say the scepter shall not depart until
The golden globe with the simple earth fill
This man was born here prophecy dey fulfill
Stretch your hand to Ethiopia Mount Zion ill

You never get the win coulda never get it nil
And ah tell yuh dis ah lick down Babylon like a power drill
Well Pharaoh them ya fire cyar chill
Repatriation Babylon me melt yuh will
Then da ya name

Cyar cool, cyar quench