Selah

(album: Avrakedabra - 2017)

They want us to stay blind as a bat
While they move sly as a fox
Oh bwoy
Yes, sir

I tell you few people can see it
Many are blind to it
A change is on the way
Things will no longer be the same
(No way, no how)
Oh no, hear me now

All eyes on America
People and places want to be just like America
And I can't understand why
When you have beautiful places like Dubai, oh yeah
Lies and propaganda, they speak of Africa
I trod from Nairobi to Addis-Abeba and find
Find the truth for myself
Whoa, why

The world is more beautiful than you know
From Cape Town to Accra to Lagos
So much beauty my eyes behold
So much in school they have never told us
Like how much slaves died on Gorée island, in Senegal
And how much never reach Caribbean islands, whooy
The slave trade was wickeder than you know
And now they return to Africa for the gold and diamonds
While they make it seem like the land
Is just full of poverty, yeah (oh what a lie)
And hungry belly (belly), what a terrible conspiracy

Now we say Selah, there goes the end of an era
No more we are blind to the truth, O Jah
I and I stronger than ever (oh yeah), Jah know
We say Selah, there goes the end of an era
No more we are blind to the truth, O Jah
I and I stronger than ever, Selah

I cry for Jamaica, it hurt my heart fi see
My people of Jamaica
Don't realise say reggae music is the saviour
Preserving the knowledge of our former selves
Check the youth dem inna Gambia, if you never know
You woulda feel dem born and raised inna Jamaica
To how dem love the culture, Rastafari culture
Dem live the livity as well, yeah
Earth is the Lord's and fulness thereof
So I have the right to live where I'm loved
And celebrated (celebrated)
No hate can keep me from anywhere in the world

Now we say Selah, there goes the end of an era
No more we are blind to the truth, O Jah
I and I stronger than ever (oh yeah), Jah know
We say Selah, there goes the end of an era
No more we are blind to the truth, O Jah
I and I stronger than ever, Selah

For real, listen
What if I told you ancient stories (true)
Was much simpler than they made it seem (work)
Would you trod it over Zion way (yeah)
See how they doing the things over there
And if you thought there's something to fear
When you was a little tat
And they say said don't do this, or child don't do that
Please, maybe you said you do, maybe you said you don't
But then you figured it out, so life moved on
Yeah, they be the days of innocent fun
Now we're living with purpose in Jah kingdom
What's the prob, what you're saying, what's the beef
'Cause the future is determined today, so take a trip son

Now we say Selah (yeah) there goes the end of an era (ah ha)
No more we are blind to the truth, O Jah (no more)
I and I stronger than ever (believe that, oh yeah), Jah know
We say Selah (ah) there goes the end of an era (yeah)
No more we are blind to the truth, O Jah (ah ha)
I and I stronger than ever (for real), Selah