Cold City - Monkey Marc, 5star

This one goes out to yard and abroad

Guns import from abroad to the yard

Dog a eat dog, yet a bere mawga dog

The system is a fraud — memba dat!

So why down inna the city so cold?

Only Ras Tafari know

And man a reap, what dem never did sow

And dem a say a true no money nah flow

Why down inna the city so cold?

Only Ras Tafari know

Politician walk with them ego

And rude bwoy war 'gainst the 5 — O

Swoop in, blue light that a flash up & down

Kick off the door, fi go snatch a man gun

Rude bwoys and police dem a clash a Jamdung

Youth squeeze the trigger and him catch a phantom

Corn start to beat like dem bang a one drum

You better jump fence when the banger dem come

Politician dem hear say that the quarrel just done

Start distribute gun, a fresher barrel just come

And Johnny say that him a hold the strap

Chest puff up and a chat, him control the block

But when him take a stack, is a soldier that

Him get flat, and fire shot, clap!

The soldier drop

Boof!

Him say him cold and him nuh feel sorrow

Trod it on the road side that real narrow

Phone start to ring then him feel paro

Friend lef him pon the ground like a wheelbarrow

So why down inna the city so cold?

Only Ras Tafari know

And man a reap, what dem never did sow

And dem a say a true no money nah flow

Why down inna the city so cold?

Only Ras Tafari know

Politician walk with them ego

And rude bwoy war 'gainst the 5 — O

The juvenile dem a run dem gang

The thugs dem short but the gun dem long

And likkle man, you might be number 1

But if you playing this ya game you better understand something

Or a better mi say overstand

Shotta a move like some soldier man

Bigger dog start fi bark like a doberman

Likkle dog have to run go to obeah man then

Him gone a shop go buy a cold dragon

Pow!

Hear something pop like a soda can, and

Him run up inna a colder man

Weh a go lef him in the dirt like a pound a yam, damn!

Full clip it nah go hold no blank

Man a buss it til dem shoulder cramp

Dem a play domino and as him pose the blank

Him hear clank!

Life couldn’t save a Scotia Bank

So why down inna the city so cold?

Only Ras Tafari know

And man a reap, what dem never did sow

And dem a say a true no money nah flow

Why down inna the city so cold?

Only Ras Tafari know

Politician walk with them ego

And rude bwoy war 'gainst the 5 — O

Bim!

This one goes out to yard and abroad

Gun import from abroad to mi yard

So how politician don’t get hold pon nuh charge?

The system is a fraud

Yard and Abroad

Who nah walk with the 'matic, walking with a standard

You step inna the street then you better stand guard

The system is a fraud, check the track record

Mi nah stop record

— Selassie I;

Empress Menen I