Caribbean Time - Nellie McKay

Caribbean time in motion

Fireflyin' across the ocean

And I can see the future

Caribbean, Caribbean, Caribbean

Caribbean, Caribbean, Caribbean

In the modern potboiler

Anesthetize your mind

And if you won’t be a lawyer

You’re gonna need an alibi

And if you crave bein' an outlaw

Better to make a plan

For the guns and the promises they feed you

Will drag you in the sand

Nobody come clever enough

Before they get there, move their mainland rough

I’m takin' no direction and I walk-a real slow

For the words of oppression are go, go, go

Caribbean time in motion

Fireflyin' across the ocean

And I can see the future

Barbados to Barcelona

Caribbean time hereunder

I can see the future

Caribbean, Caribbean, Caribbean

Caribbean, Caribbean, Caribbean

If you want a dictator

You best get organized

And if you wan' be a hater

You make trains run on time

And if you crave a good pupil

Bring glory to the schools

And mind your Qs and Ps 'cause an island breeze

Is breakin' all the rules

Caribbean time in motion

Fireflyin' across the ocean

And I can see the future

Antigua to Macedonia

Darwinian time is over

I can see the future

It’s no military time

It’s an island time

Nobody come clever enough

Before they get there, move their mainland rough

I’m takin' no direction and I walk-a real slow

For the words of oppression are go, go, go

Caribbean time in motion

Fireflyin' across the ocean

And I can see the future

Barbados to Barcelona

Caribbean time hereunder

I can see the future

Caribbean, Caribbean

Caribbean, Caribbean, Caribbean

Caribbean, Caribbean, Caribbean

Caribbean, Caribbean, Caribbean

Caribbean, Caribbean, Caribbean

It’s no military time

It’s an island time