Babylon - Stephen Marley, Junior Reid, Dead Prez

Look what they doing, despicable, inhuman

And got the nerve to say that I’m 3/5ths of a human

Babylon is in ruins, inhabited by a beast

A bloodsucker, vampire to say the least

Look at the way that they’re gnashing their teeth as they feast

Fighting to get a piece, something like Ancient Greece

Permanent Halloween, Trick or Treat

We’re walking like zombies out in these streets

Shackled our hands and feet, what you see, what you see?

Down there in Babylon

Where transgression increaseth

There they know no love

Hopeless are the days

Hold I stead 'Fari (Jah!)

From their wicked life

Smiles upon their faces

Evil in their hearts

Oh my, oh

Oh a oh, oh I.

Babylon, Babylon

Babylon, Babylon

Babylon, I know me know your kingdom a go fall down

Jah will never give you the crown

Babylon, I know me know your kingdom a go fall down

Long you try fi hold Rasta down (that's right)

Babylon, I know me know your kingdom a go fall down (yeah)

Rasta nuh 'fraid of no clown

Babylon is a Devil inna blue dress, Satan in a suit and tie

Oppression is freedom, Heaven is Hell and the truth is a lie

They murder the youth, the police don’t shoot in the sky

It’s a warzone, you do what you gotta do to survive

You get suited and ride, life is hustle or starve

This is capitalism religion, money is god

America eats the young like cannibal breakfast

Wall Street is swarming with Hannibal Lecters

Crooked elections, politricks of the shitstem

Legal lynchings, modern day crucifixions

Slaves to the current conditions that we live in

More faith in the reverends than making our own heaven

It’s foul, how the youth glued to the television

Ain’t heard of Assata, but Twitter following Paris Hilton

It’s only right we want to be more than poor and righteous but

Even the rich today can’t ignore the crisis in Babylon.

Oh my, oh

Oh a oh, oh I.

Babylon no waan fi see the youths dem wield together

All they want we do, dem waan we fight we one anedda

Dem no waan fi see

Survival, we to any weather

Stephen Marley, Junior Reid, Deed Prez

Stephen Marley, Junior Reid, Deed Prez

And so, from that tiem to this time

The fall of Babylon has been prophesied

And just like heaven and earth will share

Before one of these words pass away

As we speak today, Babylon persists, to fall.