Marcus Garvey - Tarrus Riley

Give us the teaching of Marcus Garvey

Kebra Negast means Glory of Kings

Give I and I Selassie I and keep the images of lies

For yourself

People without a vision perish like suicide

You tell me its not about color

Still you refuse to take the picture off the wall

All you do is trick the brothers and keep them confused

They don’t know who to call in this spiritual war

Nah tell me, have a paradise in the sky, well that’s a lie

And nah tell me, I was born in sin and shaped

In inequity when love created I

Look how many prophets tried

To open our eyes, you can’t fool me

Look how they’re treating us

New millennium slavery

Hiding the chains and still

Beating us daily

Now we mentally poisoned to fight we black skin

And bleaching ah the in thing far out and far in sin

You tell me its not about color

Still you refuse to take the picture out your books

I know that’s not how we look, kush

All you do is trick the brothers and keep them confused

They don’t know who to call in this heretical war

Don’t tell me, have a paradise in the sky

But that’s a lie

Don’t tell me, I was born in sin and shaped

In inequity when love created I

Look how many prophets tried

To open our eyes, you can’t fool me

Kadamawe, Kadamawe, Kadamawe

Give us the teaching of Marcus Garvey

Kebra Negast means Glory of Kings

Give I and I Selassie, keep your images of lies

For yourself

People without a vision perish like suicide

You tell me its not about color

Still you refuse to take the picture off the wall

All you do is trick the brothers and keep them confused

They don’t know who to call in this heretical war

Nah tell me have a paradise in the sky, well that’s a lie

Don’t you tell me, I was born in sin and shaped

In inequity when love created I

Look how many prophets tried

To open our eyes, you can’t fool me

Kadamawe, Kadamawe, Kadamawe

So nah tell me of a paradise in the sky

Well that’s a lie, and nah tell me

I was born in sin and shaped in inequity

When Jah created I

Look how many prophets tried

Look how many prophets tried…