Playlist Steel Pulse

steel pulse - a who responsible

And the struggle goes on........

Some say the earth
Will keep on turning
Dread times are near
And I?m not joking I a warning
As we continue that same old moaning
The chosen race just keep on begging, yeah
And I wanna know who?s responsible?
They don?t give a damn no

Mothers joy turn to
pain and hollering
Weeping for their babes and sucklings
Spirits of the innocent wandering
Sufferation everlasting
But I wanna know who?s responsible?
They don?t give a damn no

Oh papa dem chest keeps on burning
Fist clench tight a grit dem teeth
And blood is boiling
The price is high yet they keep on paying
The little bundles of love
They are all missing
And I wanna know who?s responsible?
They don?t give a damn no

Brothers and sisters
This plight we?re facing
Get involved problems to solve
Yourselves concerning
Divided we are so
One by one we are falling
The frontline of the battle is hottest
Your duties calling
I demand to know who?s responsible?
They don?t give a damn no

Talking down South Atlanta killlings
Talking down South Deptford bombings
Talking down South Azania coming

They?ll cut your hearts out
And I?m not joking
Turn no blind eye brothers be willing
Yeah the frontline of the battle is hottest
Your duties calling

steel pulse - chant a psalm

Rejoice rejoice
Good tidings i bring you
Hear ye a message to you my friend
Voices cry invoke your angels
When pressure drop it cannot conquer dread no
So blow away your bluesy feeling
Spirits say take the world off you shoulder
One foot in the grave is a foolish step to take (dancer)

Who sow in tears shall reap in joy
Wise man doctrines assure your safety
No more stumbling block back stabbers get down
To the righteous revealed
The secret of the scriptures
The wicked dem portion is vanity
Disciples of lucifer

In your hands lie your destination
The book of true life you hold the key
Mystical powers to you unfold
Seek ye the half that has never been told
Get behind me satan (in dis ya armageddon)
I've got chant

Chorus
Chant a psalm a day

Reach you in a vision yeh come on
Come walkies down easy street
Attract these angels in dreams and your prayers
Remember the three holy children
Remember the visions of daniel
Remember the magic of moses so
Dash away your bluesy feeling
Spirits say take the world off you shoulder
One foot in the grave my friend
A foolish step to take
When pressure drop it cannot conquer dread
Got to be wise yes yes in dis ya iwa
Woe betide for the wicked
Disciples of lucifer
Get behind me satan (in dis ya armageddon yeh)
I got to chant

Chorus
Chant a psalm a day

Moses he did chant chant
Samson he did chant chant
Elijah he did chant chant
I want the whole a we fe chant chant
Solomon he did chant chant
His father king david chant chant
John the baptist chant chant
I want the whole a we fe chant chant.

steel pulse - blues raid dance

Muzik a bubble not looking for trouble
Some shekels fe I shenks
Just a burn up de lambs bread
Session rocking ysh!

So dem come so dem drop
From time to time dem been watching
Dem a spy with dem bad eye
(Come a raid I blues dance)
Tipped off by informers
Dem a watch who come out and come in yeh
(Come a raid I blues dance)
Yes they knew when the time would be right
Run come gate crash I party
(Come a raid I blues dance)
Raid blues dance raid I blues
(Come a raid I blues dance)
Kick off door woe I name dem call
I back against de wall a rub a daughter
(Come a raid I blues dance)
Dem a run come kill I vibe interfere with I
The pigs come to destroy Rasta cry blood
Dreadlocks cry blood

Raid blues dance
Out of darkness out of night
People screaming batons wheeling
A lot of bleeding bruised feelings

Search warrant for their outvitation
Walkie talkies reinforcements
From dem pocket dem draw handcuff
Dis yah session it rough
Every step of the way got to retaliate yeh
Fight dem back mash dem down
Vex to death dem a threat
Mek arrest kiss me neck
Raid blues dance raid I blues
A run come a run come who
Run come kill I vibe interfere with I
Pigs come to destroy Rasta cry blood
Dreadlocks cry blood

Come a come a come a come a raid
Come a kick I speaker
Come a mash up I tweeter
Come a grab up I shenks
Come a lick out I window
Come a move out I soft drink
Come a rough up the people
Come a turn off me System
Have fe give you some bitch lick
Come a smash I turntables
Come a scratch up I music
Come a drive up you meat van
Come a come a come a raid.

steel pulse - african holocaust

African Holocaust
I and I have survived the past
African Holocaust
Don't you know we were meant to last

Some people say we got to move on
What's in the past has now been long time gone
You think what you've got is your freedom
But all it means is to be FREE and DUMB

Chorus

So much tears so much pain and indignity
It's truly wonderous how we came through slavery
Now we bare the scars some say we'll never heal
Worst injustice to mankind is very real

Chorus

When it comes to the system a we still the victims
Of isms and schisms of ugly racism
The beatings, the lynchings, the shootings, the killings
They say its finger licking Kentucky Fried Chicken
Head on the chopping block
When will it ever stop
Struggle to reach the top
Waiting for us to flop

Chorus

Took our language, stole our gold,
Gave us religion to lose our souls
In this confusion, we will find our way
In this great future, in Jah we praise

Chorus

steel pulse - babylon makes the rules

(2) A weh dem a go do when the time comes around
A weh dent a go sek

Cos

My people are in a mess
But nobody wants to know
Cos when you're down and out and oppressed
You've got to fight your battles from the
Lowest of the low
So keep your distance and take your stance,
Cos this could be your utmost chance.

You've had all night and day to
Consider and pray
You've brought fire on my head and
Now you must pay.

CHORUS

Babylon makes the rules
Babylon makes the rules
Babylon makes the rules
Babylon makes the rules
where my people suffer...

Take Rastaman culture for instance,
Dem think is political joke,
But we people know better then that,
Cos what keeps us together is
Jah Herb that we smoke

I and I know the truth of it all,
Cos we have smashed our heads
'gainst that wall,
And now I seh we must create a scene,
We must recapture our culture
by any means.

CHORUS
Babylon makes the rules
Babylon makes the rules
Babylon makes the rules
Babylon makes the rules
where my people suffer ...

Count the times we've been let down,
And left us in despair,
And woe betide that evil man,
Who giveth not a care.
You've gotta check yourself just
One more time,
Reassure your mind -
Cos those who are chosen
by the father's hand
Must not get left behind.

Rasta seh - guidance
(4) But Backrah seh different still

Babylon makes the rules but
Jah love will carry I home.

steel pulse - babylon the bandit

FEEL LIKE
I feel like a gunslinger
Just a wait just a wait just a wait
Waiting to pull trigger
I?m so eager
With my itchy finger
Just can?t wait a just can?t wait
I can?t wait to chase

CHORUS
Babylon the Bandit
Dash him in a bottomless pit, yeh
Babylon
Dash him way in a de pit now

Coming from a den of scavengers
Out they come to steal
To rape the Earth of its beauty
The truth must be revealed
Bring forth Liberation Posse
The chase must now begin
Fire to all downpressors
Death is the wages of sin

CHORUS
Babylon the Bandit
Dash him in a bottomless pit, yeh
Babylon the Bandit
Dash him way in a de pit now
Babylon the Bandit
Dash him in a bottomless pit, yeh
Babylon
Dash him way in a de pit now

Coming from a den of scavengers
Out they come to steal
To rape the Earth of its beauty
The truth must be revealed
Bring forth Liberation Posse
The chase must now begin
Fire to all downpressors
Death is the wages of sin

CHORUS
Babylon the Bandit
Dash him in a bottomless pit, yeh
Babylon
Dash him way in a de pit now
Babylon the Bandit
Dash him in a bottomless pit, yeh
Babylon
Dash him way in a
De bottomless pit, yeh

Their words were smoother than butter
War was in their hearts
Their words were like the softest oil
They made a lie sound real
Watch out
Whip it!

CHORUS
Babylon the Bandit
Dash him in a bottomless pit, yeh
Babylon
Dash him way in a de pit now

Babylon time has caught up on you
Babylon Rasta prophecy true

steel pulse - back to my roots

Woe na na na
Heh yeh yeh oh yeh
This is to whom it may concern
Ragamuffin Rastaman return
Says we all got a lesson to learn
This is the reason that

CHORUS
I'm back to my roots
Back to my roots
I'm back to my roots
Back to my roots

We took that commercial road
Searching for some fame and gold
And gained the whole wide world
And almost lost our souls

Some say we should have lead the eay
Take it over from Bob Marley
Got brainwashed by the system yeah
What a heavy price we paid

It's time to go back
The way we was
REGGAE-RAGGAMUFFIN-RUB-A-DUB

CHORUS
I'm back to my roots
Back to my roots
I'm back to my roots
Back to my roots
There ain't no turning back
We deh pon de culture track

Some a she that we gone soft
Whatever happened to the Pulse so hard
They use to take a militant stance
Now all were hearing is a song and a dance

Well we tried all that pop and jive
To keep the band and the music alive
So here's my promise to everyone
I'll serve the sufferers from this day on

It's time to go back to the way we was
REGGAE-RAGGAMUFFIN-RUB-A-DUB

It's time to go back to the way we was
REGGAE-RAGGAMUFFIN-RUB-A-DUB

Back to my roots
Back to my roots
Back to my roots

This is to whom it may concern
Ragamuffin Rastaman return
Says we all got a lesson to learn
Help I and I mek babylon burn yah!
Back to my roots
There ain't no turning back
We deh pon de culture track

steel pulse - bad man

Dem dread seh
Dem dread seh
Dem dread seh
Dem dread seh
No matter how you bad I man badder than you
No matter how you dread I man dreader than you
No matter how you hard I man harder than you
No matter how you raw
I more-weak heart back way so

A bad man no want go back Into captivity
A bad man no want go back to slavery
Uprising from the claws of the wicked

Two bulls can't reign in one pen
Two lions can't roar in a small den
Two scorpions don't sting at the same spot
Two guns can't fire the same bullet shot so

Move right out now
Move right out now
Move right out now
Move right out now

Two kings don't wear the same crown
Two beauties don't have the same gown on
Tomorrow Is too late to leave town
If you're still here at noon,
There'll be one big, big, big showdown so

Uprising, uprising
Uprising, uprising

I give you tlil noon to go
On your way to survival,where
Your heart will beat more fonder
With life
And breath still enters your body

Repeat verse one

If you still coming me nah run
If you still coming, me ah go, drop you
If you still coming me nah run
So better stop running before I, break you
So run and hide before I, find you
Woe betide if I catch up on you
If you still coming I box you down
If you still coming I clart you down

Long time we deh under backraw...

Four hundred years (many, many years)

Slavery days...
Slavery days...
Slavery days...

Oh you've been bought
Oh you've been sold
Oh cast over me
Got strung up for nothing at all
Strange fruit...

steel pulse - better days

Uptight everything is all right
Outta sight it's all right
There's light at the end of the tunnel
Pay at the end of the day
Thanks that me don't have to grumble
Goodness is coming our way
It's all right it's all right
It's all right it's all right

I do remember
I do recall
The magic moments when we stood so tall
A nation to be respected
A nation full of pride
So shake the bluesy feeling
That is hurting you inside
Hurting you inside

CHORUS
There's better days ahead for us
You need not fret nor worry
Oh yes this time around my friend
I'm sure you won't be sorry

They say how the future
Is guided by your past
Through trials and tribulation
Yes we were meant to last
So hold on to your hope and dreams
For all that it's worth
Cause I know the day will come
When the meek shall inherit the world

KEVIN B RAP

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
If you uptight
Everything's all right
Outta sight
It's all right
They'll be better days don't you worry
A positive way you won't be sorry

It's all right it's all right

steel pulse - biko s kindred lament

The night Steve Biko died I cried and I cried
The night Steve Biko died I cried and I cried
Biko, O, Steve Biko died still in chains
Biko, O, Steve Biko died still in chains.
Biko died in chains, moaned for you
Biko died in chains, moaned for you, yeh.

Blame South African security,
A no suicide he was'nt insane.
It was not for him to live in Rome, No
Still they would'nt leave him alone.
Yeh yeh yeh,
They provoke him, they arrest him
They took him life away,
but can't take him soul,
Then they drug and ill-treat him,
till they kill him,
And they claim suicide.

I'll never forgive I'll always remember,
Not, not only not only I no,
But papa brothers sisters too, Yeh, yeh
Him spirit they can't control
Him spirit they can't man-trol
Cannot be bought nor sold
Freedom increase one-hundred fold.

The system something's got to be done,
Straight away,
The system of weakheart emontion
They've got to pay
The system of backra corruption
They've got to pay
The system is destroying my nation
The system.....kill him

O, O Jah Jah, O Jah Jah,
Take them where life sweeter,
Send a Moses to set them Free.
Pharoah's army won't let them be,
From the beginning he knew he'd meet his end
Yes my friend
They'll keep on ruling, all hours Jah
Jah send
I'll tell you again
Dem take him life - Dem take him soul,
Him spirit they can't control
Cannot be bought nor sold
Freedom increases one hundred fold
Freedom increases one hundred
Freedom

The system, the system, the system,
the sy, a, a,
Somethings got to done,
The system where black man get no, get no,
Get no recoginition.
The system of colour partition
The system shoul be yanked from creation
The system kill him.

O, O Jah Jah, O Jah Jah,
Take him where life sweeter
Send a Moses. Send a Moses.
Pharohs army won't let them be,
Biko died in chains Yeh
Moans for you
Biko died in chains all are moaning
Moans for you Yeh eh eh eh.....
Biko, O, O, O
Steve Biko died still in chains
Biko, O, O, O
Steve Biko died still in chains
Still, still in chains
Still, still in chains
Cha-ains..........

steel pulse - black and proud

Feel Alright
Tribute to my nation

CHORUS

Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud
Say It Loud And I'm Black And I'm Proud Yeah

I'm saying it lou-wow-wowed
I'm black and I'm pro-wou-wowed

It's no more to me
A hidden mystery
Of stolen legacy
Of my history
Cause I know my culture
Of my ancestors
So brothers and sisters
No time fe jester

Yes I've found my true identity
The teachings of Imperial Majesty
Up ye mighty race philosophy
No more complex inferiority

CHORUS

Oh in the days of old
When things were in control
The greatest empire
That was made of gold
Inventors of science
Hearts of lion
Fighting the dragon
Forward mount zion

I and I a true born African
Leaders of our civilisation
This ya spiritual manifestations
Guided by the mighty fathers hand

CHORUS

DJ Prezident Brown
Me say big up de Black man
Big up Big up!
Big up de champion
Four hundred million
You could a Rambo
You could a Tarzan
Just pick up your tail and run ga long
All this talk of how the West was won
And rob up America from the Indian
And tek weh Australia from original man
Africa belong to all Africans
So back weh wid you witchcraft Merlin Wizard
Unu kotch pond e rock like a croaking lizard
Me seh big up de Black man
Big up Big up!
Big up de champion
Four Hundred million

Gimme back me gold and gimme back me land
We know your film flam we know your scam
Deh pon de beach seh you want suntan
When we tek stock unu turn black man
Then devide and rule the African land
Which was made wid love by the Fathers hand
JAH JAH plan

Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud
Say It Loud And I'm Black And Proud

I'm bragging and a boasting
My ego's flying

steel pulse - blame on me

No time to linger
They'll point their finger
I'm like a fugitive 'cause they're after me yeah arh!
These exploitations
False accusations
The judge and jury they won't listen to me
Well I've had enough of this
What kind of fix I'm in
I won't confess to
Cause I did not commit this crime no

CHORUS
There they go placing all the blame on me
Won't someone there wake me from this crazy dream

Interrogation
Why all these questions
The pressures lingers on in my memories yeah ahh!
Where is the justice
To this ya conflict
Upon my shoulders lie the burden to be free
I've got to run and hide
Though I've got an alibi
Someone to testify that I did not commit this crime no!

CHORUS

Want to see me dressed in chains
Lord God knows that I've been framed
Old time saying back again
Who feels it know it Lord..... Whoops!

Brand me an outlaw with a price on my head
Bad-minded people want to cut my natty dread
Dem perpetrators want my neck in a noose
and they don't give a damn about hearing the truth
But I've had enough of this
I say this case dismissed
Not guilty my verdict
This crime I sure did not commit no no no

There they go Over there yonder there Backway Yeah Yeahee Yeaha!

steel pulse - blasphemy

(5) Selah

When facts rocks fiction
Always cause friction Yeh yeh yeh
Stirs the minds of, minds of non believers
Thomas the name, they answer when I call them.
Decendants of Judas - Yes sah yes.
Them prefer Bara6us
So die they must all's not lost
(2) Die they must all's not lost
With, without a shadow of a doubt
He lives forever so sing
(3) Sing a joyful song

Sing a joy..........

(5) Selah
My, songs and praises
Will never no, no, no
Turn to shouts of anger
I'm a believer Yes sah yes
He was no stranger to me,
No want no silver, not I
I'm in no danger, not I
I'm no betrayer, not I
Them who shouted.....
(4) Blasphemy, blasphemy,
blasphemy, blasphemy

(3) No blasphemer
He was no blasphemer
Went onto his own received him not,
Stripped of his garments, flogged and mocked
And the cock crowed they deceived him
Son of Jah, Peter never believed him
He had his joy, joy
(7) Over
Overtaken by desolution
He volunteered for, for
His cru........
His crucifiction, so sing
(3) Sing a joyful song
Sing a joy......

(4) Praise aloud for

Blind can see,
Deaf can hear,
Lame can walk,
Dumb can talk
Diseased get cleansed yeh

Selah,
No, blasphemer
Praise aloud for
No deceiver
No blasphemer
He lives for ever, so sing
Oo, la, la visions of eternity
Oo, la, la listen to his preaching
Oo, la, la trod the straight and narrow road
Who prayers, parables and scriptures say
Selah praise aloud for
Selah no blasphemers
Selah no deceiver
Selah he lives forever Yeh Yeh Yeh
(4) Oo, la, la
Highest ranking, ranking high
(4) Blasphemy, blasphemy,
blasphemy, blasphemy, BRrrrr......

Man betrayed him
Man denied,
So don't betray him
Don't deny

steel pulse - blazing fire

When I rise up everyday 'pon my bending knees I pray

Jah protect I all the way from my enemies I say.

Blazing Fire, can't touch Rasta

In dis ya wicked and perilous time persecutors fight 'gainst I

Dem a try to take my life I survive all war and strife

Blazing Fire, can't touch Rasta
Blazing Fire, can't touch Rasta

Shedrach Mesach Abendigo, In a de furnace they had to go

King Nebachadnezzar him never know, The Angels guide dem.

Blazing Fire, can't touch Rasta
Blazing Fire, can't touch Rasta

Dj verse Cause there's no water that can quench the thirst

Of Satan who lives in the underworld

Cause things are getting from bad to worse.

Who Jah Jah bless no man on earth can curse

It a go dreader when judgement come

In the battle Armageddeon

Iron Lion Zion

It a go rain brimstone and a

Blazing Fire, can't touch Rasta
Blazing Fire, can't touch Rasta

Fire to the Vatican
Fire Politician
Fire to the Babylon
The whole a dem a Ginal

Blazing Fire, can't touch Rasta

Fire to the Babylon
Fire Politician
Fire to the Vatican
The whole a dem a Ginal
Flim flam shenanigan

Me trample 'pon the dragon

Me come to stop oppression

Me no need no permission - I am

Selassie I soldier

Blazing Fire, can't touch Rasta

steel pulse - black enough

Shooway ooway shooway
Shooway ooway shooway

CHORUS
Am I black enuff for ya?
Am I black enuff for ya?
Am I black enuff for ya?
Am I black enuff for ya?

We're gonna move on up
One by one
We aint gonna stop until the work is done
Am I black enuff, black enuff for ya?
Am I black black enuff for ya?

We gonna move on up
Two by two
This whole world is gonna be brand new
Am I black enuff for ya?
Am I black enuff for ya?

Get in line start marking the time
You better make up your mind
We're gonna leave you behind (Repeat)

CHORUS

We're gonna move on up
Three by three
We're gonna get rid of poverty
I got to stay black black enuff for ya
I got to stay black black enuff for ya

We're gonna move on up
Four by four
We aint never gonna suffer no more
I got to stay black black enuff for ya
I got to stay black black enuff for ya

Get in line start marking your time
You better make up your mind
We're gonna leave you behind (Repeat)

Spearhead RAP

We're gonna move on up
Five by five
Say no to drugs keep hope alive
I got to stay black black enuff for ya
I got to stay black black enuff for ya

We're gonna move on up
Six by six
Rid this earth of polytricks
Wanna stay black black enough for ya
Got to stay black black black enough for ya

Open up your mind
Start marking your time
Get in line, you better make up your mind

Black enough for ya
Black enough for ya

Gotta stay black black enuff for ya
Gotta stay black black enuff for ya

Don't call my bluff
I'm tough enough
A scary kind of stuff
In search for freedom and opportunity
International rescue
Is my philosophy
Am I Am I Am I Black enough for ya?

steel pulse