Bad Company

[Intro:]
Listen up words up,
be not so ignorant
blacker reverence
time fi di youth dem hail Haile Selassie
[Chorus:]
Too much sufferation mi cyaan bear no more
Brutalization them dont love the poor so me
Play the music every night and day because
Bad company will lead you astray
[x2]
[Verse 1:]
Yow mi cook mi food
Poor people get some out of it
dem shot the innocent
still nothing come out of it hmm…
Speak the truth ah that me promote ah it
yuh cut the people flesh
yes blood run out of it, now
your duty is wuk fi everyone
police and dey gun yes they get out of hand
judge, you should take it out their hand
yuh hurt black people and yuh dont care a damn
[Chorus x2]
[Verse 2:]
black people royal
and dem regal all the guns in the world are illegal
even a knife or a pen it is lethal
they use it to kill for what they can achieve and
selectah play the music boost up di place
why should police come shoot up di place?
Prove dem ah prove dem nah hold no faith
corruption cyaan guh through Mount Zion gate
[Chorus x2]
[Verse 3:]
And still slavery ah gwaan
nutten nuh change
betta get brave
nutten nuh strange
dem ah shoot dung di people like dem tink seh ah range
brimstone ah fall like rain
shouldnt shot di people ah LaRoose
dat nuh mek it dat lose
hey yuh nah set nuh example fi di youth hey
ah just di truth ah just di truth
[Chorus x2]
[Verse 4:]
Plant di food poor people get some out of it
yuh cut di people flesh blood will run out of it
yuh shot di innocent nutten come out of it
I got to speak the truth what me promote ah it
your duty is wuk fi everyone
police and their gun they get out of hand
judge, you should take it out their hand
dey kill di ghetto youth and they dont care a damn