Damian Marley - Confrontation

[Intro] *(Spoken)

N.C.
Since the beginning of modern civilization,
Generations have witnessed and inherited,
The only conflicts of world wars.
But behold the marriage supper of the lamb,
And the bridegroom onto his bride;
Then shall the earth’s children know the true expression of one love.
Fm
Then mother earth shall honeymoon in peace.
Bbm C7
Forever eliminating the aspi-rations,
Db Bbm Ab C7
Lust and anguish of wars and rumours of wars. Selah!

[Chorus 1]

Fm
See it deh know the innocent going up in vapors,
Bbm C7
And propaganda spreading in-a the Sunday papers.
Db Bbm
Not even Superman could-a save you with him cape, ‘cos,
Ab C7
Red-a judgement a-blaze, blaze ya.

Fm
And Babylon a-gamble the youth dem life like racehorse,
Bbm C7
And gi dem a uniform and a-shave dem head with razors.
Db Bbm
And now the clock a-strike war, don’t be amazed, ‘cos,
Ab C7
In-a dem churches tryin’ to save, saviours.

*(Spoken)

N.C.
Can we do it? We can do it; we shall do it! (Boom!)

[Verse 1]

Fm
Tell dem fe uh draw mi out,
When the world government in-a falling out.
Bbm
On-ly few men survive crawling out,
C7 Db
Run; left him colleagues dem sprawling out, nearly dead!
Medic haffi haul him out,
Bbm Ab
And give him two tranquilizer fi stall him out; deh pon base!
C7
Can’t get no calling out when him hear from the shout last week.
Fm
Him mistress find a-new shoes, wife can’t get no news,
Bbm
And lately she starting to doubt; she still search-ing!
C7
And the youth dem bawling out, work-ing hard not to let it all come out.
Db
Well, it’s not safe to go walk about;
Bbm
A slaughterhouse from Baghdad to water house.
Ab
She start to a-rouse; sometime she want a spouse,
C7 Fm
She start go out, start beat a darker stout, guns come out!
Working people funds run out;
Bbm
Keep a show last week and no one come out; bombs come out!
C7
Mi gas tank just run out, bom-bo clatt!
Db
The scotch tape just run out, weed run out!
Yuh senses must dumb out;
Bbm
Mi have a pound round a-back deh a gwan sun out.
Ab
Nah come out! ‘Til the chalice bun out,
C7
Nah come out! ‘Til the malice bun out, a war!

[Bridge 1]

Fm
Zimbabwe to Berlin wall, blazin’ like a burnin’ ball.
Bbm C7
Loose ball, dat no work, in war, sleeping, dat no work in war
Db Bbm
Can’t wear jheri curl, in war, no diamond and pearl, in war.
Ab C7
Can’t drink weh a serve, in bar; gas wi fuck up yuh nerves, in war.
Fm
Shot wi blood up yuh shirt, in war, can’t go lift up no skirt, in war.
Bbm C7
Now disease and germs, in war; can’t go release your sperms, in war.
Db Bbm
Stamina must preserve, in war, fire constantly burn, in war;
Ab C7
Red, it red, it red, it red, it red!

[Interlude]

N.C.
If you cannot do it,
If you are not prepared to do it, then you will die.
You race of cowards, you race of imbeciles,
You race of good for nothings.
If you cannot do what other men have done,
What other nations have done, what other races have done,
Then you yourself shall die.

[Chorus 2]

Fm
See it deh know the innocent going up in vapors,
Bbm C7
And propaganda spreading in-a the Sunday papers.
Db Bbm
Not even Superman could-a save you with him cape, ‘cos,
Ab C7
Red-a judgement a-blaze, blaze ya.

Fm
And Babylon a-gamble the youth dem life like racehorse,
Bbm C7
And gi dem a uniform and a-shave dem head with razors.
Db Bbm
And now the clock a-strike war, don’t be amazed, ‘cos,
Ab C7
In-a dem churches tryin’ to save, saviours.

[Verse 2]

Fm
Hey, now wi fore parents sacrifice enough;
Dem blood sweat and tears run like syrup.
Bbm
Any day a revolution might erupt,
C7
And the skies over Kingston lighting up.
Db
For the new generation rising up,
Bbm
Of youths nowadays, weh dem sighting up.
Ab
And through reasoning dem biding up,
C7
Search-ing for the sign and the sign is us.
Fm
Search-ing for the truth; all you find is us,
Searching for the troops; still behind is us,
Bbm
The al-mighty we recruit and we come from the root,
C7
We build like roach building boot.
Db
Weh just can’t done; Rastafari’ design me tuff,
Bbm
If a-the fight for freedom, sign me up.
Ab
‘Cos you tell-lie-vision can’t blind me up,
C7
Sol-diers and police dem wising up;
Fm
Rea-lising they’re no more right than us,
Realising there’s no use fighting us.
Bbm
Rea-lising; they’re opening their eyes,
C7
To see the same demoralising life as us.
Db
So we nah tek talk nor smiling up,
Bbm
‘Cos the word temper tantrum boiling up.
Ab
And who calling the shots and nah bust none,
C7
Con-trolling the mind of the young, bring down.

[Bridge 2]

Fm
Bare famine; no rain nah fall from London to Dadeland mall.
Bbm C7
All the son of the virgin bawl, institute of the church in war.
Db Bbm
Preaching and researching war, practice and rehearsing war.
Ab C7
Teaching and dem learning war, instigating and urging war.
Fm
Always keep alert in war, ‘cos man will jump out a swerving car.
Bbm C7
Now bees and birds in war, and the freaks and nerds in war.
Db Bbm
And the straight and curves in war, forward and reverse in war.
Ab C7
Red, it red, it red, it red, it red!

[Outro]

N.C.
If you cannot do it,
If you are not prepared to do it, then you will die.
You race of cowards, you race of imbeciles,
You race of good for nothings.
If you cannot do what other men have done,
What other nations have done, what other races have done,
Then you yourself shall die.