Afrikan Children
Ooh
African children from the old and new generation
You better get yourself together, this is the 2020 revelation
Remember now what's your purpose
And Jah Rastafari nuh desert us
Never get caught up inna di circus
One more century full of work to do, so
Nothing is holding you back
Brother, come mek we trod ah Mama Africa
I'll tell you nothing and nothing is holding you back
Yeah
Notes of a native son who's always been the most hated one
And learned too young to never turn away and run
And how whichever CD sold just never grows
He's waiting on a hero to come who never shows
A soaken rag with an hourglass broke in half
Black snowflakes from ash of a smoking flag
They dance in the wind like bodega bags
How much longer has? Man, I'm afraid to ask
Listen, to reach twenty exceeds expectations
When kids catch bullets and Jake don't catch cases
With lives cut short on a back to back basis
It's the same expression attached to black faces
They told us to question everything, believe nothing
The D's hunting for the ones who achieve something
I heard another undergrad didn't come to class
Damn, black body found below the underpass, it's wild
African children from the old and new generation
You better get yourself together, this is the 2020 revelation
Remember now what's your purpose
And Jah Rastafari nuh desert us
Never get caught up inna di circus
One more century full of work to do, so
Nothing is holding you back
Brother, come mek we trod ah Mama Africa
I'll tell you nothing and nothing is holding you back
Yeah
Cah dem cyaan' hold we (cyaan' hold we, cyaan' hold we)
An' Babylon cyaan' hold we (cyaan' hold we, cyaan' hold we)
None of dem cyaan' hold we, we (cyaan' hold we, cyaan' hold we)
An' Babylon cyaan' hold we (cyaan' hold we, cyaan' hold we)
Cyaan' hold we (cyaan' hold we)
Babylon cyaan' hold we down (cyaan' hold we)
Cyaan' hold we no longer (cyaan' hold we)
Cyaan' hold we no longer (cyaan' hold we)
Cyaan' hold we no longer (cyaan' hold we)
Cyaan' hold we no longer (cyaan' hold we)
Couldn't hold we in the morning, mh (cyaan' hold we)
Cyaan' hold we evening, uh (cyaan' hold we)
Cyaan' hold we when the sun down, ay (cyaan' hold we)
Cyaan' hold we when the sun rise (cyaan' hold we)
Dem cyaan', ohh (cyaan' hold we)
Cyaan', yeah (cyaan' hold we)
Cyaan' hold we any longer (cyaan' hold we)
You better leggo off ah me (cyaan' hold we)
You better let me go (cyaan' hold we)
You better let me go (cyaan' hold we)
Dem cyaan' hold me no longer (cyaan' hold we)
Dem cyaan' hold me no longer (cyaan' hold we)
Dem nah stir me up no longer (cyaan' hold we)
You better let me go (cyaan' hold we)