I rise each day To yet another shock From this alarm-clock culture And I miss da sound Of my big red co*k As him best him chest And crow welcome song To the sun From the fowl sh** covered Guava tree pon the hillside And de snooze bu*ton allow me five minute More to dream about ackee and breadfruit Then I get up and eat a bagel And worry about my love handle Six layers of clothes And thermal drawers And I still cold Another bridge mean more toll And the golden rule Is alternate side parking Ans as the belly get fat Many things about Yard that Used to be just a mere inconvenience Start to look like major incompetence Unscheduled power cut daily Walter lock-off Bank pon short staff cause The morning was a little bit rainy Few telephones
That's just how it is Yet everyone know Everyone else business Well I live in my building for five years now And my neighbors them still don't know me But solace come from anonymity And every time I bite the apple The apple swallow me So them force me to buy A piece of the FBI CIA investment pie And them give me a W2 form in lieu Of a receipt So now I'm funding a plot To get God shot Or something like that The Korean polish him apples them clean And arrange them in stacks of red, gold and green Say him, want Rasta to feel welcome Seen? So I dilly And I dally And I wonder How much longer I can philander Cause each time ah bite the apple It swallow a piece of me Still it hard to love the fruit If I never did climb the tree