[Verse 1: Dr Koul]
I'm a fool to the foolish, and blind to the blind
I'm cruel to the cruel, but kind to the kind
I'm a lyricist's lyricist, a ghost writer's ghost writer
A revolutionary revolutionary fighter
I'm a confidant's confidant
A gentleman to gentlemen's Gentlemen
And doctor to the doc
I'm a cat to a b**h, to a p**y I'm a dog
I'm a catch to the fish, a servant of God
I'm an anarchist anarchist, not religious nor atheist
I'm cooking up the healthy and the tastiest
It's a fine line between d** and medicine
You're dying from the herbalist, when he's irrelevant
Between love and hate, between sin and purity
Fine line between guilt and shame
But the same heresy -
Not cowardly nor brave enough for suicide
Maybe I'm just saving up for another life...
[Chorus: Evita Koné]
We've been waiting so long
For the things that we said that we want
But we had all along, Yeah
We've been waiting so long
For the things that we said
That we think that we said that we want
But that's not so
[Verse 2: Dr Koul]
Delivering rhythms of answers
Living within a bonanza
Whispering hymns of the panthers
Giving it in every stanza
Political parties of rastas
A lyrical love of the dancers
Where twenty percent of the ma**es
Are put in a pen for resenting the masters
We're stuck in a cup of mola**es
It's dastardly, everlasting, that's the half
And you don't want the fraction
The banks are pulling the maths
And calling the cops to cover it up
The mask is there for the ga**es
We fought on the gra**, they smashing our gla**es-
Its not the freedom we'd asked for
You see the disaster coming
We're running for pastures
But no one has nothing pa** us
They pat us and frisk and hara** us
This battle is just like the past ones
And these ba*tards want to cla** us
And they laugh at us as they lash us
And we clasp at all that we have that's
The rap and also the peace, love, unity!
Reason, respect, humility?
While they abuse with impunity
We're looking for God within you and me
They call it democracy
But we know that the oligarchy's got an army -
All that we're demanding is honesty
[Chorus: Evita Koné]
[Verse 3: Dr Koul]
Further from the plan and the plan gets clearer
Further from the land and the land gets dearer
Murdering the lamb 'till the lamb is the leader
Further from the damned: Heaven never gets nearer
Have more than you show, speak less than you know
Have war with the flow, make peace with the soul
Don't hate or you breed more hate than you sew
Don't waste your seeds, have patience to let them grow
I'm not a martyr I'm just wasting ink
Claiming water is the greatest drink
I have a friend who sees life through a twisted lens
Yet if he'd only seize life he'd have the gift of zen!
He looked me in the eye
And told me he was too scared to die
It made me wonder, "How scared am I?"
Still not cowardly nor brave enough for suicide
I really must just be saving up for another life...
[Chorus: Evita Koné]
We've been waiting so long
For the things that we said that we want
But we had all along, Yeah
We've been waiting so long
For the things that we said
That we think that we said that we won