Chorus: Devilstation they intensify Church and state they can't satisfy While the children still a multiply I see babymothers cry While the babyfathers die Break my backbone while you sit down on your throne You must living ina twylight zone It's a good thing I man tuff like a rock stone Never gonna hear me weap you'll never gonna hear me mone Creating all the circumstance Still you're claiming that a you the one who nuh response When the revolutionary man a take his stand You Mr. Jacket and tie it nuh make sense you run Chorus Promises and lies is what a gwaan These are the things righteous people a scorn Prophets a ring the alarm Tell the heads of government fi cool and fi calm And if you live by what you should And you doing what you could There'll be no bad but good, no no
Living out in Hollywood Buh care about no flesh and blood You sink ina the mod Chorus You only govern with your weapon But dem ya things seh we nuh pon Man a no stool fu you fi step pon We age trample duppy and the demon Nuh join dem gang and me nuh ku-klux dem clan Listen to the words of a living man This oppression me don't understand Are you a creature, beast are you human Chorus Break my backbone while you sit down on your throne You must living ina twylight zone It's a good thing I man tuff like a rock stone Never gonna hear me weap you'll never gonna hear me mone Creating all the circumstance Still you're claiming that a you the one who nuh response When the revolutionary man a take his stand You Mr. Jacket and tie it nuh make sense you run Chorus