I pa**ed downtown the other day Plenty interesting characters came my way And the way they talking I tell no lie There's more to this town than meets the eye I pa**ed a man beggin' for bread He said "I am Lazarus, come back from the dead But I feel the Lord waste his time 'cause if I don't eat soon, is tonight I'm back in the tomb." Chorus And all of the corbeaux followin' me Ah see the cobeaux followin' I run and hide, but high in the sky Ah see the corbeaux followin' Walking and talking, crying and trying Pleading and bleeding from morning to evening Still everywhere I run they followin' me At the corner by Abercromby A next interesting character pa**ed by me The man foot bus' up, he limping in pain And the whole while he walkin' like he's dragging chains But he reciting in perfect rhyme Saying "I'm a prisoner yet I've done no crime You see poverty is meh jail So I lookin' for a next dollar to pay the bail." By the Park Street gas station I pa**ed a man claiming to be Napoleon He said the prison wasn't so bad So they let him out to suffer on the streets of Trinidad But he say today he get lucky I asked what he go do with the money He said every king needs a queen So he goin' Robert Street to look for Josephine I pa**ed a man bathing in the drain He said "I am Jesus Christ come back again" And as I pa**ed I turned to see A man across the road cussin' he for blasphemy But as I walked I started to wonder Which man of the two was the blasphemer: The one who said he was the Lord himself Or the next one who cyan't see the lord in someone else Lavway Pwissione leve Mete lumiere bay Congo Bara Leve, leve Mete lumiere bay Congo Bara (Prisoners, stand up Give some light to Congo Bara Get up, get up Give some light to Congo Bara.)