anytime now

yayayaya selassie is the almighty i

wo yow

my meditation going like a dove

wo

stop alla keep failing

to fulfill black people words

hey

king selassie i me hailing

anna dem go trouble poor people first

anytime now

babylon dem a go ge a red

'fraid

babylon a get 'fraid

anytime now

di prisoners dem a go escape

slave master place a go blaze

anytime now

police dem a go get a red

'fraid

government a get 'fraid

anytime now

babylon

yuh must get a red

nuff cutchi man nuff a dem run go shave

woi

i'd rather to be

with the people i lead

give dem my daily strength

and showing dem a dearly need

and i'd rather to see

more love than grief

that's the only way di ghetto youths a go achieve

and i rather to be

with the people in need

babylon system only come yah so fi deceive

i rather to listen a nah to word receive

dem a go cut di woman breast and bust di man dem seed

mussa perish

long time me see it

black people back up an yard inna di east

tell di indian say fi go look fi dem chief

tell di white man from a europe

go island seek

hey

rastaman no got no secret a keep

there will be a weeping an a wailing an a gnashing of teeth

?

come out inna di clear

behind wall dem a peep

nothing fi di white man

black man nah do it

black woman

stop sweep di white woman street

di ghetto youths go study babylon technique

a so me see say

vatican get defeat

anytime now

babylon dem a go get a red

'fraid

babylon a get 'fraid

anytime now

yah

redder fire deh go blaze

stop treat people like slave

anytime now

di prisoners dem a go escape

too long dem deh in deh yah bake

anytime now

babylon dem a go get a red

man haffi go repatriate

dem make dem sattelite and dem launch it a space

mash up di o-zone layer

babylon a fake

sun a burn redder

and it a strip dem face

could deh dem look like all weh dey bake

watch a make di rastaman deal wid dem case

ask dem dis question before it too late

babylon

a why yuh dump your toxic waste

you no see say dat yuh make a big mistake

now tell me who end up like bait

dem hold down black people

to send white people through di gate

woi

rastaman a agitate

revolution

caw we must repatriate

anytime now

babylon dem a go get a red

'fraid di government get fraid

anytime now

babylon dem a go get a red

dem seperate we and still wan' enslave

anytime now

babylon dem a go get a red

and mister babylon

you nah save

anytime now

babylon dem a go get a red

because di prisoners dem a go escape

di whole a dem a dis di i-ncient of days

got inna di atlantic ocean

gone fire dem lace

fi make di iceburg fi return di ice age

di west a go sink when di water table raise

babylon you stink

an yuh wan bad

yo no badda think di youth a tell you dis brave

i black mother nah be your maid

work me black father

and dem never get paid

oh

babylon so much a we a come a enslave

i build di building

di road dem we pave

see dem now

see dem now

see dem now

from yuh dis your own a judgement you made