Selah

They want us to stay blind as a bat While they move sly as a fox Dat dem want Oh boy Dat dem want Yes sir I tell you few people can see it Many are blind to it A change is on the way things will no longer be the same No way no how Oh no Hear me now All eyes on America People and places want to be just like America And I can't understand why When you have beautiful places like Dubai? ah yeah Lies and propaganda they speak of Africa I trod from Nairobi to Addis Ababa and find Find the truth for myself The world is more beautiful than you know From Cape Town to Accra to Lagos So much beauty my eyes behold So much in school they have never told us Like how much slaves died on GoreeIsland in Senegal And how much never reach Caribbean islands? whoi The slave trade was wickeder than you know And now they return to Africa for the gold and diamonds While they make it seem like the land is just full of poverty Oh what a lie And hungry belly what a terrible conspiracy Now we say Selah There goes the end of an era No more we are blind to the truth bout yah I-n-I stronger than ever JAH know we say Selah There goes the end of an era No more we are blind to the truth bout yah I and I stronger than ever SELAH I cry for Jamaica It hurt my heart fi see my people of Jamaica Don't realize seh reggae music is the savior Preserving the knowledge of our former selves Check theyute dem inna Gambia If you never know You would ah feel dem born and raise inna Jamaica To how dem love di culture Rastafari culture Dem live the livity as well yeah Earth is the Lords and fullness there of So I have the right to live where I'm loved and celebrated No hate can keep me from anywhere in the world Now we say Selah There goes the end of an era No more we are blind to the truth bout yah I-n-I stronger than ever JAH know we say Selah There goes the end of an era No more we are blind to the truth bout yah I and I stronger than ever SELAH What if I told you ancient stories True Was much simpler than they made it seem Word Would you trod it over Zion way Yeah See how they doing the things over there And if you thought there's something to fear Just some time back when you was a little tat And they said don't do this or child don't that Please Maybe you said you do maybe you said you don't But then you figured it out so life moved on Yeah dem be the days of innocent fun Now we living with purpose in Jah Kingdom What's da prob What you sayin What's the beef cuz The future is determined today so take a trip son Now we say Selah There goes the end of an era No more we are blind to the truth bout yah I-n-I stronger than ever JAH know we say Selah There goes the end of an era No more we are blind to the truth bout yah I and I stronger than ever SELAH