'Til I'm Laid To Rest

All my days

Seems like they have been wasted, ay?

But you know

Just goes on to show

'Til I'm laid to rest, yes

Always be depressed

There's no life in the West

I know the East is the best

All the propaganda they spread

Tongues will haffi confess

Oh, I'm in bondage, living is a mess

And I've got to rise up, alleviate the stress

No longer will I expose my weakness

He who seeks knowledge begins with humbleness

Work seven to seven, yet me still penniless

All the food upon my table Massa God bless

Holler fi the needy and shelter less

Ethiopia awaits all prince and princess

'Til I'm laid to rest, yes

Always be depressed

There's no life in the West

I know the East is the best, yes

Propaganda they spread

Tongues will haffi confess

What coulda bad 'bout the East, everybody wants a piece

Africa fi Africans, Marcus Mosiah speak

Unification outnumbers defeat

What a day when we walk down Redemption Street

Banner 'pon heads, Bible inna hands

One and all, make we trod the promised land

Buju go dung a Congo, stopped in Shashamane Land

The city of Harare where Selassie come from

In Addis Ababa, then Botswana

Left Kenya, a end up in Ghana

Oh, what a beauty my eyesight behold

Only Ethiopia protect me from the cold

'Til I'm laid to rest, yes

Always be depressed

There's no life in the West

I know the East is the best

All the propaganda they spread

Tongues will haffi confess

Organize and centralize, come as one

Our seeds shall be so many, more than sand

Some new and replenish pure and clean hand

For too long we've been under this band

Some a save a bag a riches, yet them dead empty hand

Gwan say me stupid and laugh all you can

Easier for a camel to enter through a needle eye

Than it is for a rich guy to enter inna Zion

Take it from I man

So

'Til I'm laid to rest, yes

Always be depressed

There's no living in the West

I know the East is the best

All the propaganda them spread

Tongues will haffi confess

Oh, I'm in bondage living is a mess

And I've got to rise up alleviate the stress

No longer will I expose my weakness

He who seeks knowledge begins with humbleness

Work seven to seven yet mestill penniless

All the food upon my table Massa God bless

Holler fi the needy and shelter less

Ethiopia awaits all prince and princess

'Til I'm laid to rest, yes

Always be depressed

There's no life in the West

I know the East is the best

All the propaganda they spread

Tongues will haffi confess

What coulda bad so 'bout the East, everybody wants a piece

Africa fi Africans, Marcus Mosiah speak

Unification outnumbers defeat

What a day, we walking dung Redemption Street

Banner 'pon head, Bible inna hands

One and all, make we trod the promised land

Buju go dung a Congo, and then Shashamane Land

The city of Harare where Selassie com from

From Addis Ababa inna Batswana

Left Kenya, a end up in Ghana

Oh, what a beauty my eyesight behold

Only Ethiopia protect me from the cold

'Til I'm laid to rest, yes

Always be depressed

There's no life in the West

I know the East is the best

All the propaganda they spread

Tongues will haffi confess

Organize, centralize come as one