Afrikan Children

Ooh African children from the old and new generation You better get yourself together, this is the 2020 revelation Remember now what's your purpose And Jah Rastafari nuh desert us Never get caught up ina di circus One more century full of work to do, so Nothing is holding you back Brother, come mek we try to mother Africa I'll tell you nothing and nothing is holding you back Yeah Notes of a native son who's always been the most hated one And learned too young to never turn away and run And how whichever CD sold just never grows He's waiting on a hero to come who never shows A soaken rag with an hourglass broke in half Black snowflakes from ash of a smoking flag They dance in the wind like bodega bags How much longer has, man I'm afraid to ask Listen, to reach 20 exceeds expectations When kids catch bullets and Jake don't catch cases With lives cut short on a back to back basis It's the same expression attached to black faces They told us to question everything, believe nothing The D's hunting for the ones who achieve something I heard another undergrad didn't come to class Damn, black body fell below the underpass African children from the old and new generation You better get yourself together, this is the 2020 revelation Remember now what's your purpose And Jah Rastafari nuh desert us Never get caught up ina di circus One more century full of work to do, so Nothing is holding you back Brother, come mek we try to mother Africa I'll tell you nothing and nothing is holding you back Yeah Cah dem cyaan hold we Cyaan hold we Ah Babylon cyaan hold we Cyaan hold we Nuh of them cyaan hold we Cyaan hold we Cyaan hold we Cyaan hold we Ah Babylon cyaan hold we Cyaan hold we Cyaan hold we Cyaan hold we Ah Babylon cyaan hold we Cyaan hold we Cyaan hold we now Cyaan hold we now Cyaan hold we now Cowardly in the morning Cyaan hold we evening Cyaan hold we when the sun down Ay Cyaan hold we in the sun, right Dem cyaan, cyaan Cyaan hold we now You better let go from me You better let me go You better let me go Cyaan hold we no longer Him cyaan hold me now You better let me go