[ti:Kingston Be Wise]
[ar:Protoje]
[al:Zulu Warriors FM, Vol. 1 (Shashamane International Sound Presents)]
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[00:00.00]Kingston Be Wise - Protoje
[00:00.30]Lyrics by:Raymond Wright
[00:00.60]Composed by:Shashamane International
[00:00.90]Kingston be wise
[00:10.67]Ey
[00:16.64]Ey
[00:20.23]Watch ya dread
[00:21.52]Hey hey
[00:22.76]Kingston be wise
[00:28.68]Kingston free up your mind
[00:34.48]Kingston just be wise
[00:40.26]Kingston free up the I yeah
[00:46.49]When the city a go click-clack-blow you bet
[00:49.08]Government fingers and tic-tac-toes in it
[00:51.96]And while they working on the X's and O's
[00:54.77]I'm living I-N-I like I'm Mister Kamoze
[00:57.74]No surprise when they sending foes to me
[01:00.74]Opposite of when plain clothes approaching me
[01:03.92]Follow they rules is what they propose to me
[01:06.84]Selling they souls for what is owed you see
[01:09.81]Nothing is owed nothing is promised
[01:12.29]Never know the government woulda run up inna them garrison
[01:15.54]Without no sorry without excuse
[01:17.99]Soldier man inna them lorry everybody get abused and
[01:21.51]Everybody have them views now
[01:23.70]The media is owned so know where you get your news from
[01:27.52]And the blood deh pon them shoes now
[01:29.62]When them walking it trace
[01:31.09]Look them hard in them face
[01:32.58]And say
[01:33.07]Kingston be wise
[01:38.91]Kingston free up your mind
[01:44.70]Kingston just be wise for me
[01:50.62]Kingston free up the I yeah
[01:56.68]Now all the damage can't quantify
[01:59.04]Roy Rayon couldn't sanctify
[02:01.20]Say a nuff a dem them send fi die
[02:03.38]So the city a intensify
[02:05.12]Say the ghetto them a gentrify
[02:07.81]Well I I I nobody nuh identify
[02:10.62]Nuff bodies unidentified and just a lie deh
[02:14.27]Then where the gun deh Dead pon Saturday
[02:16.98]Buried Sunday like Solomon Grundy
[02:20.11]Like a no Sons of Solomon them have down deh
[02:22.86]Leonard Howell Pinnacle and them land deh
[02:25.91]Subdivision them deal it underhand deh
[02:28.77]So learn it 'cause them come back with dem plan deh
[02:32.04]So tell me how far do you wanna go now hey
[02:37.67]'Cause them will ratta-tatta-tatta when you pow-pow-pow
[02:43.49]Kingston be wise
[02:49.29]Kingston free up your mind