[Intro: Spoken - militant tone]
Yeah… a long time di people a suffa
Dem walk ‘round wid guards, but say dem fulla love?
Mi smell di lie from a miles out
expose dem wid di riddim and style, yow!
[Chorus: Melodic, haunting harmony]
Dem nuh real, dem a fraud inna suit
Tek weh di land and still a talk ‘bout truth
Dem smiling, but dem heart damn cruel
Dem same one a sell out wi damn roots
Dem nuh real, dem a mask inna face
Claim seh dem care, but a run dung di place
Beach gone, land gone, mi cyaah stay calm
Mi deh yah fi di people wid a fiery alarm
[Verse 1: Tight rhyme, 4-bar lock, lyrical flames]
If people love yuh, why yuh walk wid damn guard?
Yuh know seh di wrath woulda strike real hard
Pon camera, yuh laugh, but yuh heart cyaah lie
Whole country know seh yuh evil inside
Dem sell di beach, sell airport, an dem sell sky
Land weh belong to we youths dem buy
Tell mi now, how a Jamaican cyaah build pon di land?
When every bloodline deserve dem own piece, man
[Chorus: Melodic, haunting harmony]
Dem nuh real, dem a fraud inna suit
Tek weh di land and still a talk ‘bout truth
Dem smiling, but dem heart damn cruel
Dem same one a sell out wi damn roots
Dem nuh real, dem a mask inna face
Claim seh dem care, but a run dung di place
Beach gone, land gone, mi cyaah stay calm
Mi deh yah fi di people wid a fiery alarm
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[Verse 2: Fast and passionate delivery]
Parliament clowns, dem a big disgrace
All now we nuh see not a real man face
Dem cuss bad wud, jail youth fi di same
Den change up di law just to fit dem game
Mi fed up to mi bone, dis one pain mi soul
Cyaa tek di lies, it a tek full toll
Mi mother still haffi boil water fi bathe
While dem drink champagne inna house full shade
[Chorus: Repeat with extra harmony]
Dem nuh real, dem a fraud inna suit
Tek weh di land and still a talk ‘bout truth
Dem smiling, but dem heart damn cruel
Dem same one a sell out wi damn roots
Dem nuh real, dem a mask inna face
Claim seh dem care, but a run dung di place
Beach gone, land gone, mi cyaah stay calm
Mi deh yah fi di people wid a fiery alarm
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[Bridge: Spoken & melodic mix]
Yow mi see di plan—foreign get di land
While ghetto youth a struggle fi a piece fi dem hand
Jamaica fulla riches but a few alone eat
And a next youth just get drop ‘pon di cold street
Mi done tell yuh seh di people nah sleep again
From Clarendon straight black to lakes pen
We keep rising, organizing
No more smiling when dem conniving
[Chorus: Melodic, haunting harmony]
Dem nuh real, dem a fraud inna suit
Tek weh di land and still a talk ‘bout truth
Dem smiling, but dem heart damn cruel
Dem same one a sell out wi damn roots
Dem nuh real, dem a mask inna face
Claim seh dem care, but a run dung di place
Beach gone, land gone, mi cyaah stay calm
Mi deh yah fi di people wid a fiery alarm
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[Final Chorus: Call and response style]
🔥 Dem nah real! (No dem nah!)
🔥 Dem a thief wid a deal! (Loud and raw!)
🔥 Dem a walk wid a guard, but the wrath soon reach!
🔥 Time fi burn out di leech!
