Tearful Days - Alborosie

A desire youth

(So far)

We strong inna the Gideon, te chanting seh

The Nyahbingi bring dung Judgement inna Babylon, yo

Tearful days, inna the Gideon

Daughters and sons inna war

Tearful days, inna the Gideon

How dah thing yah reach so far?

Worries in the ears when the bingi fire light

Mosiah will appear like the sound in the night

Ruling lion, him no fear not a bite

Him wear dah Khaki suit and hail Far I, whoa

Their rules and lies they set in the book

Never applied to them

Send set a rule, dem break like crook

Keep we under a spell

Taser and tear gas against them own kind

Daughters and sons inna uniform

Tearful days, down inna the Gideon

Daughters and sons inna war

Tearful days, inna the Gideon

How dah thing yah reach so far?

Tearful days, inna the Gideon, yo

Daughters and sons inna war

Tearful days

How dah thing yah reach so far?

Woh!

Dem cyaan fool young warriors with their legacy lies

Sit down inna parliament a write up bare lies

Cover for the KKK, cover for the CIA

The officers weh kill us, dem behind our door way

One by one dem a took out the kings

Tree by tree, no muh king for the king

Pickney fatherless, a funeral sinting

Dem waan cook white rice and a pick out black beans

Before that, bullet a go tear off unno kin

Tearful days, down inna the Gideon

Daughters and sons inna war

Tearful days, inna the Gideon

How dah thing yah reach so far?

Tearful days, inna the Gideon, yo

Daughters and sons inna war

Tearful days

How dah thing yah reach so far?

(So far)

A desire youth again

(So far)

A wha’appen to dem man yah man

A bring corruption and a kill off the youth dem

A Judgement we seh, straight!

Watch it!

Dem a war, dem a fight

Nah do anything just to make things right

A the truth, a no lie

When you’re looking on the world outside

Their rules and lies they set in the book

Never applied to them

Send set a rule, dem break like crook

Keep we under a spell

Taser and tear gas against them own kind

Daughters and sons inna uniform do crime

Oh, down inna the Gideon

Daughters and sons inna war

Tearful days, inna the Gideon

How dah thing yah reach so far?

Tearful days, inna the Gideon, yo

Daughters and sons inna war

Tearful days

How dah thing yah reach so far?