These Things Take Time - Conflict

So Listen crowd of people and listen wisely, it’s I, daddy Kerry,

telling everybody

So what we gonna do about this mad lady?

Everybody knows she’s gonna mash up the country

We must be patient in our struggle for freedom

The state shall make it’s own mistake, don’t feed them ammunition

Time is not running out, time be with us on our side

Maintain the resistance;

see the end of apartheid

We’re living in a Government style.

No time for no fuss and fight,

everybody must unite.

We must abolish apartheid

Brothers and sisters fear no more!

Rise up and face this evil oppression

Sigh and cry no more, for one day, that fine day

The huge cloud that overshadows all.

Shall lift, rise high, all say — forward

Don’t shake the hands of the firing squad.

There are no tokens here

Remember those burning eyes, them hungry bellies.

No cure can exist in promises

Medicine cures all, but when cancer spreads, there can be no cure

Meanwhile brothers crawl on the death pile to die.

The result of western world

economics

Meanwhile the bullet rips the flesh of the young mother.

The flies feast on the eyes of the young child

Meanwhile — hey cool guy McDonald’s man, eating the flesh of the fellow man

Wise up, sucking up to the good life.

The Coca-Cola formula continues to run red

Rising high on the graph of oppression

Public outcry exists worldwide.

Headstones still commemorate the many who have

died

Coffins laid to earth.

Resistance dead.

Rowntree Mackintosh machine guns rise

instead

Crucify jah children;

suffer once again they shall

In honor, they retaliate.

Stones against tanks, inevitably the innocent die

The bodies laying deep are your responsibility

How can sister from outside nation march in disgust at apartheid,

whilst using dictator bankbook?

Finance fuels all and in retrospect, it offers nothing more than misery

Political leaders stand off, offering the false hand of opinion poll support

Political factions offer nothing more than violence

Ignorance breeds arrogance, arrogance creates violence.

And that is their

solution

The abysmal result of dictatorship.

Their excuses for slavery

The chain around our necks.

The guns in the street

don’t consider violence as an alternative

Until you’ve picked up bits of your relatives in the street

Until you’ve felt the whip crack tear the skin.

The gas burns the eyes

The baton on the skull.

The torture in prison

Use sanctions and the grey cloud will disperse

The constitution known as apartheid and it?

s ilk will be destroyed

And our world shall exist

Brothers and sisters

Such things cannot be bought and sold

Such things cannot be arranged by Governments

Such things cannot evolve overnight.

These things take time

These things take time