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(with Damian Marley)
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[African Choir Intro]
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[Jr. Gong - Chorus 1]
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Lord!
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This Spear, huh!
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Shaka Zulu, Bobo Shanti, Nyabinghi
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Man a Mau Mau Warrior
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Despair, eh
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Fear and desperation no depression can't tarry ya
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This Spear, hey
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Ayatollah, Idi Amin, Mennelek,
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Man a Masai Warrior
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Despair, eh
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Fear and desperation no depression can't tarry ya
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This Spear
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Like BURNING SPEAR
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AND SUCH AND SUCH BEFORE ME
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Who all fought for the cause and
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This Spear, eh
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Enforcing all the laws
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[Nas - Verse 1]
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The Master of the Masses
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One has power
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The other one lacks it
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Guns are power
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Controlled by assets
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Owned by financial forecasters
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Who are the Masters?
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They are the Gangsters
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They are the bankers
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The ones who tax us
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The Masses
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They are us
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The sheep, the people
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Divided in classes
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I go off like a Shite bomb
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And All ya'll see I'm on my
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War paint on my face, shit
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My nine mm on my waist, shit
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I'm a problem
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Shoot up your place shit
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Let a few go
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Then I get low
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Blazing Haze again
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The Masters, The Wall Street War Chiefs
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The Elitists Groups
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The Masses
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They pray to Jesus
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Saying he will see us through
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The Masters are the aristocratic
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The Masses
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Ask if the Most High
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Is On his way here
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I'm trying to stay clear
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My mind is my modern day Spear
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[Jr. Gong - Chorus 2]
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Hey
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I say...
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This Spear, huh!
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Shaka Zulu, Bobo Shanti, Man a Gideon
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Man a Mau Mau Warrior
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Despair, eh
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Fear and desperation no depression can't tarry ya
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This Spear, hey
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Through the hands of time and cruel men
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It has slew more than a billion
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Despair, eh
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It keep on suppressing the humble man's opinion
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[Nas - Verse 2]
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This lead into Swiss cheese
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When the 5th squeeze
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Mislead
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The media Misleads
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Scares you to the point
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Where you miss sleep
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With that said
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This lead with this Ruger
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And that shooter
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Sub-machine gun
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Ratta tat through you
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Copper tops, hollow points
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Will do ya something bad
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Our future
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Is Mislead
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Three strikes
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There's no school
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When a teacher strikes
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This economy
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This monopoly
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Get no job
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Just own your property
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Now it's back to
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What comes natural
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Must survive any how you have to
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Despair, Desperation
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But I have no fear
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When I hold This Spear
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[Intermission]
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[Jr. Gong - Bridge]
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Mek some bwoy know mi nah smile
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Cause this spear nah beg friends
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Man a run racket
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Man a run scheme
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Man a run race
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Man a run down Benz
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Can't trust a she nor we nor eye
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Inna contact lense
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Man a run from police
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And a run down wealth
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And dollars and nah mek sense
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[Jr. Gong - Verse 3]
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So,
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Rise up to my defense
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Hollow pointed is my preference
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Should have been deterred
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Don't know what you heard
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Get referred
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By the wrong reference
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When this spear start dispense
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It a fly and a tear through fence
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Dismember your members
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And all of your limbs
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Body bust inna nuff segments
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Well,
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Man a run drugs
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Man a run risk
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Man all a run out a time and ends
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Man a run up and down
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And a run fi dem life
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And a run down this month rent
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Nutin' nah gwan a yard
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And food deh a road
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Then man hafi go touch pavement
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Despair was a tool
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That was used to enslave man
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And mek manservant
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Escape from Despair and Desperation
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Becomes more urgent
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Mankind needs to cleanse and wash out dem soul
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With spiritual detergent
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A distant army
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A distant relative
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Controlling the circumference
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And any man move with no permission
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They're feeling the circumstance of
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[Jr. Gong - Chorus 4]
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This Spear, hey
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Shaka Zulu, Bobo Shanti, Man a, eh
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Man a Mau Mau Warrior
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Despair, eh!
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Fear of your recession and depression can't tarry ya
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This Spear, hey
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Inner city youth dem rise it up disguised as AK-47
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This Spear, eh!
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And anytime them clap it up the whole city level
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This Spear
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Like Burning Spear
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And such and such before I
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Who all fought for the cause and
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This Spear, eh!
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They can't ignore me
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No!
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