Ras For a Reason

Sons of one Mother
Seventy sons of thunder

True oh yeah

I-man a Ras for a Reason
I Rastafari for a rebel cause
I-man a chant up with reason
I-man like Aloes inna them mouth because
Sometimes the bitter is a healin'
Sometimes the ground come like a ceilin'
Rasta brought them down low to lift them high
Until them sight up Tafari

True oh yeah

Well, the years regardless how them a fight communist
Liberal Satan income tax are the same communist
The criminal take the money, people never volunteer
Enough, cut off ya'seh Right now equal work for a equal share

Ras for a Reason
I-man a Rasta for a rebel cause
I-man a chant up with reason
I-man like Aloes inna them mouth because
Sometimes the bitter is a healin'
Sometimes the ground come like a ceilin'
Rasta brought them down low to lift them high
Until them sight up Tafari

True oh yeah

Now, Babylon a call I criminal element
Well, criminal element Babylon use control Continent
The fittest dominion under clutches
Locked down in prison houses x 3

Well Babylon see the rat and tell them ya give them cheese
Two-faced they lead on hear wha
Well Babylon full them up ya give them that extra squeeze
Again Babylon come like comfy come come make them out clean
Infirmary ward and graveyard scene
Two side the man appear and still one ramp and come in
What them a ga do when Lion wake from sleep?
What them a ga do when is a Grim come reap?
What them a ga do if them done? they in too deep
What we a ga do fi separate wolf from sheep

Ras for a Reason
I-man a Rasta for a rebel cause
I-man a chant up with reason
I-man like Aloes inna them mouth because
Sometimes the bitter is a healin'
Sometimes the ground come like a ceilin'
Rasta broke it down low to build it high
Until them sight up Tafari

Rasta pon walk on this x2
Them a rhetoric, I-man say practice
The Holy Covenant the RastaMan Declare it
Rasta pon walk on this x2


wha Jah look? How Sellasie I ya cross the Earth a swift and a shook
Conquer death and the grave you must a not hear the beat
Message ya jus' can't believe
heatin' up between the leaf
Embryos of seed
And if ya chant and proceed
Abba Da-Da, black a sound so read

Ras for a Reason
I Rastafari for a rebel cause
I-man a chant up with reason
I-man like Aloes inna them mouth because
Sometimes the bitter is a healin'
Sometimes the ground come like the ceilin'
Rasta broke them down low to lift them high
Until them sight up Tafari

True oh yeah

Between food, light, and rent, and traffic ticket
Babylon fill up your pocket just fi rob your pocket
Between food, light, and gas forget it
Right now the people asleep and nobody can save now

Ras for a Reason
I Rastafari for a rebel cause
I-man a chant up with reason
I-man like Aloes inna them mouth because
Sometimes the bitter is a healin'
Sometimes the ground come like the ceilin'
Rasta broke them down low to lift them high
Until them sight up Tafari