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[Intro]
Frustration (Wooy)
Brutalization (No go there, man, no)
[Chorus]
It was a dreadful day
Babylon take mi away
Carry I to one cell
This is what I see everyday
[Post-Chorus]
Use razor cutters to cut matches in four
Cah, we don't sure to get no more
No-no-no more (Oh-oy)
No more (Yeah)
[Verse 1]
Ten men to one spliff day
Took her in a ounce per day (Yeah)
Lord, we eye go red
Like wild monkey be, I tell you (Well, wooy)
Take me from my wonderful home (Oh)
Brought me down here in Rome (Oh)
Somе of us got use one comb
[Post-Verse]
None of it no nicе (Oh-oh)
Must get lice (Realise)
It no nice (No!)
[Chorus]
It was a dreadful day (Yeah)
Babylon take mi away
Carry I to one cell
This is what I see everyday (Oh, yeah)
[Post-Chorus]
Cutters to cut matches in four
Cah, we don't sure to get no more
No-no-no more (Oh-oy)
No more (Yeah)
[Verse 2]
The man so [?] bruise
Always have a [?] fi use
It no nice there, man
No go there, man
A pure sufferation (Oh-oy)
Brutalization (Wo-yoy)
No go there, man (Wo-yoy)
[Post-Verse]
Look what they do to mi
[?] down mi knee
Mi knee (Wo-yoy, wo-yoy, wo-yoy)
[Verse 3]
Lord, they have no sympathy
What they a go tell di almighty?
I wanna know
Jah know, it hurt mi so (Yeah)
Know dat you gonna regret
I said, fi lead a human to death
[Post-Verse]
Lord, no, I fret
It could be mi
Di [?], they have no sympathy
Jah know, it hurt mi so
[Bridge]
Frustration
Brutalization
Got to tell it to the nation
What they doin' to
They have fi take your mind fi you
[Chorus]
It was a dreadful day
Babylon take mi away
Carry I to one cell
This is what I see everyday
This is what I see everyday
[Post-Chorus]
Use razor cutters to cut matches in four
Cah, we don't sure to get no more
No more
Credits
Junior Reid

Junior Reid

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