I Will Love You Girl

Use My Mind

Cali Roots Riddim 2021

Cali Roots Riddim 2021 (Instrumental)

In The Middle Of It

Light My Way

Lyrics:
Whoa yea yea 
All come together now
Whoa yea yea 
Moving in the rhythm now 
Whoa yea yea
Come on dancing in the rhythm right now

I remember the first day I walked through the door
Looking around this place I'd never been before 
Moving with rhythm and harmony 
Connecting universally 
We find peace in the melody 

Sound clash with the crowd growing louder 
Hold this feeling
Vibration of a people growing stronger 
Hold this feeling
Right here where I wanna be
California roots family
Everyday the music saves me

From the east to the west
To the north to the south 
Tell me what it's all about 
People playing music 
Reggae music til the sun goes down
Front to the back to the left to the right 
Smiling faces all around 
If you feeling good
Come on everybody scream and shout 

From the east to the west
To the north to the south 
Tell me what it's all about 
People playing music 
Reggae music til the sun goes down
Front to the back to the left to the right 
Smiling faces all around 
If you feeling good 
Come on everybody scream and shout 

Whoa yea yea 
All come together now
Whoa yea yea 
Moving in the rhythm now 
Whoa yea yea
Come on dancing in the rhythm right now

Sound wave of sensation lift me up 
Spirit flying so high yea we can't get enough 
Flowing in freedom so gracefully 
Embrace the feeling of frequency
We find peace in the melody

Sound clash with the crowd growing louder 
Hold this feeling
Vibration of a people growing stronger 
Hold this feeling
Right here where I wanna be
California roots family
Everyday the music saves me

From the east to the west
To the north to the south 
Tell me what it's all about 
People playing music 
Reggae music til the sun goes down
Front to the back to the left to the right 
Smiling faces all around 
If you feeling good 
Come on everybody scream and shout 

From the east to the west
To the north to the south 
Tell me what it's all about 
People playing music 
Reggae music til the sun goes down
Front to the back to the left to the right 
Smiling faces all around 
If you feeling good 
Come on everybody scream and shout 

Whoa yea yea 
All come together now
Whoa yea yea 
Moving in the rhythm now 
Whoa yea yea
Come on dancing in the rhythm right now

Dancing In The Rhythm

Stay Close

Love Like This

Inspired by the movie "The Mauritanian" about (surprise, surprise) American military and governmental injustice at Guantánamo Bay. 

"Some say it’s just the cost of war…
But we’re here to tell the story,
From the islands to the mainland,
From the cell to the open sky…
Truth will rise up.”

Down in the bay they call Guantánamo,
Sun beat down where no free wind blow,
Brother Qahtani, forty-eight nights no sleep,
Chained to the floor, pain cut deep.
Rumsfeld sign with a smile and a pen,
Said “make them break,” again and again,
But a broken soul don’t bring no peace,
Only a mind and body where the hate increase.

Truth rise up, like the morning sun,
No more chains, the healing’s begun,
Even if you fear, even if you fight,
Mercy shine stronger than the darkest night.
Truth rise up, you can feel it sway,
Every man’s pain will return someday,
What we sow in the heart, that’s what we reap,
And the world can’t rest while the past still weeps.

Cheney talk about “do it again,”
Bybee and Yoo twist the law for them,
Dogs in the room, cold wind blow,
Strip you bare so the shame pit grow.
But a man in the ground will rise with a song,
You can’t kill the truth, it lives too long,
Every beating hand leaves a mark on the giver,
Every poisoned well taints the taker’s river.

Truth rise up, like the morning sun,
No more chains, the healing’s begun,
Even if you fear, even if you fight,
Mercy shine stronger than the darkest night.
Truth rise up, you can feel it sway,
Every man’s pain will return someday,
What we sow in the heart, that’s what we reap,
And the world can’t rest while the past still weeps.

What if it was your son in the cell?
(Would you pray for the guard to treat him well?)
Can you win a war by killing the seed?
(Or do you grow more sorrow, more need?)
Justice ain’t revenge, it’s the mending hand,
(Lift the fallen man so he can stand.)

From Baghdad streets to Cuban shore,
Violence only opens the door
For another round, another fight,
Another mother crying in the night.
Let’s turn the wheel, make a higher choice,
Give the tortured back their stolen voice,
For the soul of a nation is on display
In how we treat the ones we take away.

Truth come down, like the setting sun,
No more chains, the healing’s begun,
Even if you fear, even if you fight,
Mercy shine stronger than the darkest night.
Truth flow through, you can feel it sway,
Every man’s pain will return someday,
Plant seeds of peace, let the roots grow deep,
So the world can rest and the people sleep.

"No nation stands taller by holding a man down.
Each human united—we’re forging new ground."

Guantánamo

From Steel Pulse's forthcoming studio album, MASS MANIPULATION, out May 17, 2019, on Rootfire Cooperative / Wiseman Doctrine. 

https://www.steelpulse.com
https://www.rootfire.net

LYRICS
 
Verse I
A who the hell do they think I am
A give me food from dem pot bottom
A give me scrap from their table
I man no desperate or disable
 
In dis ya land we live where dog eat dog
And some a dem a just a gwaan like hog
A simple ting fe mek jump and bark
A gravalicious like a harbour shark
 
Chorus I
Cry Blood, Cry Cry Blood
Cry Blood, Cry Cry Blood
For my people yeah    x2
 
Verse II
There’s just one thing I can’t overstand
What mek we love fe kill we own black man
Mi feel so shame mi have run and hide
Mi call it self-inflicted genocide
 
Me step aside and hav fe weep and moan
I feel the pressure right inside my bones
I man back against the wall
Woo l hold my head and bawl
 
Chorus II
Cry Blood
Cry Blood, Cry Cry Blood
Cry Blood, Cry Cry Blood
For my people yeah
 
Verse III
Nyahbinghi Bobo Shanty I
In a dispute I says don’t know why
Be careful of the flag now
Don’t put the lion on its back now
 
A dis ya plan is to divide and rule
In a the end a we the people lose
So many martyrs come fe things right
Oh no I and I won’t give the fight
 
Chorus III
Cry Blood cry cry blood
Cry Blood cry cry blood for my people yeah
Cry Blood cry cry blood
Cry Blood cry cry blood for my people yeah
For my people yeah yeah
My people people
My people.
 
When we gonna wake up 
Yes we need a shake up
Let us kiss and make up
Or bare witness to this break up
The whole world’s taking advantage 
While we stand aside and look
It was prophesied we’d rise again
Just take a second look
 
A cry cry blood yeah
Cry blood cry blood
For my people yeah ye
My people people
My people.

Mass Manipulation

Cry Cry Blood

Steel Pulse - Cry Cry Blood

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Use My Mind

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