Exodus

Bob Marley and the Wailers

Exodus
Movement of Jah people, ohh, yeah
Heaven will tell to let me tell you this

Men and people will fight ya down (tell me why)
When you see Jah light
Let me tell you if you're not wrong (then, why?)
Everything is all right
So we gonna walk, alright
Through di roads of creation
We the generation (tell me why)
(Trod through great tribulation) trod through great tribulations

Exodus, alright
Movement of Jah people
Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, alright
Exodus
Movement of Jah people, oh, yeah

Yeah-yeah-yeah, well
Uh, open your eyes and look within
Are you satisfied (with the life you're living)? Uh
We know where we're going, uh
We know where we're from
We're leaving Babylon
We're going to our Fatherland
Two, three, four

Exodus
Movement of Jah people, oh, yeah
(Movement of Jah people) send us another brother Moses
(Movement of Jah people) from across the Red Sea
(Movement of Jah people) send us another brother Moses
(Movement of Jah people) from across the Red Sea
(Movement of Jah people)

Exodus, alright, ooh-ooh
Movement of Jah people, oh, yeah
Exodus
Exodus, alright
Exodus, now, now, now, now
Exodus
Exodus, oh, yeah
Exodus
Exodus, alright
Exodus

One, two, three, four, move
Move, move
Move, move, move

Open your eyes and look within
Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
We know where we're going
We know where we're from
We're leaving Babylon, y'all
We're going to our Father's land

Exodus, alright
Movement of Jah people
Exodus
Movement of Jah people
Movement of Jah people
Movement of Jah people
Movement of Jah people
Movement of Jah people

Move, move
Move, move
Move, move, move

Jah come to break down pression
Rule equality
Wipe away transgression
Set the captives free

Exodus, alright, alright
Movement of Jah people
Oh, yeah
Exodus
Movement of Jah people
Now, now, now, now

Movement of Jah people
Movement of Jah people
Movement of Jah people
Movement of Jah people
Movement of Jah people
Movement of Jah people

Move, move
Move, move
Move, move, uh-uh-uh-uh
Movement of Jah people
Movement of Jah people
Movement of Jah people
Movement of Jah people
Movement of Jah people
Movement of Jah people
Movement of Jah people
Movement of Jah people
Movement of Jah people
Movement of Jah people
Move


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Exodus Lyrics as written by Bob Marley

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    This song is not about any certain race, to think that contradicts the message he has tried to send us. This song to me is about the human journey from the unconscious to the light (conscious).

    "Open your eyes and look within Are you satisfied with the life you're living? We know where we're going; we know where we're from We're leaving Babylon, we're going to the fatherland"

    open yours eyes and look within, refers to the human struggle we have with staying conscious, many search their whole lives trying to find out who they are from the outside world, one can only know god and only know them selves when they look from within. We have always known where we were going, to a new world order. Bob Marley was one of many conscious people along with the likes of Jesus Christ, Buddha, and Ghandi. With the spiritual enlightenment of the people we will create a heaven on earth or "the homeland"

    br0wn_eyed_maon February 25, 2008   Link

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