Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Try and remember now just what has been done,
Enslavement, displacement of every nation.
And now to one nation
everyone hold their grudge
Kind of make me wonder which side I'm on
I don't defend the white and I don't defend the black.
I defend truth and rights and all of that.
Work on the situation where I'm at
Hold my position, never fall off track
-Chorus- X2
Nah give up my faith!
Though Babylon rage,
I and I astrive until the end of my days.
Rasta Courage
go against society
Rasta courage
I never give no good vibes
and I never give up no truth.
Never trade my sanity
for living in Babylon crew.
Vanity will never drive this man insane. This man will walk alongside Jah again. We see all the pressure to conform today,
And I may sometimes bend, but only as not to break.
Cause a life of iniquity for laziness' sake
Is a deal with the devil Rasta just can't make.
-Chorus- X2
Looking back now upon all of the evidence 400
years and what them years have really done,
we talk of peace but at the first sign of war.
Bredren ain't bredren and sistren ain't sistren no more.
Without forgiveness how will any war cease,
while the heathen rage Rastaman sitting at ease.
No one will move a muscle for some moral justice and with no justice well there will be no peace.
-Chorus- X2
Enslavement, displacement of every nation.
And now to one nation
everyone hold their grudge
Kind of make me wonder which side I'm on
I don't defend the white and I don't defend the black.
I defend truth and rights and all of that.
Work on the situation where I'm at
Hold my position, never fall off track
-Chorus- X2
Nah give up my faith!
Though Babylon rage,
I and I astrive until the end of my days.
Rasta Courage
go against society
Rasta courage
I never give no good vibes
and I never give up no truth.
Never trade my sanity
for living in Babylon crew.
Vanity will never drive this man insane. This man will walk alongside Jah again. We see all the pressure to conform today,
And I may sometimes bend, but only as not to break.
Cause a life of iniquity for laziness' sake
Is a deal with the devil Rasta just can't make.
-Chorus- X2
Looking back now upon all of the evidence 400
years and what them years have really done,
we talk of peace but at the first sign of war.
Bredren ain't bredren and sistren ain't sistren no more.
Without forgiveness how will any war cease,
while the heathen rage Rastaman sitting at ease.
No one will move a muscle for some moral justice and with no justice well there will be no peace.
-Chorus- X2
Lyrics submitted by lostthoughts588
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