I think this song is about materialism. You may have everything in the world but if you dont posses the key to happiness and salvation (in this case Jah), you may seem happy but time will tell. Also, the line, "Jah would never give the power to a baldheald" refers to the the eventual fall of babylon or western society as we know it. "Back them up, oh not the brothers/ But the ones, who set the up" is a refrence to Jah's interference in stoping the "baldhead" who enslaved or "set them up" from opressing the African race. "Oh children weep no more/Oh my sycamore tree, saw the freedom tree" refers to the freedom that they will be restored when the opression that plagues the African people is lifted with the fall of babylon.
I think this song is about materialism. You may have everything in the world but if you dont posses the key to happiness and salvation (in this case Jah), you may seem happy but time will tell. Also, the line, "Jah would never give the power to a baldheald" refers to the the eventual fall of babylon or western society as we know it. "Back them up, oh not the brothers/ But the ones, who set the up" is a refrence to Jah's interference in stoping the "baldhead" who enslaved or "set them up" from opressing the African race. "Oh children weep no more/Oh my sycamore tree, saw the freedom tree" refers to the freedom that they will be restored when the opression that plagues the African people is lifted with the fall of babylon.