Ub40 Lyrics
Ub40 Lyrics
cha "Tyler"
"Tyler"
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Tyler is guilty the white judge has said so
What right do we have to say it's not so
Tyler is guilty the white judge has said so
What right do we have to say it's not so
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King"
"Burden Of Shame"
Lonely, Lonely,
Tin can at my feet.
Think I'll kick it down the street,
That's the way to treat a friend
"Little By Little"
"Madame Medusa"
Madam Medusa
Madam Medusa
Madam Medusa
"Strange Fruit"
"Present Arms"
"One In Ten"
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I am the one in ten
A number on a list
I am the one in ten
Even though I don't exist
Nobody Knows me
But I'm always there
A statistic, a reminder
Of a world that doesn't care
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You might believe, and still you feel the chase has just begun.
That you must reach that horizon before the setting of the sun.
You chase the light in front of you, nightfall close behind.
If you stop to catch your breath, you know what you will find.
"Silent Witness"
"Lamb's Bread"
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So here I am sitting at the bus stop
Wishing I was somewhere else
Where I didn't have to work my rocks off
Wishing I could please myself.
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Multi-million dollar
Exploration into space
While in the name of progress
This planet's laid to waste
Nation takes on nation
And is stepping up the pace
And someone's got his finger
On the button.
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Forget the cost
We've got to choose
We're running in a race
That we can only lose.
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Love Is all is alright
But you left it a little to late
Love is all is alright
But you've got to find a little more hate.
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"The Piper Calls The Tune"
"The Key"
Trenchtown Jamaica
Gave the Wailers their soun'
Like a steppin' razor
The Brother Tosh 'im come aroun'
Yellow Man and Eek-A-Mouse
Dem a trod 'pon newer groun'
While Scratch and The Scientist
Dem jus' keep on mixin' down.
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[Refrain:]
Reggae music is
The key to ny heart
Reggae music is
My stop and start
From dusk to dawn
The music is my high.
"Don't Do The Crime"
"Folitician"
You full of pure promise but you tell damn' lies; [Repeat]
You make a mistake And then somebody dies. [Repeat]
"The Prisoner"
"Cherry Oh Baby"
(originally by Eric Donaldson)
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Oh oh ee oh oh ee oh,
Oh oh ee oh ee oh ee oh.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.
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"Keep On Moving"
(originally by The Impressions)
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Lord I gotta keep on moving.
Lord I gotta get on down.
Lord I gotta keep on moving.
Where I can't be found
Law is coming after me.
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You'll hear me crying (mmmmmmm)
Please don't make me cry (mmm mmmm)
'cos I can't say good-bye (mmmmm)
Please don't make me cry
Because I know
There will be nothing left for me
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"Sweet Sensation"
(originally by The Melodians)
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You're just robbin' and stabbin'
And lootin' and shooting
You're too bad repeat
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"Version Girl"
(originally by Boy Friday)
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Version Girl, what's your name?
Oh you come and you go,
Version Girl, what's your name?
Just like the morning sun.
It's so hard to find a personality with charms like yours for me.
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[Talking:]
Version girl, whats's you name?
Oh you come ....... etc
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"Riddle Me"
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Riddle me who, riddle me why, answer me this
Who owns the chains that bind your wrists
Riddle me who, riddle me why, answer again
Riddle me who built the machine
That washed your brain
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If it happens again I'm leaving
I'll pack my things and go
If it happens again
There'll be no looking back
I won't say I told you so
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"D.U.B."
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Me tek a 'D' and a 'U' an' a 'B' - not 'E'
That thing there is special to me.
Me listen in the morning, also in the night
For dat form of music is out-a-sight.
The newest form of music is easy to see
It start with a 'D' and end with a 'B'
Dub in a de morning and dub in a de night
Mek the whole neighbourhood feel alright,
feel alright
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Rock in a de dance, me seh fe give dub a chance,
Rock in de blues, you know you jus' can't lose.
A dub me a defend, on dub i can depend
Check out dis yah music and run tell yo' friend.
We don't want rock 'n' roll and we got enough soul,
We don't want rock 'n' roll and we got enough soul.
Bass is beutiful if it's clean,
But dis yah dub music, man it well mean.
No bother follow friend and ignore dub again.
It's simple, but effective, can't you see?
A lot of people catch on in 'eighty-three.
Now is 'eighty-four and you must know the score,
Anything me chat, you know the people bawl 'more.'
Me jump 'pon de graphics, don't get vex'
All me have a total concept to make you feel Irie.
To make you feel Irie.
"The Pillow"
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Daylight comes she rests her head
The beauty of an empty bed
She dreams of happy days instead
Of brooding on tomorrow
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"Seasons"
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Like the seasons you change your mind
It seems like loving you is a crime.
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The thing you must remember since these troubles first began
Were supported by a tax paying population
And if the rest of this world is against we
It's a fact that the people of this country won't see
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Me a go show you how to do the king step left right,
Me a go show you how to do the king step left right,
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Left right its time to walk in the light of Jah not darkness
Left right who Jab bless no man curse, who Jah curse no man bless
Left right eternal life for the man that tries his very best
Left right do bad and you'll go down in the pit that's bottomless
Left right Pato Banton has now come to preach the right
Left right left right me no partial if your black or if your white
Left right well now me know how fe do the king step
Me just can not keep it a secret
So right ya now you a get
THE KING STEP THE KING STEP THE KING STEP
Step 1, we all should know that there's one god and only one
Step 2, Is give him praises for this whole creation
Step 3, Is love your brother man cause you and him is one
Step 4, Is not to make the same mistake as Soloman
Step 5, Is to repent and beg forgiveness for your wrongs
Cause the wrath of Jah is clear to see in Revelation
So make up mind if you want to go to Heaven or Hell
Step 6, Oh yes there's more the King Step carries on
It carries on and on, and on, and on, and on, and on
Step 6, is once you know the truth to pass the message on
And do the King Step daily as you trod upon Jah land
So when the right time comes for Babylon's destruction
You'll be among the few to march towards mount Zion
Left-Right, Left-Right, Left-Right, Left-Right
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The buzz feeling lord
Well have you ever had the buzz feeling my sisthren
Have you ever had the buzz feeling
My brethren
Have you ever had the buzz feeling you take out you rizla
You start rolling seh three or five sheet me
Seh what you deeling with you take piece of cigarette
Start breaching open up you giangi bag you start
Sprinkling you stick out you tongue and you start fe licking
You lean against a speaker box take you matches lighting
Seh man have you ever had the buzz feeling
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When your head is spinning you knees wobbling you belly rolling
And your eyes shutting fe you head would of blow off
Like a car engine most people in the dance dem start laughing
Some of them cannot explain mysterious feeling so you sit on de stair
Gaze pon de ceiling you hand pon you belly
You start fe rubbing a little after that you a little vomiting
So you run down the stairs like a streak of lightening you move
Through the crowd like you hustling you brethen
Shout you start reasoning about thing and time and the flat
Him move in the operatir play a tune them start bubbling
It make it even harder fe you passing as you reach out side start
Slow breathing you sit pon de wall and start thinking never again
Would I get that feeling dread
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Well you head stop spinning you knees stop wobbling you belly stop roll
Start crave fe dumpling
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"Lyric Officer"
(feat. Dillinger)
"Demonstrate"
(feat. Admiral Jerry)
"Two In A One"
(feat. Pablo & Gunslinger)
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Intelligent, we chat intelligent
Intelligent, we chat intelligent
Intelligent, we chat intelligent
Intelligent, we chat intelligent
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No fe treatment go a hospital
I man pay de rent every Tuesday I man
You a Student if you a go to college
Dat a nuff argoument mi say gunny an Pablo
Now here comes the great musical thing called "hold your position"
Rasta, them style ya a just levelment Uncle seen
Hold me position, Just a hold me position
I ya, hold me position, just a hold me position
Go on, hold me position, just a hold me position
Things and time was a getting slow let off the rhythm
Let the good time roll
Don't bother go a slow and stay a back row
I man come to make the rhythm
Just a rock and flow, because me hold me position
Just a hold me position
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Can you dig it, alright I can dig it
Cause I'm your hip hop lyrical robot and a real cool cat
Yes I'm your hip hop lyrical robot and a real cool cat
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"Style"
(feat. Pablo)
Ca man dem make out a flesh and robots made our of steel
They might can operate like man unlike man they can't feel
Don't bother mix with no informer cause on you they might squeal
"Mi Spliff"
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You can't de'pon mi spliff because mi spliff dep already
You can't de'pon mi spliff mi have the hash-ish leb and sensi
Yes people smoke the herb yeah all over the world
some bway name Peter and girl name Pearl [repeat]
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For centuries and centuries man has used the herb for leisure
For pleasure do not disturb [repeat]
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Now we well satisfied we both gone slant eyed
its a wonderful feeling and I tell you no lie [repeat]
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I sus' a tell it like it is, yeah
I sus' a tell it like it is, oh yeah
I've got to be blatant in this time
Jus' like I know 1 + 1 no make 9 [Repeat]
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"The Elevator"
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The elevators going up
Quick the door's about to shut
Too late we're full just hang around
It won't be long - it won't be long before it's down
4th floor the job hunt and all that you ask
Is an honest day's pay for an honest day's graft
5th floor you may make a little more money
Now it's apparent downstairs ain't so funny
6th floor a mortgage, a collar and tie
2 weeks vacation in june or july
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"Watchdogs"
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Give thanks for your protection
Your watchdogs of the night
Who hold the hungry wolves at bay
And keep them out of sight, out of sight
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"Rat In Mi Kitchen"
(feat. Herb Alpert)
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There's a rat in mi kitchen what am I gonna do?
There's a rat in mi kitchen what am I gonna go?
I'm gonna fix that rat thats what I'm gonna do,
I'm gonna fix that rat.
When you open your mouth you don't talk, you shout
And you give every body the blame,
But when they catch you up,
They will shut you up
And you got no one to blame
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I see no starvation
I don't see any pain
I see myself not helping
Just a loner in the rain
"Breakfast In Bed"
(feat. Chrissie Hynde)
[Chrissie:]
You've been crying your face is a mess
Come in baby, you can wipe the tears on my dress
She's hurt you again, I can tell
I know that look so well
[Ali:]
Don't be shy, we've been here before
Pull your shoes off,
And I will lock the door
And no-one has to know, I've come here again
Knowing it'll be like it's always been before
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[Chrissie & Ali:]
Breakfast in bed, kisses for me
You don't have to say you love me
Breakfast in bed, love can make you sing
[Chrissie:]
What's your hurry, please don't hit and run
We can let her wait, my darling its been so long
[Ali:]
Since you've had me here, I've returned again
Darling it will be like it's always been before
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"You're Always Pulling Me Down"
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I would do for you
All you'd have me do
All you have to do
Is ask me to
All you have to do
Is tell me when
And I'll come running back again
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I don't know, it seems to me
Things I do best come easily
I don't feel the need to say to you
I'm better cause it isn't true
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"Where Did I Go Wrong"
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Where did I go wrong to make it like this
No warmth in your body, no touch in your kiss
Holding you now, hurts more than it should
If I let you go, girl, you'll be gone for good
I thought you had saved me, the love that you gave me
The sweetest loving in all of the land
But you've taken my heart, and you've torn it apart
And its crumbled to dust in the palm of your hand
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"Contaminated Minds"
"Matter Of Time"
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"Groovin'"
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Well you could of been anything that you wanted to
I can tell
The way you do the things you do
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"Singer Man"
(originally by The Kingstonians)
"Kingston Town"
(originally by Lord Creator)
Oh Kingston Town,
The place I long to be
If I had the whole world
I would give it away
Just to see, the girls at play
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Oh Kingston Town,
The place I long to be
If I had the whole world
I would give it away
Just to see, the girls at play
Ooh, ooh, ooh
"Wedding Day"
"Sweet Cherrie"
Cherry, Cherry,
Don't go and leave me alone
Don't go and leave me alone
Cherry, Cherry,
Don't go and leave me alone
Don't go and leave me alone
Cherry, Cherry,
Don't go and leave me alone
Don't go and leave me alone
"Stick By Me"
(originally by Shep & The Limelites)
oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh [4x]
"Homely Girl"
"Impossible Love"
C'est La Vie"
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A woman came and said to me
Now listen very carefully
There's brother killing brother
People living on their knees
Biting sugar coated bullets
For the pain of this disease
C'est La Vie
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"Desert Sand"
"Higher Ground"
Reggae Music"
The burden that you carry from the cradle to the grave
Is like a badge of honour that you wear upon your sleeve
You make your contribution and you shed a little tear
And stage your celebration just to show how much you care
You obscure your stolen power with hypocrisy and lies
Your talk of understanding is a wafer thin disguise
You glorify my image but deny me flesh and blood
You radiate with goodness when you here me beg for food
"Sorry"
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I'm not begging charity
Don't confuse the things I say
Give me what belongs to me
Give me what belongs to me
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"Tell Me Is It True"
"Light My Fire"
(originally by The Doors)
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Come on baby light my fire
Come on baby light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
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Dream a lie