Times Like These

One civilization is not complete without it's art The highest form of expression of human intelligence You have have become complacent Sitting down and allowing the other nations to run away with everything You have become a bunch of consumers You are creators rise up mighty people and accomplish what you will Without confidence you're twice defeated in the race of life They took away the voices, that gave the people pride Now we're plunging into darkness We all have to play our part, make a bold start Every disc jock, tell every artist Media houses, we notice you love support the slackness How so much alcohol in our parties While the girls a broke out And the something she drinked knocked her out Now she doesn't care where they prop her up It's times like these I'm missing our heroes Times like these i really wish they where around Shouldn't have to be like this Marcus Garvey We know that you tried your best, but we'll to the rest They bred up shotaz them, now we have a lot of them Prsion pack up, now the grave will be packed with dead The broke the national bird wing Sell we out clean Not sure if we own a god dam thing Jamrock why are we giving in to the trick that they have been tricking us from the beginning Parents you need to awake from the slumbering It's our children's blood that is running It's times like these I'm missing our heroes Times like these i really wish they where around Shouldn't have to be like this Bob Marley We know that you never died in vain We're gonna rise agai, .hey People use the fist hold the bell Beat promise until it swells Nobody will hear if you don't yell Listen what they tell you about the bucket that go well Black woman put on you baggie That something should not sell That's how we know society's cruel Ask who placed the crab into barrel PM, opposition stop with the quarrel Unite, come together, teach the people how fi chill It's times like these I'm missing our heroes Times like these i really wish they where around Shouldn't have to be like this Oh Miss Lou we need you It's the first I've heard of this Hundred and counting on the murder list They took away the voices, that gave the people pride Now we're plunging into darkness We all have to play our part, make a bold start Every disc jock, tell every artist Media houses, we notice you love support the slackness How so much alcohol in our parties While the girls a broke out And the something she drinked knocked her out Now she doesn't care where they prop her up It's times like these I'm missing our heroes Times like these i really wish they where around We need you, we need you, we need you Sam Sharpe We need you, we need you, we need you Nanny, yeah