After I'm Gone (feat. Jah9) - Protoje

Legitimate or not Some claim indemnity from the original plot As though their integrity cold still be intact What is likelihood of that When if you trace the source of each resource they've got They're tapped into the veins of the masses the system maintains Feeding on their youthfulness and draining from their brains Then when the weak ones are rejected armed and turned toward the strife They return with force and take away their life But make no mistake There is life in abundance for all to partake So war is redundant and hate is futile in the face of love But too many put feelings in the place of love We all are the same The essence of life in this physical plane And nothing can restrain the love, you just have to claim the love Yes I remember the censorship of showing your roots Deception with no lye conditioning for the youths Straightening their follicles while twisting their minds Replacing old tradition with their programs for decline But as I rebel my natty swells defiant of the taming My natural advantage I'm proclaiming These spirals map the course of life and represent the force of life Connected to the source of life So make no mistake There is life in abundance for all to partake So war is redundant and hate is futile in the face of love But too many put feelings in the place of love We all are the same The essence of life in this physical plane And nothing can restrain the love, you just have to claim the love So I have no fear And though I have no enemy I am aware That the few seek the plenty for themselves And justice is rare without material wealth When we delegate our fate to someone else But fortunately, I claim dominion over my destiny With the wisdom and power from knowledge of the key The tree of life is rooted in me So even in the midst of trials I am free So make no mistake There is life in abundance for all to partake So war is redundant and hate is futile in the face of love But too many put feelings in the place of love We all are the same The essence of life in this physical plane And nothing can restrain the love, you just have to claim the love So make no mistake There is life in abundance for all to partake So war is redundant and hate is futile in the face of love But too many put feelings in the place of love We all are the same The essence of life in this physical plane And nothing can restrain the love, you just have to claim the love

A way a way a way over A way a way out A way a way a way over A way a way out A way a way a way over A way a way out Finding a way a way a way over I am a social scientist gathering information Observing different cultures in each of the various nation Trodding incognito As a Rastafari artist Instigating revolution with anyone willing to start it Marketing the mission As a spiritual experience And using the opportunity to do some Major reconnaissance To find out how my people living On the black continents So we can determine a plan for resistance And mount an effective defense As a way A way a way a way over A way a way out A way a way a way over A way a way out A way a way a way over A way a way out Finding a way a way a way over We calling the healer and the engineers Teachers and creatorsImpressing on them the urgency Even helping to process their paper Sake a common ancestral influence We sure to find a few Who not just ready to take instruction But already know what to do Those who've been reading and preparing Burning passionately from time Awaiting engagement Of dem spirit and dem mind And now that time is upon us Sisters brothers ready your station For the victory is eminent Once we commence these activations Will find it There is a will in I that will not be silenced Born of the first race now of the new race We who have emerged out of their history of violence against us Now we're fully cognizant of how Jah bless us And we're finding a way A way a way a way over A way a way out A way a way a way over A way a way out A way a way a way over A way a way out Finding a way a way a way over The way over's the way out's the way in Seek knowledge and look within All of the things that we've been mistaught But still we learning I'm so bored to see you distraught It's really hurting The world is colder than I ever thought But Still we burning A solder can't mistake war for sport And that for certain The person, the individual or the collective All of these things and mean so much more What's your perspective Neglected histories remain hidden And that's on purpose But all we've got to do is some digging And they resurface We're often so focused On how things have become We forget how many victories That we have won A debt that's ancestoral I bet a man bet you That the best you can get You are still lesser than special But the way outs the way within We cannot face everything But before we can even begin We must look within For a way over A way out way over A way out way over A way out way over A way out Oooooo

You're just a mile away One thousand five tiny steps from here But if I brought you near Would you believe when I say It seems like yesterday That I could reach out and touch your face But as I fall from grace Into whose arms can I lay It's always much too late We get the signs We can't communicate Or turn back time So what will be now Do you feel somehow Not so together and not quite as strong Now I believe Alone doesn't have to mean lonely After you've gone I need a healing wind To cool the flame burning in my sight It must accelerate For two wrongs they don't make a right And all these solitaires, lone victories Wars fought in isolation, with none to please The future's still uncertain The past is done Now I believe Alone doesn't have to mean lonely After you've gone Now I believe Alone doesn't have to mean lonely After you've gone

Now won't you listen honey, while I say, How could you tell me that you're goin' away? Don't say that we must part, Don't break your baby's heart You know I've loved you for these many years, Loved you night and day, Oh! honey baby, can't you see my tears? Listen while I say: After you've gone and left me cryin' After you've gone there's no denyin' You'll feel blue, you'll feel sad You'll miss the dearest pal you've ever had There'll come a time, now don't forget it There'll come a time when you'll regret it Someday, when you grow lonely Your heart will break like mine and you'll want me only After you've gone, after you've gone away After you've gone and left me cryin' After you've gone there's no denyin' You're gonna feel blue, and you're gonna feel sad You're gonna feel bad And you'll miss, and you'll miss, And you'll miss the bestest pal you ever had There'll come a time, now don't forget it There'll come a time when you'll regret it But baby, think what you're doin' I'm gonna haunt you so, I'm gonna taunt you so It's gonna drive you to ruin After you've gone, after you've gone away.

It's been crazy lately I've been in my feels Got me rearranging All of my plans, all my dreams It'll be invigorating Anytime you be around Same time it'll be frustrating When I see you in a crowd My eyes they go wherever Girl, all I do is stare And when you notice, I know You would be so extra, I swear How me supposed to feel When you deh close And me just can't reveal fi mi emotions And me just want fi see you and do the most to you How me supposed to feel When you deh close And me just can't reveal fi mi emotions And me just want fi see you and do the most to you And girl me want you feel the same so Me want you feel the same so Girl, I want you feel the same so I want you feel the same so Girl, I want you feel the same so I want you feel the same so Girl, I want you feel the same so I want you feel the same so Same so, same I've been contemplating What all of this means It's not that I'm complaining But circumstances be real And I know you see these changes Yeah, around and around we go Doesn't it just feel amazing When I got you up in my zone? You're like my favorite painting One I would never sell Just have you up in my room And keep you all to myself How me supposed to feel When you deh close And me just can't reveal fi mi emotions And me just want fi see you and do the most to you How me supposed to feel When you deh close so And me just can't reveal fi mi emotions And girl me want fi see you and do the most to you I say me want you feel the same so I want you feel the same so Girl, I want you feel the same so I want you feel the same so Girl, I want you feel the same so I want you feel the same so Girl, I want you feel the same so I want you feel the same so Same so, same Same, same Same, same Same so I want you feel the same so (same so) (Same so, same so) (Same so, same, same) (Same, same)

When I was just a young boy, maybe like 17 I would talk to my father, told him about my dreams And often he would tell me, "Don't rush to be a man" I heard the words that he spoke, but could not understand 'Cause to me life was easy, it was just fun and games Until I saw that people were filled with so much pain It's harder to share sometimes, easier to pretend The way we treat each other, I just don't comprehend Last night I heard a story, too crazy to be true I wouldn't dare repeat it, what are we gonna do? And as we figure it out, the time just slips away Don't worry 'bout tomorrow, just be glad you've got today Strange Strange things are happening Strange Strange things are happening Strange Strange things is happening Strange, oh Hey, oh, what a feeling fi get what you want? Then want disappear from it all How strange is the thought Boss, how your fears run so deep? House of my dream, nightmares in my sleep And I wake and I can't get my thoughts to align I lost in my head and I searching for time And I want figure how fi escape from my mind 'Cause it too strange up deh, God know I trying And it start take a toll, me start feel a weight Heavy is the head, now I know what it mean And I feeling ashamed, feeling the doubt Cyan understand what this feeling about Will I reach an amount of the things that I need That would lead me to be at myself and be free Yow, it all too bizarre, I can't get a grip It moving too fast and my fingers a slip 'Pon a daily this reach me, this draining habit 'Cause the more me attain is the stranger it get I'm in pain, I'm in danger, I'm in love, I feel hate All at the same time, I cyan get a break And it's strange Strange things are happening Strange Strange things are happening Strange Strange things is happening Strange

Empress look what I brought for you Marijuana glistening in the morning dew She put her lips to my blunt and kiss it No excuse when she roll she spliff For she don't even care if it smudge no lipstick Nah refuse that a how she rep She make sure I have some greens with it when I sip it Then she roll off and roll up ma ting And make me know that anyhow I put it in my lyrics then Only some girls gonna comprehend No she nuh agree with dem policies So she bun her trees No apologies neva needed Pon her property no it never cease so she get her peace And her release when she weeded Like it when it cure but she have a pree, prefare it when it green Have more THC when she steaming When me go country and me come back in She nuh ask a ting 'cause she know wah me a bring She put her lips to my blunt and kiss it No excuse when she smoke she spliff For she don't even care if it smudge no lipstick then Nah refuse that a how she rep She make sure I have some greens with it when I— Have some greens with it when I— Have some greens with it when I sip it Make sure I have some greens with it when I— Have some greens with it when I— Have some greens with it when I— Oh she love ma herb etiquette How I roll it up so delicate How I nah take a draw before she get a hit How me a drive in from far And me alone pon the road jussa move with My light and my music when The thought of you just waiting make me reach home safely Navigate me baby, I know it's on you brain When you hear these statements And these message placements No need to explain what I say She put her lips to my blunt and kiss it No excuse when she smoke she spliff For she don't even care if it smudge no lipstick then Nah refuse that a how she rep She make sure I have some greens with it when I— Have some greens with it when I— Have some greens with it when I sip it Make sure I have some greens with it when I— Have some greens with it when I— Have some greens with it when I— So now she say she grown up And she growing her own from the ground up From the seed to the stalk till the pound drop And now a me make demands when I show up Then I set sail as I inhale The surplus is not for sale It's purpose is much more real So courteous with how she deal it But it increase her feeling when me a buil' it She wet it and seal it Put her lips to my blunt and kiss it No excuse when she smoke she spliff For she don't even care if it smudge no lipstick Nah refuse that a how she rep She make sure I have some greens with it when I— Have some greens with it when I— Have some greens with it when I sip it Make sure I have some greens with it when I— Have some greens with it when I— Have some greens with it when I— Empress look what I brought for you Marijuana glistening in the morning dew Empress look what I brought for you Marijuana glistening, marijuana glistening, glistening, glistening

Open up your eyes and fight for your rights Or you will die Cause I'ma gonna fight for you, baby But it's all alright, that's right Now where do you run to, run to? Is all of this just fun for you? And where are you hiding, hiding? Don't you see me fighting for you? Where do you run to, run to? Is all of this just fun for you? And where are you hiding, hiding? Don't you see me fighting for you? Don't you see me fighting with all my might? Don't you see me meeting all your type? Don't you see I'm lost inside your eyes? Don't you see me loving you? Aye Never find a better place to be than wrapped up in your tide Can't seem to go without the thought of being all up in your life Hold me down, don't ever let me leave It's part of your design I'm right here for you So where do you run to, run to? Is all of this just fun for you? And where are you hiding, hiding? Don't you see me fighting for you? Where do you run to, run to? Am I too frightening for you? And where are you hiding? Where you hiding? Don't you see me fighting for you? Aye, girl, the farthest I'll fight from it is you In my darkest of night, girl you big moon Tell you things ever so feel so right That you have to start hide when you see what you into Wan' talk and me can't even begin too Wan' spar every chance that me get You no see her how she set? Coulda give her set a twin too Even Jesus guilty of sin too Worst with all of this trauma me been through And all of this hurt that me 'cause When me look inna me past, realize see I been fool 'Cause inna my life you fin include Like two year now you shoulda been boo Have to change up the key, now me in tune Can't nothing like a woman when she in bloom And you been blooming Now where do you run to, run to? Is all of this just fun for you? And where are you hiding, hiding? Don't you see me fighting for you? Where do you run to, run to? Is all of this just fun for you? And where are you hiding, hiding? Don't you see me fighting for you? So where do you run to? Where do you run to? Don't you see me fighting for you? Where are you hiding? Where are you hiding, ooh?

Blessings for my music It's love for the music Journey on my music I've been doing this for seven years I never make a dollar, never make a change I say naa go give up, naa go ever slow You know say me a hold it down for seven more I've been doing this for seven years I never make a dollar, never make a change I say naa go give up, naa go ever slow You know say me a hold it down foreva flow This is my seven year itch and then I'm coming home My seven year itch and then I'm coming home My seven year itch and then I'm coming home My seven year itch I know I'm coming home Me mother send mi go school for seventeen years Me come out and turn DJ, it no seem fair What you seeing here, this is a product Of two college, one diploma, no degree Nuh know the meaning, out in this world and Everything you learn in aj the past five years It naa go help you fi earn nuttin What's the word cousin, you help your cousin So every word that dem heard me with worth suppin' Every burden them hurl at me Hurdle so flawless dem naa listen (I've been doin' this...) Mi a miss out pon lift up mi team A watch Gong and Stephen Marley a live out the dream you know Welcome to Jamrock did lift my feeling up I listen it still, I listen it keen you know (I've been doin' this) Mi decide say the music can meaningful Take a look at my life and I clean it up My herb customers calling me But now my music demanding me This is my seven year itch I've been doing this for seven years I never make a dollar, never make a change I say naa go give up, naa go ever slow You know say me a hold it down for seven more I've been doing this for seven years I never make a dollar, never make a change I say naa go give up, naa go ever slow You know say me a hold it down foreva flow This is my seven year itch and then I'm coming home My seven year itch and then I'm coming home My seven year itch and then I'm coming home My seven year itch I said I'm coming home (I've been doin' this...) Proto to most, Oje to some Call him Diggy, the only son, the sister young Mommy legendary as around Ask fi a pound and them will tell you who did carry macka a town (I've been doin' this) ask Marshall, ask him And if yuh get a glimpse ah Sean Paul Beg unuh ask him, how it feel fi go three times plat Then ask Shaggy 'cause him did move three times that (I've been doin' this) No haffi feel like that Just want retire to a seaside lot Leff all the war and bring the peace right back Never been in love until now just Just lost it wondering how I woulda get through it (I've been doin' this) Like customs with herb And no mi no accustom to hurt But I got accustomed to her (I've been doin' this) And her she accustomed to me Addicted to the thing weh addicted to she Empress far and she calling me But now my music demanding me This is my seven year itch I've been doing this for seven years I never make a dollar, never make a change I say naa go give up, naa go ever slow You know say me a hold it down for seven more I've been doing this for seven years I never make a dollar, never make a change I say naa go give up, naa go ever slow You know say me a hold it down foreva flow This is my seven year itch and then I'm coming home My seven year itch and then I'm coming home My seven year itch and then I'm coming home My seven year itch and then I'm coming home

I arise And open eyes And focus ears And all I hear Is children playing in the streets Watch them playing in the streets And they at peace and they are free If they can see it, then why can't we? I see them playing in the streets Watch them playing in the streets So be the one to set the plan And use your knowledge as your weapon And see some reading in the streets No more bleeding in the streets So when we start is when it end So let's begin 'cause I intend To see my children playing in the streets Watch them playing in the streets Watch them playing in the streets Watch them playing in the streets Watch them playing in the streets Watch them playing in the streets