You're working at your leisure to learn the things you'll need The promises you make tomorrow will carry no guarantee I've seen your qualifications, you've got a Ph.D. I've got one art O level, it did nothing for me Working for the rat race You know you're wasting your time Working for the rat race You're no friend of mine You plan your conversation to impress the college bar Just talking about your Mother and Daddy's Jaguar Wear your political T-shirt and sacred college scarf Discussing the worlds situation but just for a laugh You'll be working for the rat race You know you're wasting your time Working for the rat race You're no friend of mine Working for the rat race You know you're wasting your time Working for the rat race You're no friend of mine Just working at your leisure to learn the things you don't need The promises you make tomorrow will carry no guarantee I've seen your qualifications, you've got a Ph.D. I've got one art O level, it did nothing for me Working for the rat race You know you're wasting your time You're working for the rat race You're no friend of mine

By the concrete, by the palm trees What a pretty massacre on the street In a dark cloud, in a blackout Everybody is what they need to be What a nice day for a rat race Everybody chasing your own tail Have a nice day in the rat race Everybody knows how the game's played In a nice dream, in a cemetery What a pretty pic for it all might seem In the wrong crowd, in the wrong town You can play the person you don't wanna be What a nice day for a rat race Everybody chasing your own tail Have a nice day in the rat race Everybody knows how the game's played What a nice day for a rat race Everybody pulling the same face Have a nice day in the rat race Everybody knows how the game's played

Revelation, reveals the truth, Revelation It takes a revolution to make a solution Too much confusion, so much frustration I don't want to live in the park Can't trust no shadows after dark So my friend I wish that you could see Like a bird in the tree, the prisoners must be free Never make a politician grant you a favour They will always want to control you forever So if a fire make it burn And if a blood make it run Rasta there up on top, can't you see So you can't predict the flop We got lightning, thunder, brimstone and fire Lightning, thunder, brimstone and fire Kill, cramp and paralyse all weak at conception Wipe them out of creation Let l'es is l'es in l'es is black In l'es is red in l'es is dread Let rightousness cover the earth Like the water cover the sea Lightning, thunder, brimstone and fire Lightning, thunder, brimstone and fire

Until the philosophy which hold one race superior And another inferior Is finally and permanently Discredited and abandoned Everywhere is war Me say war That until there no longer first class and second class citizens of any nation Until the colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes Me say war That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all Without regard to race Dis a war That until that day, dream of lasting peace, world citizenship Rule of international morality Will remain in but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained Now everywhere is war War And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes that hold our brothers in Angola In Mozambique, South Africa Sub-human bondage have been toppled, utterly destroyed Well, everywhere is war Me say war War in the east War in the west War up north War down south War, war Rumours of war And until that day the African continent will not know peace We Africans will fight, we find it necessary And we know we shall win, as we are confident In the victory Of good over evil Good over evil, yeah Good over evil Good over evil, yeah Good over evil Good over evil, yeah

Listen my brother and understand Don't play like a donkey if you're really a man You don't fool a soul when you wear sharp studs Your mouth is dirty and you cuss a bad word Hooligans, hooligans make up your mind Hooligans, hooligans this is the time Hooligans, hooligans make up your mind Mother been weeping We were no more strangers (yes I pray) We were more than friends (battles came down) Yet the battles were splintered all over the place Hooligans, hooligans make up your mind Hooligans, hooligans this is the time Hooligans, hooligans make up your mind Always come up and always rude Smashing things and breaking rules Man what do you think you are A little beast for sure Hooligans, hooligans make up your mind Hooligans, hooligans this is the time Hooligans, hooligans make up your mind Can't a woman's tender care (return you now) Change from all the child she beared We were no more strangers (yes I pray) We were more than friends (battles came down) Yet the battles were splintered all over the place Hooligans, hooligans make up your mind Hooligans, hooligans this is the time Hooligans, hooligans make up your mind Hooligans, hooligans make up your mind Hooligans, hooligans this is the time Hooligans, hooligans make up your mind Hooligans, hooligans make up your mind

Until the philosophy which hold one race superior And another inferior Is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned Everywhere is war Me say war That until there are no longer First-class and second-class citizens of any nation Until the colour of a man's skin Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes Me say war That until the basic human rights Are equally guaranteed to all Without regard to race Dis a war That until that day The dreams of lasting peace World citizenship And the rule of international morality Will remain in but a fleeting illusion to be pursued But never attained Well, everywhere is war War And until the ignoble and unhappy regime That hold our brothers in Angola In Mozambique South Africa Sub-human bondage Have been toppled Utterly destroyed Well, everywhere is war Me say war War in the east War in the west War up north War down south War, war Rumors of war And until that day The African continent Will not know peace We Africans will fight, we find it necessary And we know we shall win As we are confident In the victory Of good over evil Good over evil, yeah Good over evil, evil Good over war Until bigotry and prejudice malicious Inhuman sub interests have been replaced by understanding And tolerance and goodwill yeah War Until all Africans stand and speak as free beings Equally in the eyes of the Almight War Everywhere is war