Cant Take The Runnings Ina Babylon

Well little man this is a thing called the tradition
Come I puppa Burro at the microphone stand
I come to teach you right and not the wrong
Tell em

Me born a Waltham, grow up a Barbican
Me born a Waltham, grow up a Barbican
Say in my left hand was a invitation
I born with the mic plant in me right hand
A thousand year ago it was a revolution
Where every man fight with a machete in them hand
But inna this a time what I can't understand
The world gone to technical and television
But every youth nowadays a turn bad man
Say every youth nowadays a turn bad man
But as me trod along, say as me trod along
Say as me trod along a what I can’t understand
Say ongle poor man a fight the starvation
Say ongle poor man a fight the starvation

Me can't take the runnings inna Babylon
Say man I can't take the runnings inna Babylon
Cah man a when I’m weak, them a tell me that me strong
Cah when I'm right, them a tell me that me wrong
Say on my way down to Westmoreland
I never take a bus but man I take a minivan
I sight a Babylon with a Rasta man
And him a gwaan like him make outta iron
Say him a take a disadvantageous situation
Say take a disadvantageous situation
Him can't take the runnings inna Babylon
Say man him can't take the runnings inna Babylon

But me a trod from Braeton, go a Ewarton
I trod from Braeton, go a Ewarton
I sight a madman in a garbage pan
Him a pass through great sufferation
Say him a bear up dread tribulation
It a go cause a revolution
Cho make I tell you on some dangerous volution
But make me tell you, ain't got no solution
Cho make me tell you fe come solve the situation
't a so me say

But man I can't take the runnings inna Babylon
Say man I can't take the runnings inna Babylon
Jah man I can’t take the runnings inna Babylon
Because me born a Waltham, grow up a Barbican
Say in my left hand was a invitation
Me born with the mic plant in me right hand
A thousand year ago it was a revolution
Where every man a fight with a machete in them hand
But inna this a time what I can’t understand
Say every youth nowadays a turn bad man
Me can't take the runnings inna Babylon
Say man me can’t take the runnings inna Babylon