Put Down the Gun
[Intro: Macka B]
If life is for livin'
([Horace Andy]: Ooh, Jah-Jah)
Dem why a man a kill so?
Macka B and Horace Andy want to know
(Make it come quick)
Too much mama inna sorrow
Dem son no see tomorrow
([Horace Andy]: Oh, oh, oh, Jah-Jah)
Ho
[Pre-Chorus]
[Horace Andy]
If life is for livin'
Then why a man a kill so?
(Kill so)
[Macka B]
I would like to know
[Horace Andy]
If life is for livin'
Then why a man a die so?
(Die so)
[Chorus: Macka B]
Seh you nuh know
When yuh time a go come
So you fi put down di gun
'Cau' one day you a' go' meet
Your maker
You know it not right
To take another one's life
Mi bawl, what you a-go say
To di Faddah?
[Verse 1: Macka B]
As mi talk another one get kill
Another lickle youth man skin get drill
Too much skull a-bore
And too much blood spill
Seh man wi a-kill you
For your twenty dollar bill
Chill!
[Pre-Chorus]
[Horace Andy]
Too much bullets a-fly
[?] spectators
They can't be found
[Macka B]
Them gone missin'
[Horace Andy]
If life is for livin'
Then why a man a kill so?
(Kill so)
If life is for livin'
Then why a man a die so?
(Die so)
[Chorus: Macka B]
Seh you nuh know
When yuh time a go come
So you fi put down di gun
'Cau' one day you a' go' meet
Your maker
You know it not right
To take another one's life
Mi bawl, what you a-go say
To di Faddah?
[Verse 2: Macka B]
Dey still a-make di barrel
And dey still a-make di bullet
Dey still a-make di trigga
And di man dem a-pull it
Dey still a-make di [?]
And di automatic
Dey still a-make di Glock
With the red light 'pon it
Dey still a-make di detonator
Still a-make di bomb
Dey still a-make di gun
And di ammunition
Dey still a-make di money
From sellin' weapon
A just blood, blood, bloody money
Der pon dem hand
[Pre-Chorus]
[Horace Andy]
If life is for livin'
Then why a man a kill so?
(Kill so)
[Macka B]
Only Selassie know
[Horace Andy]
If life is for livin'
Then why a man a die so?
(Die so)
Hear me now
If life is for livin'
Then why a man a kill so?
(Kill so)
[Macka B]
I would like to know
[Horace Andy]
If life is for livin'
Then why a man a die so?
(Die so)
[Chorus: Macka B]
Seh you nuh know
When yuh time a go come
So you fi put down di gun
'Cau' one day you a' go' meet
Your maker
You know it not right
To take another one's life
Mi bawl, what you a-go say
To di Faddah?
[Verse 3: Macka B]
You all right now
But a-what about later?
What about di time
To meet the Creator?
You woulda feel safer
'A face Terminator
Yuh never do Jah work
So you feel like a traitor
Cyaan chat to God 'bout
How much man yuh murder
Selassie tell yuh stop, bwoy
Nuh better go no further
You knock di wrong door
You phone di wrong number
You shoulda take a left, then a right
Then go down the escalator
Yuh get lost yuh follow Hitler
[Chorus: Macka B]
Yuh time a go come
So you fi put down di gun
'Cau' one day you a' go' meet
Your maker
You know it not right
To take another one's life
Mi bawl, what you a-go say
To di Faddah?
[Outro]
(Die so)
(Kill so)
(Die so)
(Kill so)
(Die so)
(Kill so)
(Die so)
(Kill so)
(Die so)
(Kill so)
(Die so)