sometimes I used to sit down and wonder
wonder what is really, really going on
some people are starving, some dying for hunger - all over the world
while others have everything in abundance

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mankind, you better know yourself
'cause in time to come it's gonna be dread
mankind, you better know yourself
'cause in time to come it's gonna be dread - dreader than dread

they say the fittest of the fittest, yes they shall survive
give thanks unto JAH 'cause He keeps us alive
ooohh - those things are writen in prophesy
so we don't need none of their, none of their ideology

Chorus

solo

starvation
distruction
ooohhh - desolation
a whole heap a, a whole heap a corruption
in high and low places

Chorus

solo and end