Cry Cry Blood
(When we gonna wake up?)
Who the hell do they think I am?
Give me food from dem pot bottom
Ah give me scrap from them table
I man no desperate or disable
In dis ya land we live where dog eat dog
Ah so di whole ah dem ah gwan like hog
Ah simple ting fi mek we jump and bark
Ah gravalicious like ah harbour shark
Cry blood (cry blood)
I've got to cry blood (cry blood)
Cry blood (cry blood)
I've got to cry blood
For my people, yeah
Cry blood (cry blood)
I've got to cry blood (got to cry blood)
Cry blood (cry blood)
I've got to cry blood
Ay, ay
There's just one thing I don't overstand
What mek we love fi kill we own black man?
Me seh me shame, me haffi run and hide
I call it self-inflicted genocide
We step aside and haffi weep and moan
The pressure building up inside my bones
I man back against the wall
Woo, I hold my head and bawl
Cry blood (cry blood)
I've got to cry blood (cry blood)
Cry blood (cry blood)
I've got to cry blood
For my people, yeah
Cry blood (cry blood)
I've got to cry blood (got to cry blood)
Cry blood (cry blood)
I've got to cry blood (cry)
For my people, yeah-ay
My people, for my people yeah-ay
My people, for my people yeah
Nyahbinghi Bobo Shanty I
In a dispute I says don't know why
Be careful of the flag now
Don't put the lion on its back now
Ah dis 'ya plan is to divide and rule
Inna the end ah we the people lose
So many martyrs try to put things right
But no I and I won't give up the fight
Cry blood (cry blood)
I've got to cry blood (cry blood)
Cry blood (cry blood)
Got to cry blood
For my people, yeah
Cry blood (cry blood)
I've got to cry blood (got to cry blood)
Cry blood (cry blood)
I've got to cry blood (cry)
For my people, yeah-ay
(Cry blood) My people
(Cry blood) for my people yeah-ay
(Cry blood) My people
For my people yeah
When we gonna wake up?
Yes we need a shake up (shake up, shake up)
Let us kiss and make up
Or bare witness to this break up (break up)
The whole world's taking advantage
While we stand aside and look
It was prophesied we'd rise again
Just take a second look
Ah cry, cry blood yeah
Cry blood, cry blood
(Cry blood)
Cry blood (cry blood)
Ah cry, cry blood yeah (cry)
For my people people, yeah-ay (cry)
Writer/s: David R Hinds
