Babylon System 2011

Original Song: “Babylon System”

Album: Survival

Label: Tuff Gong/Island

Year: 1979

Notes:

Tell Children The Truth!

 

 

We refuse to be
What you wanted us to be;
We are what we are:
That’s the way it’s going to be. You don’t know!
You can’t educate I
For no equal opportunity:
Talkin’ ’bout my freedom,
People freedom and liberty!

Yeah, we’ve been trodding on the winepress much too long:
Rebel, rebel!
Yes, we’ve been trodding on the winepress much too long:
Rebel, rebel!

 

24:9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

24:10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

24:11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

(Job 24:9-11)

Babylon system is the vampire
Suckin’ the children day by day
Me say: de Babylon system is the vampire, falling empire,
Suckin’ the blood of the sufferers

Building church and university,
Deceiving the people continually
Me say them graduatin’ thieves and murderers;
Look out now: they suckin’ the blood of the sufferers.

Tell the children the truth (x8)

‘Cause – ’cause we’ve been trodding on ya winepress much too long:
Rebel, rebel!
And we’ve been taken for granted much too long:
Rebel, rebel now!

Trodding on the winepress (rebel)
got to rebel, y’all (rebel)!
We’ve been trodding on the winepress much too long (rebel)

From the very day we left the shores (trodding on the winepress)
Of our Father’s land (rebel),
We’ve been trampled on (rebel),
Oh now! (we’ve been oppressed, yeah!) Lord, Lord, go to …

And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils,

and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

(Revelation 18:2)