Bust Dem Shut

Original Song: “Bus Dem Shut (Pyaka)”

Album: Songs Of Freedom (Box Set)

Label: Tuff Gong/Island

Year: 1996

Notes:

Definitely one of my personal favorites. Bob’s statement about the media, although a bit mumbled, is pretty clear. “A media is a media. Control.” And he Bus Dem Shut!

Life is for man to live (let man live life)
Bread is for man to eat (let man eat bread)
Bread and pyaka, cut down pyaka-ism
Bread and pyaka, cut down pyaka-ism

Everything ya run dung ‘pon (x4)

Come, we go reason now
Come-a come-a come-a, we go reason now
(We deh go reason now) (x3)

Where do you stand for happiness
When you no say you no want it
While some a dem (some a dem, some a dem) out deh, eh

I bus dem shut right now
Fi get it
Bread and pyaka, cut down pyaka-ism
Bread and pyaka, cut down pyaka-ism

Woman feels the pain
Man suffer, Lord
Woman feels the pain
Man suffer, Lord

Come-a come-a come-a, we go reason now (x6)
Peeyah, peeyah, pyaka, come (x3)
Come-a come-a come-a, we go reason now (x4)
Bread and pyaka
Sister pyaka
Bread and pyaka
Sister pyaka
Cut down pyaka-ism
Cut down pyaka-ism