Can't Breathe - Kabaka Pyramid

Dem system is a strain and a mess

Me feel it like a pain inna me chest

The people need a rest

I, feel like me cyaan breathe

Inna this yah suffocation

The people living inna sufferation

Me cyaan breathe, me cyaan breathe

When the youths cyaan write and cyaan read

Many cyaan spell, but a that dem have we under

You cyaan tell the man different from woman yah

The people dem a swell, the food a gi' we cancer

Look how long we a tell dem 'bout the benefits a ganja

Dem no like the smell, so we no get no sponsor

Rum and cigarette company dem running rampant

No money nah flow, the ghetto get so stagnant

You haffi strong like Junior Gong flagman

Me say me cyaan breathe

Inna this yah suffocation

The people living inna sufferation

Me cyaan breathe, me feel claustrophobic

Up inna system weh no economic growth is

Me say me cyaan breathe

Inna this yah suffocation

The people living inna sufferation

Me cyaan breathe, me cyaan breathe

When the youths cyaan write and cyaan read

Inna the depths of this mental pollution

Dem waan we tek a dive, living in destitution

But still we a survive, in spite a persecution

We humble as child, becah this revolution

Is of a different kind, we have a different mind

I pree some different sings living inna different time

I can feel the frequencies changing around me

Is like the society a drown me

Aye!

A long time the Rastaman a warn dem

Fi lowe the bloody meat and go tek it to the farm dem

Now a just disease dem a put inna the corn

And the damn soya bean, you must start farm

And the youth dem a the future, yet the police a remand dem

Tell Queen Elizabeth gi' we wha' we demand

A repatriation chant, to the motherland

Yes, we gone, then we no waan resort fi go harm dem

Whoa, now, now, now

Schi-bi-li-bang

The Rastaman is chanting now

Aye!

The nyabinghi haffi sound

Babylon is burning down, yeah

A King Selassie I a wear the crown

Whoa now, now, now