Put Down The Gun - Macka B

If life is for livin'

(: Ooh, Jah-Jah)

Dem why a man a kill so?

Macka B and Horace Andy want to know

(Make it come quick)

Too much mama inna sorrow

Dem son no see tomorrow

(: Oh, oh, oh, Jah-Jah)

Ho

If life is for livin'

Then why a man a kill so?

(Kill so)

I would like to know

If life is for livin'

Then why a man a die so?

(Die so)

Seh you nuh know

When yuh time a go come

So you fi put down di gun

'Cau' one day you a' go' meet

Your maker

You know it not right

To take another one’s life

Mi bawl, what you a-go say

To di Faddah?

As mi talk another one get kill

Another lickle youth man skin get drill

Too much skull a-bore

And too much blood spill

Seh man wi a-kill you

For your twenty dollar bill

Chill!

Too much bullets a-fly

spectators

They can’t be found

Them gone missin'

If life is for livin'

Then why a man a kill so?

(Kill so)

If life is for livin'

Then why a man a die so?

(Die so)

Seh you nuh know

When yuh time a go come

So you fi put down di gun

'Cau' one day you a' go' meet

Your maker

You know it not right

To take another one’s life

Mi bawl, what you a-go say

To di Faddah?

Dey still a-make di barrel

And dey still a-make di bullet

Dey still a-make di trigga

And di man dem a-pull it

Dey still a-make di

And di automatic

Dey still a-make di Glock

With the red light 'pon it

Dey still a-make di detonator

Still a-make di bomb

Dey still a-make di gun

And di ammunition

Dey still a-make di money

From sellin' weapon

A just blood, blood, bloody money

Der pon dem hand

If life is for livin'

Then why a man a kill so?

(Kill so)

Only Selassie know

If life is for livin'

Then why a man a die so?

(Die so)

Hear me now

If life is for livin'

Then why a man a kill so?

(Kill so)

I would like to know

If life is for livin'

Then why a man a die so?

(Die so)

Seh you nuh know

When yuh time a go come

So you fi put down di gun

'Cau' one day you a' go' meet

Your maker

You know it not right

To take another one’s life

Mi bawl, what you a-go say

To di Faddah?

You all right now

But a-what about later?

What about di time

To meet the Creator?

You woulda feel safer

'A face Terminator

Yuh never do Jah work

So you feel like a traitor

Cyaan chat to God 'bout

How much man yuh murder

Selassie tell yuh stop, bwoy

Nuh better go no further

You knock di wrong door

You phone di wrong number

You shoulda take a left, then a right

Then go down the escalator

Yuh get lost yuh follow Hitler

Yuh time a go come

So you fi put down di gun

'Cau' one day you a' go' meet

Your maker

You know it not right

To take another one’s life

Mi bawl, what you a-go say

To di Faddah?

(Die so)

(Kill so)

(Die so)

(Kill so)

(Die so)

(Kill so)

(Die so)

(Kill so)

(Die so)

(Kill so)

(Die so)