Raise the Banner - Propaganda

You know, it hit me one night I was reading my daughter

A bedtime story and uhm, I noticed something

You know every time I read this story it never fails

You know the tortoise he always wins

This ain’t a game, standard-bearer

Raise the banner

You should demand better, homie

Raise the banner

Testify, rally cry, under the banner

Jah Jah, King Nissi, follow the banner

Uh, for your children, for your neighbours, for your communities

Follow the banner!

Everybody, unashamed, lock your arms, plant your feet

Look around, they need you!

Follow the banner

Eey yo, tios, tias, ates, qyas;

consider your influence

The little ones want to be us

This ain’t about ego, stop thinking so selfishly

Called to be the best is what’s best for our community

Consistency, change the future of a family

When one goes to college, it breaks the cycle of poverty

I know a ex-vice lord dropped his flags

And picked up the pulpit, put a price on his head

We’re tortoise-and-the-hare style, brave in the drought

And just last week he baptized they guy who put the hit out!

My cousin Era shootin' kites to aunt Carolin about how he hates his life

And tell me a lil' more about Christ

Well-versed in gang talk

Fooled them OGs and them prison guards

Now he walks a yard he owns

No could-a should-a would-a's, ask all my kinfolks

I read the story a million times

Tortoise always wins

Better husbands, better fathers, more servants, more diligence

No excuses, they are useless

You can do this, follow the banner

It takes discipline, to be dead to sin

Can’t do it alone, you need your kin

Just keep the pace, understand the race

You ain’t gotta be fast, just don’t run out of gas

No honorable mentions

Leave no leftovers

Licked the plate of life clean and thanks to Elohim

No Ponzi schemes, just excellence

Just reverence, He is our banner

Just look around, examine creation, it’s beautiful ain’t it?

The pictures he painted

Beeline the finish line, don’t mind if you quote me

Ask why we ain’t hot yet?

We cookin' ours slowly

This ain’t a game, standard-bearer

Raise the banner

You should demand better, homie

Raise the banner

Testify, rally cry, under the banner

Jah Jah, King Nissi, follow the banner

Uh, for your children, for your neighbours, for your communities

Follow the banner!

Everybody, unashamed, lock your arms, plant your feet

Look around, they need you!

Follow the banner