Intro: 

You got to hold your fate now 

Fi reach mount zion gate now 

And you better keep it real no baddy with the fake now 

No time fi stand wait now 

Galong and get things straight now 

Better to be earl righteous people than to be late now 



Things in life a tek time 

Can't get lost from you a follow the signs 

Fire pon dem durgs and dem guns and dem convicious mind 

And I and I step pon crime 

Right ya now me bun badman and badmind 

Nuff a dem can't even walk a straight line 

Your sister need love and your borther need love 

And it took like you left that behind 

Words and sound combine 

Hafi give thanks fi the power of devine 

Lost in search of the big goldmine 

And ina darkness blind man e lead blind 

With no limitaion I man feel fine 

Living on the edge cause Jah love it is mine 

And as they blasphem and plat and scheme 

I man still see Jah wonders and signs 



Chorus: 

Rise up with the day 

I do things in my own way 

And me nuh ina your hear say 

Cause dis ya speappard nuh go astray 

Now me gone pon the highway 

Cause man a clear like x-ray 

And me nuh ina your leh leh 

And joy when dis ya tune a play 



Can't lek things what you nuh know 

Got to find out first which way to go 

And you can't exercize no form of genocide 

Ina the last lane that you a go 

If a Jah Jah man you want overthrow 

Ina siknking ship you a row 

Cause he will cut you down and he will mash you down 

Like the tide that ebb and flow 

Weed and tears must grow 

Until the time of harvest we know 

Many a call but the chosen a few 

And the almighty god a say so 

Man hafi go meditate and tek it slow 

Riding high when you should deh pon the low 

And you can't flop fast if you stick to your task 

And the flowers ina your garden will grow 



Chorus 



Stop play the fool and attend your classes 

Nothing you a see you must want glasses 

Sit down and complain and then you perplex fi flex 

So your tribulation never passes 

We living ina wolrd full jackasses 

Every day dem get up and a ball bout dem crosses 

And dem standing at the gate and the whole a dem a wait 

But the fate is seems like dem last it 



Intro again 



Chorus