Damian Marley - Educated Fools

[Bunny Wailer]

Hear this!

Three monkeys sitting under a coconut tree (really?)

Discussing things as they are said to be (uh huh)

Said one to the others, now listen you two

There's a strange rumour that can't be true

They say man was ascended from our noble race

But the very idea is a big disgrace

No monkey ever deserted his wife

Or her baby, to ruin their lives

Yeah... the monkeys drift, is mine (that's right)

[Damian Marley]

Well, educated fools, they have ruined the world

And start make it hard for both the boys and the girls

Dem steal all the Africans diamonds and pearls

And start bank it up inna federal reserves

And then Rasta fuck it up and incite riot

Warn dem fi cool and we did warn dem fi quiet

Now dem hear the kick drum the snare and the hi hat

Load up dem belly with some copper shot diet

Imagine after so much chanting and prayers

What a revolutionary situation requires

Mi fi come tear off unno face wid pliers

Surround dem ends wid all some burning tires

Round up dem friends and put dem 'pon trials

Until dem send the reparation dollars

Warning to all the political scholars

Political thieves and political liars

Political cocaine and gun suppliers

The whole a dem a go down inna flames and fires

Well unno better fly out like some frequent fliers

Bound to feel the wrath of the real Bongo Nyahs

Hey, don't fuck yourself next time you read out the budget

The government case, ah poor people a judge it

Dem bring the guns but the youths dem ah bust it

Bun dem skeletons weh lock up inna closet

Wipe out dem species and all dem inhabits

With a warm series of pain and havoc

Nah clean no feces fi money prefer grab it

Dem mek mi resort to violence the race get lead up

Somebody nah live up, somebody goin dead up

Blow! Whole ah the garment dem red up

Blow! Car and apartment get bled up

Didn't you get ample warning

Say poor people fed up and still every morning

Dem try hold dem head up

Emperor Selassie calling, youths dem fi dread up

Babylon is falling, gun nozzle bend up

Releasing the whole of the youth dem weh pen up

Well, educated demons, they have ruined the world

And start make it hard for both the boys and the girls

Dem steal all the Africans diamonds and pearls

And start bank it up inna federal reserves

And Rastaman dem fuck it up and we go incite riot

Warn dem fi cool and we did warn dem fi quiet

Now dem hear the kick drum the snare and the hi hat

Load up dem belly with the copper shot diet

[Bounty Killer]

Junior Gong that junior bang and beat up Babylon and Vatican

Me no come here fi praise up no pagan

Me no come here fi big up no batty man

See them a come (?) and forgot all about the good great one

Tell dem seh (?) injustice nah go last too long

See the weapon here inna me hand

Politician me ago buss it 'pon

Them hide the truth and kill we with (?)

Poor people across the world this is a special dedication

Africans and these alike don't lose unnu meditation

See them a come with racism, nah support segregation

Nah go spot me in a fi dem clique and dem congregation

How dem rape this country (?)

That's why them ban me song

Them (?) through me make a stand, check the starification yo

[Damian Marley]

Well, educated fools, they have ruined the world

And start make it hard for both the boys and the girls

Dem steal all the Africans diamonds and pearls

And start bank it up inna federal reserves

Well educated fools they a few in the world

And start make it hard for both the boys and the girls

Dem steal all the Africans diamonds and pearls

And start bank it up inna federal reserves

Well, educated fools

Educated demons and educated goons

Educated mules, educated fools

Educated demons and educated goons

[Bounty Killer]

Yo, minutes after minutes I say hour after hour

How them treat the people them nasty and sour

This is warlord style me as black Noah

'Cause I represent black power, well

Almighty God inna the statue a tower

A long time me know some more did come to devour

They have me people dem and shout power and shower

And trick them with them rice and flour, ya know

Me respect Rastafarians, me respect church goers

Dem fi no say poor people on a boat can't no row a

Fire a flame me bring fi ya drug for ya

And anyone a go a dem fi know ya, well

[Treach]

Heard that man came from sands and other molecules

Way before bodies and barbecues

With a good side a bad side and still argue too

Before scheming and thieving,

And dreaming of gleaming and feening

Even before Adam and Eve and even

Before it was about being the nicest

Or whose diamonds that are priceless

B.C. around Tutankhamun and Isis

On the continent of Africa

Pass out and tribes to create a character

Sold us shit on earth was magical

Then the strangers came from the boat with the ropes

Chains that felt strange

They called it the slave game, the game changed

They had shackled like assholes, the bloodclaat!

So now a days the way prevent it is a thugs glock

Seen them rape and kill our children and women, the villains

The bill gon' sort the black man how to kill men

Let's keep it real, man

You can't harm me or scar me, respect for me

History's priority with the Marleys...

• Artist:Damian Marley
• Album:fway Tree (2001)