[Verse 1: Rakim]
Since history it’s been depression and misery
Racism greed deception and bigotry
They make you choose
You a prisoner or a soldier
But once you fall victim to the system
Then you over
(It’s all over)
Thinking you rise on sending lies
It’ll turn your enterprise into genocide
And the powers that be divide and conquer the weak
And the mark of the beast will get carved in the streets
In hell trying to find a heaven
Lost in north America’s hysteria trying to find my brethren
Poisons in the water toxins in the sky spreading
And who’s really responsible for 9/11
One of the biggest conspiracy theories since Christ
While the blind been deprived of the truth since life
Is hard to believe in a world that no one trust
And there’s no one to turn to it’s so unjust

[Hook: Stephen Marley]
Don't bargain for fish
That's still in the waters yeah
The world is so unjust
You don't know who to trust
My brethren
Cause in who yo put your trust
They themselves get barred by the system
[Verse 2: Kardinal Offishall]
[?] RastafarI them on top
Give me the mic and show me the spot I'll make the [?]
So no mean when them a say that me a check them a check
Conquer a lion man a doggone rat
[?] so send them buyers to us
Soldier come up on a [?]
The first slick a fool a bet your king will get slapped
Well one get chopped and the rest of them stomped
Green revolution your a soldier to that
Them sell a mango [?] them a rise on the path
Well David slayed Goliath with a poor slingshot
Some [?]
Yo
Babylon system so unjust me a run me a skin me a shoot me a curse
I don't sit in the back of the bus
Notice this man is just us
[?] but oh man do what you must
I'm a soldier militant everything significant everything I'll be permanent
Permanemanent yes I tell the truth man I tell no lie
[?] far from the truth and I really get high
But I
Refuse to take my anger to the sky
It will rise
I'll get the youth to see the higher eyes
To show
Will ya defend wrong or right
Oh yeah
If it's not the right push out the light
Heritage is sacred
Say we couldn't take it
So we keep applying pressure til we see our people make it
Whether you're American African or Jamaican
We stolen from Africa but the world is for the taking
Never underestimate the people you don't penetrate
War come [?] anticipate
King of kings the real thing we’ll know for emulate
Party now until your [?]
[Hook: Stephen Marley]
Don't bargain for fish
That's still in the waters yeah
The world is so unjust
You don't know who to trust
My brethren
Cause in who yo put your trust
They themselves get barred by the system
By the system