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