BETRAYED-REGGAE 1

Lyrics

[Verse 1] The intoxication makes me blind, yeah And being blind just feeds my mind From the deep, deep bottom of my chicken cage I’m dreaming of freedom, turning the page Out here the hunger bites, it’s a concrete zone We pray, we hope, all alone Like a cheap order from Babylon store Hoping for mercy, but they just want more ​[Chorus] Betrayed, isolated, and beaten down to the ground The valley is easy, but the mountain is hard to be found When their mockery kills us, we fade away In the mist and abandonment we choose to stay Even when the bitterness starts to taste sweet The sugar never melts inna Babylon street We lose the taste of this life so divine Penniless, broken, running out of time ​[Verse 2] The oppression they push upon the poor man’s head Makes us nervous, filled with dread It’s like standing tall under a heavy, heavy rain With old broken umbrellas, hiding the pain We shelter under illusions, trying to stay dry But the confusion catches us under the sky And doubt takes over the road we trod by ​[Verse 3] A choice between the concrete ghettos where we sleep Or the golden mansions that are way too steep Jah, jobless men leaning hard on the bar counter top Soul exploded, mind spinning, waiting for it to stop End of the month stretching like a thin rubber band Vacation on the hot asphalt, no tropical sand Our hopes carried away on a stretcher so cold Our dreams inna cage, bought and sold ​[Verse 4] Condemned to the crumbs, no bread for the youth Nothing but the hard crust, and that’s the truth Victims of a destiny we didn't design Paying for errors that were never yours or mine But the mind is a trigger, ready to spark When injustice pulls it back in the dark Killing for a wicked army we can't even see Feeding on our weakness to steal our liberty ​[Chorus] Betrayed, isolated, and beaten down to the ground The valley is easy, but the mountain is hard to be found When their mockery kills us, we fade away In the mist and abandonment we choose to stay Even when the bitterness starts to taste sweet The sugar never melts inna Babylon street We lose the taste of this life so divine Penniless, broken, running out of time