Bob Marley & The Wailers Babylon System

We refuse to be

what you wanted us to be.

We are what we are.

That's the way it's going to be, if you don't know.

 

You can't educate I

for no equal opportunity.

(Talkin' 'bout my freedom).

Talkin' 'bout my freedom,

people, freedom and liberty!

 

Yeah, we've been trodding on the winepress

much too long,

rebel, rebel!

Yes, we've been trodding on the winepress

much too long,

rebel, rebel!

 

Babylon system is the vampire, yeah!

(Vampire).

Suckin' the children day by day, yeah!

Me say de Babylon system is the vampire,

(vampire) falling empire,

Suckin' the blood of the sufferers, yeah!

 

Building church and university, whoa, yeah!

Deceiving the people continually, yeah!

Me say dem graduatin' thieves and murderers.

Look out now, they suckin' the blood

of the sufferers (sufferers).

Yea! (Sufferers).

 

Tell the children the truth.

Tell the children the truth.

Tell the children the truth right now!

Come on and tell the children the truth.

Tell the children the truth.

Tell the children the truth.

Tell the children the truth.

Come on and, and tell the children the truth.

 

'Cause, 'cause we've been trodding

on ya winepress much too long,

rebel, rebel!

And we've been taken for granted much too long,

rebel, rebel!

Trodding on the winepress, yeah.

(Rebel)!

Got to rebel, y'all

(Rebel!)

 

We've been trodding on the winepress

much too long, yeah!

(Rebel!)

Yeah!

(Rebel!)

Yeah! Yeah!

From the very day we left

the shores of our Father's land

(Trodding on the winepress...)

(Rebel!)

We've been trampled on.

(Rebel!)

Oh, now!

(Taken for granted)

Lord, Lord