Babylon System - Bob Marley & The Wailers

We refuse to be

What you wanted us to be;

We are what we are:

That's the way (way)

It's going to be You don't know

You can't educate I

For no equal opportunity:

(Talkin' 'bout my freedom)

Talkin' 'bout my freedom

People freedom (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

Yea (vampire)

Suckin' the children day by day yeah

Me say: de Babylon system is the vampire

Falling empire

Suckin' the blood of the sufferers

Yea-ea-ea-ea-e-ah

Building church and university

Wo-o-ooh yeah -

Deceiving the people continually yea-ea

Me say them graduatin' thieves and murderers;

Look out now: they suckin'

The blood of the sufferers (sufferers)

Yea-ea-ea (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 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 now

(Trodding on the winepress)

Trodding on the winepress (rebel):

Got to rebel y'all (rebel)

We've been trodding

On the winepress much too long -

Ye-e-ah (rebel)

Yea-e-ah (rebel) Yeah Yeah

From the very day we left the shores

Of our Father's land (rebel)

We've been trampled on (rebel)

Oh now (we've been oppressed yeah )