Nas & Damian Marley - Africa Must Wake Up lyrics
rate me[Chorus - x2]
Africa must wake up the sleeping sons of Jacob
For what tomorrow may bring may a better day come
Yesterday we were kings can you tell me young ones --
Who are we today?
Yeah now
[Verse 1 - Nas (+ Damian Marley)]
The black oasis Ancient Africa the sacred
The sleeping giant science art is your creation
I dreamed that we could visit old Kemet
Your history is too complex and rigid for some Western critics
They want the whole subject diminished
But Africa's the origin of all the world's religions
We praise bridges that carried us over
The battle fronts of Sudanic soldiers the task put before us
(Do you hear me now?)
[Chorus]
[Verse 2 - Nas]
Who are we today? The slums diseases AIDS
We need that all to fade we cannot be afraid
So who are we today?
We are the morning after the makeshift youth
The slaveship captured our diaspora is the final chapter
The ancestral lineage built pyramids
America's first immigrants
the kings and daughters from our waters
The first architect the first philosophers
Astronomers the first prophets and the doctors were us us
[Bridge - Damian Marley]
Now can we all pray?
Each in his own way
Teaching and learning
We can work it out
We'll have a warm bed
We'll have some warm bread
Shelter from the storm dread
And we can work it out
Mother nature feeds all
In farming and drought
And though selfish in ways not to share is out
What's a tree without root?
Lion without tooth?
A lie without truth?
You hear me out?
[Chorus - x2 but the second one is:
Africa must wake up
The sleeping sons of Jacob
What tomorrow may bring
May some more love come
Yesterday we were kings
I tell ya young bloods
The world is yours today...]
[K'naan - African verse (??)]
[Guitar/Instrumental break]
[Nas - talking]
We want to thank y'all everybody out there
This is Nas Damian Marley
Distant Relatives..
We're all distant relatives
no matter where you from where you live
How near or far...
Africa China Japan Afghanistan Israel...
We're all fam we're all distant relatives
So that's why we came together -- one of the reasons
Why myself and Damian came together
'Cause we all come from one place and that's Africa
That's right you too. And you.
The whole world!
We're all family we're just spread out all over the place
So to all my distant relatives let's take it back home!
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