[Intro: Destro]
An artist once told me, “ Conquest is the order of the day”
How can one choose to be religious when they look at you as Prey
Look at Jesus:
Pray that these beasts be removed from positions of power
These principalities have no principles —
They failed school
But want me to go through the maze of education
My education has threatened you
You feel, I will take your position with the system you forced me to go through
I get you
Seeing through your ways with my peripheral
You are a lazy lion capitalizing on my inability to stand
Because you have mounted yourself on my back
As you do bad manners to my destiny
It's true
You only want the treasure to yourself
And believe you will enter Heaven and leave me
In a jobless jungle of Hell
[Hook: Jay Rox]
They won’t let you get better dan dem
They want you to hunt but not better dan dem
They won't let you be a LION, LION, LIONS
In this jungle we in
Dem are predators, dem killin' everyting dem see
Dem want the treasure to demselves, nutin’ come to me
LIONS, LIONS, LIONS
In this jungle we in
[Verse 1: Jay Rox]
Little man get up fi de betterment of de continent
We are de sunshine of tomorrow so be prominent
Get up and tell dem it's ya time to shine – you haffi speak up
That piaper you locked up from school, today will make up
(We are marching!!)
Tell ‘em No Woman, No Cry
Nah politician will come and tell us a lie
We are different now
(LIONS)
Dem eyes open up
(LIONS)
We know democracy fi de pipo by de pipo dem
We are suffering my dem dem, my pipo see dem
We don't see eye to eye now
Eye to eye now
[Pre-hook: Jay Rox]
When ya need us, ya come through and feed us lie lie
Make me feel better, ya don't need a rock-a-bye type
But when ya suit up, you tell me we can't talk, it's goodbye
When I'm just trying to speak fi de pipo dem
[Hook: Jay Rox]
They won't let you get better dan dem
They want you to hunt but not better dan dem
They won’t let you be a LION, LION, LIONS
In this jungle we in
Dem are predators, dem killin’ everyting dem see
Dem want the treasure to demselves, nutin' come to me
LIONS, LIONS, LIONS
In this jungle we in
[Verse 2: Jesse]
Panther with the roar of a lion
(Answering)
Answering the call out to Zion
It’s revolutionary loving
We survive the devil's oven
Just to let the world know
We are not afraid of dying
Leave the shackles and battle the rage, rattle the cage
Following Pharoahs in the system; that's an actual plague
There's colonialists
I’m feeling alone in this but that's life
But I'm boxing it – not getting along with it and that's
Right..
[Verse 3: Jay Rox]
No! No! No!
Ghetto youths are suffering
These investors, they be pampering
My people down the struggling
And that's a No! No! No!
We haffi want a better life fi de generation of tomorrow
But we never measure up so we borrow
And that's a No! No! No!
Lion get up!
You think you are mpheta
Talema to endure, life ikungo tipita
[Pre-hook: Jay Rox]
When ya need us, ya come through and feed us lie lie
Make me feel better, ya don't need a rock-a-bye type
But when ya suit up, you tell me we can't talk, it's goodbye
When I'm just trying to speak fi de pipo dem
[Hook: Jay Rox]
They won't let you get better dan dem
They want you to hunt but not better dan dem
They won't let you be a LION, LION, LIONS
In this jungle we in
Dem are predators, dem killin' everyting dem see
Dem want the treasure to demselves, nutin' come to me
LIONS, LIONS, LIONS
In this jungle we in
[Outro: Jesse]
Get up and run as a Lion
Don't let them interfere with our lives
These lions, they lead us into fear
We live in fear of impossibilities
Not making it into universities
We cry from our deplicity
I'll cry if I have to
To reach out for the crown you snatched from me
I spit on you Judas
And I hate to be just like you
I'll put on God's armor and fight for my future
A cab of today but a better lion of tomorrow