Third World - You're Playing Us Too Close

Jobless people, starving babies spreading over the land.
More oppression to the have nots,
Is how you play your hand.
More world fighting, is the writing from those say they know.
And if that's true we know just who, you'll be picking to go.

But the beat you are playing,
To what Jah is saying is wrong!
And we do recommend,
That you stop before it's too far gone.

And I just got to say:
You're playing us too close.
We in the ghettos:
You're playing us too close.
The jobless and the hungry:
You're playing us too close.
Filling up more and more with frustration:
You're playing us too close.
We're losing our patience!

So take heed and do let it be known that I've told you today;
You're playing us much too close.. yea!

All the teachings of Jah Bible you don't want to obey;
But you're writing your own ticket to the price you will pay.
Us you hold back, but the drawback is not to us alone.
Time will make you too a victim before you see the wrong.

And the melody that you are playing is in the wrong key;
For Jah's choirs that sings out to all live in world harmony.

And I just got to say:
You're playing us too close.
We in the ghettos:
You're playing us too close.
Red black white brown and yellow poor people:
You're playing us too close.
The babies are crying:
You're playing us too close.
Good people are dying!

So take heed and do let it be known that I've told you today;
Jah say you're playing us much too close.. yea!

Now when I was just a little boy,
My grandfather used to say to me:
"Brother B, trust no shadow after dark..
It's not till I grew to be a man that I understand,
What the old brother was talking about.
You see some people take the liberty,
To treat you any way they want to,
They feel some times that you don't have no dignity.
But brother, fire de ah mus mus tail,
Him think ah cool breeze, better watch out,
Easy squeeze, makes no riot my brethren,
You're playing us much too close.
So why the don't you people out there all get up,
Off your backsides and do something for the worlds.
For every living boy, woman, man and girl.
There's hungry people all over, starving,
Have no place to lay their heads, huh!
Don't play us so close. (some a dem rap, none a dem a holler)
Don't play us so close. Don't play us so close."

'Cause Jah say all the musicians shall be there
The players on instruments shall gather at His feet.

We need to raise your conscious high,
So Jah Jah love can rule the world.
You need to raise our conscious high,
So Jah Jah love can rule the world.

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We're gonna raise our conscious high,
So Jah Jah Love can rule the world.
I'm gonna raise my conscious high,
So Jah Jah Love can rule the world.

We're gonna raise our conscious high,
So Jah Jah Love can rule the world.
You've gotta raise your conscious high,
So Jab Jah Love can rule the world.
I'm gonna raise my conscious high,
So Jah Jah Love can rule the world..

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