Signs of a Struggle
Album - 30 october 2005 - Debaser id 272869

Oh I, I know it’s only time
Only time until,
You pull the job that kills
You say you’ ll never do it
Again but you know
You will
Call your boys who know the drill
It pains me to see how you get you thrill
Now time will prove
Now you have to choose
If life’s the game you lose
By taking one last chance and falling
To the gangster blues.

I, I heard the people say,
you’re in high demand.
Well badness will follow badman.

You know you only do it
son cause you know
you can
Another drive another gram
Well think of your family understand

Now time will prove
Now you have to choose
If life’s the game you lose
By taking one last chance and falling

You know its true,
Life can be so cruel
Time won’t wait for you
And I don’t want my friend a victim
of the Gangster Blues.

Bad man and Bad John
From all about
Rock it out.
Me draw for me spliff not
The cocaine
Me lef it out.
Babylon ah watch m run
big tings from long time
Time, time ey yeah.
Burning, hustling smuggling planting
Ah bare weed me deal wid
and me nah touch.
De hard ting.
Soon done ya chattin when
de war start fi happen
right now.

Now time will prove
Now you have to choose
If life’s the game you lose
By taking one last chance and falling
To the gangster blues

Big City Life
Me try fi get by
Pressure nah ease up no matter how hard me try
Big City Life
Here my heart have no base
And right now Babylon de pon me case

People in a show
All lined in a row
We just push on by
Its funny
How hard we try

Take a moment to relax
Before you do anything rash

Don't you wanna know me?
Be a friend of mine
I'll share some wisdom with you
Don't you ever get lonely
From time to time
Don't let the system get you down

[Chorus]
Soon
our work is done
All of us one by one
Still we live our lives
As if all this stuff survives

I take a moment to relax
Before I do anything rash

[Bridge]
The Linguist across the seas and the oceans
A permanent Itinerant is what I've chosen
I find myself in Big City prison, arisen from the vision of man kind
Designed, to keep me discreetly neatly in the corner
You'll find me with the flora and the fauna and the hardship
Back a yard is where my heart is still I find it hard to depart this Big City Life

[Chorus]

She said no words when
I chose to stand away.
In the backround of my
Mind when the sund rose
I chose the shade
Never wanted never
Needed all the priceless
Things to say
But I know tht time
Alone was overdue
I know time alone was
Overdue
Overdue

At times rock stone is
The only bed that's made
So I have the faith come
Waht will come what may
Passer by in pain

She read those words that
I chose to throw
Her way
And the timesthey were
Laden with hesistation that
I made
And if you're ever my
Endeavour once again then
I'll be changed
But I know that it aint
So my hope refrains
Refrains

At time rock stone is
The only bed that's made
So I have the faith come
What will come what may
Passer by in pain

At time rock stone is
The only bed that's made
So I have the faith come
What will come what may
And when I rise alone
It don't feel the same
So I have the faith come
What will come what may
Passer by in pain

I had a thought of you,
in solitude without rescue.
Your thoughts are in the
puring rain,
and you feel the way you
did before I met you.
Now I see the pain
forcing you to blame,
the only man that loved you.
Well no one more got
close to me before.
I'm amazed I let you.

To & fro,
is how my thoughts
would go,
while I was looking for,
my release.
You should know,
I had to let you go,
now and forever more,
I'm out of reach.

Now I see it all,
right before me,
your little story.
My role was on the page,
I refused to play in your
tragedy.
I feel no remorse while
you deal with yours.
How you feeling lately?
Well no one more got
close to me before.
Lady you betrayed me.

To & fro,
is how my thoughts
would go,
while I was looking for,
my release.
You should know,
I had to let you go,
now and forever more,
I'm out of reach.

Hence in the past tense,
the sentiments,
the arguments,
taking offence.
The only consequence,
I'm left to lament,
the love that came and went.
I'm still a true gent.
Never bitter and never
twisted.
Only optimistic about
the main statistic.
Number one is standing
vertical cause I never
take things personal.
Believe me,
my woman my woman
is gone,
and so me jus move on.
Da Linguist, this producer
this performer,
moulded by the pain and the trauma.
I'm on a mission to listen
to intuition more than
I've ever done before
never keep it hidden.
I won't waist away,
I'll wake up from day
to day and I'll face this.
You're on a need to
know basis.

To & fro,
is how my thoughts
would go,
while I was looking for,
my release.
You should know,
I had to let you go,
now and forever more,
I'm out of reach.
Out of reach.

They always told me,
in the beginning,
there was life and there
was sin.
That was only a story to
explain the state we're in.
You got a life that's not
your own.
You need to take care
of your home.
Got a calling,
get some feeling.
You got a family now.

Now do you think you're
too cool,
for the only one that
wants you?
Wants to be loved by you,
and everyone around you.
Can you even entertain
the thought that it's
yourself to blame?
I know that it's killing
you to hear this
from me.

I always warned you,
when life is upon you,
struggle from here
on in.
Heavy moments,
lose your focus and
fail to breath in.
It's not the place
or the time for you
to stop.
And change your mind.
got to hold it down.
You got a family now,
stand and be proud.

Now do you think you're
too cool,
for the only one that
wants you?
Wants to be loved
by you,
and everyone
around you.
Can you even entertain
the thought that it's
yourself to blame?
I know that it's killing
you to hear this
from me.
I know that it's killing
you just to hear this
from me.

You got the one of a
kind and that's all you
should mind.
How much life will
you claim?
You're ideas need
to change.
And all I came to say.
Identifies with the pain
they feel as a
family name.

Now do you think you're
too cool,
for the only one that
wants you?
Wants to be loved
by you,
and everyone
around you.
Can you even entertain
the thought that it's
yourself to blame?
I know that it's killing
you to hear this
from me.
I know that it's killing
you just to hear this
from me.

Clear And Present Danger
Pray tell sweet
rosemary,
are the times what
they're supposed to be?
Is leadership the same
as treachery?
Will knighthood silence
anarchy?

Sorry for the hurt.
Sorry that the destiny
seems to be the ever
clear and present
danger.

Headlines that fail
to trace.
Land mines in a dossier.
Young, naive I may be.
Vietnam don't look that
different to me.
Oh no.

And now, sorry for
the hurt.
Sorry that the destiny
seems to be the ever
clear and present
danger.

All i wanted was to
Live without the
Middleman

All you needed was a
Chance to say,; i told you so;
When youґre cold and
Battered all you want
Is to know you matter
To someone

I had to throw away all
The plans we made and
Now these days
With marks against my
Shoulders i feel like
Iґm older than i am

All i want right now
Is to be my own child.
Do you think it makes
Me a better man just
Mo know i can be
Alone a while?

I had to throw away
All the plans we made
And now these days
With marks against my shoulders i feel like
Iґm older than i am

Did I ever call for
your fame?
Why do we fight in
your name?
Is it really true that
you're there?
And do you ever
answer my prayers?
We are calling for
change,
so why don't you
come back again?
Why do you spread
love uneven?
This is not what I
believe in.

Do I have the right,
to write this down?
Without heresy pointing
a finger at me.
Rights?
We don't have no more.
In this catastrophe,
of a 21st century war.

Did I ever call for
your fame?
Why do we fight in
your name?
Is it really true that
you're there?
And do you ever
answer my prayers?
We are calling for
change,
so why don't you
come back again?
Why do you spread
love uneven?
This is not what I
believe in.

Turn and let your gaze
burn over yonder,
a young man stern
with the hunger,
who never puts asunder,
the late night thoughts
and the wonder.
Writing is a lightening
speech is a thunder.
Kid, I'm misinterpreted
like a Marxist.
The scared will
ask this,
impartial vocabulary
martial artist
practice verbal Ti-Chi
and pilates.
Da Linguist, the proper
opportunist.
Quick to drop a new list
of rhymes which
revue this,
right wind stifling that
we're suffering,
far from enlightening it's
frightening so usher in,
a new type of verbal
well being.
As your talks are warped
by a canopy of entropy,
enter the Linguist who
eventually,
with a dismaying display
of rhyme slaying advances.
The impartial vocabulary
martial artist.

Did I ever call for
your fame?
Why do we fight in
your name?
Is it really true that
you're there?
And do you ever
answer my prayers?
We are calling for
change,
so why don't you
come back again?
Why do you spread
love uneven?
This is not what I
believe in.

Did I ever call for
your fame?
Why do we fight in
your name?
Is it really true that
you're there?
And do you ever
answer my prayers?
We are calling for
change,
so why don't you
come back again?
Why do you spread
love uneven?
This is not what I
believe in.

Head rests,
a sore mind behind these
red eyes.
Watch the television,
sweet escapism,
game shows and racism.
Headlines,
war crimes behind disguised
affection.

All for a cause that
never was.
Call for a voice but all
it does is sigh.
Inside.
Sigh.

More or less,
there abouts,
a young man with so
many doubts.
I try to learn
impersonating,
the clever moves but I
am facing,
the always power-crazed,
middle aged generation.

All for a cause that
never was.
Call for a voice but
all it does is sigh.
Inside.
Sigh.
Inside.

Blood and blame passed
on to a neighbour.
Continuing the chain.
Deadly game of whispers.
How am I to grow.
The life I love I
don't know.

Blood and blame passed
on to a neighbour.
Continuing the chain.
Deadly game of whispers.
How am I to grow.
The life I love I
don't know.

Blood and blame passed
on to a neighbour.
Continuing the chain.
Deadly game of whispers.
How am I to grow.
The life I love I
don't know.

why?why do you
love me?
what have i done to
deserve you lately?
if the poorest ones could
feel this energy
they need nit fear the
cursed son nor the
devils night

there i lay with warmth
watching over me
the favoured son on whom
fortune smiled upon
why?why do you
want me?
with a past like mine i´d
rather love and lose than
falt in line

Went to a dance
last saturday night
I was feeling tipsy,
the mood was right
Sight a little daughter
steppin' out the corner
'cause I feel like dancing all night

But I told her:
Cool down the pace
for me little woman
you're coming in to fast for me
Cool down the pace
for me little woman
that's not how it should be

I told her to try
I dunno why
She keep on trying be she can't
and so she do it how she want

And so I told her:
Cool down the pace
for me little woman
you're coming in to fast for me
Cool down the pace
for me little woman
that's not how it should be

And I told her:
Cool down, cool down
I told her: Cool down, cool down

Went to a dance
last saturday night
I was feeling tipsy,
the mood was right
Sight a little daughter
steppin' out the corner
'cause I feel like dancing all night

And so I told her:
Cool down the pace
for me little woman
you're coming in to fast for me
Cool down the pace
for me little woman
that's not how it should be

She said she would try
She just dunno why
She keep on trying be she can't
and so she do it how she want

And so I told her:
Cool down the pace
for me little woman
you're coming in to fast for me
Cool down the pace
for me little woman
that's not how it should be

And I told her:
Cool down, cool down
I told her: Cool down, cool down
Cool down, cool down

She said she would try
I dunno why
She keep on trying be she can't
and so she do it how she want

But I told her:
Cool down the pace
for me little woman
you're coming in to fast for me
Cool down the pace
for me little woman
that's not how it should be

Cool down the pace
for me little woman
you're coming in to fast for me
Cool down the pace
for me little woman
that's not how it should be