Reggae in Babylon (1978) - full transcript

["Ain't No Sunshine" playing]

♪ Ain't no sunshine ♪

♪ No sunshine ♪

♪ Ain't no sunshine ♪

♪ Ain't no sunshine ♪

♪ No sunshine ♪

♪ Ain't no sunshine ♪

♪ Ain't no sunshine when she's gone ♪

♪ It's not warm when she's away ♪

♪ Ain't no sunshine when she's gone ♪

♪ She's always gone too long ♪



♪ Anytime she goes away ♪

♪ Ain't no sunshine when she's gone ♪

♪ Only darkness every day, yeah ♪

♪ Ain't no sunshine when she's gone ♪

♪ She's always gone too long ♪

♪ Anytime she goes away ♪

♪ Wonder this time where she's gone ♪

♪ Wonder this time where she's gone ♪

♪ Wonder if she's gone to stay ♪

♪ Wonder if she's gone to stay ♪

♪ Ain't no sunshine when she's gone ♪

♪ This house, just ain't no way ♪

♪ Anytime she goes away ♪

♪ I know, I know, I know, yeah ♪



♪ I know, I know, I know ♪

♪ I know, I know, I know ♪

♪ I know, I know, I know ♪

♪ I know, I know, I know ♪

♪ I know, I know, I know ♪

♪ Said I wanna leave that girl alone ♪

♪ But there ain't no sunshine
When she's gone ♪

♪ I wonder this time where she's gone ♪

♪ I wonder this time where she's gone ♪

♪ Wonder if she's gone to stay ♪

♪ Wonder if she's gone to stay ♪

♪ Ain't no sunshine when she's gone ♪

♪ This house just ain't no home ♪

♪ Anytime she goes away ♪

♪ Lordy, Lordy, Lordy, Lordy, Lordy ♪

♪ Ain't no sunshine ♪

♪ Ain't no sunshine ♪

-♪ Ain't no sunshine ♪
-♪ Ain't no sunshine, ooh ♪

♪ Ain't no sunshine ♪

-♪ Ain't no sunshine ♪
-♪ Ain't no sunshine, ooh ♪

♪ Ain't no sunshine ♪

-♪ Ain't no sunshine ♪
-♪ Ain't no sunshine, ooh ♪

♪ Ain't no sunshine ♪

In Jamaica, there's a different lifestyle.

It's-- It's, uh…

It's a more sort of relaxed way of…

Way of living,
a more carefree way of living,

whereas in England,
there's a lot of pressures.

And, um, the-the music in Jamaica
tends to reflect

the mood of the country.

And, um, maybe,
that's why it's been so successful

because it's reflecting a particular mood

which, um, British reggae isn't doing

because British reggae
isn't coming under the same influences

as, um, the reggae
being produced in Jamaica.

Um, well, the main difference
is-is the obvious one.

Uh, that…

English reggae
is not a term that I like using, really,

because it's all reggae.

Uh, but, um, the main difference

is that English reggae is played
by musicians that live in England.

And that is the only difference.

I mean, the very name reggae.

I mean, it wasn't called reggae
in the first place.

It came from blue beat,
just ska, you know?

Ska and blue beat, the era,
and then reggae.

Because it was a dance, originally.

The DJs thought, "That's a nice name,"

and they kept saying
"reggae music, reggae music"

on the air all the time.

Reggae music, reggae music,
the DJs on the radio.

So everyone kept on saying reggae music.

-They classed it as--
-Reggae.

-Reggae.
-Reggae.

Reggae. Originally, reggae was a dance.

["It's Not Our Wish" playing]

♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪

♪ It's not our wish that we should fight ♪

♪ For it's our wish ♪

♪ To be free ♪

♪ Oh, you see ♪

♪ Freedom stands for all ♪

♪ All over Jah world ♪

♪ Say we must be free ♪

♪ And we must be free ♪

♪ It's not our wish ♪

♪ That we should fight ♪

♪ It's not our wish ♪

♪ That we should fight ♪

♪ Oh, no ♪

♪ Equal rights stands for all ♪

♪ All ♪

♪ Equal rights ♪

♪ That's what we want ♪

♪ Want ♪

♪ And we're loving our Jah ♪

♪ Almighty God ♪

♪ That's all we want ♪

♪ That is all we want ♪

♪ It's not our wish ♪

♪ That we should fight ♪

♪ It's not our wish ♪

♪ That we should fight ♪

♪ Africa ♪

♪ Must be free ♪

♪ By the year 1983 ♪

♪ By that near time ♪

♪ Every man got to reaching out ♪

♪ Oh, yes ♪

♪ Oh, yes, reaching out ♪

♪ Bow down to Zion, I ♪

♪ I say ♪

♪ It's not our wish ♪

♪ That we should fight ♪

♪ For it's full time, na, na, na, na ♪

♪ I and I must unite ♪

♪ Oh, yes ♪

♪ It's not our wish ♪

♪ That we should fight ♪

♪ It's not our wish ♪

♪ That we should fight ♪

♪ It's not our wish ♪

♪ That we should fight ♪

♪ It's not our wish ♪

♪ That we should fight, fight
Fight, fight, fight ♪

♪ Fight, fight, fight, fight ♪

[music fades]

[audience cheering]

-[whistling]
-[indistinct dialogue]

The BBC, which is the, um, national radio,
uh, has developed an attitude

whereby they just won't touch reggae.

Like they just refuse to play it.

The only time they play it
is when it's, uh…

When it's in the chart.

You know, like it…

Like it accidentally gets in the charts
and they play it.

You know, but general promotion,
like what they do with other music,

like, they'd get a new release
and they'd just automatically play it,

they don't do that with reggae.

-[interviewer] Why not?
-Um…

it comes right back to what, um…

What reggae music
is dealing with, I think.

You see, the truth.

Certain truth they don't want to be known.

I mean, the establishment, right?

Because we've got…
It's-it's much higher than, uh,

a couple of people just making decisions
on what records to play.

The content of the music
has got a lot to do with it.

Now, there's a lot of things
that, uh, the system that set up the BBC

don't want to be known.

[interviewer] Do you think
it's a kind of racism?

Yeah, well, obviously it comes down
to that, too.

You know, but I wouldn't, um…

Wouldn't really say
it's out and out racism,

-if you understand what I mean.
-Mm-hm.

[man] But, um… [clicks tongue]

that has got something to do with it, yes.

You've got like, uh,
a set of men then who, uh…

Who control the whole thing, right?

And their aim
in controlling the whole thing

is to keep the masses down, right?

Now, um, reggae music is dealing
with the freedom of the masses,

not only Black people,
you know, all people.

So, um, those views,
they don't want to be known.

What's going on really
is exploitation, you know?

'Cause you have a whole lot of singers,

even like myself,
who have been around long time

and who have done a many good recording.

And yet, still…
They're still suffering, you know?

It's like there's only one-one person
who, in the world, let's say,

as someone who is--

Who is dealing with reggae.

But there's a lot more good people
who have been stifled,

who have been boycott and bootleg,
you know?

It's a great pity
because the reggae record does not get…

[stammers] I might as well use this word,

any airplay from British radio
or any radio.

The reggae records that get played
from our own disco,

which we call sound system…

Sound system has done…

miracles for reggae music.

We got these called dubs, acetates, right?

[interviewer] Right.

[man] Some people say they want,
um, 30 pound, 25 pound.

They get…

Sometime, we get four, you know?
Two on each side.

-All different versions, you know?
-[interviewer] And whom are they made for?

From DJ's sound systems.

[man] A sound system is a…

Is, uh… Is, um, expensive hobby.

That's the first thing
that anyone wants to know.

[child babbling]

And sound system is ours, so, uh…

Uh, entertainment,
I think that White folks call mobile--

Mobile discothèque…

Right? Incensed.

Whereas the Black people,
it was originate.

Sound system was originated in Jamaica.

And we take all that we saw in Jamaica

and-and brought it to England,
the idea to England,

and we built up and we decided
to work from there, you understand.

Also, sound system
is a very good thing for England,

because it teaches
Black and White to mix, you understand.

I mean, we as sound system men,
we play for the poor class people,

people who can't afford
to pay big monies in club,

to go to high clubs.

Most big posh clubs in England

don't allow sound system in,
you understand.

Because they reckon that

they always feel that sound system
is a thing that mix with drugs, and…

you understand.

And they don't want the thing
and-and it's much noise, and…

they can't see the good

of what sound system is really doing
for the country and the people.

Locally, there is nowhere
that the people mix in England

like in the sound system dances.

A lot-- A tremendous amount
of Black and White,

we preach peace…

Peace, and love,

and unity, and overstanding,
you understand.

-[reggae music playing]
-[singing in Jamaican]

♪ The best thing in life
Is for free, yeah ♪

[singing in Jamaican]

♪ From Jamaica way
To Germany down to Canada ♪

[singing in Jamaican]

♪ King David, he was a Black man ♪

♪ King Solomon, he was a Black man ♪

♪ King Moses, he was a Black man ♪

♪ South Africa, yeah ♪

[singing in Jamaican]

It's simply…
[chuckles] …just controlling this.

Switch up your set, put your record on,
and you fire away, reggae music.

[speaking in Jamaican]

[laughs]

[reggae music playing]

Yeah!

♪ Jumping, jumping ♪

♪ Jumping, jumping ♪

♪ Oh ♪

♪ I don't wanna run away ♪

♪ I don't wanna run away ♪

♪ I'll walk ♪

♪ I don't wanna run away ♪

♪ I'll walk ♪

♪ I don't wanna run away ♪

♪ You gotta run, run, run, run, run, oh ♪

♪ A long, long way to go ♪

[woman] Come on, take it now! Come on!
Listen, come on!

Oh, yeah!

That was…

-♪ I feel like jumping ♪
-Then jump.

-Jump!
-♪ I feel like shouting now ♪

♪ Lord, I feel like moving ♪

♪ Lord, I feel like moving now ♪

-♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
-♪ Na, na, na, na, na, yeah ♪

♪ Na, na, na, na, na, yeah ♪

♪ Na, na, na, na, na, yeah ♪

♪ Na, na, na, na, na ♪

♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh ♪

♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh ♪

♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh ♪

Come on, I wanna see you
clap your hands some more.

-Come on, ladies and gentlemen.
-♪ I feel like jumping ♪

-♪ Feel ♪
-♪ I feel like jumping ♪

♪ Right now ♪

-♪ Jumping ♪
-♪ I feel like moving ♪

-♪ I feel ♪
-♪ I feel like jumping ♪

-♪ Lord, I feel like moving ♪
-♪ Like jumping ♪

-♪ I'm feeling good ♪
-♪ Jumping ♪

-♪ Na, na, na, na ♪
-♪ No, whoa, whoa ♪

♪ No, whoa, whoa, whoa ♪

♪ Come on, come on ♪

♪ Come on, come on, come on ♪

Our musical influences, uh…

We're the youngest group, I think.

We're the youngest record group out
with the most unusual name.

-No, oh, oh, op!
-Famous, well…

Our influences are Dennis Brown,
Gregory Isaacs, Julie Delgado.

-Sly Dunbar.
-[giggling]

-Sly Dunbar.
-[interviewer] That makes sense.

-Well, we're professionals, you know?
-Yeah. Yeah.

-Yeah, does she know?
-Oh, probably not.

Those are our influences so far.

[interviewer]
What does reggae music mean to you?

Well…

-[man] Reggae music-- Reggae music mean…
-[laughs] That's an influence.

Reggae music mean Rastafari.

Herb.

Right? Um, Rastafari, herb.

Where's-where's the third one?

And the reggae music itself
is like God, the Father, and the Son.

So reggae music, herb.

Right? And Rastafari. That's what it mean.

[interviewer] Can you tell me more
about Rastafari, herb?

Well, you see,

Rastafari itself
is a spiritual thing, it's…

Rastafari mean God.

And the music itself, reggae music,
are part of it

and I believe it's easy, right?

Uh, it's more spiritual.

Most of the things we believe
come from the Bible.

See, so if you link it still,
the herb is for meditation.

And when you are meditating,
you can see wide, on a wider scope.

And you, you can see wide,
you can see God.

And you, you can't see God.

The only way of getting to God
is to put a tune to the music,

and it's called reggae music.

The words of our songs are usually, um…

They usually come by inspiration,
you know?

It's a spiritual thing.

It's a guiding force
that I think gives us the words,

maybe a bit strong.

Most people like to say "the power"
because people don't like to say "God."

They look at God as an image.

But, uh, I think it's a spiritual thing
and it comes by inspiration.

We deal with love, and unity,

and spiritual awareness at the same time.

People getting to know themselves
and living together.

And we also deal with truths and rights,
what is right.

[reggae music playing]

♪ Rock, rock ♪

♪ Don't you fall on I ♪

♪ Rock, rock ♪

♪ Don't you fall on I ♪

♪ Oh, rock ♪

♪ Now, don't you fall on I ♪

♪ Rock, rock ♪

♪ Don't you fall on I ♪

♪ Rock, rock ♪

♪ Don't you fall on I ♪

♪ Oh, rock ♪

♪ Now, don't you fall on I ♪

♪ If you feel the rock and we fall on ♪

♪ If you feel the rock and we fall on ♪

♪ Mellow with the rock ♪

♪ I said mellow with the rock ♪

♪ Rock, rock ♪

♪ Don't you fall on I ♪

♪ Rock, rock ♪

♪ Don't you fall on I ♪

♪ Oh, rock ♪

♪ Now, don't you fall on I ♪

♪ He decides to open ♪

♪ The book of life ♪

♪ And to lose those seven seals ♪

♪ All wicked men on earth ♪

♪ Won't you take warning? ♪

♪ For what I and I say is real ♪

-♪ For I say you can rock ♪
-♪ Oppressor rock ♪

♪ But don't you fall on I ♪

-♪ Yes, you can rock ♪
-♪ Oppressor rock ♪

♪ But don't you fall on I ♪

♪ Say rock, oppressor rock ♪

♪ But don't fall on I ♪

♪ Rock, oppressor rock
But don't fall on I ♪

♪ Oh, rock, oh, rock, oh, rock
Oh, rock, oh, rock ♪

-♪ Oh, rock ♪
-♪ Don't you fall on I ♪

♪ Shouldn't do that, no ♪

♪ Oh, rock, oppressor rock
But don't fall on I ♪

♪ Rock, oppressor rock
But don't fall on I ♪

-? You should never do that ♪
-♪ Oh, rock ♪

♪ Now, don't you fall on I ♪

♪ Hear me say ♪

♪ Oh, rock ♪

It's like the punks are now,

they're rebelling
against the type of music.

They want to hear new things, you know?

Yes, you see… Can I just say?

And anytime, right,
there's a depression in England, right?

Depression period.

Uh, the youths always turn
to reggae music.

Right? Because they feel
the pressures, right?

And they can identify with someone else
who's feeling the pressures.

The music always singing
about the pressures, you know?

Not always, but, I mean,
they sing about love, you know?

But it seems just natural,
things that are happening.

And that's reggae music,
it's so realistic.

Right now, we have got a lot of doctrine.

Who will lead for them?

-["Diverse Doctrine" playing]
-[speaking in Jamaican]

Let them know, let them know!

[sings in Jamaican]

Everybody!

Look here.

♪ I can't take no more ♪

♪ Diverse doctrine ♪

♪ It's annoying ♪

♪ I can't take no more ♪

♪ Diverse doctrine ♪

♪ I wanna say I'm a diplomat ♪

♪ I wanna say I'm aristocrat ♪

♪ I wanna burn like an acrobat, yeah ♪

♪ I can't take no more ♪

♪ Diverse doctrine ♪

♪ No more, I said it ♪

♪ I can't take no more ♪

♪ Diverse doctrine ♪

[Ras] Look here.

[singing in Jamaican]

♪ 'Cause Jah love is just so high ♪

♪ World leaders, stay off my turf ♪

♪ And hear me say it ♪

♪ And they don't know they are drifting ♪

Everybody help me sing this.

♪ I wanna say I'm a diplomat ♪

♪ And I wanna say I'm aristocrat ♪

♪ I wanna burn like an acrobat, yeah ♪

♪ I can't take no more ♪

♪ Diverse doctrine ♪

♪ Somebody, somebody say ♪

♪ I can't take no more ♪

♪ Diverse doctrine ♪

So hear me.

[singing in Jamaican]

Look here.

Um, Rastafari, well…

Rastafari is more than a religion.
You know, it's-it's a way of life.

I want to grow them locks
to say I'm Rastafari.

But when I have a dread on my head,
you see, a dread, no, is a true identity.

And I said before, you don't have
to rock locks up here

to say Rastafari because your heart…

Your dreadlock is a true identity.

A lot of people don't like
the-the dreadlocks because…

They'll feel shill when certain people
see island dreadlock, but this is--

It just-- This is what really…

These dreadlocks,
this is what wearing free Black people,

and this is what will keep
Black people together,

because Rastaman deal with peace,
love, and unity, and also repatriation.

Because we are from somewhere.
I and I originate from Africa.

Not England or America or Canada.

Some of us say we're from America,
Canada, and stuff like that,

but no, I and I originate from Africa.

I'm not really Rastafari,
but I've got respect for it.

'Cause it sort of, um…

It deals with, um,
Black awareness as well.

And, uh, it makes me want
to know the past,

my past history
so I could build my future.

I really…

There's one thing I'd like,
would be the Black youths

or the Black people of this country,

all over this country, but sure,
the whole of Europe,

and build up a Babylon, as we call it.

You know, come together.

And to know that, um,
that is our destination,

Africa is my destination.

'Cause that's what we are… We are going

because that's where we originated from,
you know?

And I'd like for sort of brothers
and sisters

to come together as one
and start with peace and love.

So, of course, no fight, no animosity
among themselves, you know?

[speaks in Jamaican]

I feel that Black man
all means like man of the world.

That means everybody's
supposed to belong to me,

and supposed to belong
to everybody as well

because God is the man
who controls everything.

-You know what I mean?
-Yeah.

So, Germany belong to me as well.

-[laughter]
-That's funny.

["Ku Klux Klan" playing]

[vocalising]

♪ Walking along, just kicking stones ♪

-♪ Me minding my own business ♪
-♪ Business ♪

♪ I come face to face with my foe ♪

♪ Disguised in violence from head to toe ♪

-♪ I holler and I bawl ♪
-♪ Ku Klux Klan ♪

-♪ Them not let me go now ♪
-♪ Ku Klux Klan ♪

-♪ To let me go was not them intention ♪
-♪ Listen ♪

♪ One nigga, the less, the better ♪

♪ The show ♪

♪ Stand strong, Black skin
And take your blow ♪

♪ You know what to do ♪

-♪ Says I ♪
-♪ The Ku Klux Klan ♪

-♪ Ku ♪
-♪ Says I ♪

♪ The Ku Klux Klan ♪

-♪ The Ku, Ku Klux Klan ♪
-♪ Here to stamp out Black man, yeah ♪

-♪ The Ku ♪
-♪ I said the ♪

♪ The Ku Klux Klan, hey ♪

♪ To be taught a lesson
Not to walk alone ♪

-♪ I was waiting for the good Samaritan ♪
-♪ Samaritan ♪

♪ But, but, but waiting was hopeless ♪

♪ It was all in vain ♪

♪ The Ku Klux Klan ♪

♪ Back again ♪

♪ I holler and I bawl ♪

♪ Ku Klux Klan ♪

♪ Them not let me go now ♪

-♪ Ku Klux Klan ♪
-♪ Oh, no ♪

♪ One nigga, the less, the better ♪

♪ The show ♪

♪ Stand strong, Black skin
And take your blow ♪

♪ Your blow ♪

♪ Ku Klux Klan ♪

♪ The Ku Klux Klan ♪

-[vocalises]
-♪ Says I ♪

♪ The Ku Klux Klan ♪

-♪ Ku Klux Klan ♪
-♪ Rape, lynch, kill, and maim ♪

♪ Rape, things can't remain
The same, yeah ♪

♪ The Ku Klux Klan ♪

♪ No ♪

♪ Black man do unto the Klan
As they would do to you ♪

-♪ In this case, hate thy neighbour ♪
-♪ Hate thy neighbour ♪

♪ Those cowards only kill who they fear ♪

♪ That's why they hide behind
The hoods and cloaks they wear ♪

♪ I holler and I bawl ♪

♪ The Ku Klux Klan ♪

♪ Them not let me go now ♪

-♪ The Ku Klux Klan ♪
-♪ Oh, no ♪

-♪ Oh, no, oh, no, oh, no ♪
-♪ Ku Klux Klan ♪

-♪ The Ku ♪
-♪ Says I ♪

♪ The Ku Klux Klan ♪

-♪ Ku Klux Klan ♪
-♪ Here to stamp out Black man ♪

-♪ Yeah ♪
-♪The Ku ♪

-♪ Rape, lynch, kill, and maim ♪
-♪ The Ku Klux Klan ♪

-♪ Rape, things can't remain the same ♪
-♪ The Ku ♪

-♪ The Ku Klux Klan ♪
-♪ Yeah, no ♪

♪ The Ku ♪

-♪ The Ku Klux Klan, the Ku ♪
-♪ No, no, no, no, no ♪

[David] The Klan seen the work
we put out a few months back.

You know, when the Klan
actually came to Britain as well.

And many people sort of thought
that we put this single out

just to react
to the Klan's, uh, arrival in Britain.

But the song was actually written
a year before they came.

You know what I mean,
so it didn't get much airplay

because of the subject matter.

You know, they couldn't have banned it
because when you ban records,

well, in England, it sort of gets
more publicity and more, uh, sales.

So they just didn't play it
as often as they should.

-They ignored it.
-They ignored it.

Yeah.

[interviewer] And what are the songs
dealing with, most of your songs?

Well, one was just dealing with just, um,

a Black man's personal feeling
towards the Klan, like saying, um,

how we can just be just walking
down the road, doing nothing,

and suddenly just get attacked like that.

That's what it was dealing with,
and the conclusion it came to,

in the song that,
well, we cannot really put up

with any more of this sort of thing.

And we just sort of, uh,
should fight back.

[interviewer] Your first album is titled
"Handsworth Revolution."

Can you please tell me something
about Handsworth and living there?

Well, it's one of the places that papers
and people outside Handsworth

regard as being a big ghetto, right?

They regard it as a place

where you can't walk
down the street after dark,

and there's loads of Black youths
out of work,

and they don't want to work anyway.

And in general,
it's a bad place, you know.

If you go somewhere
and they know about Handsworth,

they regard it as a bad place,

somewhere you drive through
rather than stop.

But we all live there, right?

And we know a completely different story
than the story that's put out.

And that's one of the reasons

why we've titled the LP
"Handsworth Revolution,"

because revolution should start there.

It's not what people
are making it out to be.

And people are not…

You know, they don't avoid work
the way the papers print.

They avoid work, they don't want to know,

and they're not all troublemakers,
and they are--

There's a reason for it all. You know?
But the reason's never said.

So that's what we're on about, basically.

[interviewer]
What do you think is the reason?

-The reason?
-[interview] Yes.

The reason's the whole system.
It goes all back.

I mean, it's like you got
a guy who leaves school, right?

To begin with, they're teaching him
all bullshit at school.

Lot of nonsense, right?

He leaves school, and then,
he goes and looks for a job, right?

He goes to countless amount
of interviews, he doesn't get a job,

so at the end of the day,
he's fed up, right?

They stick him on the dole.

He can't get a job because they
don't really want him to work, right?

And he's on the dole, and after being
on the dole for a while,

they cut him off, right?

And in this place,
you can't live without money,

so he's got to get money from somewhere.

And then they blame him
if he was to go and pinch

or steal from someone
when he's got no obvious alternative.

["Prodigal Son" playing]

♪ One ♪

♪ One ♪

♪ One ♪

♪ One ♪

♪ Woy! Desperation has returned ♪

♪ Hey, now, Sodom and Gomorrah
No deh yah so ♪

♪ Woy! Desperation has returned ♪

♪ Over yonder ♪

♪ Sodom and Gomorrah, no deh yah so ♪

♪ Wild one ♪

♪ You're like the prodigal son ♪

-♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
-♪ One ♪

♪ You are the prodigal son
My friend, oh ♪

-♪ One, you're the one ♪
-♪ You're the one ♪

-♪ You left taking your only possession ♪
-♪ One ♪

♪ Your culture ♪

-♪ One ♪
-♪ To enter a world known for hacklings ♪

♪ In abundance, yeah ♪

♪ Ah, yeah ♪

-♪ The hustlers of life have hooked ♪
-♪ One ♪

-♪ And drained you from the man ♪
-♪ One ♪

♪ From the man, from the man ♪

♪ From the man that you used to be ♪

♪ Rastaman, where you come from ♪

♪ The land of your forefathers, yeah ♪

♪ Reaching the gates
With your two long lands, oh ♪

-♪ One ♪
-♪ Searching out for clean water ♪

♪ Wild one ♪

♪ Prodigal son ♪

-♪ If you are the prodigal son ♪
-♪ One ♪

-♪ Son, my friend ♪
-♪ One ♪

♪ You're the one, hey, hey ♪

♪ Prodigal, come forth
And rejoice with your voice ♪

♪ To the heavens ♪

-♪ Chant some song ♪
-♪ Prodigal ♪

♪ Chant some song ♪

♪ Confessor and confessor and confessor ♪

♪ And confessor and ♪

♪ Woy! Desperation has returned ♪

♪ Hey, now, Sodom and Gomorrah
No deh yah, so woy! ♪

♪ Desperation has returned ♪

♪ Over yonder ♪

♪ Sodom and Gomorrah no deh yah so ♪

Yeah, I think one of the things
that's very important here

is when you're being introduced to reggae,
not to expect anything, do you know?

Go there with a completely blank mind,
and then the things will come out to you,

rather than treat it the way you'd treat
general pop music or whatever.

And you got to bear in mind
that in the background

of most, if not all reggae,
it stems from suffering,

and there's somebody crying out
in this record or whatever.

And if-- And if you can't understand
the lyrics,

watch the aggression in the person's face,

the expression and how he feels
towards what's going on.

And then you'll have a rough idea
of what's happening.

-Yeah, and you--
-What he's saying.

You got to always seek
into where this person's coming from

and what he's done in the past,

and you get a better picture of what
is he saying or singing about,

a better picture about reggae,
'cause reggae is suffering, basically.

-And it's truth as well.
-[chuckles]

-Reggae is strictly truth.
-Yeah.

No politics in reggae. [chuckles]

It's either that
or two million politicians in Jamaica.

[laughter]

And I don't think there's two million
politicians in Jamaica.

["Easy" playing]

♪ I know it sounds funny
But I just can't stand the pain ♪

♪ Girl, I'm leaving you tomorrow ♪

♪ Seems to me, girl
You know I've done all I can ♪

♪ You see, I begged, stole
And I borrowed ♪

♪ Yeah ♪

♪ That's why I'm easy ♪

♪ I'm easy like Sunday morning ♪

♪ That's why I'm easy ♪

♪ I'm easy like Sunday morning ♪

♪ Why in the world would anybody want
To put chains on me? ♪

♪ I'm paying my dues to make it ♪

♪ Everybody wants to be
What they wanted to be ♪

♪ And I'm not happy
When I try to fake it ♪

♪ No ♪

♪ That's why I'm easy ♪

♪ I'm easy like Sunday morning ♪

♪ That's why I'm easy ♪

♪ I'm easy like Sunday morning ♪

♪ I want to get high ♪

♪ So high ♪

♪ I want to be free
To know the things I do are right ♪

♪ I want to be free ♪

♪ Just me ♪

♪ That's why I'm easy ♪

♪ I'm easy like Sunday morning ♪

♪ That's why I'm easy ♪

♪ I'm easy like Sunday morning ♪

♪ Yeah, yeah ♪

♪ I'm easy ♪

♪ I'm easy like Sunday morning ♪

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