Jericho (Letra)

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Written by: das, pandit, savale, zaman

For the consciousness of the nation
The sounds of the asian dub foundation:

The music we make it cuts across borders
We never make music to someone else’s orders
Plenty of issues on the agenda
If you want to lend a helping hand
You’re always told to shut up and dance
But you have to change this-take a chance
Turn the tables,
We know you’re able
Don’t just consume
Make your own tune.

The music, we use it
We’re making a stand
I wouldn’t call this a green and pleasant land
A conscious response is what we demand
Challenge the system and those in command
Express your opinion
It’s your domain
If you fail to do this you are partly to blame
My heart is beating
No retreat
The battle continues
We’ll suffer no defeat
This war you’ve been waging
It’s time we were raging
In our minds and on the streets
Sample this it’s an education
The sounds of the asian dub foundation

Look around you, yeah
Open your mind
Check it out, tell me what you find
Here to document a situation
The sounds of the asian dub foundation
Hope and glory
A myth of the tories
We’re here to tell you a different story

Here to readress the situation
The sounds of the asian dub foundation

A rapper i may be but packaged i’m not
I’ll slip through the noose before you tie the knot
This work in progress not slick but rough
Breaking all records twelve inches ain’t enough
Sample this
It’s an education
The sounds of the original, the original ….

We ain’t ethnic, exotic or eclectic
The only ‘e’ we use is electric
An asian background that’s what’s reflected
But this millitant vibe ain’t what you expected
With your liberal minds you patronise our culture
Scanning the surface like vultures
With your tourist mentality
We’re still the natives
You multicultural but we’re anti-racist
We ain’t ethnic, exotic or eclectic
The only ‘e’ we use is electric

And we cry
Them coulda never escape
Disya judgement ……

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Jericho (Letra)

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I’ll try to keep myself open up to you
That’s a promise that i made to love
When it was new
"just like jericho" i said
"let these wall come tumbling down"
I said it like i finally found the way
To keep the good feelings alive
I said it like it was something to strive for.

I’ll try to keep myself open up to you
And approve your self expression
I need that, too
I need your confidence, baby
And the gift of your extra time
In turn i’ll give you mine
Sweet darling, it’s a rich exchange
It seems to me
It’s a warm arrangement!

Anyone will tell you
Just how hard it is to make and keep a friend
Maybe they’ll short sell you
Or maybe it’s you
Judas, in the end
When you just can no longer pretend
That you’re getting what you need
Or you’re giving out anything for them to grow and feed on.

I’ll try to keep myself open up to you
It gets easier and easier to do
Just like jericho
Let these walls come tumbling down now
Let them fall right on the ground
Let all these dogs go running free
The wild and the gentle dogs
Kenneled in me.

Jericho (Letra)

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The horns of Jericho
The horns of Jericho
The horns of Jericho

Feel the bass come down on me baby
Feel the bass come down on me baby
Want a favour, find a favour
Want a favour, find a favour
Want a favour, find a favour
Keep on dancing – yeah keep on dancing
Baby keep on dancing – yeah keep on dancing
Baby keep on dancing – yeah keep on dancing

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Listen boy, i’ll tell you a thing.
I’ll make you a career in the business i’m in.
I’ll make you rich, i’ll make you a toy,
I’ll make you turn over into my little boy.
Y’see i’m going somewhere.
I don’t know what i’m gonna do when i get there.

I know money’s a thing – your only inspiration
And your only meaning.
You must think that all i do
Is spend my time making pretty pictures of you.
You can fall when i will climb,
But i’ll be falling over just by having you in mind.

1st. chorus:
Mend that fight – oh listen to them
Kickin’ up a ball inside a jericho wall.
Mend that fight – it’s all twisted through them.
If you ain’t rich then you won’t go to the ball.

Having mercy and licking up love,
And moving through your ocean like i’ve never had enough.
Y’see you ain’t all i want,
You’re everything and more that i have ever hoped for.
You must think that all i do
Is spend my time making pretty pictures of you.
You can fall when i will climb,
But i’ll be falling over just by having you in mind.

-1st chorus-

2nd chorus:
You won’t go to the ball.
You won’t go to the ball.
You won’t go, you won’t go,
You won’t go to the ball.
(repeat)

You must think that all i do
Is spend my time making pretty pictures of you.
You can fall when i will climb,
But i’ll be falling over just by having you in mind.

Mend that fight – oh listen to them
Kickin’ up a ball inside a no.10 wall.
Mend that fight – it’s all twisted through them.
I’m rich, you ain’t, so you won’t go to the ball
No more!

-2nd chorus-

Outro:
Yeah, if you ain’t got nothing
You’ll never go there
(repeat)
I tried to make you see
I tell you, i’d had enough.
Money was a thing, money was a thing,
Money was a thing that i believed in.
(repeat)

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March around
Jericho loved the music and fell
Into your arms breathless

Heard a sound
Shut my eyes so tight
Heard the whisper of a storm coming

Oh, funny how
I spent this time waiting around
It’s a lie
Everything you felt until now

Saw her dancing
The floor gave way
Opened its mouth
to say her name

Saw her falling
Cast away
She learned to fly one day

Oh, funny how
I spent this time on the ground
It’s a lie
Everything you felt until now

Same place I’ve always been
I’m just lost on these roads again
Just as I got near the end
I keep falling in the holes you left in me

Oh, funny how
I spent this time on the ground
It’s a lie
Everything you felt until now

Jericho (Letra)

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You are a dreamer of dreams walking a lonely shore
Dream if you will but remember there are iron laws
However much you seek to solve this mystery
No one ignores the iron vice of history
All those gone before dreamed to escape
They tried to fly over the palisades

Chorus:
Standing at the gates
This is jericho
And the walls reach up to the stars
And outside we were singing psalms
Such a strange, strange place
For we are the prisoners
Of the prisoners we have taken
And the prophets’ dreams are now forsaken

Sing me the songs of a world that i once knew
Recall the legends once so proud and true
My people used to live here not so long ago
But they fled into the night and i was left alone
I guard these walls for you and me
Dream on, sail on my memory

Chorus