Babylon Page #5
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- 1980
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things out of my car, all right?
All right. ELAINE:
Thanks a lot. It was nice.
I'll come and
check on you again, yeah?
Where you f***ing been?
Blue, you frightened me.
Do you know how long I've
been waiting out here?
- So where've you been, Elaine?
- Been out.
It's 6:
00 in the morning.Thanks for the time check.
- So who's that you're offwith now?
- Oh, don't talk rubbish.
I went up a soul club
with Deidre and Beverly.
Neither Deidre nor Beverly drive.
Look, what am I supposed
to do on a Saturday night?
Sit by the phone hoping you'll ring?
Who was he? The one in the Interceptor.
- Who was he?
- Look, right,
it was Deidre's brother and
he goes out with Beverly.
Anyway, it's got nothing to do with you.
What do you mean, it's
got nothing to do with me?
Do you know how long I've been
waiting outside your house?
I don't care how long you've
been waiting outside my house.
- You don't care!
- No!
Listen, right. Look, when I decide
to go out on a Saturday night
and you're not around,
what am I supposed to do?
Sometimes I could hit you.
Look, Blue, look, just leave me
alone, all right? Just go away!
Jah! CROWD:
Jah!Almighty and most powerful god.
Clap your hands, all ye people.
Shout unto Jah with the voice oftriumph.
For the Lord most high is terrible.
He's a great king over all the earth.
And the nations at our feet.
He shall choose our inheritance for us.
The excellency of Jacob
and the Lord Rastafari.
Lord with the soul of a trumpet.
Sing praises to Jah, sing praises.
Sing praises to Rastafari, sing praises.
'Cause he is a great
king over all the earth.
Sing his praises with understanding.
- Jah!
Rastafari!
Most high and terrible god.
Lord of lords,
king of kings,
conquering lion of the tribe ofJudah.
He lift up himself.
Most high god, light
ofthis world, Rastafari.
Most powerful and terrible god.
Dear beloved, peace be unto the I.
Welcome to this gathering
of the most high, Jah Rastafari.
Rastafari.
But the I look as if all the troubles
ofthis world be upon him shoulders.
Come here, draw this
chalice and let these herbs
for the healing of the nation,
heal your troubled mind.
To the east, Africa.
To the west, Jamaica, first Babylon.
To the north, England, second Babylon.
Babylonian triangle ofcaptivity.
Man travel down many
roads, in many directions,
all ofthem roads that man take,
all ofthem journeys that man make,
is brought deceptions and vanities.
Vanities and vanities that make man
can't step forward out of Babylon,
first leaving behind him the dirty
filthiness ofthis dirty, corrupted
and wicked Babylonian society
and step forward to
Zion, forward to Africa,
the first point ofthis
triangle, forward to I and I,
Jah Rastafari, most high and mighty god.
Dread?
Errol?
- What errors!
- Look how the man spell "rule. "
All right, come on, Shaka
gonna kill your blood claat.
Come on, guy. Me cold enough.
- All right, man.
- Come on.
Hey, come on, Beefy, man.
- We have to catch some fun, you know.
- Shut up, man.
Come on.
Hey, Beefy, come on, man.
- What errors!
- Come on, man.
Lion!
Hey, Beefy, you ought to see
a tailor about that coat, man.
- Shut your f***ing face.
- Where you get that coat from?
Come on. Come on, man.
- I hear that Shaka have a new tune.
- Which new tune?
Everything is f***ed, man!
F*** me.
Shut the rass claat door now.
So what are you looking at me for?
Well, it's not me that's done it.
It's your kind, man.
Your f***ing kind!
Beefy, why don't you
hush up your blood claat?
- You don't know nothing!
- No!
I know that if him never stop
me from mash up them blood claat
on the balcony, this would never happen.
They're the same kind, man.
Your kind. Your f***ing kind.
My kind, Beefy? My kind?
It's me that sprayed
all the walls, is it?
And mashed up the speakers, yeah?
Cho, man, I'm a National Front guy?
Them are dealing in
pure wickedness, man.
Don't talk f***ing black, white man.
I don't want to hear no
arguments here. I don't want no violence.
Nobody be making a schism, you hear?
Tonight is still I night. Errol.
- Cool down, Beef, man.
- Sure.
- Record box is in the van?
- Yeah, man.
Yeah, man.
So sound and I look good.
Come, come, man. Come,
Beef, man. Come, man.
Look after yourself, Ronnie, you hear?
The I better make sure
the I reach on time.
I'll see you later.
A calm and heavenly frame.
# A calm
A light to shine upon the road.
# A light to shine
# Upon the road#
That leads me to the lamb.
# That leads me
# To the lamb #
Lord bless me now and bless
us ifthou can be so please.
I pray for our complete deliverance.
I pray that you will
use me as an instrument.
Lord, I am depending upon you
while we say thanks in Jesus' name.
At a time like this,
knowing that once I was a sinner,
was going down the road ofsedition.
Had no intention about this man, Jesus.
And one night I come to the conviction
this free and full salvation.
And I could say, as
brother Paul tonight,
I am happy to be a Christian
and I am rejoicing in this
free and full salvation.
And now, Lord, I pray that
What a p*ssy claat. What's
so important it couldn't wait?
Right now, when I go home, it's just
pure aggravation from my wife, you know?
You playing tonight?
- No, why?
- I might want to borrow your sound system.
What do you mean, borrow my sound
system? What happen to yours?
- Is two you want?
- My sound system get mash up last night.
Get mash up? You know, this
call for some negotiations.
Blood claat! What do
you mean, negotiation?
You're worse than a p*ssy
claat. Just give me the key, man.
Listen, man, watch them
language, man. Have some respect.
Right now, just drop them in
the letter box when you finished.
And listen now,
don't you come for no more
favours after this, you hear, son?
Hey! Oi!
Open this bumbaclaat door.
Oi! I know you're in there!
Bumbaclaat.
What are you after, jungle bunny?
An hiding, eh?
Is that what you want? Eh?
# Jah
# Does you know?
# Light ofthis world, I and I, Rastafari
# I shall lead I and
I tothe promised land
# Jah
# Babylon, Babylon, Babylon
# Say
# Rastafari!
# Four thousand years I've gone
through exploitation, victimisation
# I and I come to chant
no Babylon oppression
# Jah
# King of kings and lord of lords
# Conquering Lion of the
tribe of Judah-ah-ah#
Who's this brother here?
He must be a new boy.
Blood claat, never seen
him round this area.
- You know what them say about him?
- No man, what them say about him?
They say he likes to
mash up people things.
- Why he do that?
- Because he's a f***ing hooligan.
Blood claat problems, you
hang around with Beefy.
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