LAND OF PROMISE
DAMIAN MARLEY & NASIR JONES

INTERLUDE/What do you think of Africa?/AFRICA... AFRICA... (laughter)... AFRICA... just just the mention of it, just the mention of it man, is like you call my name man. Well you know Africa is the mother land. Africa is where we rightfully belong, and that is where I want to be./INTRO-JR. GONG/Now I and I say greetings in the name of the mighty king/And I and I say played by the king love is all I bring/And I and I say Africa is I and I responsibility Dreadlocks/Yes, HUH!/CHORUS//To the promised land/going to the promised land/yes the promised land o gosh now/to the promised land/Ye//JR. GONG/Imagine Ghana like California with Sunset Boulevard/Johannesburg would be Miami/Somalia like New York/with the most pretty lights/the nuffest pretty car/Every New Year the African Times Square lock-off/imagine Lagos like Las Vegas/the ballers dem a ball/Angola like Atlanta/A pure plane take off/Busch Gardens inna Mali/Chicago inna Chad/Magic Kingdom inna Egypt/Philadelphia in Sudan/The Congo like Colorado/Fort Knox in Gabon/People living in Morocco like the State of Oregon/Algeria warmer than Arizona bring you sun lotion/Early morning classes of yoga on the beach of Senegal/Ethiopia the Capital fi di congression/a deh so I belong/a deh di the king come from/I can see us all in limos/Jaguars and B'mo's/riding on the Kings Highway/REPEAT CHORUS//NAS VERSE/Promised land/picture Porsches/Bosquiat portraits/pinky rings/realistic princesses/heiresses/bunch of kings and queens/plus/picture fortunes for the kids in Port-au-Prince/powerless/they not allowed to fit/but not about to slip/vision promised land with fashion/like/Madison Ave Manhattan/Sax 5th Ave and/Rodeo/Relaxin poppin labels/promised land no fables/this where the truth's told/use them two holes/above your nose to see proof yo!/imagine a contraption that could take us back when/the world was ran by blackmen/back to the future/anything can happen/if these are the last days/and 100 foot waves come crashing down/I get some hash and pounds/pass around the bud and watch the flood/can't stop apocalypse/my synopsis is catastrophic/if satellites is causing earthquakes will we survive it/honestly man it's the sign of the times/and the times at hand/there's a lot of work to be done/o gosh/in the promised land/REPEAT CHORUS//THERE'S A LOT OF WORK TO BE DONE IN THE PROMISED LAND!

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