Love On The Freeway

(1)

Frightened by a gentle kiss
A Never knew what I missed
A Never been to heaven
A Never took the time
Never been to Florida
A Never knew what a would find

Chorus:
Love on the freeway
Like a cool breeze
On my mind
Love on the freeway
Like a warm, warm Sunshine

Love on the freeway
Like a cool breeze
On my mind
Love on the freeway
Like a warm, warm Sunshine

(2)

Some got the power to give
And yet they take away
What are you doing Jamaica?
It’s the same trick in the U.S.of A
Yu got to Take your life in your own hands
Yu Can’t leave it to Mr. President, find

Chorus: Rep.
Love on the freeway
Like a cool breeze
On my mind
Love on the freeway
Like a warm, warm Sunshine

Love on the freeway
Like a cool breeze
On my mind
Love on the freeway
Like a warm, warm Sunshine

Solo

(3)

They sew the seed of ugliness
Everywhere
In dis ya neighbourhood
Send them children to wars
Have them shedding innocent blood
Icy hearts buying paradise
Say they’re looking for love

Chorus: Repd.
Love on the freeway
Like a cool breeze
On my mind
Love on the freeway
Like a warm, warm Sunshine

Love on the freeway
Like a cool breeze
On my mind
Love on the freeway
Like a warm, warm Sunshine
Whooay!

(4)

They sew the seed of ugliness
Everywhere
In dis ya neighbourhood, man a tell yu say
Send them children to wars
Have them shedding innocent blood
Icy hearts buying paradise
Say they’re looking for love

Chorus: Repd.
Love on the freeway
Like a cool breeze
On my mind
Love on the freeway
Like a warm, warm Sunshine

Love on the freeway
Like a cool breeze
On my mind
Love on the freeway
Like a warm, warm Sunshine

Written & composed by: Lasana Bandele.
Lbs…sp. 13.9.92
© 1992 Published date: 4.6.93
Recorded: 8.10.07
1st Mix: 18.12.07
Final Mix: 7.1.08
Length: 05:24

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All The Brothers And Sisters Are One

Chorus:
All the brothers are one, yes
All the brothers are one
All the brothers are one, yeah
Brothers and sisters are one

(1)
We got Simian, Levi,
Benjamin, Joseph
We got Ruben, Seba
Children of Abraham
We got David, Garvey
Martin and Nanny
All those children
Carried beyond

Chorus: Rep.

(2)
We trod thru' Egypt
England and America
We trod thru' China
Cuba, Vietnam
We trod thru' Asia
Cairo and Syria
We trod thru', yeah!
Sunshine land

Chorus: rep.

Bridge:

Power
Power worketh wonders
When we unite
When we unite. Rep.

We're divided too long
Now we got to be strong
This nation could be so strong
Unite, unite
We got to come together
You and I
You and I
Unite

Written & composed by: Lasana Bandelé.
Lbs189sp. 7.7.91. © 1991

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Chorus:
It's a col' war, Iya
It's a col' war
Dis is a col' war
It's a col' war
It's a col' war
Dis is a col' war, Star

(1)
If we can't educate
Our children
Then how strong
Are we then
In dis a col' war
If we can't give
Our children food
Don't you know
They gonna be rude
In dis a col' war.

(2)
Politicians sell
Our main resources
And all they do, is
Collect taxes
In dis ya col' war
If we don't find
The code to survive
Then how poor people
Gwinh stay alive
In dis ya col' war.

Chorus: rep.

Solo:-

(3)
You work till
You drop down dead
An' you can't buy
A decent bed
Instead of
Living upfully
Man an'Man is frustrated
In dis ya col' war

Chorus: rep.

Adlib:

From Soviet Russia
To Africa
Why we keep on fighting
When they'll be no victor
In dis ya col' war Wwoo wu wuu, wuwu wu wuhu
Wuhu wu wuu, wu wu wu wuhu. Rep. 4times.

Written & composed by: Lasana Bandelé.
Lbs…sp. (date) ©199-

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Sta-bam-stam-stam Sta-dam-zam Chorus:
Poor people Living inna Shacks, shacks, shacks
Rich a live inna Heart attacks. -Rep.

(1)
I ain't Playing your game
Too much people in pain
I ain't Playing your game
I think you're insane

Chorus: Rep.

(2)
I don't wanna live
In exile
Don't wanna be
Called by a number
People
On mimic Island
Dem kinna
Living in slumber.
While…

Chorus: Rep.

(3)
From slavery
To jail house
From poverty
To alms house
From survival
To dark house
From brain-washed
To church-mouse.
An'…

Chorus: Rep.

Bridge:

How
Do you feel
When from the poor
Yu steal?
How

Subway Blues

(1)

Do you feel
When, the poor man
Can't appeal
Fighting for
Supremacy
Loosing
Subway blues in churches
On Sunday
Subway blues
That's what making
The news
They want it to work
But it cannh work, no, no
Subway blues
That's what
Got them confuse'

(2)
Intelectually
She was born
In the U.S.of A
One little wiff
An' she's tipsy, ooh-oh
She got, so much things to say
Forward
On the Island
Living inna paradise
Need to know her maker
So she ask
A word of advice

Chorus: rep.

Solo:-

Chorus:
Subway blues, yu see
They sing them in churches
Every Sunday
Subway blues
That's what making
Yu news, seven days a week
Subway blues
Dem want it to work
But it cannh work
Subway blues
Got them confuse'

Adlib :
The subway
The subway
Why do we
Have to take
The subway
Couldn't we make it
On the highway. Rep.

Written & composed by: Lasana Bandelé.
Lbs32sp. 18.11.83. © 1983

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(1)
Catch a flight
On the run-ways
Take your regular
The subways
You ain't got no time
To loose
Yu ain't got no blues
To choose Make yu wars
To sell weapons
Make a racial distinction
Yu ain't got no time
To loose
Ain't got no views
To choose

Chorus:
Thrill seeker
Woulda jump
So high
Thrill seeker
Woulda cross the sky
Thrill seeker
Let his ego fly
Thrill seeker
Not afraid to die

(2)
She walk
So expensive
Still she look
So offensive
She ain't got no time
To loose
Ain't got no blues
To choose
She sells you
The romance
An' tek-way
Yu finance
She ain't got no time
To loose
Ain't got no blues
To choose

Chorus: Rep.

Solo:-

Chorus: Rep./fade

Written & composed by: Lasana Bandelé
© 1985. 30.3.85. Lbs141sp

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(1)
A talkin' jazz
Does that mean
Yu don't like
What I play
A talkin' jazz
Does that mean
Yu don't like
What I say
A talkin' jazz
Does that mean
Yu discrediting
A talkin' jazz
Does that mean
Yu jus' don't comprehend, that

Chorus:
Every heart
Knows its own sorrow
Every mind
Their own wings
To fly
I don't wanna live
To beg, steal
Or barrow, inna babylon
Today is the day
I wanna live my life.
Don't tell me A talkin' jazz!

(2)
Does that mean
Yu discrediting
A talkin' jazz
Does that mean
You jus' don't understand
A talkin' jazz
Does that mean
Yu're shortening the word
A talkin' jazz
Does that mean
You jus' never heard, that

Chorus:

1st Solo:- piano

2nd Solo:- guitar

3rd Solo:- Percussion

4th Solo:- bass

5th Solo:- drums

Chorus: Repd.

Interlude:-

Chorus: Repd.

Written & composed by: Lasana Bandelé.
© 1986. 4.4.86. Lbs154sp.

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(1)
We're
Working on a plan
Building dreams
Out of wood and stone
We're
Working on a plan
Every bird got 'o
Have a home
I'm takin' you to Bird Lan'

Chorus:
Woo-o-o-o
Wo o-o-o
I'm taking you to
Bird Lan'. Rep.

(2)
They're
Raping the land
Buil' dem castles
In the sky
But Jah
Got the plan
With His love
Yu could be satisfie'
Taking you to Bird Lan'

Chorus: rep.

Solo:-

Chorus: rep.

(3)
Riding rain bows
With the sunlight
On my skin
I'll have yu know-ow
That the man
Got to be free
From within

Chorus: rep.

Woo ya Woo-o-o-o Wo -o-o-o
Talkin you to Bird Lan'
Every body, yea-ah ah ah
I'm taking you to Bird Lan'
Come on, come on
Come on, come on, yea-ah
I'm taking you to Bird Lan'
Woo-o-o-o
Wo -o-o-o
I'm taking you to Bird Lan'
Woo-o-o-ooo
I'm taking you to Bird Lan'

Written & composed By: Lasana Bandelé.
Lbs187sp. 1.5.85.&12.10.87. © 1987.

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If I were a painter
I'd paint you a story
If I were a carpenter
I'd buil' yu a sailboat
We'd sail around town
If I were a poet
I'd write yu a poem
If I were a singer
I'd sing yu a tune,
A tune.

Chorus:
I am the Storitela
Come gather 'roun'
I am the Storitela
Going from town to town
All your needs wont be met
But yu wont regret
I'll share your loneliness
And yu wont forget
All your needs wont be met
But yu wont regret
I'll share your lonely heart
Right from the start.

(2)
If I were an angel
I'd take you to heaven
If I were "LORD JESUS"
I'd turn your water into wine
I'm not Moses
Can't take you
To no promise land
If I were King David
I'd be playing a harp.

Chorus: Rep.

Solo:-

Bridge:
I'm one ton o' loneliness
One ton of joy, yeah!
Walking 'round
One ton of sadness, sometimes
Ten tons o' love, yu see!
All your needs wont be met
But yu wont regret
I'll share your lonely heart
Right from the start
All your needs wont be met
But yu wont regret
I'll share your loneliness
And yu wont forget. -Rep./fade…

Written & composed by: Lasana Bandelé.
Lbs46sp. 6.4.83. © 1993.

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Chorus:
Big City
Bright lights
Still yu dark
In your alleys. Rep.

(1)
Nothing for nothing
In Big City
Yu pay
With what yu've got
Life so light
In Big City
That's all, yu've got
Nights dem cold
With fear and death
Street children
Sleeping in the sand
The youths are tomarrow, yet
Where are your plans
Big City

Chorus:
Big City
Bright lights
Still yu're dark
In your alleys
Big City
Day light
Still yu're dark
In your alleys

(2)
Pa-na-nap, pa-pa-pa-nap
Pa-na-na-na
Pa-na-nap, pa-pa-pa-nap
Pa-na-na-na-na
Nights them cold
With fear and death
Street children
Sleeping in the sand
The youths are tomarrow, yet
Where are your plan
Big City

Chorus:
Big City
Day light
Still yu dark
In your alleys
Big City
Bright lights
Still yu dark
In your alleys

Solo:

Chorus:
Big City
Bright lights
Still yu dark
In your alleys
Big City
Day light
Still yu dark
In your alleys
Metropalis!
You're dark …

Bridge:
How can yu spread
Nu-clear war
When children die
Of hunger
Though they're dieing
Day to day,
For you
There's no tomarrow. Rep. 4 times

Metropalis!
Yu dark
In your alleys
In your alleys
Who's gonna show
The children the way!

Written Lasana Bandelé & Michael Dyke
Composed by: Lasana Bandelé.
Lbs41sp. 6.10.83. © 1983

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Chorus:
I've been waiting inside
I've been waiting inside

(1)
Look thru' my window
A see the rain keep falling
A stood in wonder
My poor heart keep calling
The pouring rain
Wont wash my tears away
Life will never give a man
More than he can bare

Chorus: rep.

(2)
The birds and willows
Are singing on the outside
But it sounds like an echo
Stirring me on the inside
Life without love
Is jus' one hopeless jail
Knowing myself
Has kept me holding on

Chorus: Rep.

(3)
What could I do
When yu were leaving
It hurts so bad
Yu did look blue So, to avoid
Getting into a braul with you
I held my heart
Within my hands, an'
Uuh-wu-uu-yee-yee!

Chorus: Rep.

Solo:-

(4)
What happen, to
The love we knew
Didn't yu promised
To be true, true, true
Did that smiling stranger
Take your heart away
Real, true feelings
Are not for words to say

Chorus: Rep.

Ea-e
Waiting, waiting, waiting
How long must a man
Keep waiting
Waiting, waiting, waiting
Inside
Woo-oo-oo-o-o-oo-o inside!
Inside! Inside!
Patient man ride donkey!
Come let us skank-ae!
Inside!

Written & composed by: Lasana Bandelé.
Lbs47sp. 4.6.83 © 1983

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