Lyrics Dread Beat an' Blood - Linton Kwesi Johnson

Brothers and sisters rockinga dread beat, pulsing fire, burning chocolate hour and darkness creeping night black veiled night is weepingelectric lights consoling, night a small hall soaked in smokea house of ganja mist music blazing, sounding, thumping fire, bloodbrothers and sisters rocking, stopping, rockingmusic breaking out, bleeding out, thumping out fire, burning electric hour of the red bulbstaining the brain with a blood flowand a bad bad thing is brewing ganja crawling, creeping to the braincold lights hurting, breaking, hurtingfire in the head an a dread beat bleeding, heating fire, dread rocks rolling over hearts leaping wildrage rising out of the heat of the hurtand a fist curled in anger reaches a herthen flash of a blade from another to a himleaps out for a dig of a flesh, of a piece of skinand blood, bitterness, exploding fire, wailing blood, and bleeding