Lyrics Babylon System - Bob Marley

We refuse to be
What you wanted us to be
We are what we are:
That's the way (way) it's going to be. You don't know
You can't educate I
For no equal opportunity:
(Talkin' 'bout my freedom) Talkin' 'bout my freedom,
People freedom (freedom) and liberty
Yeah, we've been trodding on the winepress much too long:
Rebel, rebel
Yes, we've been trodding on the winepress much too long:
Rebel, rebel
Babylon system is the vampire, yea (vampire)
Suckin' the children day by day, yeah
Me say: de Babylon system is the vampire, falling empire,
Suckin' the blood of the sufferers, yea-ea-ea-ea-e-ah
Building church and university, wo-o-ooh, yeah
Deceiving the people continually, yea-ea
Me say them graduatin' thieves and murderers
Look out now: they suckin' the blood of the sufferers (sufferers)
Yea-ea-ea! (sufferers)
Tell the children the truth
Tell the children the truth
Tell the children the truth right now
Come on and tell the children the truth
Tell the children the truth;
Tell the children the truth;
Tell the children the truth;
Come on and tell the children the truth.
'Cause - 'cause we've been trodding on ya winepress much too long:
Rebel, rebel!
And we've been taken for granted much too long:
Rebel, rebel now!
(Trodding on the winepress) Trodding on the winepress (rebel):
Got to rebel, y'all (rebel)!
We've been trodding on the winepress much too long - ye-e-ah! (rebel)
Yea-e-ah! (rebel) Yeah! Yeah!
From the very day we left the shores (trodding on the winepress)
Of our Father's land (rebel),
We've been trampled on (rebel),
Oh now! (we've been oppressed, yeah!) Lord, Lord, go to ...
(*Sleeve notes continue:
Now we know everything we got to rebel
Somebody got to pay for the work
We've done, rebel.)