Africa Must Wake Up - Nas/Damian Marley.mp3

[00:08.94]Morning to you man
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[00:12.43]Morning to you love
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[00:24.52]Hey I say I say
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[00:28.69]Africa must wake up the sleeping sons of jacob
[00:32.00]For what tomorrow may bring may a better day come
[00:35.62]Yesterday we were kings can you tell me young ones
[00:39.00]Who are we today yeah now
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[00:42.38]Africa must wake up the sleeping sons of jacob
[00:46.09]For what tomorrow may bring may a better day come
[00:49.45]Yesterday we were kings can you tell me young ones
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[00:53.04]Who are we today yeah now
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[00:56.01]The black oasis ancient africa the sacred
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[01:00.08]The sleeping giant science art is your creation
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[01:03.15]I dreamed that we could visit old kemet
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[01:06.10]Your history is too complex and rigid for some western critics
[01:10.05]They want the whole subject diminished
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[01:12.28]But africa's the origin of all the world's religions
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[01:15.63]We praise bridges that carried us over
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[01:18.19]The battle fronts of sudanic soldiers the task put before us
[01:22.55]Do you hear me now
[01:23.94]Africa must wake up the sleeping sons of jacob
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[01:27.33]For what tomorrow may bring may a better day come
[01:30.85]Yesterday we were kings can you tell me young ones
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[01:34.49]Who are we today yeah now
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[01:37.56]Africa must wake up
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[01:39.33]The sleeping sons of Jacob
[01:41.13]For what tomorrow may bring
[01:42.85]May a better day come
[01:44.56]Yesterday we were Kings
[01:46.24]Can you tell me young ones
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[01:48.26]Who are we today
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[01:50.03]Who are we today the slums diseases aids
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[01:53.10]We need that all to fade we cannot be afraid
[01:56.60]So who are we today
[01:58.21]We are the morning after the makeshift youth
[02:01.05]The slave-ship captured our diaspora is the final chapter
[02:05.30]The ancestral lineage built pyramids
[02:07.87]America's first immigrants the kings and daughters from our waters
[02:12.13]The first architect the first philosophers
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[02:14.80]Astronomers the first prophets and the doctors were us us
[02:19.02]Now can we all pray each in his own way
[02:22.41]Teaching and learning we can work it out
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[02:26.03]We'll have a warm bed we'll have some warm bread
[02:29.19]Shelter from the storm dread and we can work it out
[02:33.02]Mother nature feeds all in farming and drought
[02:36.47]And though selfish in ways not to share is out
[02:39.83]What's a tree without root lion without tooth
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[02:43.90]A lie without truth you hear me out
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[02:46.78]Africa must wake up the sleeping sons of Jacob
[02:50.17]For what tomorrow may bring may a better day come
[02:53.61]Yesterday we were kings can you tell me young ones
[02:57.41]Who are we today yeah now
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[03:00.26]Africa must wake up the sleeping sons of Jacob
[03:04.01]What tomorrow may bring may some more love come
[03:07.51]Yesterday we were kings I tell ya young bloods
[03:11.21]The world is yours today
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[03:13.94]Dadyahow daali waayey nabada diideen
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[03:17.18]Oo ninkii doortay dinta waadinka dillee
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[03:20.63]Oo dal markii ladhiso waadinka dunshee
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[03:24.02]Oo daacad ninkii damcay waadinka dooxee
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[03:27.63]Dadyahow daali waayey nabada diideen
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[03:30.90]Oo ninkii doortay dinta waadinka dillee
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[03:34.34]Oo dal markii ladhiso waadinka dunshee
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[03:37.89]Oo daacad ninkii damcay waadinka dooxee
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[04:40.38]We want to thank y'all everybody out there
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[04:45.67]This is nas damian marley 'distant relatives'
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[04:51.57]We're all distant relatives no matter where you from where you live
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[04:55.07]How near or far africa China Japan afghanistan israel
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[05:01.63]We're all fam we're all distant relatives
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[05:06.27]So that's why we came together one of the reasons
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[05:09.73]Why myself and damian came together
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[05:13.30]'Cause we all come from one place and that's africa
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[05:17.14]That's right you too and you
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[05:20.67]The whole world
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[05:22.51]We're all family we're just spread out all over the place
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[05:27.10]So to all my distant relatives let's take it back home
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[05:32.37]Africa must wake up
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[05:34.00]The sleeping sons of Jacob
[05:35.82]For what tomorrow may bring
[05:37.69]May a better day come
[05:39.38]Yesterday we were Kings
[05:41.04]Can you tell me young ones
[05:42.94]Who are we today yeah now
[05:45.64]
[05:46.16]Africa must wake up
[05:47.84]The sleeping sons of Jacob
[05:49.66]For what tomorrow may bring
[05:51.48]May a better day come
[05:53.17]Yesterday we were Kings
[05:54.91]Can you tell me young ones
[05:56.93]Who are we today
[05:57.84]
[05:58.65]Who are we today
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[06:01.29]Morning to you
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[06:03.83]Morning to you man
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[06:07.37]Morning to you love
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