Educated Fools

[Intro: Bunny Wailer]

Hear this three monkeys sitting under a coconut tree (really?)

Discussing things as they are said to be

Said one to the others, now listen you two

There’s a strange rumor that can’t be true

They say man was descended from our noble race

But the very idea is a big disgrace

No monkey ever deserted his wife

Or her baby, to ruin their lives

Yeah The monkeys drift is mine (that’s right)

[Chorus: Damian Marley]

Well educated fools they have ruined di world

And start make it hard for both di boys and di girls

Dem steal all di Africans diamonds and pearls

And start bank it up inna federal reserves

And then Rasta fuck it up and insight riot

Warn dem fi cool and we did warn dem fi quiet

Now dem hear the kick drum di snare and di hi hat

Load up dem belly with some copper shot diet

[Verse 1: Damian Marley]

Imagine after so much chanting and prayers

But a revolutionary situation requires

Mi fi come tear off unno face wid pliers

Surround dem ends wid all some burning tires

Round up dem friends and put dem pon trials

Until dem send di reparation dollars

Warning to all di political scholars political thieves and political liars

Political cocaine and gun suppliers

Di whole a dem a go down inna flames and fires

Well unno better fly out like some frequent fliers

Bound to feel the wrath of di real Bongonyahs

Hey don't fuck yourself next time you read out di budget

Di government case, ah poor people a judge it

Dem bring di guns but di youths dem ah bust it

Bun dem skeletons weh lock up inna closet

Wipe out dem species and all dem inhabits

With a warm series of pain and havoc

Nah clean no feces fi money prefer grab it

Dem mek mi resort to violence di race get lead up

Somebody nah live up

Somebody goin dead up BLOW!!

Whole ah di garment dem red up BLOW!!

Car and apartment get bled up

Didn't you get ample warning say poor people fed up

And still every morning

Dem try hold dem head up

Emperor Selassie calling

Youths dem fi dread up

Babylon is fallen

Gun nozzle bend up

Releasing di whole of di youth dem weh pen up

[Chorus: Damian Marley]

Well educated fools they have ruined di world

And start make it hard for both di boys and di girls

Dem steal all di Africans diamonds and pearls

And start bank it up inna federal reserves

And then Rasta fuck it up and insight riot

Warn dem fi cool and we did warn dem fi quiet

Now dem hear the kick drum di snare and di hi hat

Load up dem belly with some copper shot diet

[Verse 2: Bounty Killer]

Check it now

Junior Gong a junior bong

Done beat up Babylon and Vatican

Mi nuh come here fi praise up no pagan

Mi nuh come here fi big up no batty man

See dem a come, move, throw Satan

And forgot all about the good great one

Tell 'em say that dem lead

[?]

Injustice nah go last too long

See the weapon here inna me hand

Politician me ago buss it pon

Them hide the truth and kill we with [?]

Poor people across the world this is a special dedication

Africans and ? alike

Don’t lose unnu meditation

See them a come with racism

Nah support segregation

Nah go spot me in a fi dem clique and dem congregation

[?]

That’s why them ban me song

Them [?] thru me make a stand

Check di starifacation, Yo

[Chorus: Damian Marley]

Well educated fools they have ruined di world

And start make it hard for both di boys and di girls

Dem steal all di Africans diamonds and pearls

And start bank it up inna federal reserves

Well educated fools they have ruined di world

And start make it hard for both di boys and di girls

Dem steal all di Africans diamonds and pearls

And start bank it up inna federal reserves

[Post-Chorus: Damian Marley]

Well educated fools

Educated demons

And educated goons

Educated mules

Educated fools

Educated demons

And educated goons

[Verse 3: Bounty Killer]

Minutes after minutes I say hour after hour

All dem shady people dem nasty and sour

This is warlord style me as black noah

'Cause I represent black power

Well, almighty God inna da statue a tower

A long time me know some more did come to devour

They have me people dem and shout power and shower

And trick them with them rice and flour ya know

Me respect rastafarians, me respect church goers

Dem fi no say poor people, on a boat can’t no row a

Fire a flame me bring fi ya ya drug for ya

And that me want the whole of them fi know ya

[Verse 4: Treach]

Well I heard that man came from sands and other molecules

Way before bodies and barbecues

With a good side a bad side and still argue too

Before schemin and thievin and dreamin of gleamin and feenin

Even before Adam and Eve and even

Before it was about being the nicest or whose diamonds that are priceless

B.C. around Tutankhamun and Isis

On the continent of Africa

Pass out and tribes to create a character

Sold us shit on earth was magical

Then the strangers came from the boat with the ropes

Chains that felt strange, they called it the slave game

The game changed

They had shackled like assholes

The Bloodclot

So nowadays the way we prevent it is a thugs Glock

Seen them rape and kill our children and women

The villain the bill gonna sort the black man how to kill men

Let’s keep it real man

You can’t harm me or scar me

Respect for me History’s priority with the Marleys