Rude (Hold It Down)

[Intro: Gentleman]

Behold all righteousness everlasting ya man

Make we root out the source of injustice where dem day man

[Chorus: UB40]

Hold it down Rudie enough is enough

Kill it with kindness and kill it with love

No more deceiving so throw off the gloves

Kill them with kindness kill them with love

[Verse 1: UB40]

Fill them with feeling straight from the heart

Dealing with healing will set you apart

Respecting their meaning; releasing the dove

Will chill them with kindness instil them with love

[Chorus: UB40]

Don't lose it Rudie get high on the buzz

Remember how kindness, could fill you with love

The sun could be shining with blue skies above

In love with the kindness, so kind of in love

[Verse 2: Gentleman]

Yes you gotta open up and realize it no make no sense at all

Fi go fuss and a go fight

Your guns and your knives paralyze

Why you nah just let them fall and stop terrorize i

Open up your eyes and realize it no make no sense at all to have a heart out of ice

Your guns and your knives just a paralyze

Why you no just let dem fall

You gotta take some time look around and then tell me what you see

If you no blind nah bother tell me you no see JAH beauty

Love and kindness it a di key

Think before you act up your superiority

Mankind a come a long way why you wann give it up and throw it all away, away

What dem a promote up everyday we go stay confident no matter what dem a say

Give thanks and blessings caus JAH bless another day

Our meditation will never let I go astry

Dirty Babylon we will never obey dem can't tell we what to do because we do it our way

[Chorus: UB40]

Hold it down Rudie enough is enough

Kill it with kindness and kill it with love

No more deceiving; so throw off the gloves

Kill them with kindness kill them with love

[Verse 3: BANTU]

Don Abi:

This is a serious message to all bad men

You can never emancipate when hit and run is your plan

Constructing evil structures as a device for your work

I can see the next man trembling in a state of shock

Hold it down peace is bound to come around

Push it up believe in love that’s the word

Ade Bantu:

E simi simi simi

F’okon bale cooli temper area boys

F’okon bale why di posing with the noise

Join the voice with a choice not the one with a Royce

Raise your spiritn in the battle of the righteous ‘gainst the evil

Free your mimnd from the hustle and di trouble and the schackles

Better stop all the miming and the killing of JAH people

Caus too many of us are dying tears are multiplying

[Chorus: UB40]

Hold it down Rudie enough is enough

Kill it with kindness and kill it with love

No more deceiving; so throw off the gloves

Kill them with kindness kill them with love