Nightmare In Babylon Lyrics

A beacon of light

A shining city on the hill

From afar death is out of sight

(Death is out of sight)

But the smell of corpses are fresh still

It only gets stronger as you climb

You should know that I'm protected by the red, black, green

Add a little white cause we stand in solidarity with Palestine

How can I be silent

Too many suffer at the hands of state violence

The disrespect for human life makes me want to riot

Everything in sight gets ignited

The stories told by the guides are true

But these devils have you convinced that is once out the blue

That the sides are two

I'm steadily bearing witness to the atrocities

Committed by these apartheid regimes

The rhythm of history rhyming at various degrees

(Like my songs though)

There's no separation between The Congo, Haiti, and Gaza

Viva la raza

Power to the people and such

I speak up 'cause I've seen too much

A champion because I am the people

In your desperation is how they pimp you

Selling out your folk til dem devils enter your home

Jellyfish fools, ain't got no backbone

Ain't too many artist that's built like this

I'm more than willing to put it all on the line like Eartha Kitt

A beacon of light

A shining city on the hill

From afar death is out of sight

(Death is out of sight)

But the smell of corpses are fresh still

It only gets stronger as you climb

You should know that I'm protected by the red, black, green

Add a little white cause we stand in solidarity with Palestine

30 plus years living in a failed state

A settler colonial project, based on fear and hate

I can't relate

I'm an Afrikan

Some of my ancestors were brought in chains

I can't remember their names

Encoded messages we sang

Against the wicked we bang

Almost a millenia and on my children they still inflicting pain

The effects of empire is felt whether far or near

A lack of a sheltered rear

(The state goons are on the way here)

Ain't no civilian if they designate you an enemy

That's why brown bodies are criminalized before infancy

They poisoning the memory of my people

To the point they want in on the criminal enterprise

Ain't enough study being had to combat the lies

So another generation dies

Yet I'm just one man

I got a retirement plan

And that's watching the western empire burn from within

Fortifying my resistance to the man of sin

A beacon of light

A shining city on the hill

From afar death is out of sight

(Death is out of sight)

But the smell of corpses are fresh still

It only gets stronger as you climb

You should know that I'm protected by the red, black, green

Add a little white cause we stand in solidarity with Palestine