Cover art for ’Til I’m Laid To Rest by Buju Banton

’Til I’m Laid To Rest

Jul. 18, 19951 viewer21.6K views

’Til I’m Laid To Rest Lyrics

'Til I'm laid to rest, yes
Always be depressed
There's no life in the West
I know the East is the best

All the propaganda they spread
Tongues will have to confess

I'm in bondage, living is a mess
I've got to rise up, alleviate the stress
No longer will I expose my weakness
He who seeks knowledge begins with humbleness
Work 7 to 7 but I'm still penniless
All the food upon my table, Massa God bless
Holler for the needy and shelterless
Ethiopia awaits all prince and princess

'Til I'm laid to rest, yes
Always be depressed
There's no life in the West
I know the East is the best, yes
Propaganda they spread
Tongues will have to confess

What coube so bad about the East, everybody wants a piece
Africa for Africans, Marcus Mosiah speak

Unification outnumbers defeat
What a day when we walk down Redemption Street
Banner on heads, Bible inna we hands
One and all let's trod the promised land
Buju go down a Congo stopped in Shashamane Land
The city of Harare where Selassie come from

In Addis Ababa then Botswana
Left Kenya end up in Ghana
Oh, what a beauty my eyesight behold
Only Ethiopia protect me from the cold

'Til I'm laid to rest, yes
Always be depressed
There's no life in the West
I know the East is the best
All the propaganda they spread
Tongues will have to confess

Organize and centralize come as one
Our seeds shall be so many more than sand
Some new and replenish, pure and clean, and
For too long we've been under this band

Some a save a bag a riches, yet they die empty hand
Go on saying I'm stupid and laugh all you can
Easier for a camel to enter through a needle eye
Than a rich man to enter a Zion
Take it from I man
So
'Til I'm laid to rest, yes
Always be depressed
There's no life in the West
I know the East is the best
All the propaganda they spread
Tongues will have to confess

I'm in bondage, living is a mess
I've got to rise up, alleviate the stress
No longer will I expose my weakness
He who seeks knowledge begins with humbleness

Work 7 to 7 but I'm still penniless
All the food upon my table, Massa God bless
Holler for the needy and shelterless
Ethiopia awaits all prince and princess

'Til I'm laid to rest, yes
Always be depressed
There's no life in the West
I know the East is the best
All the propaganda they spread
Tongues will have to confess

What coube so bad about the East, everybody wants a piece
Africa for Africans, Marcus Mosiah speak
Unification outnumbers defeat
What a day when we walk down Redemption Street
Banner on heads, Bible inna we hands
One and all let's trod the promised land
Buju go down a Congo stopped in Shashamane Land
The city of Harare where Selassie come from

In Addis Ababa then Batswana
Left Kenya end up in Ghana
Oh, what a beauty my eyesight behold
Only Ethiopia protect me from the cold

'Til I'm laid to rest, yes
Always be depressed
There's no life in the West
I know the East is the best
All the propaganda they spread
Tongues will have to confess

Organize, centralize, come as one

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Serving as the intro musical track to “Til Shiloh” “‘Til I’m Laid to Rest” has Buju detailing the principles of the Rastafarian faith as well as addressing how he feels being a Rasta in the Western Hemisphere.

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Release Date
July 18, 1995
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