THE HiLLS

{ BlackFire…
Haile I Sellassie the First… BlackFire }

Look to the hills : from there comes health
Look to the will : from there forwards wealth
Look to the conquering lion whose skill slays death
Help the widow and the children, what else
Look to the hills

People think it's the money we seek
It's the honey in the love that strengthens the weak
I leave the rum alone plant herb
True to family and home trod the way to Zion
After you left your physical form
Takes a May Pen lion to find laughter
Through mystical storms I'm not crying
The lessons Grandma taught keep me death‑defying
Though your lips never say you hail the King of kings
The light in your eyes when I speak of H.I.M.
is louder than words I observe
Thoughts can be swords pointed fingers guns and the government thinks that the population is blind and dumb
Mama say from Clarendon to Portland
City parish to far-out state
Black is a field marshal attack to burn hate
Afrika's got a date with modern destiny don't be late
Fate won't wait and they say he drives the hearse
If you compromise now what happens
When worse comes to worse, oh, look, look, look

Look to the hills : from there comes health
Look to the will : from there forwards wealth
Look to the conquering lion whose skill slays death
Help the widow and the children, what else
Look to the hills

I speak straight to the raped Afrikan widow
Even though things look dark and dismal
Don't stay a victim and don't marry a quitter
Figure it be me against the whirl
I have seven women and they each need a pearl
I hope they all run fast like Veronica Campbell
Sing like Alicia Keys and still have medical and law degrees
If I name the twins Santa Monica will she chase money
If I eat I oats will Sarah have I sonny
Some think crime is funny so they stay loose in clubs
Reproduce with thugs who sleep with lugs loaded with slugs
Tough love teaches the sleep to stay meek
What about the lions that speak like sheep
Because a soft answer turns wrath away
The gravedigger has a degree in economy no jobs
Only sobs in what Peter Tosh calls the shitty city
So look, look, look, look to the hills
Maybe I said too much now labeled a revolutionary but
I still look to the hills

Look to the hills : from there comes health
Look to the will : from there forwards wealth
Look to the conquering lion whose skill slays death
Help the widow and the children, what else
Look to the hills

Windows dark with aimless thoughts
You think it's smart to make promises
Because you think Gilbert, Ivan, or Frances might visit
No vows to the Lord God Almighty unless you plan to keep them
A storm is more than what you think destroyed your corn
It's born in the heart when a stranger pulls apart
A fallen tree that blocks his driving path
And pushes it in a gateway
So now a 77-year-old man has his problem
When the poor robs the poor who settles the score
Who meddled with my less when you had more
Whose bitter strain sweet when I had less to eat
Deep dark and frustrating some mark the upswing
What about when something comes to nothing
I'm not sure you’re serious about your part
Mama say choose your mate like a bull's eye choose a dart
The push cart full of merchandise
Will a pregnant woman make it uphill in the night
Downhill is a fight a lesson Jack learned
It might be right impossible unless the lessons learned so I say

Look to the hills : from there comes health
Look to the will : from there forwards wealth
Look to the conquering lion whose skill slays death
Help the widow and the children, what else
Look to the hills

{ BlackFire…
Haile Sellassie… To the hills }