Paroles: Jahson Ites. Forward Outta Babylon. R-A-S-P-E-C-T.
Chorus: (Jahson Ites) Raspect R-A-S-P-E-C-T Yeah / Find out what it means to me / All the People of the World internationally / Living Free in Peace and Dignity / Inity I-N-I-T-Y Yeah / Find out what it means to I / Let's get this started, we can't be afraid to try / Conscious People we're making a stand worldwide /// 1st verse: (Essential I) Yes I, greetings in the Name of the Most High / Everliving Everloving Jah Rastafari / Make we unite across continental divide / And bless then with the vibe that we provide / Isn't a pride thing, is a Conscious uprising / A true dignified, purified, unified thing / An InI thing, tell them se we a trying / To carry out the will of the Almighty and it's /// chorus /// bridge: (Jahson Ites) Every Man a King and every Wombman a Queen / Majesty by birthright as a higher-minded being / Comport Ourselves as Royalty when we trod pon the scene / Crown upon we head if the Iman know what InI mean /// 2nd verse: (BlueJay) If ya did what I did and ya knew what I do / You'd have to have respect for the fact I stay true / To my family, to my friends, to my relatives / Most people ain't like this, man, what gives? / Respect for the elders, respect for the kids / Respect for the dead and everything that lives / Much respect going out to all under the sun / BlueJay, Essential I, with the One Jahson, Raspect /// 3rd verse: (Essential I) My People wise up, come Onegether and rise up / Jah make we see the Light even with a we eyes shut / The heights of the Ites just keeping it righteous / Massive gwan get large, Babylon can't size up / Pure lie them a tell, sentenced life in a jail / Convicted innocent fe serve time in a cell / Them wonder why them turn around to fight and rebel / Against the downpressor man who want I to fail, them got no /// chorus /// bridge ///
(Thanks to Jahson Ites for these lyrics)
Forward Outta Babylon