Lyrics
Yeah, that's how the story goes, you know
It is perseverance
Bless His Majesty Emperor Selassie I the First
Well
Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
Yeah, hey, hey
Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
Yeah, hey, hey
Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
Yeah, hey, hey
Well then, persistence is to try
Throughout this precious time
You can't give up the fight
Jah is the way to life
And when you down and in distress
Never make Babylon know your weakness
And when your burden is the heaviest
Never make them know
Well then, them system a fraud
Struggle it no easy, no matter how you hard
I nah go sell out this world fi get no round of applause
Positive movements, no negative
Tell them clean inna them heart
Things what they do is not what we do
Things what they say is not what we say
Things what they preach is not what we preach
Messengers of Trinity, them take the mark of the beast
Persistence is to try
Throughout this precious time
You can't give up the fight
Jah is the way to life
And when you down and in distress
Never make Babylon know your weakness
And when your burden is the heaviest
Never make them know
Come on
It take persistence fi put through your work
Firm up yourself, seek salvation first
Jah say a blessing, no Eden fi say curse
Renegade war fi marshal the earth
Can't skylark pon street and works
Man fi militant and no start from search
Know before you defile yourself with your words
Purge out your system first
Persistence is to try
Throughout this precious time
You can't give up the fight
Jah is the way to life
And when you down and in distress
Never make Babylon know your weakness
And when your burden is the heaviest
Never make them know
Me say persistence is to try
Throughout this precious time
You can't give up the fight
Jah is the way to life
And when you down and in distress
Never make them know
Well then, morning and noontime
Evening and morning
Giving Jah praises
And when nothing a gwan
And my belly start yawning
Giving Jah praises
With all the burden pon your shoulder
Rasta, you deh a subtle danger
Yeah, ah
Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
Yeah, hey, hey
Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
Well then, persistence is to try
Throughout this precious time
You can't give up the fight
Jah is the way to life
And when you down and in distress
Never make Babylon know your weakness
And when your burden is the heaviest
Never make them know
Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
Yeah, hey, hey
Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
Yeah, hey, hey
Well then, oh, ah
Yeah, ah
Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
Give me Jah praises
It is perseverance
Bless His Majesty Emperor Selassie I the First
Well
Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
Yeah, hey, hey
Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
Yeah, hey, hey
Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
Yeah, hey, hey
Well then, persistence is to try
Throughout this precious time
You can't give up the fight
Jah is the way to life
And when you down and in distress
Never make Babylon know your weakness
And when your burden is the heaviest
Never make them know
Well then, them system a fraud
Struggle it no easy, no matter how you hard
I nah go sell out this world fi get no round of applause
Positive movements, no negative
Tell them clean inna them heart
Things what they do is not what we do
Things what they say is not what we say
Things what they preach is not what we preach
Messengers of Trinity, them take the mark of the beast
Persistence is to try
Throughout this precious time
You can't give up the fight
Jah is the way to life
And when you down and in distress
Never make Babylon know your weakness
And when your burden is the heaviest
Never make them know
Come on
It take persistence fi put through your work
Firm up yourself, seek salvation first
Jah say a blessing, no Eden fi say curse
Renegade war fi marshal the earth
Can't skylark pon street and works
Man fi militant and no start from search
Know before you defile yourself with your words
Purge out your system first
Persistence is to try
Throughout this precious time
You can't give up the fight
Jah is the way to life
And when you down and in distress
Never make Babylon know your weakness
And when your burden is the heaviest
Never make them know
Me say persistence is to try
Throughout this precious time
You can't give up the fight
Jah is the way to life
And when you down and in distress
Never make them know
Well then, morning and noontime
Evening and morning
Giving Jah praises
And when nothing a gwan
And my belly start yawning
Giving Jah praises
With all the burden pon your shoulder
Rasta, you deh a subtle danger
Yeah, ah
Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
Yeah, hey, hey
Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
Well then, persistence is to try
Throughout this precious time
You can't give up the fight
Jah is the way to life
And when you down and in distress
Never make Babylon know your weakness
And when your burden is the heaviest
Never make them know
Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
Yeah, hey, hey
Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
Yeah, hey, hey
Well then, oh, ah
Yeah, ah
Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
Give me Jah praises