LOCUSTS & WILD HONEY

Razor’s Edge

Every time I see a streetlamp flashing well I wanna know why Every time I see a yellow cab pull up I figure you're inside Every time I take a streetcar baby I know it's called desire Every time I wanna come down slowly You're in New York style

Come on baby let's define what we mean by love Cos this jealous slavery ain't what I'm thinking of

When one side loves and the other side hates It’s a Razors edge that we're riding baby When one side loves and the other side hates It's a Razors edge that we're riding baby

Every time I see a neon flashing well I wanna know why Every time I see a sick stretch slide by I figure you're inside Everytime I take a streetcar baby you know it's cold desire Every time I wanna come down slowly You’re in New York style

Come on baby let's define what we mean by love Cos this jealous slavery ain't what I'm thinking of

When one side loves and the other side hates It’s a Razors edge that we're riding baby When one side loves and the other side hates It's a Razors edge for the riders baby

Soul Love

Demerera, is that your name? Did you put Georgetown's white streets to shame? Well I love you baby And I can't control And in Stabroek market I'll buy you body and soul

Cos you give me that soul love Baby can't compete Just show me a man This kind of loving wouldn't knock him to his feet

Just give me that soul love Baby sure tastes sweet All you gotta do is call To hear the patter of my bare feet

Give me that Soul love Baby can't compete You got me cutting in a cane field I'm working back some dignity Well you give me that Soul love Baby can't you see You got me working on a chain gang I'm beating time with my bare feet

Desdemona, is that your name? Did you put Venice and her Gods to shame? Well I love you baby and I can't control And in the Judge's courtroom I'll buy your body and buy your soul

Cos you give me that soul love Baby sure tastes sweet Just show me a man This kind of loving wouldn't knock him to his feet

Just give me that soul love Baby sure can’t you see All you gotta do is call To hear the patter of my bare feet

Give me that Soul love Baby can't you see You got me cutting in a cane field I'm working back some dignity Well you give me that Soul love Baby can't compete You got me banging on your coconut drum I'm in the shade of a monkey puzzle tree

Slow like the River flows Slow like the still wheel turns Slow like my lover's eyes to cry Slow like the cane to burn

Well you give me that Soul love Baby good for me You got me cutting in a cane field I'm working back some dignity Well you give me that Soul love Baby can't compete You got me banging on your coconut drum I'm in the shade of a monkey puzzle tree

Magic

(Spoken tape fx) "To sail from Africa to Jamaica the fastest ships took seven weeks With the wind against them the voyage took up to three months Security Saddam Hussein style "

Sleep, sleep now baby Cry, cry no more baby

"Mabrika mabrika cari funa" (phonetic Carib)

(Spoken tape fx) "Love be within I walls and prosperity be within I palaces The cause of the house of the living I Jah Rastafari That is why we think the music is very important It's the music that actually summons up the spirits Same One Love same One Blood Oh yes he was well liked He was beloved of all"

Sleep, sleep now baby Cry, cry no more baby

And the generals won't let you go You dig the diamonds and you find the gold It's magic Bush doctors in the market square So many preparations to compare It's magic See the missionary make amends See the profit justify the ends It's magic See the sun it sets a shanty smile To gather water gotta walk ten miles It's tragic

River Dries Up

Well you can pass on by By my crying eyes See the Angels sing their blue notes For our sad goodbyes Well I'm on my way To a better day To another city on love's shining blue highway

I'm on route for heaven now babe I'm gonna see it with my own two madman's eyes

And anytime I bend now child I don't feel love is gonna cover me And anytime I stray now from the paths of righteousness I Know you ain't gonna forgive me

When the River dries up You gonna feel alright Said your love is gonna break upon the dawn with a blinding light When the River dries up You're gonna feel alright Gonna feel alright. Aright alright

Well you can pass on by By my crying eyes See the Angels sing their blue notes For our sad goodbyes Well I'm on my way To a better day To another sister on Love's shining blue highway I'm on route for heaven now baby I'm gonna see it with my own two madman's eyes

And anytime I bend now child I don't feel love is gonna cover me And anytime I stray now from the paths of righteousness I Know you ain't gonna forgive me

When the River dries up You gonna feel alright Said my love is gonna break upon your soul with a blinding light When the River dries up You're gonna feel alright Gonna feel alright. Aright alright

You got me slinging salt tears over town I'm feeling better second time around Lord you left me loving like a poor man

My Soul Cries Out

Well you can lie you can cheat you can twist
 But you won't never teach the devil no tricks
 From now there will always be some grit in your fix
 But today you're in space

Well you can turn on the breath of an oath
 And you awake in me old jealousies sloth
 From now there will always be some plight in this troth
 But today you're in space

And my soul cries out I'll never understand
 Why you had to go
 And just rip up what we had

Well I can lie I can cheat I can twist
 But I won't never teach the devil no tricks
 From now there will always be some grit in my fix
 But today, I’m in space

Well I can run I can hide I can trick But there will always be some doubt in my kiss And there’s some magic to the danger you'll miss But today we're in space

And my soul cries out Lord
 I’ll never understand
 Why you had to go
 And just rip up what we had

And my soul cries out Lord Across this burnt and parched and southern land And my soul cries out Lord
 The road turns round for miles and miles
 And my soul cries out Lord

Burning

I can’t touch Though you’re burning me Lying just ten miles down the telephone wire

I can’t touch Though you’re still burning me Loving just ten miles down the telephone wire

And I feel like calling

I can’t touch Though you’re burning me Lying just ten miles down the telephone wire

I can’t touch Though you’re still burning me Loving just ten miles down the telephone wire

And I feel I’m burning And my world’s stopped turning Don’t you hear me calling?

Zion

The fields a flame with fire the flower of man's desire With absolutist violence in their master plan With cutlass sharp and cold as ice the talons in their drunken hands There is anxiousness upon the JDF patrols tonight

Hold on now baby come and dance with me so tight (Ain’t never gonna let you go) We used to live in Zion but the daemon lead astray Hold on now baby come and shake it till you feel alright (Ain’t never gonna let you go) We used to live in Zion but the daemon lead astray

That's the noise of rain upon the iron roofs of Seaford town And hard Ashanti faces gaze upon the blue-ish tumbledown They've watched the years decide to slide the island by with cool renown They've watched the mountain fade in mist a thousand times

Hold on now baby come and dance with me so tight (Ain’t never gonna let you go) We used to live in Zion but the daemon lead astray Hold on now baby come and shake it till you feel alright (Ain’t never gonna let you go) We used to live in Zion but the daemon lead astray

Tell my brother I can't get no liberation

Sail On

If I'd have only gone and listened where I'd come from
 I might have known where I was going
 Crossed the river looking sad with a street song
 We thought we knew what we were doing
 With baited breath and sly schoolmasters eyes
 They said "We had one like you before"
 Said, "He died in debt on a foreign shore" I said "But I bet he had a smile on his face"

As he sailed on
 Sailed on
 Sailed on
 Sailed on

With baited breath and prison warders eyes
 They said "We had one like you before baby”
 "He died in debt on a foreign shore"
 I said " But I bet he had a smile on his face"

As he sailed on
 Saints suffering praises yeah
 To make sail in this craziness
 The sea twists and your shipmates pray
 To make land on a holy day

And they could not teach him how to spell shame
 The sailors hung the letters round his neck from a gold chain
 He dropped the chain at the bottom of a lagoon
 On the wrong side of Suez
 And made a missionary bad for the full moon

Hold on fire

I’m burning

Tony English

Everybody want to make a statement Everybody want to come backstage
 Everybody’s got a point to make baby
 Me I’m the fat one centrestage Everybody’s got to wind up someone
 Everybody’s got to put it down
 A little problem with the tuning darling
 With the lights and the out front sound

Standing up in the pub in Kingston
 Drinking rum with the boys
 They’re talking up about the island struggle
 Me I'm the white man who's lost his voice

I'm so proud and so tired and so cold
 And you've rung in my ears for too long
 We're too old

The days deny defining and just melt to one
 And brittle smiles crease chapped lips against the morning sun
 And who'd believe we toasted that last drink to love

Anybody seen the papers lately
 And got something cool to say
 Do you really think it motivates me 
Is that the real reason that we play

In the jungle there's a smugglers meeting
 And these Indians they're mad
 Eleven hours on a Scotch infusion
 And I'm the white man in this tribe



I'm so proud and so tired and so cold
 And you've rung in my ears for too long
 We're too old

The days deny defining and just melt to one
 And brittle smiles crease chapped lips against the morning sun
 And who'd believe we toasted that last drink to love
 But fools are we and God bless every single one

Sweetheart

Well will you always be my Sweetheart baby Will you always be my Queen Or will the rodeo come through our town And take you away from me

Right now you paint my eyes and dress me In gold and take me to the carnival Love me in the early hours Like I don’t know

You know I’ve always loved you In my dreams But dreams, they won’t remain I’m walking like a blind man in the rain

One day the tenderness will leave us baby You won’t return my calls, I’ll ring of Coloured lights and music and abandoned dance halls

You know I’ve always loved you selfishly But it’s the only way I know And I could never bear to let you go

And I know I gave you Every reason to deceive me I am trouble and I see your blue eyes clearly But I’d follow you through any chosen door

You know I only want to hurt you Now my pride is out of place I said I love you and the tears ran Down my face

But I know I never gave you Any reason to believe me And I love you so much you may even fear me But I’ll follow you through any chosen door

Will you always, always give me love Will you always, always smile when I smile at you Will you always, always give me love Like I love you

Sing along baby

Your Game

Ain't never gonna say goodbye Ain't never gonna hear me cry Ain't never gonna rest until you're my baby And if sometimes I don't seem sane If I don't wanna play your game If you watch me baby I'm diving deeper tonight

From a bare foot man With a Kisco Bag To a Cadillac with a fancy flag Right off of Union Street Into a body bag I said the past is gone I can't give you what you had

Said don’t wanna play this game I never ever want to hear her name Or run a rile with her daemons on the darkening wind So you wanna see the world outside Kids trying to keep the flies out of their eyes Nobody told you they would eat you alive

Ain't never gonna say goodbye Ain't never gonna hear me cry Ain't never gonna rest until you're my baby And if sometimes I don't seem sane If I don't wanna play your game If you watch me baby I'm diving deeper tonight

Well I'm a bare foot man And Mamma I hurt so bad I'm in a Cadillac with a Yankee flag Right of off Union Street in to a body bag I said the past is gone I can't give you what you had

We drank rum on the day you came Like a river running fresh with the cool rain They got me so drunk I was feeling no pain

Said I don’t want to play this part I said I’m off to a losing start You can run, you can hide till you don’t feel nothing at all

Said don’t wanna play this game I never ever want to hear her name Or run a rile with her daemons on the darkening wind So you wanna see the world outside Kids trying to keep the flies out of their eyes Nobody told you I would eat you alive

Keep on rolling baby, roll away now baby yeah You want to wipe away the pages of our jealous legacy You want to roll away now roll away now roll away yeah

Singer’s Shoes

See my brother in the desert at night
 He's gotta sleep with his finger on the trigger
 People starving and they don't know why Small world can't get no bigger
 See my sister on 10th avenue
 She's gotten slim and the girl’s getting slimmer
 Her kids are turning tricks or nothing to do
 Sick world can't get much sicker

I'm kicking off my singers’ shoes
 And I'm a hitting on a silver spoon 
 And dancing on our grave Our love is over now
 You looked so pretty in your sailor suit
 I'd like to stick it to your baby blues
 But I've been hit and wounded Sail on morpheus seas of emptiness
 I came with flowers for our last goodbye
 You didn't care you didn't even cry
 But smiled as if to say that's just the way it goes
 And that hurts baby
 So I'm hanging up my golden suit
 To pay the needle and the spoon their dues
 For long ago tommorows I won't spend with you

I can sit here but I'm never alone
 Nice try baby, I know better
 Hang up loving like a cheap telephone
 You've been big baby, I'll be bigger
 You can bait me but I'll never rise
 Sister sin don't need one more sinner
 Look on me as your man overboard I'm doing fine but I've felt better

I'm kicking off my singer’s shoes And I'm hitting on a silver spoon
 And dancing on our grave our love is over now
 Well I was looking in your Mommas eyes


And let me tell you it comes as no surprise
 To see this side of you tonight my babychile


Well take a look at how your Daddy stands
 The way he's sweating when he shakes my hand
 But no one else has hurt him since your Momma left
 So I'm hanging up my golden suit
 To pay the needle and the spoon their dues
 For long ago tomorrows I can't spend with you

See my brother in the desert at night 
He's got to sleep with his finger on the trigger


People starving and they don't know why
 Small world can’t get no bigger See my sister on 10th avenue She's gotten slim and the girl’s getting slimmer
 Her kids are turning tricks or nothing to do
 Sick world can't get much sicker

I can sit here but I'm never alone
 Nice try baby, I know better
 Hang up loving like a cheap telephone
 You've been big baby 
I'll be bigger
 You can bait me but I'll never rise
 Sister sin don't need one more sinner
 Look on me as your man overboard
 I'm doing fine but I've felt better

See my brother in the desert at night
 He's got to sleep with his finger on the trigger
 People starving and they don't know why
 He's a black man don't you call him nigger
 See my sister on 10th avenue
 She's gotten slim and the girl’s getting slimmer
 My kids are turning tricks got nothing to do
 Sick world can't get much sicker

Is there any love between us baby?
 Any love left in us baby?
 Shine your love down on me baby
 Shine your ever-loving light down on me
 Shine the ever-loving light of Jesus down on me yeah Shine it down on me like a lovers prayer