3canal: Music

Slaves?

(3canal)

January 18, 2009

Wendell Manwarren, Roger Roberts, Stanton Kewley

ah na na huh na na na - ah na na na na
ah na na huh na na - ah na na na na
ah na na huh na na na - ah na na na na
ah na na huh na na - ah na na na na
ah na na huh na na na - ah na na na na
ah na na huh na na - ah na na na na
ah na na huh na na na - ah na na na na
ah na na huh na na - ah na na na na

Say for a few dollars me we could settle the score
or for a hand full of beads we could seal the deal
or for a basket of trinkets or ah bag ah weed
plain talk, bad scene lord we keeping it real,
ah say we still toiling on the plantation
breaking we back in the blazing sun
selling we self as a destination
oh islands in the sun

Chorus
Are we still slaves in our hearts?
Are we still slaves in our heads?
Are we still slaves in our minds to old notions and paradigms?
Are we still slaves in our selves
Slaves in our souls
Slaves in our beings are we still being bought and sold?

ah na na huh na na na - ah na na na na

Say for a few dollars me we could settle the score
Or for a hand full of beads we could seal the deal
Or for a basket of trinkets or ah bag ah weed
Plain talk, bad manners lord we keeping it real,
200 hundred years since Emancipation
Yet we still toiling on the plantation
Selling we self for a song and a dance
Oh take me back to my fatherland

Chorus

ah na na huh na na na - ah na na na na

Ah say we captured, branded, stranded and contrabanded
Commodified, materialised, open your eyes
Time you realise, say we caught in a web
Of our own designs, consuming freedom under disguise
Keep wanting needing, constantly craving more and more and more and more

Chorus

Are we slaves to the bottle and between the legs?
Still slaves to the vices filling we head?
Are we slaves to the hustle and the evil dollar?
Still slaves to the fete? There goes the dollar
Are we slaves to the freedom we affording we self?
Still slaves to afford some slaves for we selves?
Are we slaves to the lies and cheating ways?
Still slaves to the promise of a better day?

Chorus

ah ah ah ah ah ahhhhhhh!!!