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Wyclef Jean - Diallo Lyrics
(Wyclef as Amadou)
Boy I am so tired
I'll be glad when I get inside the house
Oh, I dropped my keys
Oh what tis bright light
My God they must gonna rob me
Who these people with them all at they gonna rob me
I'm gonna take out my wallet to make sure they just get the money
Nothing else
Oh it's the police (*whew*)
I feel so much better
I will show them, I have my ID
So they know I am good people
(*followed by a rapid flurry of gunshots*)
(Wyclef Jean)
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I fear no evil for thou art with me thou ride with me
J-J-Jah! Ras-tafari
I can't forget you knotty dreads, y'all up in here
I gotta respect that, you kno what I'm sayin'
Night is in the air
Enemy on the borderline
Who'll be the next to fire
Forty-one shots by Diallo's side
You said he reached sir
But he didn't have no piece sir
But now he rest in peace sir
In the belly of the beast sir
You guys are vampires
In the middle of the night
Suckin' on human blood
Is that your appetite
You said he reached sir
But he didn't have no piece sir
But now he rest in peace sir
In the belly of the beast sir
Have you ever been shot
Forty-one times
Have you ever screamed
And no one heard you cry
Have you ever died
Only so you can live
Have you ever lived
Only so you can die again, then be born again
From these enemies, on the borderline
Who'll be the next to fire
Forty-one shots by Diallo's side
You said he RIPS oh
But he didn't have no peace oh
But now he rest in peace oh
In the belly of the beast oh
You guys are vampires
In the middle of the night
Suckin' on human blood
Is that your appetite sir
You said he RIPS oh
But he didn't have no peace oh
But now he rest in peace oh
In the belly of the beast oh
Diallo, Diallo - similar to Steven Biko
Diallo, Diallo - you told me the murder was an error
Diallo, Diallo - but every man will be judged
Diallo, Diallo - according to his words
Have you ever been held
Against your will
Taken to a dark place
Where not even scientists can reveal
So what is for Ceasar
Let it be for Ceasar
Cause we don't want no peace
We want equal rights and justice for
Diallo, Diallo - similar to Steven Biko
Diallo, Diallo - you tell me that the murder was an error
Diallo, Diallo - but every man will be judged
Diallo, Diallo - according to his words
You know what
You told me - that I wouldn't understand man
Tonight some cry - in the streets a burial
Survival of the fittest - only the strong will survive
How can I survive - with forty-one shots by my side
You guys are murderers
In the middle of the night
Killin' innocent people
Is that your appetite Ohhh
You said he RIPS oh
But he didn't have no piece oh
But now he rest in peace oh
In the belly of the beast oh
You guys are vampires
In the middle of the night
Suckin' on human blood
Is that your appetite
You said he RIPS oh
But he didn't have no peace oh
But now he rest in peace oh
In the belly of the beast oh - lick a shot for
Diallo, Diallo - similar to Steven Biko
Diallo, Diallo - I can hear your spirit callin' I can hear it
Diallo, Diallo - Ten thousand chariots with no riders
Diallo, Diallo - They on they way to America, I hear the tribe singin'
They're sayin'
Diallo Diallo, Amadou Diallo (14x)
Amadou Diallo
