Wish Them Well

We want to be free

But not only for we Jah

We want to see

If only to be free Jah



And what if they were happier when they were wrong?

Tell them all about your hell yeah

If only to see…blinded by your failures



Oh Jah see them, dancing, loving the children’s heart

As they’re beating towards you

As they moving towards you

Remember yourselves, in your going, coming, going

All about behaviour, dem behaviour



Sold dem soul man dem can’t see

Life they chose and no one else

I wish them heart could pay dem well, wo-oh, wo-oh

If you wish, please wish them well

Oh-yeah, oh-yeah, now



They say we’re free, but not to be free

From all of their jails yeah

We want to see and know what is their crime man

What is your main goal?



O-o-oh Lord, oh-o-oh Jah

Tell dem what’s in store (2x)

For our children, the children

And what dem got? Broken heart in hand

Trying to make sense of the world yeah,

De man a world yeah



Sold dem soul man dem can’t see, wo-oh, yeah-ah

Life they chose and no one else

I wish them heart could pay dem well, wo-oh, wo-oh

If you wish, please wish them well

Oh-yeah, oh-yeah, now



What of today? What of tomorrow?

What if them sold themselves?

Just as them come walking out

And they could not see the light

Brave and great Marcus light



Oh-oh the man a yard and gold pon a delion,

De Lord yeah

A de a man a, de a man a fling rock-stone

On a Joshua world yeah, oh



Now then if I,

Wouldn’t long to see the faces shinning sun

So I man awaiting the break storm wind,

And thunder control them

Once again a,

De man a chant as if the soldier come a talk,

But dem brought dem soldier

Longer is the day them will come to chant

Ah-a-a-a-I, de man a chant, ah-a-a-a-I, de man a chant

Ah-a-a-a-I, oh dem man a chant, ah-a-a-a-I

For long dem soul, for long dem soul

For long dem soul, for long dem soul