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Artist: Vybz Kartel
Album:  Kartel Forever: Trilogy
Song:   Sweet Victory
Typed by: AZ Lyrics

[Intro]
Jah jah guide me from di hyproctires an parasites
An guide mi from de enemies wah wan fi tek me life (mi nar go dead)
Ye though I wallk through the valley of death tonight (aahh wooo)
Thou art with mi, so everything alright

[Chorus]
Please jah jah guide and protect mi, we a show dem love and them hate we
But memba the hotter the battle, me a tell yuh a de sweeter de victory
De system dun forget we, society didn't even care if we drink tea (mm-hmm)
But memba de hotter the battle, me a tell yuh a de sweeter de victory
(Den not nice)

[Verse 1]
Me dey pon solid ground
Dem nar go get me down
Jah neva let me down before him nar go fail mi now
Whole heap a youth in ya every morn a wait fi bail ya now
Show de ghetto youth a way dem tired fi gone a jail ya now
Gaazaa mii seh, nuh pound a labor yo
System build de garrison an a we dem fraid a now
Cause dem know de youth dem wise an nar go tek nuh talk
plus we born poor but we have to mek it

[Chorus]

(Den pimpin)

[Verse 2]
Me done spot out de way
How dem warn we live
Fi de ghetto dem nuh do nothing positive
Dem style we as gun man say we aggressive
Dat a dem politricks so to we, we still bun politics

Gaazaa mii seh! till dem bury mi
Right beside de whole a de innocent youth dem inna de cemetry
Weh babylon murder
Espically, fi every one weh job a thousand more a we. (mi nar go dead)

[Chorus]