One Drop

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Feel it in the one drop
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And will still find time to rap
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We’re mak-ing the one stop
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The gen-er-a-tion gap
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So feel the drum beat
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As it beats with-in
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Play-ing a rhy-thm
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Re-sist-ing a-gainst the sys-tem ooh we

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I know Jah ne-ver let us down
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Pull your rights from wrong
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I know Jah ne-ver let us down
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Oh no, oh no, oh no

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They made the world so hard
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Ev-er-y day, we got to keep on fight-ing
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They made the world so hard
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Ev-er-y day, the peo-ple are dy-ing yeah

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From hun-ger and star-va-tion
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Lam-en-ta-tion
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But read it in Rev-e-la-tion
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You’ll find your re-demp-tion

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And then you give us the teach-ings of his ma-jes-ty
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For we don’t want no de-vil phi-los-o-phy
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And then you give us the teach-ings of his ma-jes-ty
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We don’t want no de-vil phi-los-o-phy

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Feel it in the one drop
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And will still have time to rap
We’re mak-ing the one stop
And we’ll fill in the gap
So feel the drum beat
As it beats with-in
Play-ing a rhy-thm
Fight-ing a-gainst isms and sk-ims

I know Jah ne-ver let us down
Pull your rights from wrong
I know Jah ne-ver let us down
Oh no, oh no, oh no

They made the world so hard
Ev-er-y day, we got to keep on fight-ing
They made the world so hard
Ev-er-y day, the peo-ple are dy-ing yeah

Feel it in one drop
And will still have time to rap
We’re mak-ing the one stop
And we’ll fill in the gap
So feel the drum beat
As it beats with-in
Play-ing a rhy-thm