Oh baby, can't eat can't sleep Can't understand a love song Drive me crazy 'Cause my feet won't quit as I go slidin' in the sweet zone Round round like
Watching the sand fall, Listening for the knock Upon my door, And waiting... For Promised Land. Standing neck deep in life, My ring of brass Lay rusting
They came from nowhere, with nowhere else to go They came with nothing but pockets full of dreams They came in hope, looking for the promised land They
I left my home in Norfolk Virginia California on my mind Straddled that Greyhound, it rode me past Raleigh And on across Caroline Stopped in Charlotte
I left my home in Norfolk, Virginia California on my mind I stranded that Greyhound And rode in into Raleigh and on across Caroline We stopped in Charlotte
On a rattlesnake speedway in the Utah desert I pick up my money and head back into town Driving 'cross the Waynesboro county line I got the radio on and
On Jordan's stormy banks I stand And cast a wishful eye To Canaan's fair and happy land Where my possessions lie I am bound for the Promised Land I am
[Damian Marley] Imagine Ghana like California with Sunset Boulevard Johannesburg would be Miami Somalia like New York With the most pretty light The
Now I and I say greetings in the name of the mighty king And I and I say played by the King love is all I bring And I and I say Africa is I and I responsibility
Bred from the bowels Sheep one and all Bound by the doctrine of lies To fucked human shit, I shout blasphemy! As I make my way thru to The promised land
See the red "messiah" high upon a soap-box pulpit Agitating his apostles with the gospels in his hand While apprentice hitlers gather down in inner city
Stories came like the wind Joining every bridge in the wind Ringing out footsteps Calling out steel-heels I give voice I give breath Count out evenings
I left my home in Norfolk Virginia California on my mind I straddled that Greyhound And rode into Raleigh and on across Caroline We had motor trouble
From the sun years of the Fifties and the birth of rock and roll Millions screamed to see him do his thing Elvis touched the life of ev'ry ear that heard
We'll fly you to the promised land The promised land. We'll fly you to the promised land The promised land. And the answer will be When he gives us
You're taking up lots of space Your shit is everywhere Your breath is all up in my face Your hands are swarming in the air You're the first one out the
I have but, only one thing to say Not in the place that I wish to stay I knew from the time that I seen her face Nothing was said as I felt her embrace
