Key: E minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Blazing!
And it was written
Up in the book of life
That man shall
Endure forever more
Verse 2
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And it was written
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Up in the book of life
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That man shall
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Endure forever more
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Well did
Verse 3
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the pen is stronger
than the knife
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They can kill you once but
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they can't kill you twice
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Did you know destruction of the
flesh is not di ending to life
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Fear not of the anti- Christ
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Did you know that I exist
before the Earth
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An did you know that my eyes
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are windows to the world
Verse 4
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Did you know you can't go ah Zion
and wear Jerry curls
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Can't tell di boys from di girls
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Your body is just a vehicle
transporting you soul
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It's what's inside of people
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is beauty to behold
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Fear not of evil
Every day dem flesh it grow old
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Changes of the times take a toll
Verse 5
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And it was written
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Up in the book of life
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That man shall
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Endure forever more
Verse 6
And it was written
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Up in the book of life
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That man shall
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Endure forever more
Verse 7
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Fear is in the eye of the beholder
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Love is in the presence of the love maker
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Life is in the words of the comforter
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Endure much longer,
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live much longer
Verse 8
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Fear is in the eye of the beholder
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Love is in the presence of the love maker
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Life is in the words of the comforter
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Endure much longer, live much longer
Verse 9
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A vester on his chest
And Rastafari is his name
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A gift of everlasting life for
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all us to sustain
Blessing that you all be got
Lessons taught you all forgot
Rasta call I shit you not
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Do you remember Elijah
Verse 10
and
his chariot of flames
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Same blood dat run through my veins
Verse 11
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Fear is in the eye of the beholder
Love is in the presence of
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the love maker
Life is in the words of the comforter
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Endure much longer, live much longer
Verse 12
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Fear is in the eye of the beholder
Love is in the presence of
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the love maker
Life is in the words of the comforter
Endure much longer, live much longer
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Verse 13
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Careful how you entertain stranger
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Selassie never born in a manger
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And never crucified as a savior
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And likkle himself from all di ruler
Verse 14
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Babylon na function with a failer
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So be careful of them cellular and pager
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'Cause as I see them I see danger
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So dem great but Selassie ah greater, yo
Verse 15
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That man shall endure forever more
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An d it was written
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up in the book of life
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That man shall endure forever
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more
Verse 16
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Mi think mi wan lick upon shots
upon a blood clot
And fill the block with bummer as cops
Cops mi nah talk mi know you
watch me walks and
While black woman is getting raped
across New York and
Before little brothers and chalks and
Imagine somebody say "That's
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your son dead" and
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See us
Verse 17
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We do the crime, we do the time
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You get away scott free
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So the police they gon' pop
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you for they pop me
'Cause if you get me, you got me,
you shot me, no lock me
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Carry shotty's since mom slapped
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me 'cause mi room sloppy
Verse 18
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The youngest nigga out the camp, it's me
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But nobody pampered me
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So you bet ter don't ran with me,
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for semi
Verse 19
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Mi a player plenty Chicks
mi blaze many
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Raise plenty a few dollars
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Storm out mi Prada
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Watch a bum holla
Watch em run, hit the floor
Told em come, come
No
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Throw your guns up pon di air
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Blow!
Verse 20
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And it was written
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Up in the book of life
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That man shall
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Endure forever more
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Watch for sticks
Verse 21
and stones
Stumbling blocks in piles
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Life is one big road
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Miles on top of miles
Verse 22
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So blessed be the soul
that always remains a child
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When most people don't
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even smile
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There's a natural mystic
Blow through the air
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So keep in realistic and always be aware
Verse 23
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The truth is crying out and it's so
loud and so clear
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But most people won't even hear
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Spir itual pollution is in the
atmosphere
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And with so much confusion
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Can one be happy here The gift of
Rastafari is for all man to share
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But some would rather to be so unfair
Verse 24
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And it was written
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Up in the book of life
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That man shall
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Endure forever more
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And it
Verse 25
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was written
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Up in the book of life
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That man shall
Verse 26
Endure forever more
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An d it was written
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Up in the book of life
That man shall
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