Shelly Thunder]

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those that trespass against us

Although them again we will never never never trust

Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!

Them not know what them do

Big out to yi while I'm stickin like glue

Fling, skin, grin while them plotting for you, true!



[singing]

Forgive them father for they know not what they do

(Me nah tellin them no more)

Forgive them father for they know not what they do

(Be real, them not a clue!)



Beware the false motives of others

Be careful of those who pretend to be brothers

And you never suppose it's those who are closest to you

To you

They say all the right things, to gain their position

Then use your kindness as their ammunition

to shoot you down in the name of amibition, they do

Ohhh



Forgive them father for they know not what they do

Forgive them father for they know not what they do



[rapping]

Why every Indian wanna be the chief?

Feed a man 'til he full and he still want beef

Give me grief, try to tief off my piece

Why for you to increase, I must decrease?

If I treat you kindly, does it mean that I'm weak?

You hear me speak and think I won't take it to the streets

I know enough cats that don't turn the other cheek

But I try to keep it civilized like Menelik

and other African czars, observing stars with war scars

Get yours in this capitalistic system

So many caught or got bought you can't list them

How you gonna idolize the missing?

To survive is to stay alive in the face of opposition

even when they comin, gunnin I stand position

L's known the mission since conception

Let's free the people from deception

If you looking for the answers then you gotta ask the questions

And when I let go, my voice echoes through the ghetto

Sick of men trying to pull strings like Geppetto

Why black people always be the ones to settle?

March through these streets like Soweto, uhh



[singing]

Like Cain and Abel, Caesar and Brutus

Jesus and Judus, backstabbers do this



Forgive them father for they know not what they do

Forgive them father for they know not what they do



It took me a little while to discover

Wolves in sheep coats who pretend to be lovers

Men who lack conscience will even lie to themselves, to themselves

A friend once said, and I found to be true

that everyday people, they lie to God too

So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you?



Forgive them father for they know not what they do

(Forgive dem, forgive dem)

Forgive them father for they know not what they do

(Forgive dem, forgive dem)



[Shelly Thunder]

Gwan like dem love while dem rip you to shreds

Trample pon yuh heart and lef yuh fi dead

Dem a-yuh friend who yuh depen pon from way back when

but if you, gi dem yuh back dem yuh mus meet yuh end

Dem not know what dem do do

Dem not know what dem do do

Dem not know, dem not know, dem not know, dem not know

Dem not know what dem do do



(Forgive them father, forgive them father