TAKE A STAND feat. Anthony B.
Yagga Yo! It’s Anthony B. & Jaqee to the world. Stand up we need to stand up. For freedom push your hands up.
CHORUS.
Today I take a stand. Today I make My Mind up. This is the way I choose to go, that’s how it’s gonna be my friend.
Jaqee. Verse
So I say a prayer to the woman who can’t feed her babies, spending all her days pon the streets, she’s begging for money and we say, she’s got herself to blame, she should have taken other ways, Nanananananananana.
And In the midst of the sunrays where life is slowly fading, the propanda rolls on and the politics keeps swelling.
CHORUS.
ANTHONY B. Verse.
How do you feel, when u see a single mamma raising her Kids on her own.
I look up and I look down, I look country and I look town, there’s no help to be found, the system keeping us down. But no matter the time or weather, it’s time to make things better, just like birds of one feather, we all need to come together.
Unity will make us stronger even though the system make us anger. But war and hate and grudge we can‘t take it no longer.
CHORUS.
ANTHONY B. Verse.
We nah stop stand up & fight for freedom. That’s why Berlin wall got beat down. Every time the system try fi keep down the African youth from Uganda kingdom.
But from Africa is where the ting come, dem a gwaa like we a sickness or form of syndrome, dem tek we history and apply the twisdom,
that’s why ina dem face we no stop from beat drum.
So I say!
My own destiny in my own hands. I gotta make that stand.
Our destiny in our own hands, come on my nation.
Stand up we need to stand up.
For freedom push your hands up.
credits
from Yes I am,
track released September 20, 2013
07 Take a stand (feat. Anthony B.) (4:02)
Music: T. Jacks (published by Edition 310/Rootdown Publishing)
Lyrics: J. Nakiri – Nalubale (published by Rootdown Publishing) & Keith A. Blair (published by Born Fire Music - ASCAP)
Produced & recorded by Teka for Rootdown Records at Flashpoint Studios, Cologne & Berlin
Jaqee & Anthony B. recorded by Donald “Tixie” Dixon at Anchor Studio 2, Kingston / Jamaica
Bongo Herman recorded by Donald “Tixie” Dixon at Anchor Studio 1, Kingston / Jamaica
Daru Jones recorded by Alby Cohen at Rough Magic Studios, New York / USA
Mixed by George Brasch, Berlin
Mastering by Busy @ TrueBusyness Mastering, Berlin
Drums: Daru Jones
Bass: Stephan Kondert
Guitar, Synths, Piano & Drum Programming: Teka
Organ: Markus Dassmann
Percussion: Bongo Herman
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