Can't Come In Lyrics - Heart Of The Congos - Congos

Congos - Can't Come In 

(Cedric Myton) 

*You keep on knocking but you can't come in 

You've got to be clean 

You keep on knocking but you can't come in 

The door is locked on you, don't you know that it's true 

**When the Bridegroom cometh 

You've got to be ready 

When the Bridegroom cometh 

You've got to be clean 

***There were ten Brethrens together 

Five were wise, and five were foolish, foolish 

So you keep on knocking but you can't come in... 

The rolling stone gathers no moss 

Too late, too late shall be your pride 

You keep on knocking but you can't come in 

You've got to be clean 

To rally round the Red, Gold and Green 

You keep on knocking but you can't come in 

The door is locked on you 

Mercy 'pon Jah Jah judgement come 

Telling the world... 

Biblical References... 

*Luke 13: 24-25 - Strive to enter in at the strait gate: 

for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and 

shall not be able. When once the master of the house is 

risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to 

stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, 

Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say 

unto you, I know you not whence ye are: 

**Matthew 25: 6 - And at midnight there was a cry made, 

Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. 

Luke 12: 35-37 - Let your loins be girded about, and 

your lights burning; And ye yourselves like unto men 

that wait for their lord, when he will return from the 

wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open 

unto him immediately. Blessed are those servants, whom 

the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I 

say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them 

to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. 

***Matthew 25: 1-13 - Then shall the kingdom of heaven be 

likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and 

went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them 

were wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolish 

took their lamps, and took no oil with them: But the 

wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. While 

the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. 

And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the 

bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. Then all those 

virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish 

said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps 

are gone out. But the wise answered, saying, Not so; 

lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather 

to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. And while they 

went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were 

ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was 

shut. Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, 

Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, Verily 

I say unto you, I know you not. Watch therefore, for ye 

know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man 

cometh.