You're Playing Us Too Close Lyrics - Third World

Jobless people starving babies spreading 

over the land 

More oppression to the have nots is how you 

play your hand 

More world fighting is the writing from those 

say they know 

And if that's true we know just who 

you'll be picking to go 

But the beat you are playing to what Jah is 

saying is wrong 

And we do recommend that you stop before 

it's too far gone 

And I just got to say 

You're playing us too close 

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We in the ghettos 

You're playing us too close 

The jobless and the hungry 

You're playing us too close 

Filling up more and more with Frustration 

You're playing us too close 

We're losing our patience 

So take heed and do let it be known that 

I've told you today 

You're playing us much too close yea 

All the teaching of JAH bible you don't 

want to obey 

But you're writing your own ticket to the price 

you will pay 

Us you hold hock but the drawback is not 

to us alone 

Time will make you too a victim before you 

see the wrong 

Photos 

And the melody that you are playing is 

in the wrong key 

For Jah's choirs that sings out to all live 

in world harmony 

And I just got to say 

You're playing us too close 

We in the ghettos 

You're playing us too close 

Red black white brown and yellow poor people 

You're playing us too close 

The babies are crying 

You're playing us too close 

Good people are dying 

So take heed and do let it be known that 

I've told you today 

Jah say you're playing us much too close 

Now when I was just a little boy my grandfather 

use to say to me, "Brother B, trust no shadow 

after dark... "It's not till I grew to be a man that 

I understand what the old brother was talking 

about. You see some people take the liberty to 

treat you any way they want to, they feel 

some times that you don't have no dignity. But 

brother fire de ah mus mus tail him think ah 

cool breeze, better watch out easy squeeze 

makes no riot my brethren 

You're playing us much too close, so why the 

Don't you people out there all get up off your 

backsides and do something for the worlds for 

every living boy, woman, man and girl. There's 

hungry people all over starving, have no place 

to lay their heads Huh Don't play us so close 

Don't play us so close Don't play us so close 

(during rap) 

Some a dem rap, none a dem a holler 

'Cause Jah say all the musicians shall be there 

The players on instruments shall gather 

at His feet 

You need to raise your conscious high 

So Jah Jah Love can rule the world 

We need to raise our conscious high 

So Jah Jah Love can rule the world 

You need to raise your conscious high 

So Jah Jah Love can rule the world 

(Percussion) 

We're gonna raise our conscious high 

So Jah Jah Love can rule the world 

I'm gonna raise my conscious high 

So Jah Jah Love can rule the world 

We're gonna raise our conscious high 

So Jah Jah Love can rule the world 

You've gotta raise your conscious high 

So Jab Jah Love can rule the world 

I'm gonna raise my conscious high 

So Jah Jah Love can rule the world