Hardcore

Hardcore, you cannot claim no victory Till yuh heart pure and your mind 'Bout dem hardcore, when a Selassie I alone Can mek dem heart sure at this time, ay Hardcore, you cannot claim no victory Till yuh heart pure and your mind 'Bout dem hardcore, when a Selassie I alone Can mek dem heart sure at this time At ease is peace we seeking So all a try fi disturb a distance we keeping you away From the treasure that you're sniffing 'round to take (oooh) But you cannot penetrate So even if you find the yard You cannot breach the gate Leaving you waiting in vain And love you all the same But yuh nuh hardcore, yuh cannot claim no victory Till yuh heart pure and your mind 'Bout dem hardcore, when a Selassie I alone Can mek dem heart sure at this time, ay Hardcore, you cannot claim no victory Till yuh heart pure and your mind 'Bout dem hardcore, when a Selassie I alone Can mek dem heart sure at this time Sip what you grow Grow what you sip Permaculture keep The poison from you're lip The food stuff, the youths up Strictly organic Community, immunity From every politician Breaking the addiction brothers finally Find freedom to show love Within the family Real power generating, potential creating When the epitome of masculinity is Hardcore, you cannot claim no victory Till yuh heart pure and your mind 'Bout dem hardcore, when a Selassie I alone Can mek dem heart sure at this time, ay Hardcore, you cannot claim no victory Till yuh heart pure and your mind 'Bout dem hardcore, when a Selassie I alone A just Selassie I alone A just Selassie I alone Haile Selassie I alone A just Selassie (A just Selassie I alone, sie I alone) Now the Iyata can't compromise the link Before she open up the star gate She really haf to think Is it just desire, what will it require? Do you have the strength to hold it If you let it reach the brink? Are playing a game or do you know your role? Are you willing to wager your soul? Will you be a victim beaten? Stranded at the barrier Or bravely ascending to warrior, to goddess? To hardcore, a she a claim the victory 'Cause her heart pure and her mind, ay Hardcore, Selassie I alone a mek heart sure at this time, ay Hardcore, you cannot claim no victory Till yuh heart pure and your mind 'Bout dem harcore when a Selassie I alone, a just Selassie I alone Problems which confront us today are unprecedented They have no counterparts in human experience Men search the pages of history for solutions, for precedents But there are none This, then, is the ultimate challenge Where are we to look for our survival? For the answers to the questions which have never before been posed? We must look, first, to Almighty Who has raised man above the animals and Endowed him with intelligence and reason And we must look into ourselves, into the depth of our souls We must become something we have never been And for which our education and Experience and environment have ill-prepared us We must become bigger than we have been More courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice Owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations But to our fellow men within the human community