Up Against the Wall Riddim

I grab my jacket and a packet, and I head out the door

The sun it is ah-shining, and I want to explore

So I take a little trip to an out of town club

Bill up a little spliff, and then we rock into the dub

Boom, boom, goes the bass

Pop, pop, goes the drum

The vocal come around like an instruction

No man can resist the primitive call

Babylon, ah, never put our backs against the wall

Up against the wall, up against the wall

Ah, Babylon, they wanna see ah-man ah-fall

Up against the wall, up against the wall

What Babylon don't know they make we masses stand tall, say

Out where the Raggaman go

Is where the sun shine and wind blow

And when he look down low

He see the Ragga crowd checking his flow

Out where the Raggaman go

Where the sun shine and wind blow

And when he look down low

He see the Ragga crowd checking his flow

Well, we get pure idiots round that wanna test our sound

Go on like they're the don

But are bound to mess around

So when the fire come rain down

I leave them all of the sound-boy drowned

'Cause the music from Jamaica all the love that I have found

So how now?

The Skints we ah-go tell it so profound

You call it a sound clash, I call it burial ground

And some of them want to drag man down

But if you man'll just walk around

I just draw for the microphone

And I lyrically stub man out like

Zoo-bah-day, zoo-bah-day, ziggi-diggi-diggi-diggi do-bah-day

Zoo-bah-day, zoo-bah-day, ziggi-diggi-diggi-diggi do-bah-day

And yes, I may like reggae, but I know where I'm from

My team was Babylon born in east London

Out where the Raggaman go

Is where the sun shine and wind blow

And when he look down low

He see the Ragga crowd checking his flow

Out where the Raggaman go

Where the sun shine and wind blow

And when he look down low

He see the Ragga crowd checking his flow

Raggaman say, go

Hoping that life fi hand out good times and good shows

And I and I made it through heavy rain and thick snow

So where is it you go?

With rub-a-dub-a-dub and all our troubles are on hold

He tell me ten, ten, ten, ten, ten times

He tell me ten, ten, ten, ten times

He tell me ten, ten, ten, ten, ten times

He tell me ten, ten, ten, ten times

What a society

We don't like negativity

You want fi stand up tall

Don't fall

Even if you're up against the wall

What a society

We don't like negativity

You want fi stand up tall

Don't fall

Even if you're up against the wall

Out where the Raggaman go

Is where the sun shine and wind blow

And when he look down low

He see the Ragga crowd checking his flow

Out where the Raggaman go

Where the sun shine and wind blow

And when he look down low

He see the Ragga crowd checking his flow, oh

Out where the Raggaman go

Is where the sun shine and wind blow

And when he look down low

He see the Ragga crowd checking his flow

Out where the Raggaman go

Is where the sun shine and wind blow I