Suspicious behaviour

(Suspicious)

What is the criteria?

(Must look suspicious)

Is it the way that you ac'?

(Must look suspicious)

Or, is it your colour?

Cho!

I went to the garage

Something was wrong with my accelerator

They said they would fix it

"Leave it with us and come back later"

So, where shall I go now?

What shall I do?

Where shall I venture?

I'll go to the centre

I'll hop on a bus

I'll have an adventure

Standin' at the bus stop

Inna the winter

Inna December

Mi body a-shiver

Mi nose a-run

Mi spine a-quiver

Den two policeman

Were lookin' at me like look at me like dey were in a temper

I know I'm not wanted

I'm sure if I was, I would a-remember

They got presumptuous

Situation lookin' dangerous

I coulda been nervous

But inna di Father I'ma put mi trust

I coulda been serious

But me decide fi cool an' never cuss

CS gas the warm bus

Me seh, "Officer, yuh never had to make nuh fuss

Look how all the people started lookin' at us

You asked me why I'm at the bus stop

It is obvious

Officer, I'm waiting for a bus"

Must look suspicious

(Must look suspicious)

Must look suspicious

(Must look suspicious)

Through all the fuss

I missed the bus

And me seh, "Cho," an' kiss mi teeth

A-walkin' good fi' me, make me exercise mi feet

Me inna di driver seat inna mi car most of the week

Help mi heart beat

I will go walkin' down the street

I heard some people shoutin' with some words I can't repeat

I was not doin' not'in' so I went to take a peek

In the entrance of a shop I saw four people in a heap

At the bottom was a black youth so crush he couldn't speak

The man dem on the top a-tell the crowd they catch a thief

A citizen's arrest; a-dem a-wait for the police

A-roughin' up the youth, he got an elbow in I teeth

When out drop the youth's receipt

The shopkeeper said it wasn't that Black youth there

He bought his merchandise fair and square

Yuh make the teen get away, yuh make the teen get clear

It was that white youth with the blond hair

Must look suspicious

(Must look suspicious)

We must look suspicious

(Must look suspicious)

Some muggers are Black; that is true

But don't you know that white people mug people, too?

Indian-a mugger mug you fi' ya vindaloo

A Chinee mugger mug you with a bit a' kung fu

You got mugger, seh dem a Muslim mugger

Seh dem a-true

Mugger every race, every colour, every hue

Mugger don't got no colour; that is my point of view

They only want to blame it on-a me and you

Cho, ya know?

You know it not right

Associating colour with the crime

You know it not nice

But, you know it happens all the time

When I'm at the airport

They always seem to pick me out the line

They want my passport

They look at it odd, they can't believe it's mine

Where am I going? Where am I from?

What's my flight, and what's the time?

Concentrating on me

Forgetting about di man behind

I'm not him, a-smuggle the drugs, the cigarettes and all the wine

And him gone long time