Serious Thing

Lyrics

[Intro] The most dangerous thing that exists in the world today is serious thing. Oh yes it is! [Verse 1] The way the people are living nowadays Let me tell you it's a serious thing (Serious thing) Can't get no work can't get no pay Let me tell you it's a serious thing (Serious thing) The little children they can't go to school Let me tell you it's a serious thing (Serious thing) Teachers demonstrating for their salaries Let me tell you it's a serious thing (Serious thing) [Verse 2] To come home to find your children out of school And on the streets idling is a very (Serious thing) This arises from a situation where instead of teachers Are in the schools teaching they are on the streets demonstrating And that's a (Serious thing) [Verse 3] So much wars and famine on the land Let me tell you it's a serious thing (Serious thing) Yet we are making more war plans Let me tell you it's a serious thing (Serious thing) There is no attention on the youths nowadays Let me tell you it's a serious thing (Serious thing) No future plans or opportunities Let me tell you it's a serious thing (Serious thing) [Verse 4] The devastating memory of Hiroshima Has not quenched the bloody thirst of Satan And that's a very (Serious thing) His future plans are to devour Jah children As he eats up bread and to create instead the dawn of the dead (Serious thing) [Verse 5] In town and country it's the same old cry Let me tell you it's a serious thing (Serious thing) Brothers and sisters I'm telling no lie Let me tell you it's a serious thing (Serious thing) Sometimes you'd wonder if you're wrong or right Let me tell you it's a serious thing (Serious thing) If you've got to stand up and fight Let me tell you it's a serious thing (Serious thing) [Verse 6] The struggle for the Blackman's liberty against the vicious Apartheid system of South Africa is a very (Serious thing) And if the weapon of resistance is in the hand of the oppressed Against the oppressors then that also is a very (Serious thing) [Verse 7] Can't pay my bills can't pay my rent Now let me tell you it's a serious thing (Serious thing) Food is essential but I ain't got a cent Let me tell you it's a serious thing (Serious thing) So much people begging in the streets Let me tell you it's a serious thing (Serious thing) Some are picking up to have a bite to eat Let me tell you it's a serious thing (Serious thing) [Verse 8] If in the nick-a-time you come home find the landlords Bailiff relieving you of all your possessions That could be a (Serious thing) For your table or for your chair you could find a spare But to take your bed away is a very (Serious thing) To go to your brother to ask for a loan only to realize That he was heading for your home is a very (Serious thing) And to be in the position where your daily bread Comes only from the garbage is a very (Serious thing) [Verse 9] Tom, Dick and Harry they are complaining, oh yeah They are saying it's a serious thing (Serious thing) About the condition they are living in, oh yeah They are saying it's a serious thing (Serious thing) So much in the prison living in one cell Let me tell you it's a serious thing (Serious thing) Much more to join in in that smell Let me tell you it's a serious thing (Serious thing) [Verse 10] To be confined to a cell which like a cesspool Bears a smell it's a very, very (Serious thing) To be stripped of all your rights, sanity Dignity and liberty it's a very, very (Serious thing) To be chained and shackled and thrown in a dungeon It's a very, very (Serious thing) It's like working on a chain-gang but it's more than that It's a (Serious thing) Ain't got no liberation (Serious thing)