Same Old Story

Tired of the same old bull

Over my eyes, the wool you want to pull

Not playing your little game

Same old story better change

Same old story, same old song

Goes all right, goes all wrong

Now you're going, then you're gone

Same old story, same old song

Cah me say look pon Rwanda, me say look pon Zaire

A lot of people dead down there

And according to the media, all you can hear

It is ethnic cleansing and the people no care

But it's deeper, 'cause the West have economic interest down there

And all of a sudden gun start appear

And nobody knows from where

Then give it to who they want fi rule down here, cho!

Yes, a dem cause a problem

And a gwan like a dem want to solve dem

That colonial system

It a go come back 'round and haunt dem

Time to open our eyes, cah we must realize

All the schemes and the lies

You've been hypnotized and you don't realize

Get wise, see through the disguise

Same old story, same old song

Goes all right, goes all wrong

Now you're going, then you're gone

Same old story, same old song

The rich a get richer, the poor a get poorer

The gap between the rich and the poor a get wider

Some people, they just want all the power

Exploitation of another is a order

With no fear of the Almighty Father

Dem woulda never give a penny to a beggar

Never help a man who is dying from hunger

Dem only want plunder

America is rich, America got money

Also have a lot of poor and needy

Homeless people a live pon the street

Begging fi something to eat, cho!

But they'd rather spend billions and reach fi the stars

To see if there's life on Mars

Get your house in order, clean out your backyard

Old fraud

Same old story, same old song

Goes all right, goes all wrong

Now you're going, then you're gone

Same old story, same old song

They treat people like numbers, pawns in the game of chess

Doing the hard work fi the rest

While some politicians of who I am not impressed

Looking out for their own interest

Ask them to help the poor man, they will say yes

Inna the ghetto they're gonna invest

But when put to the test, it seem like they couldn't care less

Heartless, heartless, cho!

It's like a record scratch, it's like déjà vu

I've heard it all before and I'm sure you have too

Same old story, me say nothing new

A just the same old, old point of view

Give you with one hand is what they do

Fill your head with bag of bull

And with the other hand, take it away from you

Poor me, poor you

Same old story, same old song

Goes all right, goes all wrong

Now you're going, then you're gone

Same old story, same old song

Same old story, same old song

Goes all right, goes all wrong

Now you're going, then you're gone

Same old story, same old song

Oh

Same old story, yeah

Same old song, yeah