Slow Down

I have realized that life has become so cheap, so cheap

That there's no more respect and meaning for life

Everyone a take take, everyone a kill brother to sister

So let us all slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down

From Africa, Soweto to Lagos

Kingston, Jamaica to Georgetown, Guyana

To Brixton, Harlem and beyond

Brothers and sisters of the Middle Passage

Awake and wipe your eyes and look at our heritage

And give thanks and love and respect

Don't let the ancestors weep

Slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down

Slow down

What is this world coming to?

Everybody wants to take, take, take, take, taking, take

I'm just a woman (She's just a woman)

These are just babies (These are just babies)

Won't you slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down

Slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down

How are we going to survive in this world?

There is no more peace

No more loving, so much hating

Why you wanna hurt us? (Why you wanna hurt us?)

Why you wanna kill us? (Why you wanna kill us?)

Remember we are all going to die one day

There is no need for greed, no need for killing

I say slow down (Slow down), arms down (Arms down), take it easy

Why you wanna hurt us? (Why you wanna hurt us?)

Why you wanna kill us? (Why you wanna kill us?)

Why you wanna hurt us?

I say slow down

Slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down

Slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down

Slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down

Slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down

Cutting my teeth on African streets

The brothers and sisters who defeat the oppression

They meet to compete with the African souls

Aglow, they flow to control King Herald's demands

To stop the young blood to stand like a man

But understand Zulu, Shona, Swahili, Lingala

Arise from the south to the north, from the west to the east

Take control of this technological beast