The Heart Of A Man [Song]

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THE HEART OF MAN
By Zan featuring Machel Montano

Yeah, woy, woy, woy, woy!

Pumping up, every body
Pumping up, every body
Pumping up, every body
Pumping up, every body

Every creed and race find dey equal place
Every creed and race find dey equal place
Creed and race find dey equal place
Is every creed and race find dey equal place

Hey, hey, hey!

Start pumping by de fence
Start pumping by de gate
Dey pumping in de street
Is every creed and race
Dey pumping like a heart
Dey pumping through they veins
And pumping up dey chest
And maddening up dey brain.

Inside de heart of a mam we pumping
Inside de heart of a man we jumping
And if you understand you are the heart of a man
Put some love inside your heart and pump it, and pump and pump it!

And de head up in India is part of my culture
And de hand down in China building de structure
And de legs of America moving we further
And de spine of South Africa holds us together
And dat leaves de heart of a man
It got be a Trinidadian
Building dis puzzle, making it possible
Fuh you to move yuh
Head, hand, leg, feet
Head, hand, leg, feet
Spine, belly, bambam waist
Every single creed and race
Head, hand, leg, feet
Head, hand, leg, feet
Spine, belly, bambam, waist
Every single creed and race

Inside the heart of a man we pumping
Inside de heart of a man we jumping
And if you understand you are the heart of a man
Put some love inside your heart and pump it, and pump it!

If you see dey pumping out dey stress
And pumping out dey strains
Dey pumping out de pain
And pumping all dat down de drain
We pumping in de fete
And pumping on de stage
We pumping by de truck
And through de streets of Port of Spain

Well if yuh want to meet ah stranger
Calling yuh bredda
And drink from the same glass
Sharing yuh liquour
Jumping up in a band
With one another
When de bacchanal end
Well you make a new friend

Hey!

Dat is de heart of man
It got to be a Trinidadian
Building dis puzzle, making it possible
Fuh yuh to move yuh
Head, hand, leg, feet
Head, hand, leg, feet
Spine, belly, bambam, waist
Every single creed and race
Head, hand, leg, feet
Head, hand, leg, feet
Spine, belly, bambam, waist
Every single creed and race

Inside de heart of a man we pumping
Inside de heart of a man we jumping
And if you understand you are the heart of a man
Put some love inside your heart and pump it, and pump and pump it!

Ah take a jump in St. Lucia, Antigua, Grenada
St. Vincent, Jamaica, Barbados, Guyana
So many nations, so many nations
Every year people coming back here

Yaay!

To feel de heart of a man
It got be a Trinidadian
Building dis puzzle, making it possible
Fuh yuh to move yuh
Head, hand, leg, feet
Head, hand, leg, feet
Spine, belly, bambam, waist
Every single creed and race
Head, hand, leg, feet
Head, hand, leg, feet
Spine, belly, bambam, waist
Every single creed and race find dey equal place
Is every creed and race find dey equal place
Hey!
Creed and race find dey equal place
is every creed and race find dey equal place
Hey!
Inside de heart of a man we pumping
Inside de heart of a man we jumping…….

Source: The lyrics posted on this blog are often transcribed directly from performances. Although it is my intention to faithfully transcribe I do not get all the words and I have a knack for hearing the wrong thing. Please feel free to correct me or to fill in the words that I miss by dropping me a message via e-mail. I'd be forever grateful. Thanks in advance!
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A Note From The Gull

Because I have an aversion to jarring sounds and rhythms which to me seem too mechanical and therefore discordant with my amniotic leanings, I do not usually listen to soca music that has as its goal the whipping of crowds into the bacchanalian frenzy required for total immersion in the Carnival. But sometimes when I separate the lyrics and focus on the reading experience rather than the listening, I am delighted when I find that some care has gone into the crafting.

In this piece, "The Heart of A Man," I find myself responding to the choice of the human heart to represent at once the individual and collective engine driving the catharsis that Carnival brings about for many of its participants. We are very accustomed by now to the exhortations to put our hands in the air, wine and wave rags. This song focuses more on pumping which happily for the prancing crowds is very close to jumping:

Start pumping by de fence
Start pumping by de gate
Dey pumping in de street
Is every creed and race
Dey pumping like a heart
Dey pumping through they veins
And pumping up dey chest
And maddening up dey brain.

It seems more meaningful because we recognise that we are not jumping for the sake of jumping, we are pumping to keep the heart of man primed. And what happens when:

"We pumping in de fete
And pumping on de stage
We pumping by de truck
And through de streets of Port of Spain"?

This collective Tarantella dance allows the participants to purge the toxins from their systems:

"If you see dey pumping out dey stress
And pumping out dey strains
Dey pumping out de pain
And pumping all dat down de drain"

The song also celebrates the Trinidadian creative spirit behind this unique experience:

Dat is de heart of man
It got to be a Trinidadian
Building dis puzzle, making it possible
Fuh yuh to move yuh
Head, hand, leg, feet
Head, hand, leg, feet
Spine, belly, bambam, waist
Every single creed and race

and describes the breaking down of barriers as every creed and race can be found together celebrating on the streets. It also encourages those who recognise that they collectively form the heart of man to put some love inside their hearts and pump it, and pump it! Wonderful! Thank you Zan.

"Patria est communis omnium parens" - Our native land is the common parent of us all. Keep it beautiful, make it even more so.

Blessed is all of creation
Blessed be my beautiful people
Blessed be the day of our awakening
Blessed is my country
Blessed are her patient hills.

Mweh ka allay!
Guanaguanare