We Ent Gone Through Yet [Song]

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WE ENT GONE THROUGH YET
By Protector (Michael Leggerton)

We ent gone through yet, we ent gone through yet...No!
Don't write off my country, those who leaning on the rope
Don't condemn T&T, those who feel she cannot cope
With a growing moral crisis that bringing tears to we eyes
From the depths of these ashes, like a Phoenix she will rise
Yet every day is scandal and shame spoiling mih country name

But...We ent gone through yet...No! We ent gone through yet
And if you listen to them scribe, every policeman taking bribe...but
We ent gone through yet, we ent gone through yet
For just when you thinking, this country's no longer great
Something precious will happen to restore your faith
The same Police Force that reeling from corruption
Delivering babies in their police station
Now that's a reason to smile
And that's the saving grace of mih nation!

Oh, ah telling you
We ent gone through yet...No! We ent gone through yet...No, no!
You hear what ah say now
We ent gone through yet...No! We ent gone through yet
We keep breaksin' from infection but every month is another 'flu
Hospitals give no injection, no linen, no ambulance crew
Once money was no problem, we used to boast 'bout we wealth
But like ------- hit the system, now there's no money for health
In WASA they find raw faeces, a breeding ground for every disease

But....We ent gone through yet, we ent gone through yet
And now I hear that in jail AIDS and -------- prevail
But...We ent gone through yet We ent gone through yet
For just when you thinking, things can't get no worse
Forget 'bout the ambulance, tell them buy a hearse
A general blackout hit the ICU
But doctors get a pullout from a TV6 crew
Now that's a reason to smile
And that's the saving grace of mih nation!

I want to hear you say it now
We ent gone through yet...No! We ent gone though yet...no, no! T&T!
We ent gone through yet...No! We ent gone through yet

They say, "Scrap Common entrance." Why?
Them school children getting too traumatised
No relief for parents, a next ----- commesse they organise
But while some trying to save the children from falling though the cracks
The Ministry's biggest problem is how to save them from bosé backs
But while their back getting straight, like they getting more illiterate

But...We ent gone through yet, we ent gone through yet
To stop school indiscipline, kids have to pass through scanners and thing
But...We ent gone through yet, we ent gone through yet
For just when you thinking the future ent making sense
Them youths too preoccupied with guns and violence
Up comes Veera Bhagan from where, heaven knows
Excelled in Common Entrance, writing with she toes
Now that's a reason to smile
And that's the saving grace of mih nation!
Oh, you hear what ah say now

We ent gone through yet...No! We ent gone through yet...No, no!
You hear what ah saying
We ent goin through yet...No! We ent gone through yet
You know mih country hit a stalemate
President and PM in a big fight
PM say, Fire two from the Senate
President say, "That one ent reading right."
And then he say, "Mister Prime Minister, Try and don't forget
Is I who have you in power and I could wreck your whole cabinet."
So every day is commesse and row, Kuei Tung ent take no poverty vow

But...We ent gone through yet...No! We ent gone through yet
And then ah read up in Mayaro, a politician get pass out, just so
But....We ent gone through yet...No! We ent gone through yet
For just when you thinking the mess hits the fan
Some even say look like Benny Hinn left a serious curse on my land
We looking to the heavens, asking for a sign
I say, "Maybe by tomorrow you go hear Dhanraj Singh resign."
Now that's a reason to smile
And that's the saving grace of mih nation

You see what I mean now...

We ent gone through yet...No! We ent gone though yet...No, no!
You hear what ah say now
We ent gone through yet...No! We ent gone through yet...

Source: The lyrics posted on this blog are 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

More Trinbagonian escapism or much needed encouragement? It depends on what you do with Protector's message. He is telling us that we each, even those who have been written off by society as bad seed, have within us the potential to do something that will inspire others to get up and have a positive impact on our society. I don't think that he is saying that we should just lie back and depend on the good deeds or accomplishments of the few to feel good about ourselves. It's a funny thing but even if things were to remain as grim, we would still experience an immediate lifting of our spirits if we were to reject the roles of helpless victims.

One theory, with which I strongly disagree, is that Benny Hinn put a curse on our country. That's just looking for a supernatural scapegoat and it is just as bad as looking for supernatural saviours. The power is in OUR hands.

Like Protector, I don't think that we have gone through yet. "We will awake. We will laugh. We will return." My wish for us is that in the future we will only make honest mistakes as a result of our untiring efforts to live intelligently. The tedium and embarrassment of blatantly repeating others' and our own mistakes has become too much to bear. We can and must do better.

Thank you Protector.

"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