Life [Song]

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LIFE
By Gypsy
Arranged by Frankie McIntosh
Album: Life - MRS | T&T 1988

Life, oh life! What is life, I would like to know
Seems like only woe, sorrow,
While so few happy and so many have to suffer so
The rich man oppress the poor man while living a happy life
The poor man still on the corner catching he backside to survive
Nobody cares, nobody hear his cry
Because life is a struggle with too much ah trouble
That sometimes I feel like I could die.
But mih heart keep beating and mih blood keep flowing
And that's just what keeps me moving on, and on, and on, and on
In this life of torment and confusion. Oh, Life!

Crime, yes crime. Crime keeps on rising all the time
Good gosh, tell me who - me, she, he or you
Going to stick our necks out to see humanity through?
When the law that we put to protect crime, they indulge in it just the same
Our leaders indulging corruption and so bring our world to a shame
Nobody cares, where do we go from here?
My gosh, life is a struggle with too much ah trouble
That sometimes I feel like I could die
But mih heart keep beating and mih blood keep flowing
And that's just what keeps me moving on, and on, and on, and on
In this life of torment and confusion. Oh, Life!

Love and peace and justice are all fictitious things of the past
Seems like cruelty, inhumanity and injustice to one another is what is here to last
The pusher man 'round the corner have dope users like puppets on strings
Prostitution and homosexuality is an everyday thing
If that is life, what are means to survive
My gosh, life is a struggle with too much ah trouble
That sometimes I feel like I could die.
But mih old heart keep beating and mih blood keep flowing
And that's just what keeps me moving on, and on, and on, and on
In this life of torment and confusion. Oh, Life!

You, yes, you and I could make a big difference if we try
Try and do our best, and in this process
One day this whole wide world going to find true happiness
When the things we do for humanity, we do from within our hearts
Greed, selfishness and enmity could never stand in our path
And so we stroll on to a better world
Til then life is a struggle with too much ah trouble
That sometimes I feel like I could die.
But mih heart keep beating and mih blood keep flowing
And that's just what keeps me moving on, and on, and on, and on
In this life of torment and confusion. Oh, yeah!

Life! Oh why? Oh why? Tell me why?

Why, oh why? Why, oh why? Tell me why?
Why, oh why? Why do we know hate? Why, oh why?
Why, oh why? When would it end?
Why, oh why? Why can't we all be friend? Tell me why?
Why, oh why? why when you watch my skin
Why, oh why? You can't see deep within? Oh ho, tell me why
Why, oh why? Why can't we live at ease?
Why, oh why? Why can't this world know peace? Tell me why?
Why, oh why? Why, oh why? Why? Tell me why?
Why, oh why? We got to find a way to change this life!
Why, oh why? We got to find a way to change this life!
Oh, yes, oh ho, tell me why?
Why, oh why? How long could we proceed?
Why, oh why? With so much pain, envy and greed. Oh yes, tell me why?
Why, oh why? Why don't you look within?
Why, oh why? Instead of looking at the colour of my skin?
Oh yes, tell me why?
Why, oh why? Why can't we be friend?
Why, oh why? This friendship should never end. Oh why?

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

Thank you, Gypsy. I am grateful always for your sincerity.

"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