The Plan [Song]

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THE PLAN
By Machel Montano

Soca country starting to bawl, things ent looking rosy at all
Index finger starting to screel, wonder if is bad card he deal
But we ent want no bacchanal [We just want to break away]
Specially 'round Carnival [Mankind come to waylaylay]
No, we ent want no bacchanal [We are still a paradise]
This is just an interval [Like a phoenix we go rise]

Come leh we organise and plan how to straighten out this land
'Cause we share the spoils, time to share the toils
Come leh we organise and plan how to straighten out this land
Not for selfish good but for nationhood
Look in the mirror and you'll see
Whose responsibility is the welfare of this land
Time to show your hand.

Social fabric weave up like wool, crucial threads beginning to pull
Old complexes back on the job, new associations and clubs
But we ent want no bacchanal [We just want to break away]
Specially 'round Carnival [Mankind come to waylaylay]
No, we ent want no bacchanal [This country is callaloo]
So doh try to bring no war [Put your pepper in the stew]

Come leh we organise and plan how to straighten out this land
'Cause we share the spoils, time to share the toils
Come leh we organise and plan how to straighten out this land
Not for selfish good but for nationhood
Look in the mirror and you'll see
Whose responsibility is the welfare of this land
Time to show your hand.

Dealers with a license to kill, pushing poison powder at will
College students out on the drag, shiny bookmarkers in dey bag
But we ent want no bacchanal [We just want to break away]
Specially 'round Carnival [Mankind come to waylaylay]
No, we ent want no bacchanal [----- patriotism in its pride]
'Cause progress is integral [Like cooperation move with -------]

Come leh we organise and plan how to straighten out this land
'Cause we share the spoils, time to share the toils
Come leh we organise and plan how to straighten out this land
Not for selfish good but for nationhood
Look in the mirror and you'll see
Whose responsibility is the welfare of this land
Time to show your hand.

Balancing a budget is tears, watching how your cash disappears
As you find a dollar or two, taxes making sweet eye at you
But we ent want no bacchanal [We just want to break away]
Specially 'round Carnival [Mankind come to waylaylay]
No, we ent want no bacchanal ['Cause to live we ---- ]
No time to be cynical [When we moving positive]

Come leh we organise and plan how to straighten out this land
'Cause we share the spoils, time to share the toils
Come leh we organise and plan how to straighten out this land
Not for selfish good but for nationhood
Look in the mirror and you'll see
Whose responsibility is the welfare of this land
Time to show your hand.

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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"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