You Don't Need Glasses To See [Song]

Uploaded by calypzombie85
YOU DON"T NEED GLASSES TO SEE
By Lord Invader

Myself and my girl was lying in bed
She took a comb and start to scratch my head
Me and my chick was lying in bed
She took a comb and start to scratch my head.
In a romantic way she then held me tight
She held on to my top lip and gave me a bite
I asked her, "Darling, why you bit me?"
She said, "You fool! You don't need glasses to see."

So I then asked her the reason why
She gazed into my eyes and started to cry
And she began to roll all over the bed
I saw her eyes was getting so red
And like a wrestler she held me in a clinch
She kissed me on my cheek and give me a pinch
I asked her, "Darling, why you pinch me?"
She said, "You fool! You don't need glasses to see."

I lie down on the bed very cool and calm
She took her head and placed it on my right arm
And she told me, "Invader, dearie, honey,
You know I love you sincerely?"
I made a move to to go, she said, "Not a foot!"
She drag me in my collar and give me a butt
I asked her, "Darling, why you butt me?"
She said, "You fool! You don't need glasses to see."

She then got up and turn off the light
She said, "Invader, is trouble in here tonight!"
She locked the door and she hid the key
She said, "Honey, you know you torturing me."
I pretended as though I didn't hear
She took a feather and started tickling my ear
I asked her, "Darling, why tickle me?"
She said, "You fool! You don't need glasses to see."

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

Sing For The Land [Song]

Uploaded by cool4rocknroll
SING FOR THE LAND
By Black Stalin

Keep your party card, it not necessary!
I don't have to join no group to represent the country
I want to get it straight to my fellow Trinbagonian
I does sing for the land and then for the man
Because parties does form today,
The next day they gone down the drain
But my IOU for this country would always remain
For when Drake and Morgan landed here from Africa, brother
Is Trinidad and Tobago whey took the role as my mother.

Is Trinbago who give Stalin the privilege
Just to find out who I am after the Middle Passage
So it's my obligation to make sure the twin island
That how I meet it, I could leave it in a better condition
So then I can't wait on no PM, no Opposition, or no party
You see I got to do the little that I could do
And do it wholeheartedly for this country.

How could I sit down and wait on somebody
To jump on the TV and tell me to --------
Since I small, I hearing T&TEC load shedding
Everyday WASA people begging, water wasting
So when I lock off my water or I stop my current from wasting
It ent no T&TEC people or WASA that I helping
Because the first duty to my country is to make sure I always try
That none of them people ent run down the river dry, dry, dry.

Is Trinbago who give Stalin the privilege
Just to find back myself after the Middle Passage
So it's my obligation to make sure the twin island
That how I meet it, I could leave it in a better condition
So then I can't wait on no PM, no Opposition, or no party
You see I got to do the little that I could do
And do it wholeheartedly for this country.

If your party love the things whey I saying
We could put black force together and do a little protesting
But when the moment reach and we both start to disagree
To go we separate ways, we all must be free
Because I don't owe you nothing, it's the land I owe
And how you serving the land, I don't want to know
Because as a Trinbagonian, it's my duty to do my best
And as the old people say, "Do your best and forget the rest."

Is Trinbago who give Stalin the privilege
Just to find out who I am after the Middle Passage
So it's my obligation to make sure the twin island
That how I meet it, I could leave it in a better condition
So then I can't wait on no PM, no Opposition, or no party
You see I got to do the little that I could do
And do it wholeheartedly for the country.

I alone know how much this country do for me
So I alone could say how much I could do for the country
So how could any man or woman Trinidadian
Tell me how I must contribute to this land?
Because since I born, this country been taking care of me
And I making sure that I do the same carefully
Because this is just a warning to my fellow Trinbagonian
That I go lay my life down any time at all for the land.

Is Trinbago who give Stalin the privilege
Just to find out I'm an African after the Middle Passage
So it's my obligation to make sure the twin island
That how I meet it, I could leave it in a better condition
So then I can't wait on no PM, no Opposition, or no party
You see I got to do the little that I could do
And do it wholeheartedly for this country. One love!

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 so much for this offering, Black Stalin! Until I heard this song today, nothing, nothing, nothing was lifting the heaviness that I've been feeling. I've always shared your conviction but I allowed myself to become distracted for a while by human folly. Thank you, compatriot, from the bottom of my heart, for sending your light to find me.

"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

Engineering Failure

According to the T&T Express of June 9, 2010, it was on June 8 that the AG called on the Integrity Commission to secure both the movable assets and the entire property at Guanapo because as he said "the assets may very well belong to the State and action ought to be taken to ensure the compound receives adequate protection." It must have been soon after this that the looting began, by locals anyway, because I am not convinced that those contractors' trucks that had already been briskly removing materials from the site were in fact really associated with that company or if they were, if there wasn't the possibility that contrary to what they were asserting, they were removing materials that had already been paid for by Phantom & Co.

I'd like to be able to blame the AG or the CoP or the Integrity Commission but I cannot. I have strong suspicions but I simply do not know enough about the chain of command, about the legislation guiding policing or about the powers of the Integrity Commission, to direct my accusations with any confidence at one of, or all the parties involved. Sometimes though, I suspect that things are made to appear more complicated than they are in order to deliberately obfuscate and discourage scrutiny by the general public.

I would be eternally grateful if an investigative journalist or an impartial expert would take the time to break it down for us. As regards the securing of assets in this particular case, tell us what the Attorney General can and cannot command. Tell us what the CoP can and cannot allow his officers to do. Tell us what the Integrity Commission is empowered to do. Tell us if the PM and the Minister of National Security were consulted. Tell us if these were extraordinary circumstances under which established procedures could have been altered by those who had the power to do so within the law.

It is one thing to disagree violently behind the scenes but it is really unfortunate that the AG and CoP should have had this brawl out in public where some strong and not easily retractable fighting words were uttered. Since the energy has been expended, let us see if it will amount to something useful. If nothing positive results from it, we are going to conclude that it was simply another diversion, two officials bellowing and locking horns without any interest in moving us as a nation closer to creating a system that defends accountability and transparency. Yesterday, Stephen Kangal in his article "Adopting a consultative approach to foreign policy." described Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Suruj Rambachan's adoption of "a consultative, transparency and accountability-based strategy." Sounds promising.

Public officials who are confident and have nothing to hide, do not avoid public scrutiny and have no need to bluster when the facts of the matter can be calmly presented with respect for themselves and the intelligence of the citizens that they serve.

So many Trinbagonians in public fora are critically assessing this situation, asking all the right questions and proposing intelligent guidelines for investigation. They were born and bred in this country and there are thousands more like them who are honest, intelligent and self-motivated. What I will argue constantly is that we absolutely do have the qualified and capable people right here in Trinidad and Tobago to do the work that is required, and to do it well. However, they do not exist or function in a vacuum. There is a "culture" that we have to take into consideration and that culture will also constrain the functioning of imported personnel.

The source of the problems with our public offices, including the Police Service, is not at the points where these ills are publicly manifested. The problems are enabled by the culture within which these officers exist, both internal to the service and that of the government and society. There is little accountability because this is what has been allowed by those who bear responsibility for holding public offices and officers accountable.

To take the example of the Police Service, I believe that it has been convenient for the corrupt at all levels to have a police service that the rest of us can blame. Apparently these officers' backs are particularly broad and well suited to the role of sin eaters in this society. Those with half a brain, however, know that they are not a law unto themselves and that if the political will existed, heads would roll, for example, when officers repeatedly fail to respond to calls for help from citizens in distress or do not show up in court to present evidence. The police officers who give the rest of the service a bad name, the officers who are inefficient or as corrupt as the criminal elements that they are expected to subdue, have clearly analysed and understood this society. Monkey really know what tree to climb. All law breakers, whether blue collar, white collar or platinum have discerned that lawlessness will be tolerated by the administration.

Perhaps the AG can explain to us, in the interest of transparency, exactly how public servants are held accountable for their misdeeds or plain criminal negligence. Perhaps he can examine his conscience and even if he does not share what he discovers there with us, he can still ask himself if he really made every effort, with firmness and respect for his equals, to have his orders enforced re the Guanapo site. Or, is it that it suits his purpose now to allow the present Commissioner to appear to have failed.

I can only speak for myself when I say that I have completely lost patience with hearing the list of suspects in this case. I want to know who had ultimate authority and therefore responsibility for ensuring after June 8, that the AG's orders were enacted. Has Calder Hart's property been secured by the way? We do know that he is the owner and that he is under investigation. AG, are you diligently pursuing this?

I do not believe that foreigners are necessarily more competent or honest than locals and they've certainly provided us with abundant evidence to the contrary, both within and outside of this country. I maintain that all public officials (specifically those who cannot be relied upon to police themselves) will be only as honest as the climate within which they operate. The leader bears ultimate responsibility for the actions of his/her subordinates. In the framework of organisational performance assessment, the buck stops at the head.
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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