Bring It Back [Song]

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BRING IT BACK
By SKHI

Mister Skhi, I hear long time in T&T had plenty love.

Bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back
Bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back.

"Progress" was the name of the song King Austin did sing
Like it wasn't too long ago
Well, as a small man all 'bout ten
Some things I remember from way back then
We used to really show more love for one another
Man, bring yuh bowl and pass for food later
Neighbour on mih house, just throw an eye
I going out the road just for a little while.
Look tief, look tief! is a neighbouhood alert
Somebody run quick, go and call Bert
Bert run out with a two by four, ready to attack
Each one help one, had one another back.

Is a shame how we doh live dem way again
Is a shame, must bring back dem vibes again
Is a shame how we doh live dem way again
Is a shame, must bring back dem vibes again. Ent?

Bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back
Bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back.

------------------------------ at one time wasn't king
A penny was a penny, and a shilling was a shilling
Yuh woman never wanted a man just for money
But a man with respect  and integrity
He used to have to meet the whole family
Before he could get a little taste of the cookie
So in terylene shirt and a ragga Levi
A real saga boy coulda catch she eye
But if she brother was a bad john from the area
Doh hurt she at all or is licks like fire
With some big stone or a cutlass
It wasn't gunshot but hard cuff in yuh rass.

Is a shame how we doh live dem way again
Is a shame, must bring back dem vibes again
Is a shame how we doh live dem way again
Is a shame, must bring back dem vibes again. Jam mih horn!

Bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back
Bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back.

Bring it back, bring it back. Bring back the love, bring back the hope here
Bring it back, bring it back. Bring back the unity, bring back the unity here
Bring it back, bring it back....

Patience is what people had
Work hard for what they want, take the time they would have
Well, from a young boy I used to see real honest men like mih Grandpa B
Children had nuff respect for their elders
Doh play yuh rude or is punishment for you
And thing was cheaper back then to survive
A bag of cement was only 12.95
Yes, money had value and was value for your money
A cold Carib for only 3.50
Right there in the 80's was -------------------
And that is the way that things used to be.

Is a shame how we doh live dem way again
Is a shame, must bring back dem vibes again
Is a shame how we doh live dem way again
Is a shame, must bring back dem vibes again. Fuh real!

Bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back
Bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back.

Fête, we always did like but back in dem days man hardly went to fight
Well, it was brass band that had the power
Roy Cape, All Stars -------------------
Band like Charlie's Roots, Chandelier and Kalyan
Used to have the crowd eating outta dey hand
In a kaiso tent you want to hear Sparrow, Lord Kitchener, Stalin and Shadow
Gimme more, gimme more, gimme more tempo
Calypso Rose is the queen of the show
Johnny King wet dem down straight from Tobago
And Super Blue still had it. Ent? Play yuh doh know!

Is a shame how we doh live dem way again
Is a shame, must bring back dem vibes again
Is a shame how we doh live dem way again
Is a shame, must bring back dem vibes again. Gimme horn!

Bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back
Bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back.

[Bring it back, bring it back] Leh we bring back more love in T&T.
[Bring it back, bring it back] Come, my people, leh we have more unity,
[Bring it back, bring it back] The days of less crime in this country.
[Bring it back, bring it back] Say, bring back the love, bring back the love now,
Bring back the love now!

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! ..............................................................................................................................


A Note From The Gull

Thank you, Skhi.  

"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

Hold on [Song]

Uploaded by Jam2Vibes / Caribbean Music
HOLD ON
By Fya Empress

Hope is alive, hope is alive
Ay, Sweet Trinbago, aha.

There's a strange occurrence all over this land
Something ------- ominous, a twisted, devious plan
To snatch away the children right from under their parents' hand
'Cause they know that the children are the future of this great nation
But the darkest hour is always before dawn
So I know that something great is on the verge of being born
And every demon in Hell is trying to prevent it from being
So the deaths of our children is just an attempt to kill the dream.
And I know that it's hard to bear but we could weather this storm
And though it's causing many tears, I begging you to hold on.

I say, hold on, Trinbago, there's a brighter tomorrow
Lying just beyond your sorrow, if you could hold on, hold on
No device on this earth could stop you if to yourself you would be true
Just hold on to your values, Trinbago, hold on, hold on.
There's a brighter day waiting for you and me
Just hold on, T&T.

Hope is alive, hope is alive.

Suddenly without warning, the mortality rate
Of our nation's children, they just seem to escalate
Murdered, raped and abandoned, that's just the way it seems
Yet we don't realise that's just a part of an elaborate scheme
To have us circling the wilderness and never reaching the promised land
To blind us from the milk and honey and only seeing dem fake giants
To break the stride of a nation whose riches are just round the bend
To spoil a nation's future, you have to spoil the nation's children
So is child pornography, sex slave rings attacking the fruit
But is clear they don't know the nourishment that's embedded inside the root.

I say, hold on, Trinbago, there's a brighter tomorrow
Lying just beyond your sorrow, if you could hold on, hold on
No device on this earth could stop you if to yourself you would be true
Just hold on to your values, Trinbago, hold on, hold on.
There's a brighter day waiting for you and me
Just hold on, T&T.

Hope is alive, hope is alive.

Trinbago hold on, hold on, hold on.

I don't want to sound too biblical and I don't want to preach
But you have to be enlightened before more children are reached
Though you think I should not lecture you, don't ignore this message I bring
Because what's hidden from the wise and prudent is revealed to babes and sucklings
Listen to the voice of the one who's crying out from your wilderness
Telling you, even in your despair that Trinbago is truly blessed
Though it seems we heading down a precipice that leads onto destruction
Don't give up on your twin-island state, the best is yet to come
Now we know that it isn't easy when innocent blood is shed
But hold on to this promise that there are brighter days ahead.

I beg you, hold on Trinbago, there's a brighter tomorrow
Lying just beyond your sorrow, if you could hold on, hold on
No device on this earth could stop you if to yourself you would be true
Just hold on to your values, Trinbago, hold on, hold on.
There's a brighter day waiting for you and me
Just hold on, T&T.

Hope is alive, hope is alive.

Trinbago, hold on, hold on, hold on.

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! ..............................................................................................................................


A Note from the Gull

Thank you, Fya Empress.

"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

Wonderful Peace [Hymn]

Uploaded by Heber Vega

WONDERFUL PEACE
Composed by W. D. Cornell

Intro:
Sweep over my spirit forever, I pray,
In fathomless billows of love.

Far away in the depths of my spirit tonight
Rolls a melody sweeter than psalm;
In celestial-like strains it unceasingly falls
O’er my soul like an infinite calm.

Chorus:
Peace, peace, wonderful peace,
Coming down from the Father above;
Sweep over my spirit forever, I pray,
In fathomless billows of love.

What a treasure I have in this wonderful peace,
Buried deep in the heart of my soul;
So secure that no power can mine it away,
While the years of eternity roll.

Chorus:
Peace, peace, wonderful peace,
Coming down from the Father above;
Sweep over my spirit forever, I pray,
In fathomless billows of 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! ..............................................................................................................................


A Note From The Gull

Lasting peace on this earth cannot be guaranteed by men's efforts alone but all peacemakers will be blessed.

People are wounded. We are been damaged. Minds, bodies and souls are not at ease. Voices continue to cry out against the wrongs, whether real or imagined, by which they are burdened. For the powerless, violence erupts when it appears that no redress is forthcoming. For the powerful, violence ensures that their weakness will not be discovered. The very few adults who are completely innocent are the only ones who can in all honesty protest. The rest of us, even when we pretend otherwise, have invited retribution and violence because of the direct or indirect parts that we have played in the oppression of others. 

Our homeland is in desperate need of some peace, if only at first a firm promise. It has needed peace for the longest while. The honest among us will admit that our need for peace did not begin under the last administration. No foreign privateer, law-giver, advisor, deus ex machina was ever going to bring it to us. No Ministry of Defence, no attacks on "hotspots", no bands of lawyers, no national security state was going to usher in this peace.

We have been wronged, and often with our complicity. We have hurt each other in the past and we continue to do wrong to each other. Until we address the violence and injustice that is systemic, we are approaching peacemaking with the attitude of a Ministry of War in very much the same way, for example, that Ministries of Health often mistakenly place their focus on the bandaging of disease rather than on the preemptive cultivation of wellness.

Prime Minister Keith Rowley's words are heartening and his apparent sobriety and humility are a balm. Some Trinbagonians, especially those who invested emotionally and otherwise in different outcomes, are bound to withhold their trust at first. Some will view him with understandable trepidation - those who have not forgotten the betrayals of the past, those who are now justifiably leery of glib orators who do not practice what they preach and some of those in the previous government and their supporters who are hurt to their souls by the rejection by the wider community. Regarding the last group, do not make the mistake of underestimating the importance of the role that has fallen to them. Our new Prime Minister has clearly acknowledged that their responsibility is an awesome one and here is how it is also described by Gerald Schmitz, Political and Social Affairs Division  of the Parliament of Canada:

"A situation in which the activity of politics is devalued is inimical to parliamentary democracy. Parliament, after all, is fundamentally about debate – "rhetoric" in the classical Greek sense – and the transacting of the people’s business in public. It is also about the right to dissent in a civilized manner. Genuine political opposition is a necessary attribute of democracy, tolerance, and trust in the ability of citizens to resolve differences by peaceful means. The existence of an opposition, without which politics ceases and administration takes over, is indispensable to the functioning of parliamentary political systems." SOURCE

As I have said elsewhere, all hands are on the same plough. We are all shoulder to shoulder tending the one field that is this nation. Over time, if the actions of the new government, in collaboration with the new Opposition, consistently match our hopes or expectations, the calm that I am sensing this week will put down strong, deep roots and it will spread. We are going to need deep roots to weather what lies ahead.

Trinbagonians are not wired to hate. Despite all the damage that we have endured, from the passages of our ancestors to this place and our experiences in this land, I have seen that love and kindness and their expression come more naturally to us than hatred and violence. Please allow each other to exhale.

We have to ask ourselves if we have been blindly taking upon our shoulders the ugliness, rage and vindictiveness that burden the few. Can we find the courage to pause, to honestly examine what we are being asked to accept, to rescue the tormented by convincing them to take the load off? We have to examine why some of us feel compelled to covet and attempt to possess what is not ours. Are we all aware that we cannot take power or material wealth with us to our final destination? What we do take with us, however, is whatever we sow here in our hearts and in the hearts of those who fall under our influence. Those vibrations will follow us to the ends of creation. What will be our legacy? 

Those who pay attention to what is going on in the wider world know that our problems are not unique but what will be unique, and a marvellous thing to behold, is how we go on now together to bring our unique spirit to the work of restoration, reconciliation, renewal and resurgence.

AHAKUTUWATIWA, ALËLEKATIWA, AKUYAWATIWA!

We awake, we laugh, we return!

"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