Iron Bars lyrics

[Stephen]

What am I doing behind these iron bars?

Never robbed nor killed, never done no one harm

You put me in shackles, you place I in chains

Said I'll never see the outside again, oh!

Yeah...

Yeah...

[Julian]

I'm a prisoner locked up for what?

Freedom of Speech, ain't that all we've got?

Wounded pride, my head held up high

Rebels for life, we rebel for the right

[Stephen]

Let me out, let me out

I'm an angry lion [x3]

Let me out, let me out

Oh, you crazy mother...

[Mr. Cheeks]

Heyo, listen, took my freedom, my honor, my pride

To provide for my family, I tried

Gots to prepare, 'cause listen,

We's here for the ride

Vision's blocked cause we locked inside

These iron bars

Took my freedom, my honor, my pride

To provide for my family, I tried

Gots to prepare, 'cause listen,

We's here for the ride

Vision's blocked cause we locked inside

Yo, I was caught in the mix with nowhere to go

Rent need to be paid, things moving slow

I just wanna get a deal and spit this flow

See, ain't that the dream, to live well and get dough?

You lookin' for a change, man, there ain't no changin’

This money, this gun, this drug exchangin’

And if you got seeds, that makes you go even harder

If it ain't for them, man, then why even bother?

[Stephen]

You mus'a think say man a sprat

Ain't no back and belly rat

Well, man a lion, yeah

You mus'a think say man a sprat

Don't play no back and belly rat

Well, man a lion, yeah

Man a lion

[Mr. Cheeks]

Took my freedom, my honor, my pride

To provide for my family, I tried

Gots to prepare, 'cause listen,

We's here for the ride

Vision's blocked cause we locked inside

Iron bars

Took my freedom, my honor, my pride

To provide for my family, I tried

Gots to prepare, 'cause listen,

We's here for the ride

Vision's blocked cause we locked inside

[Spragga Benz]

Wanna take away my freedom, wanna take away my life

Lock me up, fi what? Likkle sensimilia and a knife

So, who a good feed mi youth dem eeh who a go care mi wife

You a gwan like ghetto people n'have no rights

Yo, you better let me out or else we gonna bruk outta here

Ghetto pickney we a go load dem in a truck outta here

You see any Rasta youth and need to pluck out a hair

You luck out a here you got to duck outta here

'Cause like a vampire, a lot of blood you suck outta here

You tek way every cent and every buck outta here

And lock we up in a yu prison fi wi work outta here

We a go bruk down all the wall and get the f@#k outta here

Blaze it!

• Artist:Stephen Marley
• Album:Mind Control (2007)