LYRICS & STORY
Give This Man a Spliff
There is too much noise in this man's head, and he is beginning to pass it on.
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Behind the Songs
The words, the images, and the little things that stay with you.
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Di Wilderness
A narrow road leads away from deadlines, a blazing phone and the pressure in the narrator's voice.
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Rub-a-Dub Moon
She comes to the dance for the bass.
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Great Manipulator
The title sounds like a warning about someone who controls other people.
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Perspective (First World Worries)
A late taxi, slow Wi-Fi and an uncooperative coffee machine can fill the whole horizon when life is comfortable enough.
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It Is What It Is
The world is trying to turn the day into a race, and the narrator chooses a different pace.
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Concrete Pilgrim
The pilgrim travels through motorway rain, cold coffee and cities beginning to look the same.
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EARLY LISTEN
Deus Ex Machina
An old stage lowers a god on a rope to solve a story that people can no longer untangle.
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Judgement Fi All
Here, DEM LAWYA steps into the role of an advocate confronting power with the very rules it claims to uphold.
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That’s How You Keep Sane
The key still fits, the jokes still work, and yet everyone arriving at the cabin has changed.
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LYRICS & STORY
Babylon Blink Radar
A tired face is lit by a phone that seems to know the next move before its owner does.
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Twisted Scheme
The world of this song feels watched, coded and manipulated.
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Wilderness Medicine
Someone who loves him notices the weight before he says it aloud.
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Big Man Ting
The grand performance of power shrinks into a childish contest when the song looks closely at it.
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Inna Di Dub (Extended Mix)
Moonlight, water and a shared pulse give this song its sense of time.
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LYRICS & STORY
Crossroad
The narrator wants land, a home and something secure to hand forward.
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Gift of Freedom
A parent speaks to a child about a gift that cannot be wrapped or kept on a shelf: the freedom to become a person in their own right.
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Jah Code
Code means a rule to live by as much as a language of machines.
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Judgement Fi Dem
A signature can hide a theft as effectively as a weapon can carry one out.
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Righteousness Stronger Dan Fame (Trumpet Edition)
Fame is a fragile reward if it asks someone to give up what they believe is right.
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Scars Are Teachers
The narrator grows up with an absent father and a story about that absence shaped by someone else's pain.
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Sorrow Turn Song
A child reaches for a light that keeps moving away.
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Swinging Like Sin
The opening names Jo Mersa Marley, and the rest of the lyric builds a tribute around rhythm, inheritance and a flame that continues to travel.
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LYRICS & STORY
Zion Soon Come
An old order tries to solve today with yesterday’s answers, while a new kind of intelligence begins to move through the world.
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