Hi All
Ok i spoke to Claudio about lyrics
What he is explaining me is the following.
"No Bad Intention" has been the 1st track made by him , it was around 6/7 years ago and the vocal recording is taken from the original recordings like 90% of the riddim. At the time it was more or less an experiement for him and not really thought to be released.
It was my choice to keep this as it was originally as i was very used to this cut , i think i even played it at Corner 25 from a Poly some years back...anyway what Claudio is telling me is that , working on it nowdays he would have changed a number of things...he says it's sort of weird Patois and badly written English
The full story is that we have a 2nd cut of the riddim , a totally different take made with Med-Tone , faster and surely better recorded and equally good , which in the future we will use for a 12'' release and on which we will try to create an update vocal for the "no Bad Intention" with a more "expecienced" Abeng + possibly a 2nd vocal cut (something we honestly haven't done yet...not even thought about). There was some discussions (constructive ones) between me and Claudio to which release 1st and i've been pushing to work to the 1st cut (the one you see on the 7'') cause to me it has a good meaning as it's the track that lead us to work together on this project , together with "Grown In Captivity"
So , lyrics and construction of them may not be very precise...but hope i could give an explication to the reason why it's like that
(I) Seh me no want no bad intention pon the I man
(I) Seh me no want no bad intention
Babylon a teach me a repress di other
Babylon a teach me a hate one another
Bagga wire tell me a no respect di other
Bagga wire tell me a fool one another
Leader want the I work all day and serve di power
Leader want the I and mi breda no gather
Samfi man a rub di I and mek mi so madder
Samfi man a sell di I fi reach one more dollar
Seh mi no want no bad intention pon the I man
Seh mi no want no bad intention
Vampire a search fi bite my soul
Vampire a search fi suck my blood
Evil man a try day by day fi grow
Coo pon di evil mind everyday is adoor
Downpressor hit di I him a want di blood flow
Downpressor put mi down want my hand ya so
Di shepherd want mi blind fi me nathing a know
Di shepherd want my culture and knowledge down low
Seh me no want no bad intention pon the I man
Seh me no want no bad intention
Yes in dis time there’s no word fi di answer
Lord in these days in this world too much pressure
Oh lord mi people a day dem a suffer
While di rich a getting rich pon a wi shoulders
And every mouth every tongue shall tell
What a wicked situation in this hell
And every man , every child shall be free
Will the wicked getting down in his soul misery
Seh me no want no bad intention pon the I man
Seh me no want no bad intention