1. Open up your eyes, man a give you a brand new riddim
Da wan yah fi di man weh pon di system him a sync
It a go sound like conspiracy
The coincidence of what I see
Results of hypocrisy
Breeding animosity
Inna dis yah time weh we livin in
Man haffi work and then get hustlin
In a life of strife and strugglin
And it gets so hard that dem buckle and
Everyone want we fi change the world
Nuff a dem no want just fi change dem goals
Dem killin one another with dem guns and bombs
And a stray from Jah Jah and a call it wisdom
Education is rhetoric in an eloquent form
If you cyan accept the truth, what is the point of discussion
Its a sickness spreading faster than a man can understand
We tell dem this is babylon system and dem say we wrong
And we keep on writing, keep on singin
Jammin inna nuff a we songs
Dem no listen no hear when a rastaman come around and tell dem seh

Chorus
Dem step pon quicksand
And try fi swim
Physically strong but dem a weak, man
Dem cyan win cah dem a fight against di big man
Life no sweet
Check yourself, watch your foot
You might be steppin pon quicksand

2. Well some say
Nuff a we no want dis
No, we no want that
And dem a practice what some dem call badness
Now what should we think is righteous
When inna di first place
Mankind dem all know what righteousness is
Now me say, Jah Jah a di light fi di masses
Written in your conscience
Even in your madness
Or when it mek sense
And its ever present
Di divine essence
Come now mek we, burn up di ishence
Mash up di nonsense
Take down di madness
Cah dem a vote for a fascist
To wipe out di classes
But its the absence of common sense
And it no mek sense when dem say its all for resistance
When dem a blind to di system
Man a see dem
Livin in di house of confusion, illusions
And dem a use and abuse
And a lose themself inna babylon system
Man a tell dem nah deny me cah di truth it must be clear
Man turn dem back to me and everything me say dem want fi smear
Man a talk and chat and a sing and a shout and a chant dem inna dem face
Dem no listen no hear when a rastaman come around and tell dem seh

Chorus
Dem step pon quicksand
And try fi swim
Physically strong but dem a weak, man
Dem cyan win cah dem a fight against di big man
Life no sweet
Check yourself, watch your foot
You might be steppin pon quicksand

Quicksand
And try fi swim
Physically strong but dem a weak, man
Dem cyan win cah dem a fight against di big man
Life no sweet
Check yourself, watch your foot
You might be steppin pon quicksand