Lyrics!: Bugle

If you were to combine the brilliant edginess of someone like an Agent Sasco with the streamlined point-making of Tanya Stephens and maybe just a hair of the implied sinister of Mad Cobra, the style you might create might be very similar to Bugle. Like the first two names in that blend, Bugle’s songwriting appears to have been the child of an intense amount of work and study, but like its third name, his development has not driven him far outside of his organic road as well. And though more 'mainstream' attention will likely never come his way (and I don't think he'd accept it if you offered it to him), amongst more passionate fans, Bugle has quietly become one of Reggae's more dependable hitmakers. Is there a secret to his success? Maybe, and today we look at some of his most seriously sizzling sublime sets of syllables. Lyrics! Bugle

"Mi a duppy conqueror, so a mi no frighten

No soft-hearted, so a mi no frighten

No tell people 'sorry' when wi do things pon purpose -

Dem head mussi slack and waan tighten

Nah go seh mi a brightest, mi neva go a award

But all nuff a dem ah gwan, dem a coward

When wi ah do road, di bwoy dem ah do yard

Dem seh mi a easy, nah know mi will go hard

Still I nah mek dem drain I meds

And gwan show love like Selassie I said

Nah mek dem drain my medi -

Cah none a dem no ready

Stay focused, ah dat a my pledge!"

-'Mi Nuh Frighten'

"What have I done to you?

Why you wanna treat me like a criminal?

I'm not a criminal 

What have I done to you

Whay you wanna come to my funeral and mean that literal

Through mi exercise everyday and mi start get fit

Hypocrits ah look fi mi wid extension clip

But as long as mi have life, mi nah quit

This a real life, it's not no movie, nah no skit

What dem ah pray fi si, dem nah go si

Mi inna no cemetery

SO DI PRAYER WEH DEM AH PRAY NO NECESSARY

Yes mi glad seh Jah Jah mek mi know mi adversary

Everyday dem ah hope and ah wish - to si mi perish

CAUSE DI OPPOSITE OF LOVE IS WHAT DEM CHERISH

Dem no waan fi si mi pon di terrace

NAH GO DOWN, I'M PUTTING UP RESISTENCE LIKE BERES [BOOM!]

Dem seh a bag a things dem neva need fi seh

When it come to di test, you hear seh dem neva mean fi seh

What dem seh dem shouldn't dream fi seh

But memba seh hearsay, dat a weh people seh

Things dem put mi through, only Father God know it grieve mi

Caan believe, who mi think, was mi friend, deceive mi

Thanks to mi parents who conceive mi

EVERYBODY ELSE CAN GO DEM FUCKIN WAYS AND LEAVE MI"

-'What Have I Done?'

"When you ah dig ditch, dig a few
Dig one fi mi and dig one fi you
MEMBA SEH NUTTIN WEH YOU AHGO DO NO NEW
You is abomination
Tell yuh lips, a nuh true
Tell mi why you waan mi fall like di rain
Tell mi why you waan mi to derail like a train
Hey, and tell mi why yuh pleasure is my pain
Tell mi why to bring down my name to shame a yuh game

Tell dem wi rise above di water
Pagans ah laugh but wi have di last laughter"
-'Above The Water'

"New way ah try dun di world -
It nuh dun left you
When you ah run dung
It ahgo run left you 
Ah try gain di world fi yuh soul
So you sell out yuhself fi di gold
Don't have di prettiest car, but mi still ah roll
When mi ah left Kingston, a mi pay mi toll
Could, might not wear the prettiest Nike
But mi wash it, mi keep it clean, it still white!

Thank God fi another year
Thank You, mi still deh here
Mi caan afford di Hennessey, so mi ah drink mi beer"
-'Thank God Fi Another Year'

"When, you think you have life hard, nuff people ah have it harder
Cause nuff time nuff youth well want a shave and caan check di barber
Grannie tell mi seh her money magga
So, she haffi feed pon cassava 
You nuh know weh yuh man go through fi own weh him have - don't grudge him fi him Prada
Di world neva build inna one day, things take time
EVERY MAN GOT PROBLEMS, CAUSE MI GOT MINE
A no everything weh glitter a gold, it might look fabulous -
But everything doh fine

Cause wi are only human, like everybody else
Wi are only human, sometime wi need some help"
-'Only Human' w/Popcaan

"Baby mi woulda deh wid you, but guess wah - it no healthy
Because mi know seh it wouldn't help mi
You waan hype up, mi laidback
You waan loud up, mi doh play that
And mi woulda deh wid you, but guess wah - it no healthy
Because mi know sey it wouldn't help mi
You waan be star, but mi a observer
MI WAAN SOUL FOOD, YOU WAAN BURGER

It no mek sense wi try, mi no comfortable
And to how mi si things, wi no compatible
This unuh work out cause mi selective
And wi have different objectives
We destined to strive, but you always slow mi drive
You no have no adrenaline
You - mi haffi avoid
YOU MIGHT EDUCATED BUT YOU NUH WISE
Your eyes on di hype
BUT MINE ON DI PRIZE!"
-'Nuh Compatible'

"Who know best, di best, cah wi surpass better

Nuff a dem, they're trying to be perfect like a job-letter

Believe inna God, Him keep mi warm like a sweater

When di heathen try fi swallow mi, a plague of alligator

Even though dem nah have no locks, dem dread

And if you waan fi know yuh friend, pretend like yuh dead

And si how much thing - dem woulda serve all yuh head

Cause dem well waan eat yuh flesh up like it is a loaf a bread

Never let dem get you down in this game, stay ahead

CAUSE DEM ALWAYS SPREADING RUMOUR LIKE DEM THINK IT IS A BED

WHEN DEM SEH 'WAR', SEH 'PEACE'

Because dem a di least

IF WI FIGHT FIRE WID FIRE, THEN EVERYONE AHGO DEAD

If you blame life you blame Who give it

So don't blame life, blame di way how you live it

Fadda God neva sleep, HIM wake

HIM nah mek mistake

So blame it on di friends dem in ya surrounding weh fake

Everybody have a choice to be what dem want to

No blame it on mi because yuh past ah haunt you

Mi poor, but mi happy

You rich and nuh have no fun

AND YOU NEVA REALIZE MI MUSIC HAVE MORE POWER THAN YUH GUN

Now, everybody have a testimony

But all dem worry about is money

Dem still nah set no goal

How dem so cold?

So how dem have dem name pon payroll"

-'Don't Blame Life'

"Dem seh when you do di crime, you need fi do di time

But a nuff time, when dem do di crime, dem neva do di time

I try show dem a point -

Dem seh pointless

So mi still ah wonder if this just mindset

But Jah nah give wi more than wi can bear

So mi know mi burden nuh heavy than mi can wear

I guess wi just a wasting in a book that can tear

Waan wi coward, so inna wi dem instill fear

Dem no waan fi si when wi ah try

A nuh just di certain people dem nah supply

One thing mi sure bout:

Dem really can act high

DEM SEH SPEECH OF FREEDOM SO WHY DEM ATTACK I?"

-'Crime'

"You can catch a plane to almost anywhere you want to

But you caan catch a flight to heaven

And anyweh you can drive, you take a ship, you still arrive

But you caan take one to heaven

You pay fi anything you want

Even yuh heart, you can transplant 

But you caan pay yuh way into heaven

You lef Earth, you go to Mars

The Moon and in the stars, but no spaceshuttle can carry you go to heaven

You can take the elevator to the top of di skyscraper

No mek no sense you try, cah you still caan scrape di sky

No know weh you a think, but no link-

Can mek you visit The Most High on Mount Zion I 

You can take a cab or even walk to Shirley gate

But none a that can mek you si di pearly gates

No tell mi bout no friends

No Lamborghini, nah no Benz

CAUSE HEAVEN NUH DRIVEWAY, YOU CAAN PARK IN DI SIDEWAY

No US, bout nuh Europe, Heaven nah have nuh exchange rate

DI ONLY CURRENCY ACCEPTED BY HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS IS FAITH

A man build a car, a house, a plane, a ship -

You seh him great

BUT WHAPPEN TO DI MAN WEH BUILD DI MAN WEH YOU SEH GREAT?

Who give you di fire, di land, di water?

Mek wi have son and daughter

YOu think di part deh deep?

Mi waan you listen to di part yah

A nah plan-made, a nuh man-made

The Real Don made natural disaster

HIM heal you wid HIM eyes, no need no injection or plasma!"

-'Heaven'

"EXERCISE EVERY DAY AND I'M STILL NOT FIT

MY KIDS ARE HUNGRY AND I AIN'T GOT SHIT

WHAT I'M GONNA DO?

WHAT I'M GONNA DO?

WHAT I'M GONNA DO?

What would you do?"

-'What I'm Gonna Do'