Monday, November 18, 2013

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'

3 comments:

  1. Lots a great tunes here. Also, love Think U Know (If yuh think yuh know mi like I do just try one step in ah mi shoe, just take one step in ah mi shoe), and Hypocrites (cyaan look inna we eye, dem cyaan face mi cyaan hail mi).

    On Heaven it sounds like he's saying "the only currency accepted by HIS righteousness is faith." The last word is all dubbed out.

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