Midnite "Unpolished"

Midnite "Unpolished" :

"Unpolished" est sorti sur Rastafaria Recordings en 2001 et a été Enregistré au East Coast Flavor Studios de Washington.

Unpolished fut publié aux îles Vierges en 1997.

C'est un excellent album de Midnite qui montre la puissance de ce groupe dès ses débuts, comprenant les titres "Bushman":

dont voici les lyrics :

"I am a Bushman

I am a Bushman
You need to overstand

You from the african continent

Just how the black American, stand up

Truly is your brother man

Had they dehumanized and taken your name

Had they fed you swine and fed you shame

Today you would be just the same, stand up

As the people you disrespect and disdain

You have been brainwashed to call each other bushman

But I am a Bushman

I am a Bushman

Four hundred and forty years you’re telling I

You said as savages our forefathers died

But the savagery of your now city streets today

Makes me wish to be back in the bush now I say

You are worried about the state where you reside

What about the state of your mind

You are living in scenic places with good graces

While there is chaos among the races
But I and I a Bushman

They paid special attention to my woman
And to our little one

They said if she learns how to eat

From her down pressors hand

Her regeneration will be perpetuation

For she she will teach our little one

Man forced to stud and move on along

Lived so long without community

And then the damage of your false Christianity

But I and I a Bushman

I am a Bushman
yeah truly, truly

They are selling you the illusion of progression

And they are selling you selling you pure industrial aggression

Because misery truly wants company awhoa

So they are selling you their dysfunctional psychological tendencies

Skitz a friend in ya

But I and I a Bushman

I am a Bushman

Hear wha wake from a youth in the morning

You are being programmed and reprogrammed

Watching tell lie vision

Living in a system of pure corruption

They calling it civil lies a shun

What do they have in common

What do they have in common

This tell lie vision in this civil lies a shun

Pure lies, pure lies, pure lies

Absolutism based upon nothing

But I and I a Bushman

I am a Bushman

whoa yeah truly, truly
Math is their tool

Philosophy is their tool

Tek way no ledge

He is their tool

Don’t you know

Don’t you think they know

The system is too far gone"

"The eyes are the light":

dont voici les lyrics :

"Quell

Quell

Quell

Quell

Stand firm in obedience

Stand firm in solidarity

Stand firm in obedience
The eyes are the light

Of your body

Look into the heights

See you are somebody

Somebody worthy of noble deeds

Jah ina I and I

Jah ina everybody

Oh Rasta Fari
If you have a heart ruling over all

If you have a heart if you have a heart

Ruling over every other subject part

You legislate with conscience

And then make you rules

You base all decisions in unshakeable truth

To hurt and intolerance

This is the end

If you don’t do this

You must fight again

Must fight again

Must fight again

Must fight again

There will be no end

Judah conquer

Hate without apology

For any false way

The depths of Jah precept

I will obeySteadfast unmovable
in His lawsI will stay

Forever was here long before today
If you have a heart

If you have a heart

Ruling over every other subject part

Legislate with conscience

And then make your rules

Base all decisions in right and truth

To hurt and intolerance

This is the endIf you don’t do this

You must fight againMust
fight again

Must fight again

Must fight again

There will be no end

Unto nations and systems

Unto offender and victim

Mother earth has seen blood and likewise rain

For their father’s sins

The children in pain

If you have a heartRuling over every other subject part

You legislate with conscience

And then make your rules

Base all decisions in unshakeable truth

To hurt and intolerance This is the end

If you don’t do this

You must fight again

Must fight again

Must fight again

Must fight again

There will be no end

Not fearing the inevitability of death

Giving praise and thanks for every sunrise

And every sunset

With the sake red drawof every living breath

I know to know Jah works

Is to live without regret

Hear wha

The eyes are the light of your body

Look into the heights

See you are infinity

Somebody worthy of noble deeds Jah ina I and I

Jah Ina everybody

Jah ina I and I

Jah Ina everybody

Jah ina I and I

Jah Ina everybody

I will praise thee oh Jah

For I am fearfully and wonderfully made

Marvelous are thy works

And that my soul knoweth right well

How precious also are thy thoughts

Unto me oh Jah

How great is the sum of them

If I should count them

They are more in number than the sand

When I awake I am still with thee

Surely thou will slay the wicked oh Jah

Depart from me therefore ye bloody man

For they speak against thee wickedly

And thy enemies take thy name in vain

Do not I hate them oh Jah that hate thee

Am I not grieved with those that rise against thee

I hate them with perfect hatred

I count them my enemies

Search I oh JahAnd know I heart

Try me, know I thoughts

See if there be any wicked way in me

And lead I in the way of Iva lasting"

"Due Reward":, "Don't move (lion dread)" :

Du bon roots reggae de St. Croix, des incantations mystiques et hypnotiques de Benjamin vaughn que l'ont peut saisir grace aux paroles des chansons dans la pochette de l'album.

"Kaaba Stone" : "Destroying the blueprint so on one can see, who is the original and who is the copy" "Détruire les plans, afin que personne ne puisse le voir, qui est l'original et
qui est la copie " But I am the kaaba stone, i'am the original cornerstorne, they don't know love " Je suis la pierre angulaire d'origine, Ils ne connaissent pas l'amour."

1. Bushman
2. Love The Life You Live
3. The Eyes Are The Light
4. Propaganda
5. Kaaba Stone
6. Due Reward
7. Don't Move (Lion's Dread)
8. Meditation (Babylon Fruits)
9. Mama Africa
10. Time and Time Again

Les musiciens de Midnite :

• Vaughn Benjamin : chant, percussions
• Ron Benjamin : guitare, claviers, background vocals
• Joe Straws : guitare basse
• Dion Hopkins : batterie, percussions.

"Lift up your head, Selassie I, I and I chant Rastafari, tell them come look
inna the Lion's eye." Midnite