Father Of The Man - Stephen Marley, Wyclef Jean

I’m the keeper of the flame

And everybody knows his name

I’m the keeper of the flame

But nobody know his pain

I’m the keeper of the flame

And everybody know his name

I’m the keeper of the flame

Deeds are fruits

Words are but leaves

It’s better to do well than to say well indeed

So if you come from the rock

Please don’t run from the rock

Keep your conscious clean and put the wave upon your back

A fool is filder leaves out the common stone

But every dart feels like a lion in his home

My destiny is in my own hands

Cause the child is the father of the man so

I’m the keeper of the flame

And everybody knows his name

I’m the keeper of the flame

But nobody know his pain

I’m the keeper of the flame

And everybody know his name

I’m the keeper of the flame

Ragga It’s been a minute man let’s go

I went from cavemen to slavemen

Church scream amen and then they lych men

Boy charter 911 before the world trade

I saw the world through Ray Charles shades

Tried to warn them they ain’t wanna listen

Nostradamus saw the bird’s now there’s two thing’s missing

Two sons sitting Hussein’s son sitting so calm they father Saddam hung in a

prison

I’ll be damned if a man put a tech in my hand have me in the sand shooting at

the ground man

Runner becomes the gunner and the gun will become the hunted the hunted become

the hunted on America’s most wanted

How does America’s most wanted get apprehended

When his man turns state on his co defendant

You need a lawyer let me talk for you

You in a wheelchair blood let me walk for you

I’m a leader

I’m the keeper of the flame

And everybody knows his name

I’m the keeper of the flame

But nobody know his pain

I’m the keeper of the flame

And everybody know his name

I’m the keeper of the flame

Yeah yeah yeah what if Martin Luther stayed in the room never step foot in the

balcony

What if they had a bullet proof car instead of a drop top for Kennedy

Malcolm did the speech congregation

So when them boys come get yo hands outta pocket

Five shots of the assassins Ragga

Ain’t nothing new under the sun

What if I had put blanks in Marvin Gaye’s firer’s gun

What if you all knew the truth before sending your kids to war

Told ya that man ain’t care about Iraq

He cared about the oil

When your thinking about how many records you gonna sell

I think about getting all my people out the cell

We put in work ya’ll ain’t revolutionary cause you gotta a Che Guevara T-shirt

It’s just a T-shirt

Ragga why you think I ran for president

I got 5 cribs and they said I got no residence

They tried to punk me but I was born with no fear

So I’m a run it like 10 years

I’m the keeper of the flame

And everybody knows his name

I’m the keeper of the flame

But nobody know his pain

I’m the keeper of the flame

And everybody know his name

I’m the keeper of the flame