Kardinall Offishall Sweet Marie (featuring Nicole Sinclair) Lyrics

Sweet Marie (featuring Nicole Sinclair) Lyrics

[Kardinal Offishall]



Sweet Marie



CHORUS [Nicole Sinclair]



So sweet so sweet so sweet



Oh sweet Marie, Marie, Marie



So sweet so sweet so sweet



Oh come on, sweet Marie



So sweet so sweet so sweet



Yeah



So sweet so sweet so sweet



[Kardinal Offishall]



Sweetest Marie, it is to thee that I dedicate



Me, myself and I for all of eterni-tie



Without you I wouldn't have made it this far, this far



Tell me how to live right and how to live wrong too



But it only made me stronger



Wisest of wise enough, strongest of the strong



Now who love what I see



In life, before me, stands a headstrong woman



Overworked and underpaid, stress ridden



First class middle class person



Type rehearsing of your values



Made an easy path for me to be who I be (let's see)



One half of my creation, 100% Jamaican



50% T-dot, 50% not anything mentioned before



But pure unadulterated love



Even though sometimes I can't get down with your actions



I'm passing that, for the positive things that I see in you



Dedicated to the one sweet Marie



CHORUS



[Kardinal Offishall]



Giving birth to a black man in this land



Is similar to angels being placed in the palm of the devil's hand



Corruption all around and surrounded by greed and lust



And trust (trust), that you will appear when the sun



But I am not one, all praises due to my mother



I love my father too, but sweet Marie there ain't no other



That show me more than you, how to stay out of the devil's reaches



Pushing me to profit, rocking funky in peaches



Society's leeches, teachers do yourself



And all your sister's need, in pursuit of higher wealth



Sweet Marie regardless of the treatment of your family



Despite of what you don't have, you'll always have me



'Cause me and you we're tight, you respect my life's path



When I'm in a position, in those who deserve it feel the wrath



Of disrespecting you, we have the highest principles of blood



It runs thicker than water, but hurts



That's when eye's blood, sweet Marie



CHORUS



[Kardinal Offishall]



Staying at a friend's house, 'cause Hydro is not paid



Suffering in the dead of winter left dreaming of a grave



Or atleast someone to save, is the feelings I remember



Cold play in the Shakespeare on the Holy in December



Never lived in the ghetto but suffer the circumstance



Circumstantial evidence reveals the nature of my residence



My presence and present, is the love and strength of blackness



Fibers of a genocide and presence during Mantis(?)



Because of my Mom, I've experienced parts of life



My nigga could not relate to, but whose to shay that it's for better



Couldn't afford to buy me leather, but my body stayed warm



Couldn't afford to buy me diamonds, but I still had charm



She could afford to give me knowledge, and teach to speak truth



She taught me black lies were white reali-tie



Forever and a day gee, I will bleed for my family



F-O-S brothers and the one sweet Marie



CHORUS