Lauryn Hill F Shelly Thunder Forgive Them Father Lyrics

Forgive Them Father Lyrics

Shelly Thunder] 

 Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those that trespass against us 

 Although them again we will never never never trust 

 Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! 

 Them not know what them do 

 Big out to yi while I'm stickin like glue 

 Fling, skin, grin while them plotting for you, true! 

  

 [singing] 

 Forgive them father for they know not what they do 

 (Me nah tellin them no more) 

 Forgive them father for they know not what they do 

 (Be real, them not a clue!) 

  

 Beware the false motives of others 

 Be careful of those who pretend to be brothers 

 And you never suppose it's those who are closest to you 

 To you 

 They say all the right things, to gain their position 

 Then use your kindness as their ammunition 

 to shoot you down in the name of amibition, they do 

 Ohhh 

  

 Forgive them father for they know not what they do 

 Forgive them father for they know not what they do 

  

 [rapping] 

 Why every Indian wanna be the chief? 

 Feed a man 'til he full and he still want beef 

 Give me grief, try to tief off my piece 

 Why for you to increase, I must decrease? 

 If I treat you kindly, does it mean that I'm weak? 

 You hear me speak and think I won't take it to the streets 

 I know enough cats that don't turn the other cheek 

 But I try to keep it civilized like Menelik 

 and other African czars, observing stars with war scars 

 Get yours in this capitalistic system 

 So many caught or got bought you can't list them 

 How you gonna idolize the missing? 

 To survive is to stay alive in the face of opposition 

 even when they comin, gunnin I stand position 

 L's known the mission since conception 

 Let's free the people from deception 

 If you looking for the answers then you gotta ask the questions 

 And when I let go, my voice echoes through the ghetto 

 Sick of men trying to pull strings like Geppetto 

 Why black people always be the ones to settle? 

 March through these streets like Soweto, uhh 

  

 [singing] 

 Like Cain and Abel, Caesar and Brutus 

 Jesus and Judus, backstabbers do this 

  

 Forgive them father for they know not what they do 

 Forgive them father for they know not what they do 

  

 It took me a little while to discover 

 Wolves in sheep coats who pretend to be lovers 

 Men who lack conscience will even lie to themselves, to themselves 

 A friend once said, and I found to be true 

 that everyday people, they lie to God too 

 So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you? 

  

 Forgive them father for they know not what they do 

 (Forgive dem, forgive dem) 

 Forgive them father for they know not what they do 

 (Forgive dem, forgive dem) 

  

 [Shelly Thunder] 

 Gwan like dem love while dem rip you to shreds 

 Trample pon yuh heart and lef yuh fi dead 

 Dem a-yuh friend who yuh depen pon from way back when 

 but if you, gi dem yuh back dem yuh mus meet yuh end 

 Dem not know what dem do do 

 Dem not know what dem do do 

 Dem not know, dem not know, dem not know, dem not know 

 Dem not know what dem do do 

  

 (Forgive them father, forgive them father