I Know You Don't Care About Me
Bunny Wailer / From the slaveship to the chain / From the task masters whip to my brain / Kidnapped, enslaved, raped and killed by the lynch clan / Again and again / Is it the origin of the skin or the face of a race / Why you don't care about me?
Ziggy Marley / Now, I know you don't care about me / I`m just a nigger walking down your street / The brother did nothing wrong / but now his life is gone / So, I know you don't care about me / Code of silence you say / Yet your action speaks so loud and clear / Diallo`s killers going free paid by society / Now I know you don't care about me
Damian "Junior Gong" Marley / Hey - we should be burning and looting, believe me, start exchange 41 fe 90 / Our ancestors wey build this country and all sticks and whips and kicks and punches meanwhile your living like some bird in bunches / Tell me where the justice much less the dances? / Mi world must know that man still in darkness
Yami Bolo / Lord! Rapings, torture, kill and maim. Their injustice remains the same / killing the people in the Queens name / No one will gets the blame, and my people keep going down the drain / All these crimes we've come to read, they'll be written in black history / Crimes of injustice and inhumanity, perpetuated by society, and my people / are living in poverty
Bunny Wailer / My struggle for survival is to be accepted and treated as a member of the human family, who's practice should reveal the fundamental right and duty to be humane in all judgement and action to all humanity / So, why don't you care about me? / Say, I know you don't care about me / I`m just a nigger walking down your street / The brother did nothing wrong, but now his life is gone / and I know you don't care about me / Code of silence you say / but your action is so loud and clear / Are Diallo's killers going free? Paid by society / And I know you don't care about me
Buju Banton / Amadou Diallo, they killed him for nuttin' / No crime him did not do! / And just like him there were others who suffered for what they didn't do / We're living in a system, we are the victim and that is so true / Amadou Diallo – Reggae music knows your name / Amadou Diallo – Reggae music knows your name
Ziggy / Refrain
Morgan Heritage / Yo, Ziggy, check this out! / It's kinda strange how the same things been happening / over and over again, over and over again / And they say their constitution's for the benefit of all / It's all a lie again, it's all a lie again / Tell me when will this injustice change / Tell me when will we stop feeling pain / Just the way we survive in their eyes it's a crime / You're to blame for all that's bleeding this way / Yes, we know you don't care about we / Yes, we know you don't care about we
Malcolm X: "We want to talk right down to earth in a language that everybody here can easily understand. We all agree tonight – all of the speakers have agreed – that America has a very serious problem! Not only does America have a very serious problem / But our people have a very serious problem."

Writer : MARLEY, ZIGGY
Copyright : Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing