Sugar Cane Skank

[Verse 1]
Yuh two-step shy like a mongoose peeking from the gully-side
While the selector spin a riddim that pull back the evening tide.
The big speaker box sweat vapor in the heat,
And mi watch yuh movements sync up with the one-drop beat.

[Chorus]
Come give me that Sugar Cane Skank
Roots music, heart full of thanks
Mi love grow deep like a riverbank
Underneath this concrete, it still holds rank.

[Verse 2]
The Red Stripe bottle sweating inna yuh right hand,
Streetlight paint a halo pon the jerk pan man.
Every bass note a promise in this promised land,
We building our own kingdom on this patch of sand.

[Chorus]
Come give me that Sugar Cane Skank
Roots music, heart full of thanks
Mi love grow deep like a riverbank
Underneath this concrete, it still holds rank.

[Bridge]
Some love is a cut-flower, pretty fi a day,
Then the petal dem drop and just wither away.
But our thing got a deep-down, stubborn-kind-of-stay.

[Chorus]
Come give me that Sugar Cane Skank
Roots music, heart full of thanks
Mi love grow deep like a riverbank
Underneath this concrete, it still holds rank.

[Outro]
Yeah... that Sugar Cane Skank.
Holdin' rank.