Lyrics
You trace di cold block work back a Mister Chin shop,
Just when di evening air turn cool and di street sound stop.
Each line a trowel-mark, a truth you try to grind,
With a likkle bit a grit gettin' underneath your nail this time.
[Chorus]
Tender fury, a righteous vibration.
You feel it in di mortar, pon a new foundation.
Tender fury, a love dat build up strong.
Di whole world crooked but di work cyan't wrong.
[Verse 2]
You remember Tuesday, di steam from di wash-pan rise,
She seh "Nuh fret, mi son," but you see it in her eyes.
That same exhaustion, a debt you cyan't pay down,
It turn every bag o' cement inna a heavy crown.
[Chorus]
Tender fury, a righteous vibration.
You feel it in di mortar, pon a new foundation.
Tender fury, a love dat build up strong.
Di whole world crooked but di work cyan't wrong.
[Bridge]
(Rhythmic breakdown: drums and vocal only)
(Dry vocal, close mic)
Find di level.
Is it you? Or is it dem?
You check di spirit-level…
Di bubble tremble inna di middle again.
[Outro]
Yeah… di work cyan't wrong.
Straight and true… cyan't wrong.
About Robert Markel
Robert Markel learned his first chords on a beat-up guitar in a Trench Town yard, taught by the same hands that his mother, Deloris, worked to the bone at two jobs to support him. He became a mason to pay the bills, learning to build walls that were straight and true, a philosophy he pours into his roots reggae anthems. The songs are for his community, for the struggle, and for the one promise he…
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