Lyrics
The Brixton damp creep in mi bone like wood rot,
Measure the floorboards for a council flat.
These hands remember Gommier, cedar, pine,
How to join two worlds pon a single line.
This city built on crooked, cheap-nailed lie,
But the old man's measure, that nuh run dry.
[Chorus]
A di scarf joint, weh hold mi soul as one,
The old man's wisdom in mi blood and bone.
A di scarf joint, mek mi never walk alone,
Cut true from a seed that was sown.
[Verse 2]
Seventeen, the year the rains come late,
By the boatyard near the parish gate.
Gommier dust fine pon mi tongue and eye,
Him seh, "Bwoy, the grain nah go lie."
Showed me how to fit the angle clean,
The strongest bond you ever seen.
[Bridge]
And all this time, in this diesel-fume breeze,
I thought this strength was mine, to use as I please.
Tonight, I feel the cut, the shape, the plan—
I am the work of another man.
[Outro]
Measure once for dem.
Measure twice for I.
About Peter Tash
Peter Tash learned about rhythm from the boatbuilders of his native Carriacou, Grenada, and about rebellion from the crackle of a Peter Tosh record on the radio. At 19, he traded the Caribbean tide for the London tube, becoming a carpenter by day and a militant roots-reggae troubadour by night. His songs are built like the boats of his youth — sturdy, honest, and made to withstand the storm…
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