Cover art for Keep it to yourself by Queen Ifrica

Keep it to yourself

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Keep it to yourself Lyrics

Intro:
Yu got to make it better
Fi the youths dem future yu know
Wi can sit down an a gawn
Like say wi nuh si say
Someting kind a go wrong still
And wi nah talk, to the world
Got to make it better again, hey

Chorus:
Yu feel like a bad man (Keep it to yu self)
Doan bring it to Jamaican (Keep it to yu self)
We nuh want dat a jamrock (Keep it to yu self)
Wi can't tek no more slackness (hear dis)

Verse 1:
Yu can change di laws of man
But yu can't change di laws of god
So if dem nocking a big glass dem glad
Wan wi fi change a must mad dem mad
Somebody tell mi what is happening
A don't want no fish inna mi Ital dish
To see mi son become a father
Mi greatest wish
Di situation kinda very ticklish
But everybody fed up from parish to parish
(Yes) and to whom it may concern
A nuh dat deh way wi want di table fi turn
As a citizen wi got a lot of concern
Di truth is a nuh dat. Wi want wi chrilden dem, fi learn
Chorus

Verse 2:
Yu fi multiply an replenish di Earth
An dats why di woman labor inna child birth
Mi nuh want si mi brother Dress up inna no skirt
An mi sister nuh fi mek lift up her skirt
As a nation nuh matter what wi put god first
If yu pass eighteen issa blessing not a curse
Lighting an thunder Bown fi mek di cloud burse
A just di water from
Di Sugar Cane can quench nany thirst
(Yes) and to whome it may concern
A nuh dat deh way wi want di table fi turn
As a citizen wi got a lot of concern
Di truth is a nuh dat. Wi want wi chrilden dem, fi learn

Chorus

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Verse 2

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Released in 2009 on the Secrets Riddim, produced by Don Corleon. This compilation also had hits “Miles Away” by Jah Cure and “Love of a Lifetime” by Alaine.

Here Queen Ifrica laments with the youth of Jamaica. She questions whether its possible for people to not keep their unhelpful traits to themselves instead of assisting to what she views as the demise of the country.

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