More Relevant Than Ever! Peter Tosh - "No Nuclear War" (1987)

It's no accident what Peter Tosh observed 30 years ago when looking out into the world from likkle Jamaica could very easily describe our experience today. Why? How? It's as though the information age has done more to put humanity into a deeper slumber than awaken from it. For now.

LYRICS

[Chorus:]
No Nuclear War
We don't want no nuclear war
With nuclear war we won't get far
I said that We don't want no nuclear war
With nuclear war we won't get far
Said no, just another holocaust
It's just another holocaust
And we can't take no more

Too many people are hungry
They don't have food to eat
They are naked
'Cause they don't have clothes to wear

They are going insane
Because of the condition
A million babies
Are suffering from malnutrition

[Chorus]

I can't take no more

I saw World War One
Where lotsa trouble begun
I saw World War Two
When the pirates came right through

Lookin' for World War Three
But you got to set me free
Free from the chains
And this here misery

[Chorus]

We can't take no more

Unemployment
I said the rate is high
So much sick people
I'm sure they gonna die

So much mad people
Gettin' ready to explode
'Fore somebody
Come help them carry this load

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One country deploying MX
Another country deploying SS
Inflation goin' way up high
And the dollar is going way down low

[Chorus]

Crying, bawling, they can't take no more
I hear them moaning they can't take no more
They don't wanna die
They want to go to Heaven, yeah

But they can't
They can't take no more
They gettin' low
They can't take no more

They gettin' grief
They can't take no more
They gettin' beat
They can't take no more

They gettin' lazy
Cause they can't take no more
Bored
They can't take no more

Frustrated
They can't take no more
Pleading for them
They can't take no more

Can't you hear me pleading for them
Cause they can't take no more

They want to live in peace
And happiness
Let the trees grow
Let the waters flow...