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I Understand

by Angelic Upstarts

on 2,000,000 Voices (1981), Live In Stockholm (2012)

Nineteen years old
What an age to die
Ashford is a prison
Where they hide or die
Richard Campbell were you mad?
Or just a bit insane?

Was it being a Rasta cause you so much pain?

White nigger
Black nigger
Bleed the same
White nigger
Black nigger
Rasta boy in prison
White nigger
Black nigger
They made sure
He'd never see his twentieth year

When you're a number
You're never a name
They took away his faith
A candle without a flame
The law of animals
Destroy what you don't understand