The most dangerous thing
that exists in the world today is...
Serious thing
Oh yes it is
Hey, the way the people are
living nowadays
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
Can't get no work, can't get no pay
Let me tell you, it's a serious thing
The little children,
they can't go to school
Let me tell you, it's a serious thing
Teachers demonstrating
for your salaries
Let me tell you, it's a serious thing
To come home to find your children
out of school and on the streets idling
Is a very serious thing
This arises from a situation
where instead of teachers or
school teaching
They're on the streets
demonstrating and that's us
So much wars and famine on the land
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
Yet we are making more war planes
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
There is no attention on
the youth nowadays
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
No future plans or opportunities
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
The devastating memory of Hiroshima
Has not quenched the blood
and thirst of Satan
And that's a very serious thing
His future plans are to devour your children
As he thinks of Brendan
to create instead
The dog of the dead
In town and country
it's the same old cry
Let me tell you it's
a serious thing
Brothers and sisters I'm telling no lie
Let me tell you it's
a serious thing
Sometimes you'd wonder if
you're wrong or right
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
If you've got to
stand up and fight
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
The struggle for the black
man's liberty
against the vicious apartheid system
of South Africa is a very serious thing
And if the weapon of resistance
is in the hand of the oppressed
against the oppressors,
then that also is a very serious thing
Can't pay more bills,
can't pay more rent
Now let me tell you it's a serious thing
Food is essential but I ain't got a cent
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
So much people begging in the streets
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
Some are big enough to
have a bite to eat
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
If in the nick of time you come home to find the landlord's
paid you for leaving of all your possessions
that could be a serious thing
For your table or for your chair
you could find a spare
but to take your bed away
is a very serious thing
To go to your brother to ask for a loan
only to realize that he was
heading for your home
is a very serious thing
And to be in a position
where your daily bread
comes only from the garbage
is a very Serious thing
Tom, Dick and Harry they are complaining
Oh yeah, they are saying
it's a serious thing
About the condition they are living in
Oh yeah, they are saying
it's a serious thing
So much in the prison, living in one cell
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
Much more than joining in that smell
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
To be confined to a cell
which like a cesspool bears a smell
is a very, very serious thing
To be stripped of all your rights,
sanity, dignity and liberty
is a very, very serious thing
To be chained and shackled
and thrown in the dungeon
is a very, very serious thing
We're working on a chain gang
It's a serious thing
Thank God for liberation
It's a serious thing
And things are
Things are serious
Bunny Wailer 
