Bob Marley ft Lauryn Hill / Turn Your Lights Down Low
Turn your lights down low And pull your window curtains Oh, let jah moon come shining in - Into our life again,
Sayin, ooh, its been a long, long time I kept this message for you, girl But it seems I was never on time Still I wanna get through to you, girlie On time - on time
I want to give you some love I want to give you some good, good lovin Oh, I - oh, I - oh, I, Say, I want to give you some good, good lovin
Turn your lights down low Never try to resist, oh no! Oh, let my love come tumbling in - Into our life again,
Sayin, ooh, I love ya! And I want you to know right now, I love ya! And I want you to know right now, cause I - that I -
I want to give you some love, oh-ooh! I want to give you some good, good lovin Oh, I - I want to give you some love Sayin, I want to give you some good, good lovin
Turn your lights down low, wo-oh! Never - never try to resist, oh no! Ooh, let my love - ooh, let my love come tumbling in - Into our life again Oh, I want to give you some good, good lovin
The story is chronological. It is about courtship, marriage, and eventual death. The two people in the song meet, court, fall in love (at this point, he reveals that he has never really made such a strong promise/ commitment to someone) but feels he is ready to now. "See the children run," their offspring and the "jealous sky" refer to the Heavens. Even Heaven is jealous of their love/relationship. The esteemed sun is jealous. Eventually, he dies and tells his love that they will always remember their love specifically, when she thinks of him, he wants to be personified as such... walking in fields of gold (barley).
There is fire on the mountain and nobody seems to be on the run. Oh there is fire on the mountain top and no one is a' running.
I wake up in the morning - tell you what I see on my TV screen I see the blood of an innocent child and everybody's watching.
Now, I'm looking out my window and what do I see? I see an army of a soldier man marching across the street, hey...
Hey Mr. soldier man, tomorrow is the day you go to war Boy you are fighting for another man's 'cause and you don't even know him
What did they say to make you so blind to your conscience and reason? Could it be love for your country or for the gun you use in killing?
So there is fire on the mountain and nobody seems to be on the run Oh there is fire on the mountain top and no one is a' running.
Hey, Mister Lover-man can I get a chance to talk to you? 'cause you are fooling with a dead man's corpse and you don't know what you do.
So you say you have a lover and you love her like no other So you buy her a diamond that someone has died on - don't you think there's something wrong with this?
Tell me, who's responsible for what we teach our children? Is it the internet or the stars on television? Why oh why? Why oh, why oh? Oh!
So little Lucy turns sixteen and like the movie she's been seeing she has a lover in her daddy - she can't tell nobody till she makes the evening news.
For there is fire on the mountain and nobody seems to be on the run. Oh there is fire on the mountain top and no one is a' running. Oh yes.
One day the river will overflow and there'll be nowhere for us to go and we will run, run...wishing we had put out the fire, oh no...
For there is fire on the mountain and nobody seems to be on the run. Oh there is fire on the mountain top and no one is a' running. So yeah, yeah, yeah!
There is fire on the mountain, (fire in Africa) and nobody seems to be on the run (everywhere, can’t they see eh?) Oh there is fire on the mountain top and no-one is a' running (no-one is a running)
There is fire on the mountain (fire, fire, fire) and nobody seems to be on the run...