Smith & Mighty Complete Lyrics Archive

B i o g r a p h y
(by John Bush)

Long before Bristol had become a recognized stronghold for downtempo trip-hop and spy-soundtrack dubs, the duo of Rob Smith and Ray Mighty teamed in the late '80s for two early breakbeat tracks, "Walk on By" and "Anyone Who Had a Heart." The anachronistic fusion of sophisticated Burt Bacharach productions with laidback hip-hop prefigured trip-hop's later fascination with the more polished end of '60s adult-pop. The pair also produced the Top Ten hit "Wishing on a Star" for the Fresh Fours, then signed with ffrr Records (who were looking for a production team with crossover abilities similar to Soul II Soul). The label later rejected both Smith & Mighty's debut album and several subsequent recordings — claiming they were unsuitable for release — so the duo formed their own label, More Rockers. Five years after their initial brush with major-label shenanigans, they released Bass Is Maternal. Smith & Mighty also worked on production for More Rockers signee Marxman, and released a volume in the DJ Kicks series in 1998. Big World, Small World followed two years later. Smith has also recorded with the trip-hop trio Jaz Klash.

Move you run

Let's go

You should learn to hang around
Something might happen
If you stood still and listened
Something might speak to you

You move, you run
You move, you run
You move, you run

Oh you move but I can see the tracks
They go in circles
It takes a big strong noise to reach you
Something to penetrate your walls
That you built when you went up high
And even from there you could see that I
I wanted to try
I wanted to try
I wanted to try
I know you could see that I wanted to try

If you stop moving things around
Something might move you
If you stop moving people around
Something might move you

You move, you run
You move, you run
You move, you run

Oh you move but I can see the tracks
They go in circles
All of the new stuff you bring you brought it before
But you don't even know
Because you're floating on another high
But even from there you could see that I
I wanted to try
I wanted to try
I wanted to try
I know you could see that I wanted to try

I've got visions of you in my head
I've got visions of you in my head
I've got visions of you in my head
I've got visions of you in my head

You move, you run
You move, you run
You move, you run

You move
You move
You move
You move
You move
You move, you run

Let's go...

No Justice

Oh yeah ee... Alright ah ah ah ... oh GOD Knows
No justice ... tice ...tice .. Oh yeah X2

The reason why our lives they are so rough
Because the system is unjust
And the reason why the system is unjust
Because it's not made for us (repeat)

Many they flight for equal rights, no end in sight
Some hold the power so tight, and live alife that's nice
Who pays the price ?

You've got to fight, with all your might for what is right
It is your life, you have a choice you've got a voice

No justice no peace if equal rights and justice is what you seek
No justice no peace the power to the people they must be released
(repeat)

No justice ... tice ...tice
No justice ... tice ...tice

No justice no peace if equal rights and justice is what you seek
No justice no peace the power to the people they must be released
(repeat)

(repeat first verse X2 )

The reason why our lives they are so rough
Because the system is unjust
And the reason why the system is unjust
'Cause it's a fraud and a bogus
Fraud and a bogus, fraud and a bogus

No justice ... tice ...tice

Year 2000

Strange thingsare happening but don't be amazed
Be conscious of those devious ways
The type of shit we see everyday
In the year two more problems to face

Year 2000 you have to focus
now is the time to get serious
there's money to be made
But you must be conscious
The terrorists, they're getting anxious
Millitant dark and damned dangerous
Tra la la ...

there's money to be made
There's no one you can trust
Mind out for the one devious
Tra la la ....
Come listen boy if you get curious
Built my lyrics on the damned minibus
Hotter that the coffee in your thermous
Ninja is getting serious
Smith & Mighty, D.Rose dem a bust
Tra la la ...

Strange thingsare happening but don't be amazed
Be conscious of those devious ways
The type of shit we see everyday
In the year two more problems to face

That Woman

You don't know where you're going to turn
You squirm when the sweetness comes, you turn it into ammunition
With the use of a cynical smile, a typical defence
i can see you getting cold, so cold
In the sweetness it could clothe you
In the sweetness it turns yellow for your soul
In the sweetness it could hold you
But you stay blue with cool

She's there inside you, that woman
And she wants to let the heavens in
Softly now softly now
Inside you, that woman
Come on, let her bring the heavens in
Softly softly now

But you stand strong and here it comes
That something that you can say
To keep the tenderness at bay
Can't suck feeling from all that
It just stands up hard and strong
like an aimless gun, like a loveless cum
You put armour on hte music in your soul
You put a maze into your garden
You put a spike inside your smile
And only your dreams can know that love is your aim

She's there inside you, that woman
And she wants to let the heavens in
Softly now softly now
Inside you, that woman
Softly now, softly softly softly softly now

I know she will be calling you
One day teh snake's going to charm you
All the way to paradise
Make sure she doesn't bite you first
You'll know when she's done this
You will feel a great divide
You will think that she is danger
You won't even know theway to say hello
You will think she means invader
When all the time she could have charmed you out of all this

She's there inside you, that woman
And she wants to let the heavens in
Softly now softly now
Inside you, that woman
Come on, let her bring the heavens in
Softly now
Softly now
Softly now

'Cause don't you know the boys will appreciate her too
'Cause she's been sleeping, sleeping
It's been a long long sleep
Kiss her she's your princess
She's your princess

Small world

All I hear is entity
Open wide feel the breeze
All I hear is entity
Open wide all to see

How far shall I look
I look all around
How far shall I look
I look all around

All I hear is entity
Open wide feel the breeze
All I hear is entity
Open while
Closely feel the wheel of emotion
Closely feel the wheel of evolution

All I see is a small world
Inside a big world
What I see is a small world
Inside a big world
Which doesn't know which way to look at all
Which doesn't know which way to look at all

How far shall I look
I look all around
How far shall I look
I look all around

I look all around
I look all around
I look all around

Believers

Look to the believers
They sleep beneath the stars
Oh how can I join them
When I have come this far

Once upon a time
If we stared up at the sun for long enough
We just became one with all
But as we grew we just became me and you
And all the pieces that we are

Give me something special
Give to me a shrine
So that in the morning I'll rise
And get to me what's mine

Once upon a time
If we stared up at the sun for long enough
We just became one with all
But as we grew we just became me and you
And all the pieces that we are

So I'm here with pieces of
A dream that can never be sewn to make a whole

I want to and I need to get out of here
I want to get out of here
I want to get out of here

Look to the believers
They sleep beneath the stars
Oh how can I join them
When I have come this far

Once upon a time
If we stared up at the sun for long enough
We just became one with all
But as we grew we just became me and you
And all the pieces that we are

So the feeling still remains
I'm fired some say madness
I say i'm inspired
i want to and I need to get out of here

So the feeling still remains
I'm fired some say madness
I say i'm inspired
i want to and I need to get out of here

Seeds

Gimme the reason why it was brother season
Within Easton yo I strive to survive to kill the feeling
Yeah some brothers buggin' money mad trying to look dappa
Selling shit giving out licks or pimping out the slappa's
So for the first chapters I reminisce for a deceased
Who died for one lve balling our peace!
Or my brother who got blast in his chest for fate
Shakespeare said life is a stage I call it fate
Well anyway I kinda watching my front cause certain friends are full of crap
yeah It's a damn shame with their mind games
Plus no life aims here this rudeboy I dis em out like cocaine
They got crap aims and crap reason's to fight me
Because they like.. Move yourself I ain't no patzie
Yeah.... Its kinda strange how some people change
While societies spitting faster than a Terry's chocolate orange
Chuh cause someone once said life ain't fair
i care for my brothers but brothers don't care
So yo I live by God and not he gun
And get ready for the forth coming talking with my son about the seeds

Seeds have got to grow
Seeds have got to know
Seeds have got to grow
Seeds have got to know

Seeds have got to grow
Seeds have got to know
Seeds have got to grow
Seeds have got to know

Blunted on reality meditate to the system
But when he's born like Kuntah Kenteh watch me lift him
To the stars and the panets and not tha phallic's
Just sun, stars and talks about Mars I got to have it
The only bit of innocence that I ever had
From my a semen from my father from my grandads
Grandson in London to educate one not just books
I travelled the world like lisa not dumb
While sucker sippah's living life for face value
Think yourbrand new but you ain't changing so damn you
Lost souls who never moved on with their shoes on
In a situation that they can't improve on
Kinda sad situation bad if you live like that shit can send you mad
So yo I don't because I won't so watch me buss
This power in perception rudeboy and not justice
That's why I love this documentary on reality
Within society my principality is
To live by God and not the gun
And get ready for the forth coming
Talking with my son about the
Seeds

Back on street guying off phony person's
Leave me alone as the spirituality dead smelling aroma's of frauds
Got caught in the ego and didn't see the cloud
On that robert de niro mate talking out loud
Acting to put the fear right back in
Your cerebellum but first I tell 'em facts
And certain heads are swelling
Because they don't like the rythm
For some it's easier to tell than to listen so listen
Realism and truth ain't the same wave
Within the brainwave check the difference
the order is to maintain
Throughout the struggle and the strife
Because if is the middle word within the word Life wordlife
So I live by God and not the gun
So I live by God and not the gun
So I live by God and not the gun
And get ready for the forth coming
Talking with my son about the
Seeds

The way we feel

I see it from my window
And taste t in my food
it happends all around
I slowly watch it happen

The way we feel it should be
Has a right to emerge

Sitting by the water
Is just another place
The comfort to be found
It will not go away

The way we feel it should be
Has a right to emerge

Living life in cycles
Reaping what you sow
For love we have to give
If love we want to glow

The way we feel it should be
Has a right to emerge

The way we feel it should be
Has a right to emerge

The way we feel it should be
Has a right to emerge

Same

Bits of other people keep running into me
They say you know just who you are
I am getting pulled into shadows that surround
I see you sitting on your cold star

Help me I'm merging into all
I used to dream I was this tall
My new eye is opening up to black and gold
Everything is turning out the same
Everything is turning out the same

When I'm coming down there are buzzes in my ears
I can feel them floating around
All the walls are shaking
'Cause they were never real
Sweet to see things falling apart
Help me I'm merging into all
I used to dream I was this small
And my new eyes opening up to black and gold
Everything is turning out the same
Same same same same same same same same...

All the walls are shaking
'Cause they were never real

Help me I'm
Same same same same same same same same...

Rescue me

Rescue me, help me
Won't you reach for me, hold me
Lead the way for me, show me
How to love

Much to learn, now I've lost my love
Teach me how to forgive
When all seems lost for us
Patience means nothing
I've lost that virtue now
I have no reasons left in this world
To haste for now

Rescue me, help me
Won't you reach for me, hold me
Lead the way for me, show me
How to love

Develop me, from this waste that I am
Only flesh with no meaning, each breath without feeling
Each heart a lie
Draw from me what little goodness is left
And mould it to a form that fits your purpose best

Rescue me, help me
Won't you reach for me hold me
Lead the way for me, show me
How to love

Rescue me, help me
Won't you reach for me hold me
Lead the way for me, show me
How to love

Much to learn, now I've lost my love
Teach me how to forgive
When all has been lost for us
Surely you know and you only may care
That a love that is lost has mademe its heir
In limbo waltz I, in sorrow I lie
Only flesh with no meaning, each breath without feeling
Each heart beat a lie

Rescue me, help me
Won't you reach for me, hold me
Lead the way for me, show me
How to love

lead the way, help me, hold me, show me
How to love, take me, teach me
I've so much to learn, how to love

We're living in a serious time

Life has its way of showing you a new day, new day, yeah
Life has its way of showing you a new day, new day, yeah
New day, new day, yeah, new day, new day

We're living in a serious time
We're living in a serious time

Life has its way of showing you a new day, new day, yeah
Life has its way of showing you a new day, new day, yeah
Life has its way of showing you a new day, new day

We're living in a serious time

You've got to try and make it right

Yeah everyone know say the dancehall a di best
Place in the world where you can release some stress, yeaaah
Run and come, run and come, run and come
Run and come, run and come, run and come
Run and come, run and come now

Run come people forget your worries and troubles and
Dence to the drum and the bass come on now and get
A taste, so run come hurry forget yourtroubles and
Worries and dance to the bass and the drum 'Cause
Tonight we're gonna have some fun

I can't wait to reach the session (aah ah)
I'm gonna dance and release some tension (ooh oh)
Cause everyone knews the dance is the best (aah ah)
Place in the world where youc an relieve your stress

For the life we have we're giving praise (aah ah)
And gaining strength for the next seven days (ooh oh)
So leave your problems at the front door (aah ah)
'Cause we're fonna dance on the dance floor

Run come people forget your worries and troubles and
Dence to the drum and the bass come on now and get
A taste, so run come hurry forget yourtroubles and
Worries and dance to the bass and the drum 'Cause
Tonight we're gonna have some fun

Ooh ooh ahh ah I said run a run a come ooh ooh ahh ahh
And dance to the bass and the drum 'cause tonight
We're gonna have some fun

I said to run a run a come !
I said run come people

I'm on a motorway, a subway
I'm on ever last fuel
I've got love and light in my pocket
And I am not afraid to use
I'll just sprinkle
A handful
When you need

There's a red speed demon
Taking over your mind
Your highway goes to forever now
There's no rewind
I'll just sprinkle
A handful
When you need

In a flash of joy
I'm taking over
In a flash of joy
I'm all you need
In a flash of joy
I'm taking over
In a flash of joy
It's all worth while

Pathways to the sun
Rise like brothers, shine like sisters
To these hands we hold, to these hands we hold

Through colors of the minds
Rise like brothers, shine like sisters
To these arms of mine, to these arms of mine

Don't don't don't hold back
Don't hold back, don't don't don't
Don't hold back, don't hold back

Pathways to the sun
Rise like brothers, shine like sisters
To these hands we hold, to these hands we hold
Rise like brothers, shine like sisters

Through colours of the minds
Rise like brothers, shine like sisters
To these arms of mine, to these arms of mine

Don't don't don't hold back
Don't hold back, don't don't don't
Don't hold back, don't hold back don't

Rise like brothers, shine like sisters
To these hands we hold
Rise like brothers, shine like sisters
To these hands we hold
Rise like brothers, shine like sisters
To these hands we hold
Rise like brothers, shine like sisters
To these hands we hold
Rise like brothers, shine like sisters
Rise like brothers, shine like sisters
Rise like brothers, shine like sisters

Maybe it's me

( feat. Hazel Jayne )

Maybe it's me who is to blame
When I try to read it spells my name
Maybe it's me who is to blame
The web that I weave is always the same

I get lost when I try to analyse
When events start to familiarize
I know I have patterns you see
And that they are all coming from me
Self fullfilling prophecy is running my life

Maybe it's me who is to blame
When I try to read it spells my name
Maybe it's me who is to blame
The web that I weave is always the same

Oh how I try to listen to the sounds of the heavens
With my head to the sky I forget to keep my feet
On the ground, need to come back down
I know I have patterns you see
And that day are all cominf from me
Self fullfilling prophecy is running my life

Maybe it's me who is to blame
When I try to read it spells my name
Maybe it's me who is to blame
The web that I weave is always the same

It spells my name...

Maybe it's me who is to blame
When I try to read it spells my name
Maybe it's me who is to blame
The web that I weave is always the same

Sometimes I feel crazy, sometimes I feel good
Sometimes I feel so lonely, sometimes I feel like I could

Maybe it's me who is to blame
When I try to read it spells my name
Maybe it's me who is to blame
The web that I weave is always the same

Sea

Sky reflected ocean, submerged in blue
Reflecting me and you and everybody
Sea of sparkling sunlight we wash away
Begin another new day, we wash away
Begin another new day, we wash away
Sky reflected ocean, submerged in blue
Reflecting me and you and everybody
Sea of sparkling sunlight we wash away
Begin another new day, we wash away
Begin another new day, we wash away
Begin another new day, we wash away

( feat. Rudy Lee )

Yes we live and we learn
Yes we live and we learn
That's why I say

In this lesson called life
Give what you can before you say goodbye
In this lesson called life
You see what you must before you have to fly
In this lesson called life
To conquer fear we've all got to try
In this lesson called life
Learn how to live and not how to die

Everyone we meet it is for a reason
And the lessons we've learned we exchange

We all have our own destinies but the decisions
We make in life can cause them to change

Yes everyone who lives lives for a purpose
Some live their whole live's never knowing what this is

Listen to the voice of the creator within you
Try to always do this as you live

In this lesson called life
Give what you can before you say goodbye
In this lesson called life
You see what you must before you have to fly
In this lesson called life
To conquer fear we've all got to try
In this lesson called life
Learn how to live and not how to die
Experience is learning
So we're bound to make mistakes, yes
We've all got to lean our lessons
And we can't wait until it's too late

Righteousness exalts a nation
And sin it is a reproach

Let's make the creator be our teacher
Let Him be our trainer and our coach

In this lesson called life
Give what you can before you say goodbye
In this lesson called life
You see what you must before you have to fly
In this lesson called life
To conquer fear we've all got to try
In this lesson called life
Learn how to live and not how to die

Yes we live and we learn
Oh yes we live and we learn
Yes we live and we learn
Oh yes we live and we learn

You've got to learn what youmust
And share what you can in this lesson
You're got to learn what you must
And share what you can in the school of life
Yes we live and we learn...

B-Line FI Blow

( feat. Niji 40 )

Me ago give dem som e nigs 40 style scene
Me a go play Dem some 40 style
Blessed, straight up
Yeah the wickedest sound
Blessed are the meek
For they shall inherit the earth

B line Fi blow speaker bow
Selector drop De needle watch the jumping Jacks
B line Fi blow speaker bow
Selector drop De needle watch the jumping Jacks

Sound get drop daddy mighty do dat
Look how Dem Ram the dance up with the speaker box
Natty in a corner, Ham a do the hop scotch

B line Fi blow speaker bow
Selector drop De needle watch the jumping Jacks
B line Fi blow speaker bow
Selector drop De needle watch the jumping Jacks

Sound get drop daddy mighty do dat
Look how Dem Ram the dance up with the speaker box
Natty in a corner, Ham a do the hop scotch
Natty in a corner, Ham a do the hop scotch

16 down a bottom 16 uppa top
A so dem a talk in a de barbah shop
Man in a trouser and girls in a frock
Look Por Jackieline how her knee dem a knock
Bragga dagga Dat sound system get drop a daddy mighty do dat
Bragga dagga Dat sound system get drop a daddy mighty do dat

B line Fi blow speaker bow
Selector drop De needle watch the jumping Jacks
B line Fi blow speaker bow
Selector drop De needle watch the jumping Jacks

Come and get your lyric, get your lyric non stop
Sound FI get drop, smith & mighty do dat
Sata dem, sata dem, sata dem, sata dem, sata dem
Sata dem, sata dem, sata dem, sata dem, sata dem
Sound get drop, a smith & mighty do dat
Look how Dem ram de dance up with de speaker box
16 down a bottom, and 16 uppa top

B line Fi blow speaker bow
Selector drop De needle watch the jumping Jacks
B line Fi blow speaker bow
Selector drop De needle watch the jumping Jacks

Dis ya one design fe lick you flat Pon your back
Whether you de jill or you be jumping Jack
Mash up de session, and dem pat me pon me back
Mash up de session, and dem pat me pon me back
Promoter wants the next date fe di almanac
Producer beg you mix me pon de 16 track
My people, crowd a people
Tell me people, bound to keep you shankin
My people, crowd a people
Tell me people, bound to keep you shankin

( feat. Chantelle )

What's on your mind
What's on your mind

Won't you tell me what's on your mind

What's on your mind
Won't you tell me what's on your mind

I saw you looking at me
That friday night at the club
And i saw you looking mighty fine
Looking at you wasn't enough

I saw you looking at me
That friday night at the club
And i saw you looking mighty fine
Won't you tell me what's on your mind

What's on your mind
What's on your mind
What's on your mind

Tell me do you feel the same
Tell me do you feel the same

Won't you tell me what's on your mind
Won't you tell me what's on your mind
Won't you tell me what's on your mind
Won't you tell me what's on your mind
Won't you tell me what's on your mind
Won't you tell me what's on your mind

What's on your mind

( feat. Mc Kelz )

1,2 mic check, hold tight as we connect
1,2 mic check, hold tight as we connect
1,2 mic check, hold tight as we connect

Connect select my lyrical lecture
Man I bet ya built it like a architecture
While I crept to get you ride it like abus inspector
Gwan operator cause you are the selector
Leave you horizontal like it's bruce lee
You stepped to right inna the dance
I look you right inna your retina
I don't play Jah know as I would say
SMith & mighty sound system lyrical DJ
Take it in, feel riddim come in like ginseng
Flinging the beats to make you rock while
Your neck dipping your chin
I'm ready, DJ's ready, are you ready
Devastating out lyricism
Futuristic reggae chuh!
Futuristic reggae texture, inna the center
Smith & mighty sound just enter
We just enter, so just enter
We just enter, so just enter
What happen, while jamming to this beat pattern
We followed through distinctive beats
Speakers attacking to your eardrum with some
Fearsome heavyweight line
This time with beats and rhymes
To make you feet fine
We leave you hollow, you see mylead
Run come and follow
Exploding like a pulp you gulp but
Never swallow like Tai chi
Our stylee is melodies in frequencies
They call dubwise know what I mean
Futuristic reggae texture, inna the center
Smith & mighty sound just enter
Futuristic reggae texture, inna the center
Smith & mighty sound just enter
Futuristic reggae texture, inna the center
Smith & mighty sound just enter
Futuristic reggae texture, inna the center
Smith & mighty sound just enter
We just enter, so just enter, we just enter
So just enter, just enter, just enter
1,2 mic check, hold tight as we connect
1,2 mic check, hold tight as we connect
1,2 mic check, hold tight as we connect
That's the way that we connect

( feat. Hazel Jayne )

You said always if you didn't mean it
Then you really shouldn't say
Then you really shouldn't say
My love for you feels like
Feels like the rain
Falls down to the ground soft
Feels like you again

And through I still pretend
That I'm not in love with you
It's plain to see
We try just to be friends
But it's impossibility yes
It's plain to see

And through I still pretend
That you will fall in love with
That you will fall in love with
That you will fall in love with
It's plain to see, it's plain to see
It's plain to see, it's plain to see

You said always if you didn't mean it
Then you really shouldn't say
And though I still pretend
That you will fall in love with me
It's plain to see
That you and your new friend
Already getting busy
It's plain to see

And through I still pretend
That you will fall in love with
That you will fall in love with
That you will fall in love with
It's plain to see, it's plain to see
It's plain to see, it's plain to see

Life is so eventful

( feat. Louise Decordova )

Life is so eventful
Life is so eventful
How could we complain

There is nothing to explain
I feel the same
And if your looking to further your mind
Don't try to reassemble the past too quickly
And don't forget the time that it takes to make a change
And if your looking to further your mind

Life is so eventful, life is so eventful
How could we complain

There is nothing left to say, just face the day
Andif your looking to further your mind
Don't think it's not a problem for some to get ??
And try to find the time the time that it takes communicate
And if your looking to further your mind

Life is so eventful, life is so eventful
How could we complain