Tear Drops
Journey of Loss and Redemption: Vybz Kartel's Tear Drops Unveiled
Lyrics
Yuh lost ah family or ya lost ah friend
Expressing sorrow for the loss of either a family member or a friend.
Ah kno nothing fi hurt
There's nothing worse than experiencing pain caused by loss.
Don't fight d feeling
Encouragement not to suppress emotions but to embrace them.
Tear drops since u been gone
Continuous crying or shedding tears since the person's absence.
We missin' you
Expressing how much the individual is missed.
Tear drops
Continuation of shedding tears due to the absence of the person.
Rip fi yuh gangsta wa gone so soon
Mourning the loss of a gang member who passed away prematurely.
If ya miss ya madaa
Encouragement to acknowledge and show missing feelings for various family members.
If ya miss ya fada
-If ya miss ya sista
-If ya miss ya brother
-You fi show that!
An urging to express these emotions openly.
Every night before me go to sleep
A prayer before sleeping, expressing hope for the soul's safety if death occurs.
I pray d lord me soul fi keep
-If I shud die before I wake
-Me pray d lord me soul fi take
-Me memba everything
Recollections of shared memories, including rebellious acts and experiences.
Box truck wheel and wire
-When we use to race with the big leyland tire
-When we teef d herbs outta d dread house
-Dat ah d first time we ever go set weed on fire
-Me never know ya life wuda expire
Expressing surprise or disbelief at the sudden end of the person's life.
As ah younger yute fi u u was me biggest inspire
Recognition of the deceased's significant influence during the speaker's youth.
Me shed ah tears pon ya grave me no hire
Continued mourning for the deceased and expressing belief in their peaceful afterlife.
Every night me gon me bed u fi still inna me prayer
-Me know say yuh no inna no hell fire
-Ah heaven yuh residing ah d sky wey so higher
-And ah make d angel dem a sing gun song inna d choir
Imagery of the deceased's presence in a celestial realm, where angels sing songs and memories are cherished.
And I keep it dance ahprin flyer
-Jah blessings always inna me mind
References to religious beliefs, the importance of faith, and a mix of spiritual hope and reality.
Haffi have me bible me no left that no time
-Me know jah watch me but me still bring d nine
-D big man cannot watch we all d time
-Den jah love ah night me feel it inna me joint
-It ah keep off evil those obea man and hollow point
-Me pray fi me friend dem wey pass on
-Me na go bow me close me eyes and den me claspe hand
-Den me make god fi make dem rest in peace
Praying for the deceased friends' peaceful rest and acknowledging the existence of both good and evil in the world.
Dat ahffi me friend dem nearly parted and decease
-Cau me no seen heaven but me kno me see d beast
-Alive and in d streets turning children into freaks
-But me put me trust inna d king from d east
-Me talk to him fi hours even days or even weeks
Personal conversation and trust placed in a higher power, while acknowledging survival and mourning those who didn't.
Me still alive nuff ah me friends dem no survive
-Me remember them for life thou sometime me cry
Remembering departed friends, sometimes leading to tears despite being alive.
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