Kardinal Offishall Lyrics

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Sweet Marie Lyrics

f/ Nicole Sinclair

 

 [Kardinal Offishall]

 Sweet Marie

 CHORUS [Nicole Sinclair]

 So sweet so sweet so sweet

 Oh sweet Marie, Marie, Marie

 So sweet so sweet so sweet

 Oh come on, sweet Marie

 So sweet so sweet so sweet

 Yeah

 So sweet so sweet so sweet

 

 [Kardinal Offishall]

 Sweetest Marie, it is to thee that I dedicate

 Me, myself and I for all of eterni-tie

 Without you I wouldn't have made it this far, this far

 Tell me how to live right and how to live wrong too

 But it only made me stronger

 Wisest of wise enough, strongest of the strong

 Now who love what I see

 In life, before me, stands a headstrong woman

 Overworked and underpaid, stress ridden

 First class middle class person

 Type rehearsing of your values

 Made an easy path for me to be who I be (let's see)

 One half of my creation, 100% Jamaican

 50% T-dot, 50% not anything mentioned before

 But pure unadulterated love

 Even though sometimes I can't get down with your actions

 I'm passing that, for the positive things that I see in you

 Dedicated to the one sweet Marie

 

 CHORUS

 

 [Kardinal Offishall]

 Giving birth to a black man in this land

 Is similar to angels being placed in the palm of the devil's hand

 Corruption all around and surrounded by greed and lust

 And trust (trust), that you will appear when the sun

 But I am not one, all praises due to my mother

 I love my father too, but sweet Marie there ain't no other

 That show me more than you, how to stay out of the devil's reaches

 Pushing me to profit, rocking funky in peaches

 Society's leeches, teachers do yourself

 And all your sister's need, in pursuit of higher wealth

 Sweet Marie regardless of the treatment of your family

 Despite of what you don't have, you'll always have me

 'Cause me and you we're tight, you respect my life's path

 When I'm in a position, in those who deserve it feel the wrath

 Of disrespecting you, we have the highest principles of blood

 It runs thicker than water, but hurts

 That's when eye's blood, sweet Marie

 

 CHORUS

 

 [Kardinal Offishall]

 Staying at a friend's house, 'cause Hydro is not paid

 Suffering in the dead of winter left dreaming of a grave

 Or atleast someone to save, is the feelings I remember

 Cold play in the Shakespeare on the Holy in December

 Never lived in the ghetto but suffer the circumstance

 Circumstantial evidence reveals the nature of my residence

 My presence and present, is the love and strength of blackness

 Fibers of a genocide and presence during Mantis(?)

 Because of my Mom, I've experienced parts of life

 My nigga could not relate to, but whose to shay that it's for better

 Couldn't afford to buy me leather, but my body stayed warm

 Couldn't afford to buy me diamonds, but I still had charm

 She could afford to give me knowledge, and teach to speak truth

 She taught me black lies were white reali-tie

 Forever and a day gee, I will bleed for my family

 F-O-S brothers and the one sweet Marie

 

 CHORUS