Was that when we were subjugated to slavery or little after that?
Is that the time when the white Jesus was in everywhere on the walls?
How the Caribbean use to be before black people got independent for themselves?
I still hear this slang
Montserrat, the way the Caribbean used to be.
People no longer see in black and white people see in color.
Montserrat the way the Caribbean used to be?
What the @#$% does that mean?
We come so far and we want to go back where we use to be?
What was the point of moving in the first place?
Montserrat the way the Caribbean used to be
Tourist leggo on our men and women, children too.
How the @#$% the Caribbean used to be?
When the Queen's picture was everywhere
And some people think the Queen doesn't shit?
When on the Queen's birthday men dress up in uniforms of subjugation
Shooting guns into the air.
The way the Caribbean used to be, meant my grandparents could not read or write?
Montserrat the way the Caribbean used to be.
Those who don't know their history are bound to repeat it.
The house Nigger today seams to be benefiting from the illiterate.
Montserrat the way the Caribbean used to be,
So how is the Caribbean now, and where is everybody else now?
When the volcano blow where did we run to?
Everywhere, where the Caribbean was not to be.
While we gone back to Montserrat the way the Caribbean used to be.
It burns my heart the people that are voted into power by the illiterates
Seeing not they need to move forward.
Montserrat the way the Caribbean used to be before airport and seaport.
A things like this makes people disenfranchise themselves.
A things like this makes some people think them Jamaican.
Montserrat the way the Caribbean used to be.
With people like you in power
I can see why you want Montserrat the way the Caribbean used to be.
Everybody around you is getting smarter than you.
Can't teach an old dog new tricks.
