Sweet Marie

[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