This Is Dub Lyrics - Hurricane - Grace Jones

This is my voice 

My weapon of choice 

This is life 

This is life 

This is plate 

This is a cup 

This is a story I didn't make up 

This is a girl lost in the woods 

Some kind of wagon from some other 'hood 

This is a voice 

These are the hands 

This is technology 

Mixed with the band 

Are you going into the light 

Are you free of fear today 

When you lie down to sleep do you kind of float away 

This is life 

This is life 

Most of my crimes are of optimism 

40 thousand volts of recognition 

They tried to strip me of dignity 

But I still have tenacity 

These are the words I didn't invent 

Only an attempt to say what I meant 

This is the paper 

This is the pen 

This is my weapon 

A means to an end 

Are you going into the desert 

You're out of control of your fate 

There are no warriors without a war 

So get ahead before it's too late 

This is life (ya'll) 

Lay down your spear 

Let go your fear 

Far becomes near 

Oh Lord 

This is life (hey!) 

This is the tree 

The Buddha slept under 

These are the clouds 

This is our thunder 

This is what makes me look up and wonder 

Into the eye of the wind 

Through the rain 

On to the plain 

This is what I'm focused on 

This is my head on straight 

This is the harness 

This is the bait 

This is me 

I'm flying again 

This is a lawyer 

Professional liar 

There, Taking 

Igniting the fire 

This is the key 

This is the door 

Imagine the view from the basement floor 

(Hey!) 

Now you're going into the desert 

You're out of control of your fate 

Are you a slave in a chain of command 

Serving up another man's head 

This is life 

Lay down your spear 

Let go your fear 

Far becomes near 

Look out 

This is life 

Are you going into the light 

Are you freeing your fear today 

When you lie down to sleep 

Do you kind of float away 

This is depression 

It comes when you're blocking 

This is expression 

It comes when your rocking 

This is life 

This is (ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!) 

This is (ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!) 

This is (ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!) 

This is (ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!) 

This is (ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!) 

This is (ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!) 

When you lie down to sleep 

Do you kind of float away 

(This is a plate, this is a cup, this is a story, this is a story I didn't make up) 

When you lie down to sleep 

Do you kind of float away 

(This is a plate, this is a cup, this is a story I didn't make up) 

This is the world still healing 

This is man that's feeling 

This is the world still turning 

This is the rage still burning 

This is the man not learning 

This is life