Текст песни Tam Lyn Retold (The Imagined Village) с переводом

Don’t be scared

It was the first of May

A righteous holiday

This was when the workers they

Celebrate fertility

It was the first of May

A righteous holiday

This was when the workers they

Celebrate fertility

It was the first of May

She stepped into the club

Lookin' for the holy herb

And a magical dub

A virgin full of rhythm

Her passion shining bright

Her future in her hand

And she was holding it tight

Soon she found that holy herb

It was sweet Caribbean

She burned that holy herb

In an organic chillum

And she moves to the bass

She reach out to creation

They was time and space

For this heavenly maiden

It was the first of May

A righteous holiday

This was when the workers they

Celebrate fertility

It was the first of May

A righteous holiday

This was when the workers they

Celebrate fertility

He was a mover and a shaker

Who was prone to temptation

He stepped up to the angel

And made his objection

Saying «Woman was not made

to partake in this herb»

He cursed and she was humble

And she called him absurd

Then she took him to a place

That was not very far

They connected at the waist

In the back of her car

Her innocence was gone

In just under an hour

He was forced to hang on

As she flashed her girl power

It was the first of May

A righteous holiday

This was when the workers they

Celebrate fertility

It was the first of May

A righteous holiday

This was when the workers they

Celebrate fertility

Love is impatient

It ignores traditions and conventions

It is not bound by human constructs

Jurisprudence and the laws of men

Love reaches out and holds open-hearted

It demands attention

It is in a world of its own

Yet it connects worlds that will forever

Be set apart

Well I have a sweet hope of glory in my soul

Have a sweet hope of glory in my soul

Well I have a sweet hope of glory in my soul

Have a sweet hope of glory in my soul

Oh I know I have and I feel I have

A sweet hope of glory in my soul

Make love not war

This is how we do it

Make love not war

This is how we go

Make love not war

This is how we do it

Make love not war

This is how we flow

Make love not war

This is how we do it

Make love not war

This is how we go

Make love not war

This is how we do it

Make love not war

This is how we flow

Our man had moved on

Said he was wild

Then our lady found

She was heavy with child

When she told her father

He said «go seek him out»

She found him six months later

Down town hangin' about

He said «who's the daddy?»

She said «you are the one»

He said «I am an alien

And quite soon I’ll be gone

«Customs and immigration

Want to get rid of me

There’s no peace in my nation

I’m a war refugee

«There"s no peace in my nation

I’m a war refugee

There are people in uniforms

Out to get me

«There's no peace in my nation

There’s nowhere I can hide

If you really do love me

Will you stay by my side?

«I may groove on the dance floor

But my pain is quite great

I don’t know all the answers

But I’m trying to relate

«Since I’ve been here in exile

I just don’t know my fate

And a best-selling tabloids

Always greet me with hate

«There's no peace in my nation

I’m a war refugee

I’m surrounded by war

But there’s love inside me

«There's no peace in my nation

and I’m feeling downhearted

When the Beastie Boys get me

I’m told I’ll be deported

«So I need you to hold me tight

For tomorrow in court

And I need you fill yourself

with positive forces

'Cos I wanna be wich' yu

And I wanna live

So I need you to give me

All the love you can give»

So the next day in court

She held him really tightly

Just fifteen minutes before

hHe went in the dock

And her positive thoughts

Made her touch the almighty

And our brother shivered

From his toes to his locks

He turned into a victim

He turned into a loser

He turned into a pimp

And a real mister mean

But she kept holding on

And when those demon were gone

He turned into himself

Just a cool human being.

And the judge said you can go now

The judge set our man free

He was free to be

Indefinitely

And the judge said you can go now

And our joyous refugee

Just said «Thank you, judge,

and now I plan to raise a family»

So he became a citizen

Our angel became a wife

And they had what modern folks would call

A pretty happy life

They met on the dance floor

On the first of May

And the baby that they had

Grew up to be a club DJ

It was the first of May

A righteous holiday

(Well I have a sweet hope of glory in my soul)

It was the first of May

A righteous holiday

This was when the workers they

Celebrate fertility

(Well I have a sweet hope of glory in my soul)

It was the first of May

A righteous holiday

This was when the workers they

Celebrate fertility

(For I know I have and I feel I have

a sweet hope of glory in my soul

Well I have a sweet hope of glory in my soul

Well I have a sweet hope of glory in my soul

For I know I have and I feel I have

a sweet hope of glory in my soul)

(Well I have a sweet hope of glory in my soul)

Make love not war

This is how we do it

(Well I have a sweet hope of glory in my soul)

Make love not war

this is how we go

(Well I know I have and I feel I have

A sweet hope of glory in my soul)

Make love not war

This is how we do it

Make love, not war,

This is how we go

Make love, not war

This is how we do it

Make love not war,

this is how we flow.