Pato Banton — Don't Stop The Music lyrics

Lyrics

Do anything you want but
Don’t stop the music!
Can you see it’s all I got?
Now my papa didn’t like the sound of the drum and the bass
Coming through my speaker in the living room
So he came downstairs in a puff shouting:
«Son! You better just turn that music down!»
Well I was never one to disagree
I was one of the best behaved in the family
But when it came to my sweet reggae music
I had to tell him: Papa no. Don’t stop the music!
Music was my first love and it’ll be my last
We dream about the future but we can’t forget the past
No I can’t forget, can’t forget
Can’t forget no, can’t forget
I was born and raised in the ghetto
A member of a struggling family
Born and raised in the ghetto
Hard times was my only reality
Born and raised in the ghetto
It’s not a very nice place to be
But the music gives us the vibe so:
Don’t stop the music!
Time to rise on another plane no time for materialism
Time to climb that ladder again no time for this system of Ism
And no matter what a guy might try or what the critics are saying
While I got this breath-of-life Jah conscious music I’m playing so:
Don’t stop the music!