[Intro: Dre Island]
Right now its Roots and Chalice
Yes I!
This is strictly Roots and Chalice
Well if you aint know now you will know
It's Max Glazer and Federation Sound
And I say, alongside Chronixx, man called Dre Island
Oh yes!
Right at di beginning

[Verse 1: Dre Island]
Hear what me say
Dats why di streets getting hotta still
Nuff people gun shot an kill
Just fi see di pot a fill
Nah stop till dem got a mil
Me deh ya pon di spot a buil'
A dodge dem red dot ya, 'til
Me escape to di top a hill
Where I can hol' a proper chill
Things inna di streets a knock
Louder dan a speaker box
Cops find Peter Glock
Tek him head and gi' it a crack
Shub him inna di seat a back
Him leak out, all beat a flock
Before him get fi meet a doc'
Aye!
Dats why me tell you seh, a dissa my philosophy
Everyting up inna dissa world ya a cost a fee
Da dutty living ya mek me feel like me lost a sea
A just a evil to di victim weh di boss a pree
Yes Jah Jah know, say me nuh think, me and di masta 'gree
Dats why di yutes dem in the streets a send cross a ki'
And dutty Babylon dem wah fi see di loss a we
A true di yutes dem find a way fi make a fasta dream
Aye!

[Bridge: Chronixx]
Dream on
Jah jah children you mus dream on
Cause one day you dreams dem mus come true
Nuh listen to nuh demon
Cyaa lock me down, me is a free man

[Hook: Chronixx]
Higher di monkey climb, a di more him exposed
Nuff a seh dem hot an a boast
Wen you check it dem cold like a puppy nose

[Verse 2: Chronixx]
Yesterday me hear di sup', him announce
Seh you fi come down a di station now
Cah anyweh him buck you up outta road
I seh, you done know a how it go
Cause a John Wayne a your hero
You live you life like a cowboy show
A puddily pee, a puddily pie, a puddily pow
You never hear when you granny warn you
[Hook:]
She seh di higher di monkey climb, a di more him exposed
A nuff a seh dem hot an a boast
Wen you check it out
Wen you check it out dem cold like a puppy...
Like a little....puppy nose
They are so cold
They are so cold
They are so cold

[Verse 3: Chronixx]
Me nah go run go tek up nuh badness
Me seh, me nah go run go tek up nuh donship
Donship a sumn weh you cyaa play with
Inna badness, as you slide, you slip
Madden pick your up body like a bailiff
Tek it from Dre Island, and di one called Chronixx
Deh ya pon di mixtape, Roots and Chalice

[Outro: Chronixx]
A roots we roots
Chalwa we chalwa
Bright you bright
And facety too
A prefer di dawg more dan you