Wold Is Troubled Lyrics, HELP !!?

[bmd]

I'm trying to piece together the lyric to The World Is Troubled, the tune closely associated with Mr. Dennis Brown, but also in this case I'm using his AND Luciano's more recent version to work them out. They are rather odd and don't make a hell of a lot of sense ...all of the time..

Here they are with areas I'm having a hard time with, or are questionable highlighted in a colour. Please help if you are able to with this..

The World is Troubled - Lyrics.

For The World is Troubled, and Living Ain't Easy
The World is Troubled, you've got to believe me
For The World is Troubled, and Living Ain't Easy
The Whole World is In Trouble, You've got to believe me!

Cast Away All evil spells, don't play at heros? you'll end down in hell
You've got your troubles and I've got mine, Let's work together to make things fine
We've got to be sure of all the things we do, preserve (or conserve?) the life sweet pure and true
The things we feel and see were meant to be, is our fulfillment of prophecy

The World is Troubled, and Living Ain't Easy
I said the World is Troubled, you've got to believe me
Yes The World is Troubled, and Living Ain't Easy
The Whole World is In Trouble, You've got to believe me!

Solo

After all these things shall come to pass, the end shall not be near
After all these things shall come to pass, the end shall not be near
There shall be I jah King kidnapping*, all over the Earth
Famine, famine and War all over the World
Got to come together
Got to come together
Got to come together
For The World is Troubled, and Living Ain't Easy
The World is Troubled, you've got to believe me
For The World is Troubled, and Living Ain't Easy
The Whole World is In Trouble, You've got to believe me!

Oh mankind, look around and see

After all these things shall come to pass, the end shall not be near
After all these things shall come to pass, the end shall not be near
There shall be I jah King kidnapping, all over the Earth

* In the case of 'Kidnapping' however odd, it really does sound like this, though I'm hghlighting it becuase it just seems so odd. If more of the song seemed to be in context with it's self, it might be easier to make an educated guess at the lurics, but unfortunately, it's a pretty crazy piece of writing..

So help me out here Brothers and Sisters...

[admin]

I Jah King is er hijacking

Respect

Gordy

[bmd]

Is that what you're hearing there G? Are you being flippant as regards this lyrical moment, or do you mean exactly what you say on the tin.,,..?

I heard a number of things myself before I settled on kidnapping, as seems possible while listening to the Dennis Brown lyric, however the Luciano lyric is entirely unfathomable at this point..
The fact that none of it makes a lot of sense doesn't help either.. I mean why would I Jah King be hijacking, or indeed, kidnapping?

m.

[admin]

Yep, not being flippant mate, what I hear on the DEB cut for Joe Gibbs on my UK A&M pressing is "There's gonna be hijacking, kidnapping all over the world".

Respect

Gordy

[admin]

I think he's saying that no matter how much you fight against badness, more bad people are waiting in the wings...

Respect

Gordy

[bmd]

yes... brilliant that's good, I didn't auite get you first G, becuase I was sure it was him saying I Jah King (like a frenchman saying hijacking ;-))
Thanks for that, I'm o0ff to adjust my txt doc. now.

[I]

Gordon's right, Dennis speaks of hijacking and kidnapping. "I Jah King" is a mishearing on your part, Mike.

Reel

[bmd]

Aye..