[00:00.950]Like to tell you a story about a girl I know
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[00:04.240]Or should I say a girl I used to know
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[00:08.400]1971 inna england
[00:09.510]Fresh off the plane to my dame inna brixton
[00:11.620]
[00:12.290]No she never ask 'bout flight
[00:14.060]Two month now no telegram write
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[00:16.260]Hey she send taxi fi I
[00:17.990]She gone a some house party tonight
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[00:19.940]So call me artical like
[00:21.970]Make a few call get a couple invite
[00:23.940]Inna the place me gone
[00:25.990]Never leff yard from the day me born
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[00:28.040]Right up front who me staring pon
[00:29.640]You can tell say a she by the way she gwaan
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[00:32.180]Christine christina crystal
[00:34.020]Try all a dem and she still never respond
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[00:36.150]Understand catch a pree from a distance
[00:37.900]Man hand gone inna pants fi a six-pance
[00:39.930]Whoa tuff guys beside her
[00:42.070]She naa reply when I say hi to her
[00:44.070]So dem go try bring violence in the parr
[00:46.040]Need I remind these kind that I nuh war
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[00:48.700]So me turn fi walk away
[00:50.040]But a likkle voice in my head start talk to me
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[00:52.470]Tell me walk right pass her
[00:53.820]
[00:54.370]To the sound take the mic and ask her
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[00:57.080]Girl why don't you answer to your name
[01:00.150]
[01:02.860]Girl why don't you answer to your name
[01:08.110]
[01:11.380]And girl I know you see me
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[01:13.820]And you know I see you too
[01:15.640]So what is it gonna be
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[01:17.410]Tell me what you wanna do
[01:19.260]What's with this great mystery
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[01:21.740]After all that we been through
[01:23.460]Now you're refusing to look my way eh
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[01:27.490]My likkle darling
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[01:29.100]Know she stay so from morning
[01:31.060]Where she grew was appalling
[01:32.840]Want fi make it right so she take the flight
[01:35.230]Heard the city lights calling
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[01:36.870]From the day she been crawling
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[01:38.980]All she hear bout is foreign
[01:40.240]
[01:40.920]Say we a keep the link
[01:42.350]Now wah me fi think see the plans dem sinking
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[01:44.610]Deep new year reach
[01:46.110]Accent gone pon all part a you speech
[01:48.000]Don gorgon dem u waa fi go meet
[01:49.840]Like she be the real topanaris a street
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[01:51.840]Please watch how me calmness a do it
[01:54.080]Naa bat a lid as a morning I leave
[01:56.290]But how me fi walk right pass you miss
[01:58.370]Haffi look inna you eye and ask you this
[02:00.240]Girl why don't you answer to your name
[02:04.870]
[02:08.150]Girl why don't you answer to your name
[02:12.570]
[02:15.400]And girl I know you see me
[02:16.850]
[02:17.810]And you know I see you too
[02:19.470]So what is it gonna be
[02:20.670]
[02:21.690]Tell me what you wanna do
[02:23.270]What's with this great mystery
[02:24.510]
[02:25.830]After all that we been through
[02:27.420]Now you're refusing to look my way eh
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[02:33.390]And I know you know what I'm talking about
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[02:35.790]Girl see you in the crowd and act like she don't know
[02:38.670]
[02:39.920]But me naa take no stylin' no punkin' or no joke
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[02:46.110]Huh
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[02:47.450]Girl why you dweet girl why you dweet
[02:49.400]Girl why you dweet girl why you dweet
[02:51.350]No it no sweet no it no sweet
[02:53.260]No it no sweet no it no sweet
[02:55.220]Girl why you dweet girl why you dweet
[02:57.210]No it no sweet no it no sweet
[02:59.190]Girl why you dweet girl why you dweet
[03:01.490]No you shouldn't dweetno it no sweet
[03:03.200]Say what mek you dweet girl why you dweet
[03:05.350]What mek you dweet girl why you dweet
[03:07.300]No that no sweet no it no sweet
[03:09.170]Girl that no sweet no it no sweet
[03:11.230]What mek you do it girl why you dweet
[03:13.430]You shouldn't dweet no it no sweet
[03:15.260]Girl why you dweet
[03:16.250]No you shouldn't dweet
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[03:20.080]Girl why don't you answer to your name
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[03:28.170]Girl why don't you answer to your name