UB40

Featuring: Cleve Laing

Songwriter: UB40

Producer: UB40

Well certain thing you don't act man
And you can't take it back
You understand me a say
But certain things you have to look on an other thing
Hm..... , me can't understand what I say
Me nah understand what we a say
Me not understand what we are chat about
Well this is what we chat about
.....what me a talk 'bout....
Baby girl, waw waw waw want you back inna me life
Like a police sirene come fast stichie cry
Waw waw waw want you back inna me life
You can hear me a shout it out ten thousend times
Waw waw waw want you back inna me life
Like a police sirene come fast stichie cry
Waw waw waw want you back inna me life
You can hear me a shout it out ten thousend times

She caught me red handed and feel offended
Gal a pose up in a me car (I'm sorry)
Me and suel book room in a hotel and she catch
Me when me hand in a deh jar (I'm sorry)
No she can't take this, catch me with at the office
And drink from one glass inna varn
She said me character dirty, when she hold me
With shirley, and she still a never warn (oh dear)
She vex when she see me inna the bed with yvette
And susan a pose up like style (what a thing)
Peachess, princess, put on her dress
And she decide we have to stay far, anyway

Waw waw waw want you back inna me life
Like a police sirene come fast stichie cry
Waw waw waw want you back inna me life

You can hear me a shout it out ten thousend times
Waw waw waw want you back inna me life
Like a police sirene come fast stichie cry
Waw waw waw want you back inna me life
Can you hear me a shout it out ten thousend times

This a me sincere apology, straight from me heart
And off me pickney (yes baby)
It going out to my number one lady
Like don sliver far line, water run daily
Sorry, I do it, can't buy soldier lorry, can't sleep at night
Never do it for sight, I am sorry, hush, but the car by rush
Your little teeny weeny have me never need to crush

Waw waw waw, waw waw waw waw
Waw waw waw, waw waw waw waw
Waw waw waw want you back inna me life
Like a police sirene come fast stichie cry
Waw waw waw want you back inna me life
Can you hear me a shout it out ten thousend times
Waw waw waw want you back inna me life
Like a police sirene come fast stichie cry
Waw waw waw want you back inna me life
Can you hear me a shout it out ten thousend times

Find me guilty, punish me for the crime (true)
But you have me a serve over time
Woman why do you have to treat me so cruel
Full time, you put me on parole (true)
It's like you put me on the condemn block (true)
Over alcatraz 'pon the rock (true)
And a me try everyday, stichie saying, oh sorry
This me have to cry

UB40 are an English reggae and pop band, formed in December 1978 in Birmingham. The band has had more than 50 singles in the UK Singles Chart. They have been nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album four times, and in 1984 were nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Group. UB40 have sold over 70 million records. The ethnic make-up of the band’s original line-up was diverse, with musicians of English, Irish, Jamaican, Scottish and Yemeni parentage.

Their hit singles include their debut “Food for Thought”, “Red Red Wine” and “Can’t Help Falling in Love”. Both of these also topped the UK Singles Chart, as did the band’s version of “I Got You Babe”. Their two most successful albums, Labour of Love (1983) and Promises and Lies (1993), reached number one on the UK Albums Chart.

On January 24, 2008, it was announced that Ali Campbell would be leaving the group after 30 years. It was reported by some Birmingham newspapers on 13 March 2008, that Maxi Priest would be the new lead singer of UB40 and had recorded a cover of Bob Marley’s “I Shot the Sheriff” with the band.

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