Copyright 2023 Riddim House Productions/Jah Works

You live as long as your name is called
Remember the time when you did stand tall
Pride it goeth before the fall
You better stand for something
You live as long as your name is called
Remember the time when you did stand tall
Pride it goeth before the fall
Better stand for something

Terrible and dreadful, Dreadful!
To the wicked dem
So uncompromising, we’re rising
To the occasion
Terrible and dreadful, Dreadful!
To the wicked dem
So uncompromising, we’re rising
Rising to the occasion

Keepers of the flame
Remember their names
Destiny and aim
Keepers of the flame

They took the blows
All the guns and bombs
Everything that Babylon could dish out
They kept the show
And went so far and long
Honorariums were out of the question
Blaze a trail where there never was before!
Never was
No one, no one before them

Terrible and dreadful, Dreadful!
To the wicked dem
So uncompromising, we’re rising
To the occasion
Terrible and dreadful, Dreadful!
To the wicked dem
So uncompromising, we’re rising
Rising to the occasion

Keepers of the flame
Remember their names
Destiny and aim
Keepers of the flame

Like those who came before we, yeah yeah
You never gonna run us away, no no no
And even if you abhor we, yeah
Still keep coming yeah
Never letting go

Just like those who came before we!
Laid those cornerstones yeah
Laid down the headstones yeah
Just like those who came before we!
Laid the cornerstones for we
Laid the headstone

Keepers of the flame
Remember their names
Destiny and aim
Keepers of the flame

You gonna get just what you deserve
Oh Lord, yeah
Keep it burning, burning yeah