CONCRETE JUNGLE
Written by Bob Marley
Bob Marley (Catch A Fire, 1973)


Live performance

Don't take that attitude to your grave > Concrete Jungle

* 12/14/94 - Opera House: Toronto, Canada - For the first time ever live.


Lyrics

No sun will shine in my day today.
The high yellow moon, it won't come out to play
Darkness has covered my light - Yeah
And has changed my day into night - Yeah
Where is the love to be found?
-- concrete jungle, jungle
Where the living is the hardest.
-- concrete jungle, jungle
you got to do your best.
-- concrete jungle, jungle
Where the living is the hardest.
-- concrete jungle, jungle
You got to do the heaviest.
You got to do your best


Info

From www.bobmarley.com : "The Wailers were working on a follow-up album of Soul Rebels when an urban development project was set in motion in the Greenwich Park Road precinct. Much of Newland Town and neighboring Arnett Gardens was razed, and what came to be known as "Concrete Jungle" was constructed. Bob wrote a few lines in his ledger for a future tune about having to relocate, and they evolved into a song of the same name".


Original lyrics

No sun will shine in my day today
(No sun will shine.)
The high yellow moon won't come out to play
(Won't come out to play.)
Darkness has covered my light (and has changed,)
And has changed my day into night
Now where is this love to be found, won't someone tell me?
'Cause life, sweet life, must be somewhere to be found, yeah
Instead of a concrete jungle where the livin' is hardest
Concrete jungle, oh man, you've got to do your best, yeah.

No chains around my feet, but I'm not free
I know I am bound here in captivity
And I've never known happiness, and I've never known sweet caresses
Still, I be always laughing like a clown
Won't someone help me?
Cause, sweet life, I've, I've got to pick myself from off the ground, yeah
In this here concrete jungle,
I say, what do you got for me now?
Concrete jungle, oh, why won't you let me be now?

I said life must be somewhere to be found, yeah
Instead of a concrete jungle, illusion, confusion
Concreate jungle, yeah
Concrete jungle, you name it, we got it, concrete jungle now
Concrete jungle, what do you got for me now?