Lift Up Your Heads

Lift up your heads

To the rising sun

To glory and sea sand

To shame and heartbreak

To the pain pervading our very presence

Lift up your heads

My people

Don’t you know about glory?

About love

About unity

About strength

About dignity

About working long to afford

Simple bread and tea?

About an education that can’t done?

Lift up your heads and

Face the junkanoo music

The rhythm rising

Hardly louder than

The muffled shuffle of Fox Hill

Lift up your head you

Right and Honourable

Good and Detestable

Showboat of tourism and

Independence.

Let us look

To the blazing sun

Dropping six-pence pieces into

The National Treasury.

Look at how free all ‘a we is!

Free to listen to the cry of the chickcharney

Free to feel our goatskin hearts

Beating out of our ambrosia chests

Free to know our blood type is ‘V.A.T.’

Yet still,

We are free.

So lift up your heads!

My people, lift up your heads!

Lift up your heads!