Song for Dennis Brown

On the day that Dennis Brown's lung collapsed
 Spring rain was misting down on Kingston
 And down at the harbor, local cops were intercepting an inbound shipment
 And for a while there it was chaos
 As they handcuffed and then roughed up some sailors
 On the day my lung collapses
 It's not going to be much different
 On the day that Dennis Brown's habits caught up with him
 School children sang in choirs
 And out behind the Chinese restaurants guys were jumping into dumpsters
 And the stench was overbearing
 But they were past the point of caring
 On the day my habits catch up with me
 I'll be down among the jumpers
 And when the birds come home in spring
 We will fill them full of buckshot
 And jets of contaminated blood
 will cloud the rivers and the lakes
 It took all the coke in town
 To bring down Dennis Brown
 On the day my lung collapses
 We'll see just how much it takes